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The teller in the ban* c
Greco-Turkish war ia another of
thing* that England ajjd France
directly responsible (or. Eugland
aided Greece and encouraged it to
a stand In Asia Minor. Pran.e
interests that conflict with Knit-
glands. commercial interest as usual
itters of that kind, has aecretly
iraged the Turks and they also
have had the support of the Russians.
sver that was worth and German
Individuals, who still regard Turkey as
t hacking Ford foi
Duke 1s getting t
The hens furnish l
per year and never c
We await the Enquirer-Sun of Wed
•sday with some degree of InteresV
The proper spirit c
gendered the proper #
Death claims th
high and the low
poor.
The man that eats pie ior breakfast
probably didnlt find.anything else left
, The impeachment of Attorney <
eral Daugherty seems to have fa
quite flat.
• Include humility in
The Near Bast question becomes
ore complicated with the accession
a new regime in Greece. • force
that, is determined to protest at all
hazards the Turks claim to Thrace.
Constantine is reported deposed or ab
dicated and the Greeks are in open re
bellion not against their own country
but against the policies and plana o
King Constantine. It is quite Ilka!.'
Hu adjustment will be quickly
ed once the pro-German brothe 1
■ of {he ex-Kaiser has been sen
longs.
ing through Gref
: extent the
• fairly
The Turks flushed wit
lent of Greek troops a
ive losses into Smyrna,
led Constantinople. ;
and Thrace. They demand
gainst the express statu
:ngla»d that it must be t
orce. France meanwhile is exercis
ing* fairly definite force in a diplo
matic way to avert the impending cri%
hue and cry from Independence Hall
and surrounding territory of Brother
ly Love that there would be • cele
bration of the hundred and fiftieth
anlversary of the signing of the De
claration of Independence, ii
style and such a way as would bo
orthy of our best traditions and our
present status of financial affluence.
But with the going of time the plans
em to have petered out to a certain
extent. There are objections to any
celebration on the scale proposed.
Philadelphia has not warmed up
ind the head of the exposition lx both
ered about the failure of men. who
tentatively Involved to assume
any obligations.
We all can readily understand that
ch an affair is very expensive and
II demaud a lot of money from
many’ sources. Yet it wasn't suggest
ed except by the Philadelphians and
they must have counted the cost fair
ly well before they started their
iplurge of advertising. If they back
>ut now the whole thing may fall thru
ir assume u purely local aspect with
al the spread fand the scope that
could have ma^e it one of the mo#t
wonderful expositions of its kind in
the history of the world.
In that event the whole Balkan sit-
ition will be again opened up with
whatever fatal costs it inav bring.
Kfigiand is involved to an extent that
precludes retirement. France has not
yet gone so far and probably con be
prevailed upon to relieve itself of uuy
urther burdens ns fur as Turkish si
ie»s is concerned. In that event
will be easy-to handle and the All!
dll <
nlude whatev
». Greece * ill be treated
avorably than Rumania <
» and perhaps, Bulgaria wi
all i
The short route to Tampa
doomed to postponement for a
another ten yeara.
The Turk she
11 prevented from going into. Europe
| again. This phase of the matter
[ought to be easy to arrive at for nelth-
England nor * France, prejudiced
land jealous as their inclinations may
be should be disposed to deliberately
(permit this Imminent peril to the!,
Mr. Ruth seems to have slipped in .national security to remain. The Turk
the public estimation as well as lu J must retire from Europe,
salary getting for next year. The United States is hHording re
lief to the stricken In the great city
of Smyrna and there are a sufficient
[number there to make it « very diffl-
The downfall of the Bolshevist gov- j
eminent has again been predicted l
it doesn't materialize.
The politician who doesn’t km
what to do usually winds up b> doi
whoever will let him.
cult a
r task. We
The guy that dreams of buying
Ctrl a feed had better let It go at th.
antes* bis pocket is loaded.
suffering humanity without
relief hut It may percolate
Ihe minds of Amerlcau stale*
e day that there are easier
The man that borrows money tbeaa me “
days always-plans to pay U back be-| mwu * Printing trouble than >1
fore toe finds that he can. assuaging It after it has actually o«
w j curred. That is diplomacy and wr
Jim Woodward couldn't boas Alton- ao ' enf ^ or pI(tn that involve*
da any longer so he tired of the game) any participation in European affair*.
•Ad got a boss for himself. ^ 0
The
th*
that amounts to anything AMERICANS SPEND MUCH MONEY
ie days doean't get success oo | SIGHT-SEEING IN EUROPE
reputation of his family.
if the United States has actually
The next peace conference wtil'itpent seven hundred million dollars
meet at Venice but it might as well in Kurope thru the medium of tour
aettle things at Constantinople. jut* during the past year, we have
i long way toward osalsting In
(the rehabilitation of those war atrlck-
Ttoe political be seems
facing these days but not
iU that b-
Vl*i
will be stung permanently.
a countries without actually meaning
R took about two hours after Bet
for Watson's death for politicians
publicly speculate on his successor.
j Hardly realisable is th# statement
[that the American people have beet,
so sight-seeing mad that they bare
( spent that amount of money and yet
! we con well imagine that they have,
j judging by the large number that have
| gone over and th* extortion that
la figuring a living wage every [universally practiced on them.
