The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-09-21
THE PRIMARY VOTE
PUZZLES POLITICIANS
RESULTS in GEORGIA, VISION
SIN AND NEW HAMPSHIRE
GIVE THEM A SHOCK:
A BLOW TO THE LEAGUE

Two Irreconciliables, Watson and
Moses, and One Reservationist,
Lenroot, Win. Both Parties Are
Trying to Fathom the Meaning.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Primary
results in Georgia, New Hampshire
and Wisconsin produced series of
shocks in Westinghouse pronounced
that no political seismograph was
needed to record them. Politicians
of both parties are busy trying to
fathom the real meaning of the vot-
ing in those three far-separated
states.
Unfavorable to League.
Taken strictly at face value, the
outcome of these contests is decided
ly unfavorable to the league of ma
tons. Moses, an irreconcilable, was
nominated to succeed himself in the
senate from New Hampshire. Wat
son, an irreconciliable, was nominal
ed to succeed Hoke Smith in the SEN
ate from Georgia, and Lenroot, a
reservationist, was nominated to
succeed himself from Wisconsin.
In at least two of the states
Georgia and New Hampshire-the
league issue was clearly enough
drawn to make the conclusion highly
significant. In Wisconsin the league
did not figure so sharply in the fight.
Moreover, Lenroot leaned to the
side of reservations during the pro-
tracted senate fight.
Chief Interest in Georgia.
More genuine interest is felt in
the result of the Georgia contest
than either of the others, so far as
political Washington is concerned.
The personalities involved are more
striking and the developments are
more significant. The return to the
political map of Thomas E. Watson,
one-time congressman, one-time pop
ulist candidate for the presidency,
and all the time iconclast, is mat
ter of national interest in itself.
Then there is the defeat of Senator
Hoke Smith, cabinet officer under
Grover Cleveland, governor of Geor-
gia and twice United States senator.
Also there is the defeat of Governor
Dorsey, who rose to fame in his state
throughout the country through his
prosecution of Leo Frank.
On the side line of the Georgia
contest were former Senator Thos
w. Hardwick, candidate for COVER
nor; John R. Cooper, candidate fol
the senate on an anti-prohibitior
ticket, and Clifford Walker, attorney
general, who was backed by the ad
ministration forces against Hardwick
Watson seems to have won con
clusively in the senatorial contest
although Hardwick, who campaigneC
on the same side of the fence, is
not yet out of the woods. Senator
Hoke Smith was badly beaten, anc
for the first time during his long po'
litical career in fight in which ne
himself was candidate. Watson
was the bitter foe of the Wilson ad.
ministration, and of everything thai
the president stands for. His pet
prejudice was the league of nations
Through his campaign he said to the
voters:
'If you are against the league OF
nations vote for me. If you are fol
it vote for Dorsey. If you don't know
where you stand vote for Hoke.
How long Georgians will stand for
Watson as senator nobody can
foresee, but it is generally agreed
that once he gets to Washington and
clears his decks for action he will
let the country know that he is IN
the game. He is man of many bril-
liant gifts and is an author of ma
tional repute. But he is dissenter
always and is anxious for the whole