The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-01-09

assassin, and ne VIII De fortunate IN
deed if he escapes as fortunately as
Theodore Roosevelt did. Coming
events cast their shadows before.
Listen to what Tom Watson says in
last weeks Jeffersonian. Here it is:
"My trial is scheduled for next
March.
My intention is to have subpenas
served on Anthony Matre, Anthony
Comstock, Cardinal Gibbons, Arch
bishop Blenk, Cardinals O'Connell
and Farley, and upon that Papal spy
and intriguer Bonzano.
If God spares my life, 1 will make
that case one of the celebrated cases
of history"
Do you, my dear readers, hear
what this valOrous man says? Do
you know what this signifies? The
momentuous portents associated
with the above, simple, but forcible
declaration from q man like Tom
Watson, no man can fully compre-
bend or estimate the consequences.
This trial must, now, go on. 1t will
cost millions of dollars before it is
ended; it will run ON, if | am not
mistaken, into the next Presidential
campaign, and will become a vital
feature of the next Presidential cam
paign. Now don't pooh-pooh this
assertion; four years will soon slip
away, and by the time the next
Presidential campaign comes on,
every man, woman and child will
know something about this great
trial. AS a great scholar and his
torian, Tom Watson stands second
to no man of this era, and as law
yer he is classed with the highest.
Do you hear what this great man
says:
If Coo spares my life, will make
that case one of the celebrated cases
of history. Did you ever know Tom
Watson to make an idle boast? l
will, he says, make that case one
of the celebrated cases of history;
not of America, not Of Europe, not
of the present day, out "Of History
Tom Watson knows what he is talk
ing about when he says: of HistO-
ry." 1t is no use for good, well dis
posed people, prompted by the mob
lest sentiments, to appeal for peace!
peace when there is no peace. A
great and Virtuous man who is per-
secuted for his virtues will never &C
cept a humiliating peace. An hon
est man may commit an error but an
error is not q crime, and impartial
justice would never indict man for
a small error. The spirit that indicts
a noble man for small insignif-
cant error will always pass up great
criminals with low instincts; ignO-
bility armed with official power is
always INSCRIPTIONS and tyrannical
Such dogs are totally unfit for posi-
tions Of authority in any capacity
whatever.
But the trial of Tom Watson will
shake the very foundations Of the
Republic. When the foundations
are destroyed, what can the right
eous do? Many who sat in judgment
upon the first days trial of Warren
Hastings, were dead and buried
long before the trial ended. The
great Roger Tichbourn case in Eng
land, forty years ago, lasted seven
years, the defendant being sustained
by public subscriptions which ran
into tens of thousands of pounds
The coming trial of Tom Watson, in
it's essence, as it appears at this
time, will be civil in its form, but
ecclesiastical in it's power, being ut
terly foreign, as we view it, to any
other case in America since Colonial
days. The development that will
ensue from this trial will make it
international in it's educational sig
nifioonce Patriarch Seattle. Wn.