The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-26
TOM WATSON, DEMOCRAT

Tom Watson, the democratic candidate for
who not only won the state once but three
times, is stH fighting the league ana wilson
ism, wauon whipped the Wilson crowd when
he was elected delegate to the national convcu-
ton Refused admission to that convention. he
returned home and gave the Wilson machine
another thrcshing in the senatorial campaign,
winning the democratic nomination for the
senate.
Most politicians would have began TO trim
there in order to get votes Watson didn't. His
friend Hardwck, also fighting the league and
wisconsin. tied with his opponent In the prl-
mary and run-off campaign was necessary.
wGtson didn't hesitate. He plunged in and
made another vicious fight And Hardwick
won Thus the anti-caguc. anti-wilson faction
Of Georgia democracy took charge of the state.
The Wilson press. the democratic candidates.
asserted that the Georgia primaries with
out slgnlficance. Local issues" they explained.
But here are the issues as stated by Watson in
the campaign; tho sentiments he Ia expressing
today In order to get himself elected.
Concerning the peace treaty and league he
says:
at isn't treaty; It Is a traitors compact
to betray his country TO It's most natural and
powerful enemies | mean specifiCnlly
England and Japan"
Concerning Woodrow Wilson. he says
President Wilson'S first administration
drank grape Juice; His second. drank blood.
lie would not fight when the Lusitania
was sunk although such a pacific Quaker
as myself clamored for the dismissal OF the
German ambassador he severance OF ali
diplomatic relations with he kaiser and
naval war, to the death against Germany.
Wilson n
the deliberately planned murder of 1i9
American tourists, on the vessel which was
doomed before It set out from New York.
Why was II doomed?
Because itS course notified TO the
Germans, crouching on the coast OF Ireland,
by tho wireless stations OF Germany in New
Jersey and New York.
why did Wilson leave those German
spies to continue TO use those wireless
stations two years after the great war be-
gan7
Ask him,
Actually, our president aided Germany
during the first years Of the war: morally,
he is in part responsible for the murder OF
the ll9 Americans who took passage on
the I.usitania.
Yet Watson is running az democrat for the
United States senate. Ho will certainly be
slected-by precisely the same people who viii
vote to elect Cox, the Wilson mo-too
In an address october rs, Watson explaining
what 1t was that made the people OF Georgia
ieclare their independence anew. said.
1t was not my victory; It was not Hard
wick's: II was an elemental upheavaI of a
great and true democracy, which fiercely
determined to rcHHscrt state rights, consti-
tutional rights and the unfettored rights
OF trce people to exercise the democracy
handed down to them by the lbertarians
OF England Scotland. Ireland-organt2cd
for government by tho American heroes
who shed their blood on the old Atlantic
scaboard.
First In order, was the proposcd surrep
der to Europe, Asia, and Africa of our
splendid independence. the Wilsonian de-
mnnd that our country should be ruled in
part by Japan, Italy France, and England:
the obligation, under Article o, to fight the
nattIes or foreign nations, forever when
their frontiers are endangered
From which 1t IL not at all difficult TO under
siand Just what It is that the Georgian demo-
crats are trying to say.