The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-22


 consciousness almost to the end and conversing the last half hour with bis wife. son and daughter He contracted a slight cold Tuesday and suffered an acute bronchial attack yesterday. The immediate cause of death was heart trouble, superin- duced by congestion of the lungs.
 His service as public official was confined to a fractional term in Congress. He accepted a seat there in lS76-7 at the wishes of Samuel J. Tilden, with whom he was closely allied. Mir Watterson refused re- nomination for the full term. Fre- Quently urged to run for high office he always refused. maintaining: "I shall stay where l am. Office is not for me. Beginning in slavery to end with poverty it is odious to my sense of freedom"
 From 1872 to 1892. however, he sat at all national conventions of the Democratic party as a delegate-at- large from Kentucky. He presided over the convention that nominated Tilden in 1876 and was chairman of the Platform Committee in those of 1880 and 1886.
  MT. Watterson opposed William Jennings Bryan in his candidacy for president in 1896. but in 1900 the Courier Journal gave him lukewarm support. In 1908. however what Mir. Watterson denominated as the free silver heresy'' being "as dead as African slavery" in the United States, be became warm supporter of Bryan.
 When the storm of the European war broke over the world Mir. Wat terson assumed an uncompromising stand in support of the cause and ideals of the Entente Allies, declar- HIN hlo DtliSl luht tHcil ChuSt "dS the cause of freedom and democracy and that of the Central Empires that of autocracy.
 His attitude was tersely set forth in a single sentence that appeared at the end of practically every edi- torial he wrote on the subject for many months ITO He'll with the Hohenrollerns and Hapsburgs!"
 His scathing indictment of the Ger man leadership was interpreted by many of German blood in this coun- try as an attack upon themselves. and brought storm of denunciation 1 about his ears. To these Americans of German blood Mir. Watterson made answer that presumably they had come to the United States to escape the things he asserted the German rulers were endeavoring to fasten upon the rest of the world and warned them if they identified them n'ifCo hoo Niostly 0Ilh Nbt Nhupc oi Germany's rulers by giving 1t SUD- port, they would later regard their course with regret
 i Mr. Watterson also devoted some of his editorial attention to social questions. He once made savage attack on New York society women. calling them. "a flock of unclean birds" He accused them of a fond ness for display that ruined the men, a love of champagne and bridge that eventually ruined their morals. His dashing style gave him such nicknames as Light Horse Harry and Henry of Navarro" He was more popularly called plain "Marse Henry"
 AS effectively as he wrote Mir. Watterson spoke on the public plat form. His reputation as an orator reached It's climax when he delivered an address at the dedication of tho Columbian Exposition when he ap- peared as the governments official spokesman.
 Among the several books he wrote or compiled were oddities of South ern Life and Character" volume of Southern humor: "The Spanish American War" written concurrently with the events. and his latest work, ,,r-...-.z.,s.. aF ge, % a oo,,rtI,t tyop