Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-01
THE D. AL BETWEEN
SLATON And WATSON
WILL IT GO down ?
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and BE it resolved" stuck in here,
there and everywhere.
They IesOluted on everything from
shutting off all migration January
|, 1914, to the protection of the pub
lie schools, and the wiping out of
mileage for congressman.
Evidently under the agreement the
Gentleman from McDuffie" was 20
ne allowed to introduce all the reso-
'utlons he wanted. 1t seemed as
though he would never cease. 1t
looked like state platform and ma.
lonal platform rolled into one
The resolutions were promptly re-
ferred to the committee on resolu-
ions. Doubtless out of Difference to
Mr., Watson, who had objected 10
committees going into little rooms
TO fix things, the committee was in
Vlted to sit off on the side of the stage
to hold its deliberations,
1t may be sitting there yet. Any
way, that was the last heard of the
Watson resolutions. Even the Atlanta
newspapers shrank from printing
them. Snace is valuable. even in an
Atlanta paner.
Watson Hero.
A. the earnest solicitation of the
leaders who surrounded the smiling
Gentleman from McDufie" as he sat
On the sofa. rubbing his hands in the
characteristic Watsonesuue pose. Wa
cor accepted the assurances that tho
districts had already voted on the
delegates to Baltimore. one by one.
Tho assurances that there had posi-
tlVe'v been no slate making were very
gratifying to the Gentleman from
NcDuffie." How much he believed
the assurances is doubtless another
story. Thomas is no fool
And so the comedy ran on. And it
was hard to tell which one was the
most courteous, and the "Gentleman
from Chatham" bowed his deep &C.
knoWledgements when the sGentleman
from MnDUffie" made an allusion to
the distinguished ancestor of the"Gen-
tleman from Chatham"
Oh it was a love feast, all right.
But the stiletto was in readiness on
both sides, just the same, and behind
the smiles and behind the agreement
and the desire to keep the peace AMI
avoid calling out the Gate City Guards,
there was a manifest anxiety on the
part of the leaders that the situation
might even yet get away from them.
Behinds the smiles there was strain
ed expression.
But it didn't. In the end they
bumped the Gentleman from Nc
Duffie" And the bumDing of Watson
was the really picturesque incident in
the convention.
The Agreement,
Under the. agreefnent-at least so
Fielder afterwards DECENTRALIZATION
was to let him alone and he was 20
let Watson 9lone.
Slator's interests as a guberratorial
"and'date. Won see, were to be
sarredlv observed
PERHAPS Watson didn't understand
the agreement that way. Any wa,
Ae ha1 announced that Fielder anil
he couldn't go to Baltimore together.
md, to his credit. Watson tried to
live M to this announcement
When the election of delegates at
LARGE was brought up the rames of
eight were promptly nominated. with
Thomas E. Watson leading off. OF
course. this was all by agreement. too.
Then it was moved that nominations
close.
Then-and here is where the agree
ment seems to have been misunder-
stood, or where the humping of Tom
Watson came ina resolution was
hastilv nut in that the eight be elect
ed together by reclamation.
Fire flashed from the eyes of the
Gentleman from McDufie" This was
the challenge. He was on his feet in
an instant.
81 protest" he declared. And then
the fun began. The Fielder crowd
in the gallery and on the floor knew
whit they were there for, and the
howling down of the Gentleman
from McDuffie" promptly began.
Chairman Futchens belabored the
table in vain for some minutes. FIN
qllv Watson got in a few words.
Oil and water will not mix" b
decilred with emphasis, as he gave
a shake to the Byronic lock of hair
on MS forehead. And if YOU send
discordant elements to Baltimore vol
'njurC the candidacy of Mr. Un3eT-
wood. You have no right to renuiTe
NV friends to vote for this man Eel
dor. aud | do not want the rOtcA
of Felder's friends. Let the conven-
ton vote as it pleases on Watson al d
Elder.
This nan is my personal AMI NJ
litical enemy" shouted Watson. He
has threatened to skin me like an eel.
Let tho skinner come on"
Pedlam broke loose. Watson real
ized APPARENTLY. that he had been
dured. The rule that the eight dele
gates ct large should be elected by a
corntv vote was about to he IGNORED.
The district delegates had all been
elected ire eight had been named
for misunderstanding The time had
now come when the "Gertleman
frorn Nonuf1n" must take his little
dri,,ls Of hnmlock.
Oh. it gagged him all right.
lyon can't shout me down.! he
shouted.
Pvt thew did.
When the hubbub was edgjng off
the chairman hastily put motion
that the eight delegates-at-large be
declared elected by reclamation
There were fully as manv noes IS
aves-perhars more. But no diyi-
sion vaS taken. Hastily the eight
were declared elected.
And so Tom Watson was bumped,
md Tom Folder elected