The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-26

interesting reading when Mr., Watson
takes notion to take up the gaunt-
let in his own magazine. Not many
Georgians agree with their distin-
guished fellow citizen politically-if
he would re-enter the Democratic
party, he could have anything within
the gift of the people for the mere
asking-but none Of them fail to
realize his unusual brilliancy. Wheth-
er assuming the role of criminal law
yer, lecturer historian, candidate for
President Of the United States, or
what not, Watson is unquestionably
one of the most forceful characters
OF the South.-Daily Oklahoman.
So it would now seem that we are
not the sole member of Oklahoma's
delegation Of pencil pushers who
would even dare to intimate that the
redoubtable auburn-hued citizen of
the vermillion hills Of the good old
Goober State is not fool or a knave
And now since the latest edict has
gone forth from Colonel Roy Stafford,
the greatest of the great, and from
one who always wears his moral and
political preachments right side to-
ward every wind that blows, it might
be we'll for others to come from their
hiding meath the juniper bush, and
confess, as did Elijah of old, that
"there be a gOOdly number who have
never bowed the knee to the image
of Baal," and who, we might say,
never fail to register a solar plexus
blow in the umbilical regions of his
prophets, whenever they don their
war paint and get gay. And these
are the fellows who are standing
sponsor for the unquestioned ability
of the fiery Georgian, and will con-
tinue to do so, regardless of the fact
that the rabble may dub him a popu-
list and a bolter. We never voted the
POpulist ticket, but we have about
decided that those who did need not
make any profuse apologies for the
rash CD act; Senator Gore, of
Oklahoma, being one of our most
cheering ex IMPLIES. And more es-
pecially is this the case when we re-
cell that nearly all the political
reforms of the last quarter century
came as a heritae from the old Omaha
platform and other similar documents
whose daggger-like teeth made them
hang like the sword Of Democles over
all the old hidebound politicians both
North and South. The doctrines Of
the initiative and referendum, the i'm
perative mandate ard recall, the
proper regulation of the trusts and
the election of U. S. Senators by
direct vote Of the people are some
of the modern political accomplish
ments of which we now boast. And
yet the time was when those very
needed reforms were dubbed as the
visionary, schemes of the wild-eyed
old "pOpG." Now days these self
same theories of government have
become the watchword of all political
reformers, and during all these years,
the man of the hour in backing these
reforms has been none other than
Thos. f. Watson, of Georgia.
Twenty years ago when Tom Wat
son would take a swing around the
circle on a speech-making tour, he
always got hearing, and many were
the old-time political war CD horses
who took dadgasted good care of
their bacon in those days, by letting
the red-haired Georgian have his say,
and then waiting for his departure
before making any rejoinder. He
seems to have no further political
aspirations, but he has not quit the
platform, and when the occasion de-
mands he goes to Atlanta and hires a
hall and soon the word is passed out
the Tom Watson will hold forth at a
given hour, and then it is that bish-
ops, college professors, lawmakers,
farmers and business men vie with
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