Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-24

about Washington city three national
leaders were induced to say they didn't
think much of that Tom Watson fell
low. on general principes-and the up
rising was on.
It got no further than that, and il
never will get any further
No national leader has undertaken
to say. or will undertake to say, who
shall and who shall not 60 On the Geor
gia delegation to Baltimore
As Mr.. Watson himself says There
is nothing In it it's joke
1t was a cute little story the Wilson
pressed exploited; but il didn't get any
where. because il had no little legs to
get there on.
Dream Three.
In somebody's imaginative fancy. a
large To-the-j junk heap with Watson
gathering had been arranged for the
Piedmont hotel on the evening of May 2S.
Immediately preceding the state Demo-
cratic convention scheduled for the next
day
II was given out through the Wilson
press that this meeting was TO be as
sembled by divers and sundry patriotic
1AAiN iibSA - 7lRNIhS tOllSliAdlDl = lpi ttiF
purpose of squelching the red headed
person from McDuffie" and the accom-
plshing of such measure of salvation to
the Democratic party as that consum-
nation might involve
But, alas for the disgruntled Wilson
smoker of this enchanting pipe, the dope
gave out before the vision came true!
Dream Shattered by Facts.
There is to be no such meeting as the
one dreamed of, and no such meeting
ever has been contemplated by any Tn
derwood leader of consequence or remote
~ relative Importance, so far as any
flesh-and blood witness will testify
The manager of the Piedmont says no
one has reserved the hotel convention hall
for the evening preceding the state con-
vention in Atlanta, and If there is to be
an anti Watson gathering there or any
where else about his place. or anybody
else's place. he is in hlissful and complete
ignorance of it.
The explosion Of this last little Wilson
tale of woe makes it look as if the Hon.
Thomas f. Watson's Kimbal house ball
room meeting on the evening of MAY IS
is TO be pulled off without opposition or
protest from any quarter whatsoever. and
especially from any Underwood quarter
So, when this little dream lived, it
lived in clover; but now that ii is dead,
it's dead all over
Everything Is Pretty.
AS the situation frames up today. the
forthcoming state Democratic conven-
ton in Atlanta is going to be an en-
irely harmonious and happy gather
ing, if it Is to be enthusiastically and
vociferously Underwoodesque never
theless.
Watson is to go to Baltimore if he
wishes, without protest or question,
despite the beautiful dreams and horri-
BILE awakenings of the Wilson press.
The effort to SOW strife in the ranks
of the Underwood people through a
row of Tom Watson has failed From
a seemingly serious and dramatic en-
deavor, it has degenerated into farce
comedy Of hilarious attributes.
Everybody including the important
red headed person from McDuffie" is
wise TO the strenuous effort to make
Tom Watson an apple of discord in the
household of his friends.
Perhaps it is merely that the thing
was overdone. Anyway, all is happt-
ness and serenity in the Underwood
wigwam: and such gloom as there IS
anywhere, all attaches TO the Wilson
camp today.