The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-02-18


or Hoke Smith, or Taft, or Cardinal
Gibbons, or anybody else, and where
they answered back and gave proof
to the fact that he had lied on them.
Some say, yes, Watson is one Of the
smartest men in the State; he's too
darned smart. Yet he never ex-
plains in what way. Others tell JUS,
Hes such terrible fighter. If
Watson didn't jump on 50 many men,
and say so many~hard things about
men, more, great many more, peo-
pie would agree with him, and help
him fight his fights "He would be
a power, indeed, if he was on the
right line" A power, indeed, if he
didn't have quite enough moral cour-
age to stand square up for the things
he knows to be right A power, III
deed, if, like the religious press, he
was little afraid-iust little-to
beard the old Catholic wolf in his
lair. Wouldn't he be a power in the
land, with his brilliant intellect, if
he'd just give a mild, sugar-coated
pellet to such men as Woodrow Will
son, w. j. Bryan, Hoke Smith, John
ID. & Co., who worship at the shrine
Of gold, with no thought of pledges
made and promises forgotten.
Wouldn't Watson be a power if he
was just a little bit afraid 0ike the
religious press, the Index and others)
to say that the boards of foreign mis-
siOns were not commanded by the
Bible to educate" the heather nor
to pay 500 to the missionary parents
when baby is born, beside the sal
airy? Wouldn't he be a power if
he was afraid to say all that, and
knew the system was wrong in for
ei9n missions, in the National banks,
in regional banks, in the present
Democratic admin stratfon, in Cath
olicism-in everything?
Even he has had something to say
about the Frank case and the svs-
tematic management Of it, and not
afraid, either. No: the way I see it.
If Watson was afraid to tell what he
knows, when he knows it (and he
knows it,, he would be just a Cow
ard" nothing more or less. And
that's just why some people hate
him. But the great numbers that do
hate him SO much have their ideas
borrowed from some fellow further
up the line, but none are competent
witnesses that I have met.
Yes, Mr.. Watson, you are doing
your best, I believe, to lift up the de-
fenseless, almost helpless, working
man, farmer, miner, or whatever
may be his occupation. You have
stood by him ever since I first heard
OF Tom Watson (by my father) in
Atlanta, tWenty-three or four years
ago. You are standing there now.
and you are the only one that can be
"scraped up" that has done it. You
are in a position to do a great work,
as much or more in politics than did
David Graham Philips in :"The
Treason of the United States Senate"
several years ago, who was as fear
less Gas thou art) in his articles.
Long may you live to stand up for
truth, wisdom, justice, moderation,
freedom Of speech, Of press, of re-
ligious worship, and every other free
dom which free people are supposed
to enjoy
It's an easy thing to knuckIe to
the power of gold, as our twentieth
century politicians are doing, but it
takes grit and backbone to stand for
the rights given us by our forefathers
and for the helpless, defenseIess
poor laboring man, as you are doing,
and when you shall have passed from
this busy life the name of Tom Wat
son will stand above other Americans
as historian, and in the thoughts
and hearts of honest men, on an
equal with any others as an honest,
fearless, liberty-lOVing statesman