Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-22

Thomas z. Watson VIII go as
Democratic delegate large from
/ Georgia TO the national convention in
Baltimore
/ He also will sit in the state conven-
ton.
If both Of these statements do not
come true, it will be entirely Mr. Wat
sons own fault
Those three paragraphs will do to
paste in your hat
Mr.. Watson will come to the state
/ convention. either as a delegate or as
proxy for one of the McDuf1e dele
gates.
If he was left off the McDuffe dele
cation. it was through misunder
standing
However q proxy already has been
arranged for him, in the event he de-
sires. to come. and it be found impossi
BILE to restore him to the county dele
cation.
Is Watson Counting Fight
II Mr. Watson is looking for fight
in the state convention, he will get it.
And If he gets it, the finish is prob
ematical
But does he actually court fght?
According to the Wilson newspapers.
he does. According to Mr.. Watson s
raal friends-people qualified TO speak
fof him-he does not.
He will come to the Atlanta conven-
ton Just as any other delegate might
come He will speak his mind on vari-
Gus questions. just as any other dele
gate viii be privileged to, Particular
heed win be given to what he SAYS,
because he contributed much to the
! Underwood victory and the Underwood
leaders realize that fact. Not only that.
but because of the large following he
represents in Ceorgia-the greatest and
most compact following behind any in
dividual in the state.
WiIsonites Prod Watson
The Wilsonites persistently have
prodded Watson, ever since he first in
tinated that he would like to go as
delegate to Baltimore
They charged during the Wilson I'm
derwood campaign that Watson and
Senator Bankhead had made trade"
whereby Watson would have a dele
gates place. This neither Watson nor
|
though it wasn't true Watson merely
kept right along, fighting for Under
woodland Underwood won
Right after the election Watson said
he believed he wouldn't go to Balti-
more after all. Then the Wilson press
began saying that Watson had been
showed aside and otherwise belittled
bv his Underwood associates of the
immediate past
Watson then said he believed he
would go to Baltimore, and he called
meeting of his friends in Atlanta the
night before the state convention, to
consider his cause, and to talk over
the matter of winning his fight. The
Underwood people at once assured
Watson that he should be delegate
If he wished to be.
And they are standing by that as
surance now.
Hot Air From Abroad
Having exhausted their efforts to
embarras IS Watsons Underwood asso-
ciates. and Watson himself, without
any measure of success within the
state, the Wilson leaders then turned
their attention to people outside Of the
state. with an eye to bringing opposi-
ton from that quarter.
Washington city was muckraked for
anti Watson sentiment; an effort was
made to get up on the blind side of
Underwood himself, indeed, in the Will
son anti Watson undertaking But
that failed. as might have been ex-
pected
Finally. the names of three or four
national leaders were wired in to At
Ianta. as the sum total Of the anti
Watson strength that could be assem-
bled in Washington city, and that al
legged opposition was made the basis of
cock-and bull local story, to the eff
feet that there was a national upris-
ing on, and that it was going to over
whem Watson.
It was even pointed out that the I'm
derwood leaders mad agreed to get to-
gether in Atlanta within the week and
prepare plans and specifications for
Watson's elimination from the situa-
ton.
There was nothing whatever of APP
proximately important truth IN the
Washington local story.
There is TO be no meeting of the