Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-01

would start an Instruction against his
control every now and then. They
would generally start the revolt when
quay was out of the state, out Of sight
ana hearing, and sometimes out OF
reach.
The revolt would wax hot and fur
ions. We have got him going the
expeditors OF the movement would yetl
in glee. That was before the day OF
Rooseyeltian aXioms, or otherwise
they would have filled the atmosphere
with the exclamation We have got
aim whipped to a fragile"
And so the welkin would ring with
the sound of approaching doom for
the boss. The revolution would seem
to be increasin in intensity with
every hour.
But by and by, Quay would turn
his face homeward, and then, what a
change!
One time he was out in Hawaii. The
revolt was inaugurated, it spread, APP
arently, like wild fire. There were
the usual caucuses, the usual claims,
the usual shoutings of victory before
the battle had been fought.
Away off in the Pacific islands a
little dried up runt of a man sat
watching the giIls battle, just like
Mark Twain's travellers had done years
before, studied the customs of the PEG.
pie, and otherwise went along the us
ual routes of the average tourist.
If news of the revolt came it neve'
chased him. When the time limit on
the return ticket was up he boarded
the steamboat and returned to San
Francisco. There he took the usua!
train and began to move eastward.
The news reached Pennsylvania that
the old man" was on the way back
When he reached San Francisco the
revolt was at its full height. When
he got to Salt Lake City there was a
I erceptible diminution of its ardor
When Denver was reached the cooling
down of the political atmosphere in
Pennsylvania was clearly perceptibl9
When Chicago turned up in due course
Of travel there were numerous tel
egrams protesting that the use of the
5enders names as leaders of the rebel
was false. When Cincinnati was
reached number were on hand in
person to attest their loyalty, and by
the time Pennsylvania soil was reach
ed the revolt had gone into the air
The insurgents had enjoyed them
selves, they had turned loose a lot of
~ rplus steam. thew felt better because
Of the freedom they had temporarily
anioyed, and little Matt Quay was as
strorg as ever.
There is little of a parallel case
here in Georgia, parallel along some
lines, at least.
Before the state convention met
they were fairly going to eat Tom
Watson up alive.
Fielder would skin him;
Anderson would crack his bones;
Loyless would anathematize the car
Gus;
The creamery would attend to the
rest.
The word "frazzle" was overworkeI
in an effort to let the world know
what they would do to Thomas when
ne struck town,
Fire cleaned from their eyes, their
mouths belched birthstone.
Oh! they were a bad lot as they
whetted up their knives, drew the
keen edges across their thumb nails,
and gloated over the shedding of the
blood of the sage of Thomson,
what the Pennsylvania insurgents
threatened to do to Quay was a small
sized circumstance to what lay before
the unfortunate Watson.
But, just as Quay, on that eventful
occasion, left Hawaii, so Watson left
Thomson.
The def had been given him, but
the hope had been INDUCED that Wat
son would really stay in Thomson.
Why should he defy fate, invite an;
come into the jaws of po-
litical death from which there was no
escane. Were not the knives and the
t)mahawks, and the sandbags all ready
for him?
But he came, and before he reached
Atlanta there was a subsidenceaof the
chatter, to some degree.
When they said FRAGILE" they some
how feared "fizzle."
When they consigned him to polit-
II al sheol they did it with a rescrva-
ton.
When they talked Watson they be-
gan by putting out feelers to sen
y here the delegate stood Thev found
hat little too often to be pleasant
he expression Wen lick him TO d
lazzle" brought the prompt rejoinder
The HI you will
Watson's landing in Atlanta was
about synonymous with the landing OF
Matt Quay at Cincinnati on his return