Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-09-27
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Thomas E. Watson is dead.

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The has lost its junior Senator The world has lost
of its picturesque figures Literature the realm of arts
has suffered the keenes loss the death sumber of the
remarkable mind that achieved the fascinating penetrating
History Of France Life Of Napoleon and the many otb or
literary works which will make the of Thomas E. Watson
famous in the South when his political phlanderng will have
faded into the dim background of the past
Few Ceorgans of this generation have in going left be-
hind them footprints the sands of time Watson will be
classed among the few.
With all his impetuosiy, all of his bigotry, all
Of his overshadowng egosm land the Of his life will
reveal all these traits) Thomas Watson at times was sub
lime
He had sublime faith in the future He had real rev.
for the past History him open book which
his mnde delved with all tie abandon and Joy that aues
youth to the of a fairy book
Facts that euded men of other times events that puzzled
historians of mental breadth Watson took JOY
solving and revealing for the benefit of others.
keenly analytical, his mind reached into the forbidden
recsses OF history and pounced facts that brought
the broad g of present day research revealed men and
motives long lost to the world by neglect and shameful
atupdness
Throughout his History of France this was proven;
throughout his Life of Napoleon the Watson dn
uive statue but big in brain, takes With greatest
minds OF all times the greatest of all minds that of Bona
parte and bids them combat his deductions which portray
Bonapae he has been portrayed by historians with
partisan PEN but the great Corsican himself might have liked
to have been portrayed had he been able stop his aors
long enough to have time and thought into his
autobiography before St. Helena overlook him.
The mind that could clearly reveal the motives and
thoughts of the worlds greatest warrior the mind
could concern itself with small chickering's bgoted platforms
and could rise to combat The political those who had
done Linn small harm and who dstaseful' him
In Georgia Tom Watson will never probably be as fully
understood he is the country large have had
of him. Our perspective has been narrowed through the
fact that his efforts have been dware eyes by
greatest foIies
In life, Senator Tom Watson anathema in politics
large number of people the Empire State of Sort
In death, his followers great leader tie
brilliant and the world will great historian
and student
Tom Watson was man.
Whatever else may be said of hn-by friend foe His
manhood admitted by all.
He a genius, No human being could have
he spoke he spoke lived h lived helped friends
he helped them; made powerful enemies he did, and YET
never bend knee the forces which draw
from genius and fool alike
Watson will go down in history of Georga great
heart great in mind, in strength No
could have gathered about him the thousands of oyabndy
oyal-rends and followers that Watson has had for
generation without being extraordinary among
Like all geniuses Thomas Z. Watson mad his faults He
could never be follower The very of the
to tread Men of great mental atanments could long
among his friends The friend of today often
the enemy because Watson demanded that he lead
in all things.
To the average man'-the of the street. the
behind the plow the unfortunate manWason than
a mamie being be idozed. And while he broke
with the leaders of men, stood loyalty and steadfay by the
thousands who his followers To him. the average
cared for and he forsoo forgot him.
Long after the thousands of followers of Thomas f.
Watson lave died and have been forgotten there will remain
many volumes of history the product of the mind of this genius
The book shelves of the nation richer because of his
phenomenal literary achievements
AS a writer speaker leader, Georgia has produced
few greater
In his passing let Georgia the Empire State bow her