Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-28

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.
(By Associated ess.)-United
States Senator Thomas E. Wat
son, of Georgia, died suddenly
at his home here early today.
Death was said to be due to an
acute attack of asthma, from
which Senator Watson mad suf-
fered recurrehtly for some
years.
Although failing health had
interrupted Senator Watson's
attendance at senate sessions
frequently in the last several
months, he was in his seat
Friday when the senate ad-
journed andNhis friends believed
that he was then showing inn
provement. He was stricken
suddenly after dinner last nigh.
and passed away shortly after
3 o'clock this morning. He was
sixty-six years of age.
During the first year and half CT
his term in the senate, to. w Itch ha
was elected in 1920 after receivina
the nomination over Senator Hokd
Smith and Governor Hugh M. Dor
sey, Senator Watson gave no indi
cation Of any impairment of tia
vigor and activity which had
marked his long career in poitict
and as a publisher. In his lasi
speech in the senate, delivered onl1
a week ago last Wednesday, Thu
Georgia senator severely criticized
the administration for its course In
connection with t, railroad strike
situation. His previous attacks on
the administration and most notably
his charGvs OIL illegal hangines il
the American expeditionary forces
the subject of e. We investiga
ton by a senate committee, had
made him conspicuous figure in thu
senate body during his brief serw
ice there. .
Ran For Vice President
Born in Thomson, Ca, in 1855
Senator Watson grew UP and nxac
ticed law there for some years be
fore entering state politics. Aftei
serving in the Georgia house OF rep
resentatives and later. in 1888. as
Democrat at large for the state, he
was elected to congress in 1891 on
the Populist ticket. After being de
feated on that ticket in the next twd
Senator Watson was nom
mated as the choice for viz presi
dent of the st. Louis Populist en-
NSHIIOIl, WIllClI 1IIuOISCu w ll1l1L1 Jt
Bryan for president in 1896. Nomi
mated for president by the peoples
party in 1904, Senator Watson CON
Quoted an active campaign to revive
the party.
About that time he began the pub
LEGATION of Tom Watsons Magazine
in New York and year later un,
dertook the publication Of Watscn'i
Jeffersonian magazine, which was
continued under the name of tba
Weekly Jeffersohian. The pubIic&
tons begun in that period was sus
pended during the Wilson ad. 4inis,
tration when denied transmission
through the mails after attacks ap
peared in them against the draft
act, the espionage law and othe
war measures. Mr.. Watson the:
began publication of the Columbia
Sentinel at Thomson, of which hi
was proprietor up to his death.
In the senator's own language a.
given in his biographical sketch III
the congressional directory, he con
Quoted his campaign for the senate
as an "anti-Wilson, anti-Ieaue and
anti-War measures Democrat" Aft
er defeating Senator Smith and Gov
ernor Dorsey for the nomination Id
was elected over Harry S. Edwards
independent candidate who favored
American participation in thu
League OF Nations, by an over
majority.
Senator Watson was in a greatly
weakened condition during the las;
few months from a severe attack OF
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