The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-14
WATSON AND PARKER OR
BRANTLEY AND WALKER?
JUDGE PARKER WENT OVER 11TH
DISTRICT TWO YEARS AGO AS
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE.
(From the valdosta Times

out just what their policy is going to
be toward Hon. William G. Brantley,
the present representative from the
Eleventh congressional district Judge
Parker, over at Brunswick the other
night, tried to make Congressman w.
u. Brantley's riends and neighbors
believe that he is the heir apparent of
Brantleys political estate; that his
shoulders are the ones upon which
Brantley's mantle should fall and that
he is the man to carry on the work
which Mr.. Brantley has been doing for
the Eleventh district The judge told
the Brunswick people that he aad been
Brantley's leading lieutenant-thath he
was always for him-and that he was
lending him~a helping hand when Wall
ker was boy. He even went so far
as to say that he never thought OF
running for congress as long as Brant-
ley wanted the job.
Now comes Tom Watson and de-
clares that Randall Walker is the heir
to Brantley's political estate; that ne
stands for Brantleys policies and that
he ought to be defeated for that rea-
son. If Parker is right, Watson is
wrong, and if Watson is right Parker
is wrong. They Jught to get together
and find out juf where they are 'at'
The Times believes that both of
them are wrong. Watson does not like
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'Brantley as he does for bolting a dem
ocratic convention some years ago
and lending his influence to Watson's
candidate. Watson likes him because
his political record is somewhat twist
ed, and because Walkers and Brant-
ley's records are not. 1t is the "fel-
low feeling" which makes him so
'Wonderous kind"
Watson charges Brantley with be-
ing for a tariff on lumber, cotton and
a few other things. He also revamps
the old charge that Brantley was one
of the "23 deserters Brantley's
position on the tariff question is pre-
cisely like that which the demo-
cratic leaders adopted. He is op-
posed to free raw materials for the
reason that he believes the producers,
who are the farmers mostly are en-
titled to fair share of protection on
what they raise. If he voted for free
potash for the fertilizer dealers it
would enable them to SELL fertilizers
cheaper to the farmere It was il
| keeping with the Farmers Free List
Bill, which the democrats proposed
as an Offset to the tariff tax which
the republicans have given the trusts.
| leaving no protection for the pro-
ducer Tom Watson does not live in
! the lumber belt, the sugar-cane belt,
naval stores and sea island cotton belt
and he is opposed to the men who
produce these things getting any tariff
which comes to the producers of raw
products" in the Eleventh district he
ought to say so. Is he with Tom
Watson-"agin the government" or is
he with his own people in the Wire
grass section, and standing for the
things that promise profit to them?
Watson jumps on Brantley for be-.
ing one of "23 deserters,'' and, like
the other Parkerites, he blames WAL
ker for that. He has no right to as
sumo that Walker would have been
one of the ''29," though time has prov
en- that the twenty three were right
and the others were wrong. Champ
Clark, the leader against whom the
alleged bolt was made, has admitted
it. Tom Watson was "deserter"
about twenty years ago and it was on
that very point. He rebelled against
''Crisp's rules" and wanted the power
OF the democratic speaker curtailed.
Henry G. Turner, Crisp and the en-
tire democratic party in congress had
to contend against him. They whipped
the fight, saved the time -honored par
ty precedent and it was to perpetuate
it that Brantley and the other re-
fused to follow Champ Clark four
years ago. Clark and the majority
later came to them and admitted they
were right. Where the twenty. three
then stood the whole party stands
now. The next congressman from
the Eleventh will have to stand there
unless he does as Watson did when
he was in congress-and since then
go off and perch by himself.
Judge Parker declared at Bruins
wick that he was with Brantley-al-
ways with him-never thought of
running against him. His declara-
tion is like some of his "denials'-it
will not hold water. He knows that
he went all over the district two
years ago working up boom, which
did not work. He knows that he
came to Lowndes county-which
somebody told him was a "Brantley
! stronghold" and that he told people
here what had been told him and
that he replied with the story of the
feHow who was driving a runaway
OK. The man grabbed the OK by