El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-10

him Then the crackers and the ZEN
ant farmers think he is a hero anC
buy his paper and subscribe TO any
fund he tells them to subscribe to-
His brother goes into farming anc
grows a watermelon that he calls The
Tom Watson melon. Tom ADVERTISE
it on the back page OF his paper anC
all the crackers buy Tom Watson
melon seeds and the brothers divide
He attacked the selective draft Law
and in every issue OF his paper asked
for subscriptions for a fund to try the
law out in the courts. He got the
money 81 and 81 and S. at time, but
IN one issue Of his paper 1 counted VI
Slzo0 in subscriptions to that fund
Tom Watson must have given five
minutes Of his time to drawing up an
application for writ 81 habeas cor
pus for two negroes taken up By the
draft. And 1 reckon that subscription
lisr would show he got $4,000 for his
i've minutes.
just Like n Horse.
You can walk along the streets in
New York and meet 1000 horses, Il
there are that many left in that arch
home Of the automobile, and you can
stop and scratch them on the fore
head, and each Of them viii prick up
his ears and look pleased. Then you
VIII come TO one that viii just natur-
ally reach out and try to bite you as
you walk by him. That's Tom Wat
son He is that last horse.
Tom Watson is a man who never
said good thing about a living hui
man being All the people he speaks
well Of are dead. Before America en-
tered the war he attacked president
Wilson in every issue Of The JeffersO-
man Tor not going to war with Ger
many As soon as we went TO war
watson turned right around and at
tackled the president for going TO
war.
Watson's greatest interest has al
ways been in politics, as was TO be eE-
pected, considering the line OF has
activities. Ne was elected to con-
gress in 1884, and was Populist can
didate for vice president IN 1896. Once
later ne ran for congress Even some
OF his enemies admit that he was
elected, but counted oct. That event
soured him so that he has never run
for office since, but he takes a part
in every contest. local, state or ma
tional.
By Whom He Is Followed
Who are the followers Of Watson
Howard:
There are two classes OF people
that follow Watson. Through the
mountains Of Georgia, the two Caro-
lnas, Tennessee and Alabama there is
the cracker class. They are the purest
Angl0-SaxOn blood there is in this
country today. They have, never
mixed the breed. The only trouble
with them is that they think educa-
ton Is disgrace. All they can do il
to read and write, and All OF them
can't DO that. Those that can read
Tom Watson, and they believe any
things he wants them to read.
The other class is the tenant
farmer He is the loWermost limit in
white man. He is poor, ignorant.
sh1tless, without ambition, and glad
OF IT, Once in a while one Of them
gets ambition enough to set his son
up on 40 acres tract. Then the son
buys mule, and. after a while, gets a
oarryaA TO go with the mule Then
he IS out Of that class. And when he
drives along the road to church on
Sunday, with his family packed into
the carrgaii and a dinner basket in
behind and the mule shufling dcRn
the road, pulling the load, the tenant
farmers all stand in their doors and
say; Durn himi 1 wish that mule
would run away and kill the whole
pack. That's the kind Of man the
tenant farmer is, and the whole lot Of
them follow Tom Watson.
Those are the two classes that fol-
low Tom watson, and they viii follow
him any place and do anything he
says. There are about 1000 Of them,
and when Tom Watson Wags his fin
ger they all wag their boards. Copy
riEht 1917, by the Tribune.
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