Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-27
THOS. {. WATSON
TOENTER RACE FOR
j. s. SENATORSH|P

Thomas e. Watson, of McDuffie
county, has paid his entrance fee
and will make formal announcement
of his candidacy for the United
States senate in the issue Of the
Columbia sentinel Of August ., &C
eording to advices received by The
journal from a close friend of Mr..
Watson, who is believed to enjoy his
cGntidence.
For some weeks Mr.. Watson has
bsea looked upon as a probable can
didate and through the columns of
his paper, the Columbia Sentinel,
has been paying his respects to SEN
ator Hoke Smith and Governor Hugh
NJ. Dorsey, who are expected to be
his opponents in the contest.
LAS to the Georgia senatorship,"
saws Mr.. Watson in the latest edi-
tion. of the Sentinel, "the situation
is Similar to that which suddenly
came upon us, when Senator Reed,
of Missouri, retired from the presi-
Dental primary, and left the anti
league men no candidate to vote for;
this was in April"
Mr.. Watson declares that to re-
iieve the situation he put up his
name and "53, 900 patriots-implaca
BILE enemies to the traitors leap into
European eptanglements and everlast-
ing wars-voted for me-"
He remarks that a much smaller
number voted for Senator Smith,
who favored the league provided he
could put salt on its tail with reser-
vations."
"Then came Palmer" he continues,
mitchell Palmer, Shoot EN- or snip
'Em Palmer; and $4,000 orang-outangs
are said to have voted for this Penn
sylvania Betsy-bug, who in MS own
state is q Republican whenever II
suits him."
o.
marks Immediately pertinent to tine
Georgia Senatorship," but elsewhere
in the same issue of his paper ne
write sunder the caption, If Dorsey
Gets Into the Senate Race" Inc
basis of his remarks thereon IS
recent Atlanta news dispatch TO the
Augusta Herald, suggesting that II
Governor Dorsey enters the senate
race cit will be for the purpose OF
provoking Thomas E. Watson to en-
ter the contest" .Lo
CONCERNING the statement in the
AtIsnta dispatch to the Herald that
tha 'support of Mr.. Watson was CIV
en- to Governor Dorsey (four years
aro( without solicitation, accordlng
to the governors friends" Mr.. wat
son remarks:
THE goversor's friends-sup pos
ing that he has any-cannot pc Tap
nosed to know what passed between
Mr.. Hugh Dorsey and Mr.. Ihonds
n watson. before Mr.. Dorsey curbed
his intention to enter the senatoTiat
race, and waited awhile to enter tnat
for governor. Mr.. Watson was never
at Mr.. Dorseys house; Mr.: Dorsey
was several times at M. watson
aft hasn't been so long ago that
the conference was held at hlcholS
Hill in Mr.. Watson's home, where
such men as John Hogan, Ely Cart
iedge. and several others from NC
Duffie and Lincoln counties, were
present, and heard every WORD OF
ana Mr.. Watson. They heard the
advice Mr.. Watson gave to MI; Dor
= Sew and they know that Mr.. Dorsey
Mr. Watson remarks, further. that
the men who he says are M" learn
with surprise that when Mr.: Dorsey
became a candidate he submltted ms
platform to the Sage of McDufne Ior
approval. - mos
elec teG" MI Mr.. wa Watson writes, che
turned his back on his platform 1o or
friends, and fell into the power OF
Clark and Albert Howell"
marks that "the other day" Governor
Dorsey appointed his partner, Al
bert Howell, to represent the state
in the matter OF the OIL inspection
Concerning a statement il the
news dispatch to the Augusta Her
wlTs that he fell~out with Governor
Dorsey because of treatment accord
ed him, Watson, by the Macon con-
yention, Mr.. Watson says:
- previous to that convention, 1t is
true 1 had kept to myself my opln-
ion of the governor and his perhd-
ious conduct"
Mr.. Watson adds, however, that on
August 1, 1918, he gave a luncheon
at the Kimball House, in Atlanta,
and that Governor Dorsey was
among his invited guests, which is
evidence that he had not fallen out
with the governor up to that time.
Says Ballots Were Burned
The Sage of McDuffie discusses his
race for the congressional nomina-
.tion in the Tenth district, in which
he alleges the ballots in Wilkinson
county were burned in order to con-
summate the theft of the eelction and
rob him of the nomination that he
had won fairly. He declares that
during his congressional campaign 81
need not emphasize that the migrate
Dorsey failed to lift finger in my
behalf, but on the contrary packed
the Macon convention with his i'm
placable foes of mine.''
Mr.. Watson charges that Gov
Dunaway and John Guitars, of Lin
coin county, that he, Watson, "cuss-