The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-09-26
ATTORNEY FOR WATSON
SAYS FIGHT is ENDED

Macon. Ga, Sept. 22.-Attorney j.
Gordon Jones, OF Cordele, who has
represented the Jeffersonian Publish
ing Company in its fight, and who
prior to that was the personal attor-
ney of Thomas L. Watson in the case
against him in Augusta several
mCmhs age, made this statement to-
day:
Tile case brought for the Jefferson
ian Publishing Company, to enjoin
he Postmaster at Thomson, 10 com
rel him 10 receive and forwadd the
mails the Weekly Jeffersonian, which
was decided adversely to the plaintiff
by Judge Emory Speer Aug 20, will
rot be appealed to the higher courts.
The exclusions from the mails of
the J3r'ersonian Was q foregone con-
clusicn The Postmaster General, no
doubt, had made up his mind in the
case before any notice was given the
publishers.
I've could go through the Supreme
Court with the case and win, but
while the case is pending the paper
could net be sent to its many thou
sands of bona fide subscribers. There
fore, the whole scheme TO bar it from
the mails would be effective, and that
is tnc end sought by the Posoflce de-
pertinent at Washington.
I'VE gracefully bow and submit to
the authority, both of Postmaster
General Burleson and the courts or
der, and suspend for the time any fur
Their proceedings to reinstate the pa
per and to reverse the lower court in
its decree, rendered on the interloc-
utory hearing.
at is not and never was the pur-
pose of the Hon. Thomas e. Watson
20 interfere with or in any way to OBJ
struct the policies of the Government
Mr. Watson, through the Jeffersonian,
took the position that. if the con-
script act or the espionage act was
unconstitutional, the question should
be decided by the courts OF the land
He never advised or counselled oppo-
sition to- any of the laws of the Gov
eminent Mr. Watson has kept with
in his constitutional rights, going no
further than asking for a test case to
settle the constitutionality of certain
laws
| "The Jeffersonian being denied the
second-class mail privileges destroys
it, causes thousands of dollars of
damage. However, there will be no
appeal of the case and, so far as the
case concerns the publication of the
Jeffersonian, it is closed"
In the last issue of the Thomson
Guard, purchased by Watson akter
the suppression of the Jeffersonian,
was published the editorial announce
ment by that paper that it also, with
the issueof this week, will cease pub
! ication. The Guard. several days
prior to publication Of its second is
sue by Mr. Watson, had been official
ly cited by the Postmaster General
to appear in Washington and show
cause why it, also, should not be bar
red from the mails. The paper, in de-
claring its suspension, took the posi-
ton that it was bowling to the "in-
eyitable."
! Watson, or the Jeffersonian Publ
cation Company, still operate Wat
sons Magazine, monthly publication
which has not been banned by the
Department and that, it is stated, will
be continued. In addition to this, the
sole remaining business of the com
pany is the publication of books writ
| ten by Watson.
On the whole, however, the sup
preston of his two papers, one after
the other, and acceptance by his com
pany of the inevitable" is taken as
the beginning Of the passage of
| "Watsonism" in Georgia.