The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-30
TOM WATSON IS STORMY PETREL
 OF LAWMAKERS
FIERY GEORGIAN IS ANTI-EVERY- THING AND WILL THREATEN FIST FIGHT, DUEL OR SPEECH IF SENATORS DISAGREE WITH HIS OPINIONS; HAS FIVE MORE TUMULTUOuS YEARS TO SERVE

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 WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O~If every body else si agreed on a question. then Senator Tom Watson will op- pose it. That is the concensus of opinion among national legislators who have watched this fiery Geor- gian during nearly a year of tumultu- ous conduct with indications that he House in an uproar throughout the five years he still has to serve.
 Senator Watson was elected member of Congress in 1890 on the wave Of Populist sentiment, serving one term In 1896 he was nominat- ed for the vice presidency hy the St. Louis Populist convention, which indorsed Bryan for the presidential nomination.
 The Georgia legislator has aroused various Catholic organizations to pro test against his Senate membership and to demand that he be unseated. Watson invited Senator Moses and others to come outside the Senate Chamber to settle differences He has clashcd verbally with Senator Penroso and then used many harsh words against Pcnrose in long harangue Watson supported William ]. Simmons. head of the Ku KiuX Klan. in the imperial wizards testi- mOny before the House Rules Com mittee His sensational charges of wholesale hangnigs in the American Expeditionary Forces aroused the country and led to an official inves- tigation.
 Whenever Watson gets up to speak on the floor of the Senate some thing is sure to happen. He has found that these speeches get his name in the newspapers, and he dis likes this not at dH.
 In 1910 Watson published a book, The. Roman Catholic Hierarchy" which got him into a lot of trouble and caused his indictment in 1914. The indictment was quashed and an other substituted on which he was tried. The first jury disagreed and the second acquitted him. Watson thea renewed his anti-CatholiC ,am- paign. which has increased in bit terness. Recently the National Cath ollie War Council protested against his use of the Senate office building as headquarters for his anti-Cath0lic campaign and sent letter to s"n~ ators that this be forfeited.
 Watson's great ambition seems to be that of an anti. He does not confine ninIseif to personalities. and woe betide the unfortunate man crossing his path. He will threaten fist fight. duel or else a speech.
 His election to the Senate followed q thrce-cOrnered fight in his own state for the Democratic nomination in which he stood as the anti-Wilson, anti-League of Nations and the anti war measures candidate. He freely admits. and is proud of the fact that his publications opposed the draft law. the espionage act and other war measures Throughout the period of Americas participation in the war these publications railed at the gov ernment. attacked the army and the draft law and ever since have at tempted to make it appear that this government did wrong in entering the war.
 Met outside the Senate Chamber, Senator Watson is personally a charming man. He has an engag- ing smile and talks entertainingly in mild manner. Even when he rises to his feet to begin a speech there is no suggestion of the uproar that he probably will raise before he is through He begins his speech in n well -modulated voice and then works mp nearly to the point of frenzy when some one doubts the wisdom of his opinions.