Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-23
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
4O8 Evans Building.
RY THEODORE TILLER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The
United States senate Sunday aztec
noon gave it's last tribute to the late
Senator Thomas E. Watson, Of Geor-
gia. Both Republicans and Demo
cratic colleagues, who had come to
know and respect the brilliant anG
fiery Georgian during his months in
the senate, gathered to dc him
honor.
Senator William J. Harris, senior
senator from Georgia, presided over
the memorial session, occupying tic
chair of the vice president. He read
his eulogy from that desk, an I'M
usual performance. Senator Walter
F. George, who succeeded Mr.. Wat
son in the senate, made his 'm5lde1
speech in that body, and it was in
eulogy of his predecessor. Senator
George, speaking with cOmpOsure
and clear voice in his initial address
in congress, said he would not re
view Senator WatsOn's career as a
senator. 1t had already been re-
viewed by dozen speakers. In
stead. he turned to the early strug-
giles of Mr.. Watson in his own state,
the lack of finances that cramped
| his earlier ambitions, his youthful
success and final victories at tee bar
ow his state, and at last his arrlrd!
at his political goal in the United
| United States senate.
Granddaughters Attend
At its special session the SCI 9tor
described Senator Watson as one OF
the most interesting and dynamic
| Legislators who ever sat in congress
first as a member of the house d
| generation ago, and finally as sena-
| tor for a year and a few months,
until death checked hic career. Sena-
tors on both sides of the aisles met
| to do honor to the late Senator. In
| the galleries at the Sunday service
| it was a representative crowd.
| Watching the proceedings below
were two granddaug hters of the late
senator, who are now in scho0I here
Miss Georgia Watson and Miss
| Georgia Watson Lee. Mrs. Watson
was unable to attend, but bv special
senate permission, obtained by Sena-
tor Harris, the desk once occupied b7
| Senator Watson was decorated with
flowers at her request.
Most of the senators speaking \i1
eulogy said they never understood
Thomas e. Watson until he came tC
| the senate and this afforded therr
| personal contact. They confessed
that they regarded him from afar u
a visionary, man radically looking
ahead of his time, an eccentric fe
low whose great intellectual altar
ments were in part submerged by
| HI IN Of +.,,
senate, the colleagues of The late
Georgia senator admitted they were
wrong. Certain of them still DID not
agree with the political and ecCr OmIt
views of Mr.. Watson, but most C.
them found substance IN LIS Viz
Orous mental slant on public CUES
| lions.
Tribute by Caraway
For instance, Senator Galway
of Arkansas, whose desk WIS tex
to that of Senator Watson during
! the latter's senate service, referre:
to the old OcaIa platform of tn,
pOpulist party written some thirty
years ago.
ct was regarded them SAID Sci
atOr CaraWay, ''as the vislonar!
dream of some irrespons.b bic dream
er, or else the attempt of a rldlCa
man TO tear down the government
Yet, today, practically every dp,n& II
of the Ocala platform, in whole o.
in part, has been adopted in lcGisla
ton and certain of its demands il
this hour are regarded as conserva
tive.
Tom Watson had the one minc
that held tie true vision through
the years ana his heart always bca
for the fundamental principles o
this government.
= Senator Caraway said that befor
Senator Watsons advent into tn
senate he had regarded him as
turbulent man, a person always seek
ing strife and conflict, and revelini
in dissension. Sitting by Senate
Watson day after day, he said, h
found him a lovable, charitable, en-
PERTAINING, brilliant character, mis-