Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-17
WATSON IS NOT ONLY
TO HEAD DELEGATION
BUT RUN CONVENTION
To Name the Temporary and
Permanent Chairmen and to
See That No CaucuseS Are
Held by "City Politicians"

Confident that his original demands
will be met and that he will head the
Georgia delegation to the Baltimore
convention, Thomas E. Watson now
clearly apparent that he does not in
tend that his service in the recent I'm
derwood campaign shall be in the least
minimized.
Mr.. Watson proposes in this weeks
Jeffersonian to take full and due
charge of the state convention on May
%. He promises to- name both the
temporary and permanent chairman.
and he announces that he and his fol-
lowers will decide who are to be the
delegates to Baltimore.
Mr.. Watson vigorously objects to
Gov. Woodrow Wilson being made the
second choice of the Georgia delegation
to the Baltimore convention. Edito-
rally, he says: Under no circum-
stances should the delegation to Balti-
]. Bryan. The convention should so
instruct them"
WILL FIGHT CITY POLITICIANS.
It is not the intention of Mr. Watson
that the city politicians who lost
their own counties" shall control the
state convention. In fact, he expressly
and explicitly announces in capital let
tiers, We men of the country counties,
who won that fight, intend to run that
Atlanta convention
Apparently. Mr. Watson viii permit
but scant consideration to be shown
Clarke Howell Rufe Hutchens, Gov
ernor Brown, Congressman William
Schley Howard, ]. Randolph Anderson,
Charles r. Pendleton, Thomas ". 10y
less, w. W. Osborne, Alex Lswrence
and many others who have been pOpu-
larly supposed to be in 'rgC Of the
convention machinery.
For are they not city politicians who
lost their own counties?
Mr.. Watson even declares that "the
Fulton delegation may not be seated
at all"
In this weeks issue of his paper (the
Jeffersonian), Mr.. Watson issues his
new ultimatum. He says:
CONFERENCE is CALLED.
MY purpose is to hold a preliminary
conference with delegates from the
country counties, and such Atlanta
friends as are really my friends. per-
sonal and political.
I'VE must agree, upon a plan Of
action.
I'VE must decide who shall be tenn
porary chairman of the convention. and
who shall be permanent chairman.
"A bunch of self-sufficient city poll
ticians, who lost their own counties,
are taking it upon themselves to say
who shall be the officers of that con-
vention. and who shall be delegates 10
Baltimore.
The city politicians are entirely toe
presumptious.
Eve men of the country counties,
who won that fight, intend to run that
Atlanta convention.
MAY NOT BE SEATED.
1.-THE Fulton county delegation may
not be seated at all.
Fulton county went for New Jer-
sey's lantern-jawed governor; and If
Wilson delegation, duly accredited, APP
pears and demands a seat, I, for one,
will take the floor in favor of it.
This applies to Floyd Richmond.
Chatham, Bibb Dooly, Putnam, Morgan
and every other county that went for
Wilson.
I'VE are on top now and we must
straighten things out.
sWe must get back to common sense,
legal procedure, and democratic princi-
pies.
I'VE must act in concert. and know
before hand what it is we want to do
ITO that end we must meet and con-
fer.
This Atlanta convention is going TO
be an epoch maker.
1T won't be any mollycoddle, Miss
Nancy, Sarah-Jane Libby affair.
1T is going to be red-headed from
start to finish, and when IT ends, the
whole country from lakes TO gulf and
from sea to sea viii be sitting up and
taking observations.
You may safely bet a sad-eyed
mule on that statement"