Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-29
TOM WATSON DEAD
Famous Georgia Senator Answers
the Final Summons.
0aCE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT
Body Inferred Today In Cemetery at
Thomson, Ga, His Home Town
Was Most Beloved Georgia States

Body Inferred Today In Cemetery a.
Thomson, Ga, His Home Town
Was Most Beloved Georgia States
man.
BY Ed H. Bradley, Staff Correspond
ent of Atlanta Journal
Thomson, Ca, Sept. 26.-The little
city of Thomson is in, mourning.
News Of the death Of her most noted
SON fell upon the people like a bolt
from the clear sky, and cast pail OF
gloom over the entire community.
Business is practically suspended
and while the stores and other business
houses remain open, they serve for the
most part merely as gathering places
for men and women to assemble and
talk in subdued, respectful tones of
characteristic incidents in the life OF
Senator Watson.
Already hundreds Of people from the
surrounding country are pouring in to
be on hand when the body OF Senator
Watson will arrive from the national
capital.
kilograms of coincidence are being
received from prominent men all over
the United States who are sending
their messages of sympathy to the
wife of the dead senator.
Mrs. Watson, with her two small
granddaughter at the Watson home
is surrounded by sympathetic friends
doing all in. their power to lessen the
weight Of the blow that has fallen
upon them.
Messages from all parts OF Georgia
and many adjoining states indicate
that when Senator Watson's remains
arrive Thursday there will be at the
railroad station mighty concourse OF
his friends and followers.
While it was generally known that
Senator Watson had been in failing
health for some months past, it was
not thought by even his, closest friends
that his condition was dangerous. In
fact, he had intended to leave Wash
ington this morning on his way home,
congress having adjourned.
Mrs. Watson Frustrated.
Mrs. Watson had preceded him by
two or three weeks, and had come on
ahead to open UP the house. She is
prostrated by the news Of the sena-
tors sudden passing.
Even Senator Watson's most bitter
political enemies, and in the course of
his vigorous life, he did not escape the
fate of making many enemies have
forgotten their political animosity and
have joined with his close personal
friends and political followers in doing
honor to- his memory, and in sorrow
ing at the end of his remarkable career.
On the streets Of Thomson today one
hears only the highest tributes to his
genius as a political leader, his bril-
liant intellect and his lovable Qualities
as a man. Men who fought him most
bitterly as a political antagonist are
quick to accord him their tribute of
praise
"Who Will take his placer is the
question on every lip, and the answer
is not forthcoming.
Men who have followed closely the
career of Senator Watson are at
loss when they attempt to predict the
result Of his death on political affairs
in Georgia.
But politics has been forgotten IN
Thomson today The people are paying
homage TO Thomas E. Watson, the
man. They are leaving until another
day the discussion of what shall be-
come of his political following.
RecolIections Of Youth.
There are many citizens Of Thomson
who remember young Themas E. Wat
son when ne first returned here after
being admitted to the bar He had
studied law in Augusta under Judge
McLaws, having completed one year at
Mercer and then leaving that institu-
ton to become schoolmaster, and at
the same time to perfect himself in