Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-08
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News gives vent to some opinions that
are entertained by host of Georgia
! Democrats, without regard as to whom
they voted for in the presidential prim-
airy. 1t is true, as the News says, GER
tain politicians had their innings at
The state convention, but their dicker-
4 ing and bartering yet remains to be
confirmed by the mass of the party
What the News says is well worth
reading:
1t has been number of years since
Thomas E. Watson has had the privil-
ege of representation in a democratic
convention in the state of Georgia, and
incidently it must be said that Tam Of
/ Tamson" made the most of his oppor-
tunity in Atlanta on last Wednesday.
If the rank and file of the militant
democ racv of the state had not check
Cd him, the chances are that he would
1 have been talking yet, and he would
have dominated the convention in such
{ shape as only a man of Watsons
stripe could. The selection of Mr. Wat
sca as a delegate to the Baltimore con-
yention was not surrender on the
part of the units of the party, but
rather was it due to the actual cow
ardice of the Underwood leaders in
the state who had the management OF
the convention in their hands.
IF there had been one man in all
that multitude which filled the Grand
opera house, pit to dome on Wednes
day with the proper spirit of resent
ment in his soul, Tom Watson would
have been literally beaten out of his
boots; but the leaders truckled at the
feet of this tyrinnical political mounte-
bank, and without organization OF
PREF grafton the rank and file were
forced to submit to the Weakened
policies of craven and misguided
leadership. AS a matter of race
it was to crafty certain political
ambitions that the great democratic
party of the state was forced to pros
trate itself at the shring of the most
notable apostle that Georgia democ-
racy has produced in a quarter of d
century.
From the mo ment Watson reach
ed his hotel in Atlanta on Tuesdas
there was instituted kowtow polio
in which the leadership of the Georgia
democracy, from the governor to the
state on down the line, played the
leading roles as mere pawns on the
political chessboard of the state! The
were forced to do the bidding of the
ne man in the state who for two-scort
years has been the most unrelentinI
foe Of the party and it's leadership in
lation, in state, and in county!
The spectacle was one at which the
real Georgia democracy stands ap-
palled; it evidenced in eloquent yet
ainful silence the fact that the spirit
If decadence is gnawing at the very
vitals of the democratic party of the
state. That it was a victory for Nh
Watson there can be no question, but
il was that nature of victory, which
has but poor reward. He goes to the
convention, but he goes with men VIII,
are far removed from his school OF
thought, and with whom his influence
) is nil.
His bitterest medium of invective-
his tongue-was tied hard and fast at
the convention, and it will be tied at
Baltimore! 1t can be said with some
degree of certainty that interviewer in
the story of the momentary triumph OF
Tom Watson on last Wednesday can
5e discerned the final doom of certain
Georgia politicians, whom a strange
fate has brought into temporary lead
l ership and of certain candidates who
too quickly bowed the trenchant knee
and kowtowed with ill-becoming grace
to the whims of the most colossal pol
itical farce within the confines of the
commonwealth"