Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-01

sinate him. killed him himself in the
streets of the city.
The world has always had more re-
spect for Brutus than they would have
entertained for him had he melted 9TH
ers to kill him. Had he been a coward
he would have adopted this method. If
your interest in, and loyalty and devo-
ton to, the Democratic party in Georgia
arouses in your breast well founded
belief that the chairman of the party has
acted, or will act in a manner that is
dangerous to the party and to the state,
and needs castigation for the same, 1t
would be much better for your reputa-
ton if you should follow the Brutus
method of it's application even if it was
little more dangerous to your health.
Very respectfully,
E. ]. REAGAN.
Ny friends know that 1 have always
opposed convention nomination. L am
against the county unit rule, and believe
that the vote of a Democrat ought to
count equally in any place in Georgia,
and if the committee had adopted the
plan suggested by me, there would have
been no convention nomination, but the
candidates for governor and all other
offices would have been nominated by a
majority of the voters at the polls, but,
unlike Mr.. Watson, l always abide the
action of the majority, and, so far as
j have anything to do with the conven-
tion, will, in good faith enforce these
rules This 1 tried to do in the con-
yention in 1914, and for so doing, have
been maligned and abused by this same
man Watson in his filthy sheet for the
past two years.
1t is also we'll known that both Mr.
Watson and Mr.. Dorsey are in favor of
the county Unit and convention plan of
nominating. The faction to which they
belong reinstated it in Georgia after the
convention at which Hon. Hoke Smith
was first nominated for governor had
provided for nominating all officers by
a direct vote of the people.
WILL RUN AN INDEPENDENT.
Now, this 'Bull Moose" Republican,
Thomas +. Watson, is threatening that
If he cannot have the convention abro-
gate his own rule, and the rule of his
candidate, and nominate Dorsey any way
that he will bust up the convention, by
tarring, feathering, riding on a rail, and
"manhandling," it's officers. If he
should fail to have his candidate nomi-
mated by the Democratic convention, no
one doubts that he will have an indie
pendependent candidate to run against
the nominees. This would not be sur
prising as he generally goes into the
primaries and when his candidate is de.
feated, runs him either willingly or I'M
willingly as an independent
He is now violently opposed TO Wood
row Wilson as president, and his paper
teens with SANDER of this great man.
He is giving, as far as in his power he
can, his support to Hughes, who is way
ing the bloody shirt and attempting for
the first time in a decade to revive sec
tional bitterness against the south. But
it is no new thing for him to join in
with the traducers of his own people.
1t is a fine spectacle, Democrats,
Thomas +. Watson and the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad company joining
hands to control the Democratic party
of the state, and threatening violence to
the officers OF the Democratic party, and
the disruption of the party itself, if they
cannot control the coming state conven-
ton.
E. ]. REAGAN,
Chairman State Democratic Executive
Committee.