Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
WATSON MERCER
VERBAL FIGHT
IS RESUMED
Thomson Editor Keeps on
Saying Things" and Game
Warden Returns Fire.

Tom Watson and Jesse Mercer just
won't quit fighting verbal battles. De-
spite the fact that Mercer promised
Watson a cowhiding over the Boyd es-
tate settlement, the sage of McDuffie
keeps on saying things about the
Georgia game warden.
Mr.. watson, on the front page OF The
Progressive Democrat this week, in the
course of his praise of Governor
Browns message to the legislature
slips this one to Mt Mercer:
The governor advises that the
office of game warden be made
elective
Better still, it should be sbol-
ished.
The office was created in order
that Smith might throw some sop
to Jess Mercer-tne notorious liar.
braggart ana would be thief.
(Jess. you know. is the scoundrel
whom brought to task in the Boyd
estate case.)
Compelled the rascal to disgorge
$4,000
Consequently, he nurses an in
durable grudge against the man
who made him come across
Now. that is calculated to get a
come back from most any man. Mt
Mercer read the reference to him and
handed out this. boiled down from a
card he had written to one of the coun-
~ papers:
Calls Law Good One.
With reference to the office of
game warden. the legislature had
no thought of who would be the
man appointed when it passed the
bill. and Governor Smith did not
have toe present commissioner in
mind when he signed the bill. J.
is a good law and doing good work
in Georgia, without reference to
Mercer or Tom Watson
AS to the Boyd estate, about
which MI Watson has written so
many columns, and with reference
TO what ne said in the last Jeffer-
sonian and The Progressive Demo-
crat I charge specifically that Mr..
Watson brought that suit knowing
that he could not recover dollar
for his clients and solely for the
fee
| charge and accuse Watson of
taking advantage of a con1ding po-
litical frend-one who is not able
to lose the large fee charged him
nor to make the sacrifice lie did in
Watsons settlement of his claim.
The wife of Populist friend VINO
lived in Alabama happened to be
one OF the legatees Of the Boyd es-
tate and she wrote Watson for ad-
vice And as was stated by Mrs
Suda oxford in last Saturdays
Georgian, it was not her sists's
purpose to go TO law with the ex-
ecutors Of the estate.
Again Charges Trickery.
! charge pointedIy that Watson
took advantage of his political rep
utation or notoriety and imposed
on con6ding friend losing him
half his wife's interest in the Boyd
estate and charging him an exor-
bitant fee
charge and have proved by pub
lished letters of the widow of Wat
sons law partner taat Watson at
tempted to rob his law partner in a
division of the fee, and that he an
noEed his dying partner and treat
ed his widow in shameful manner
about the question of the fee
The main questions in which the
public is interested are the fact
that Watson took advantage of a
party man, PoLdlist, and lured
MIN OF his wife into a suit. losing
them the sum of $4,000 and charg-
ing them an eXoroitant fee; that he
vas willing to settle as soon as he
esta blished his right to the fee:
then quarreled with the law part
ner as he lay dying. and now as
climax of his perfldy he mistreats
the widow of his wronged partner
And that is what | propose to
thrash him about if he makes it
necessary.