«iaa feels that he can't live on aa lit- We must see things and we always
fie aa he would apportion to the other ’ pay for them. The world knows
feUo »- as a spendthrift nation and as such
the people are going to get while the
The Cleveland man thai
o« the same jury with hi:
agree probably that It pa;
If Constantine has abdicated wc,
Rope the Greeks will have sense I MtUn * U
enough to let well enough alone this
j the spirit that seems to actuate the
plans of some of our own tourist cen
ters in the winter a* well aa the sum-
The french ore championing the! mer. Oet while getting la good is the
eauae of the Talks but that doesn't motto and it always works.
M» (he* gat the lyapathy <
tariff to terrible but it win
the Repubtleaa
their aptolblndlat
The Chlneee never kiss bpt jhat
toes not seem to affect their bgppi-
aass a* eooa aa they get away from
ly disposed tor your incoorentoaoe.
who was
There was a reporter
seat to get the dope on n wedding
and be turned to a Wank remarking
to fhe enraged editor that the bride
groom didn’t show -up. That'a »©m*
—
Th. tewjalcfnt.nnlal «*m. to h.vu!”®*"* <° r «"•
failed already. For a time there was tary after the war between the
Lions. Many a man has found it meant
the difference between election and
defeat; but no man ever played upon
that^key wRh greater success than
Mr. Wat$on. Through his writings
and his speeches there f ran a vein ot
fire that seemed to render many
unable to analyse what he said. <
think sober-mindedly of the probabili
ties of truth and mistake in it all. He
wrote and spoke as one havlitg
thorlty. and no Wataon man wanted
go back beyond “what Tom Wat
son said." That was enough.
Tom Watson was a many-sided
an. He lan be considered as one ol
ie literati and there is a long'list of
remarkable books to show that he
was. His clashes with governmental
authority out of all of which he came
unscathed, proved bis ability to say
what he pleased yithout finding the
hard tor him. As a lawmaker,
a suggester of governmental changes,
it will be said of him. as he said of
himself, that many methods now in
governmental procedure in this
country were advocated by him long
before they becaifte established.
TOM WATSON PASSES.
jinas E. Watson is dead at thi
mt when bis power in Georgia
politics reaches its highest point. H<
had Just proved again that he cou'.i
moke and unmake governors, and he
serving a term as Senator wb;
von in such fashion as to sh-
that he not only could be the "poa
behind the throne." but also could,
line time, occupy the throne hi
Many have been the big polV-
-k who could put other men in
office or throw them out. bat Senitor
Watson had the unusual power of be
ing able to do that and win high office
for himself, too. When the story of
Tom Watson is finally told, wherf the
perspective of time enables everybody
b him clearly, without the magni-
fying lens of prejudice to change him.
It) be said of him that he was oot
he'most brilliant tnen Georgia ever
produced ami that he did not always
his brilliancy for the bes». It Is
fiot posisbl* to write of him a? mere-
important mun who is just dead,
but it Is necessary to think of him as
torical figure, because so-much
of the later history of Goo^nt
ide by him. It Is proper, the i
speak of him. not in the tones
sometimes insincere respect, which
used immediately after a public
's death but are forgotten after be
bus been dead for' many years, but In
i effort to ascertain exactly what
was. what his effect was upon Geoi
gia. and what the effect of his deal i
will be upon Georgia.
In the first place let it be sai-l t* <t;
here Is no man in sight who <»j:: be
'another Wataon." There la no mun
be Watson meu of Georgia would
follow as they did him. Hoke Smith
i groat following; tliera were
••Smith men" everywhere--but Tom
Watson said the word and the Smith
men dlsappeart-d. Thomas W. <tlard-
k bad a good following; but Tom
Wataon said tbe word and the Hard
wick men disappeared. 'There 1s
in for Wot son's shoes because
the shoes would not fit anybody else
because of his mental stature,
but because of the political and per
sona] strangeness of the man him
self. He had that somethin* which
him support, and no amount of
right, of reason, of argument, could
make "Wataon men" believe he was
wrong. He became a legend, an Inst;
tutton, with soma Georgians, s sort ol
part and parcel of themselves, their
minds and hearts and the *t*U
them he was the state; he moved
them as easily os he moved his hands.
He pointed to Gris man and bis follow
ers voted tor that man; came the
very next election and the Watson rin
ger hid only to point In another direc
tion to make a new political hero and
est success. Thera to bo political tp- tershlp In tbe old Ku-Klux-Klan.
will i
I of I
and of laws that he will be lon|-
remembered. In Georgia, but u
l strange personality that made
him the recognized chief, almost as of
dan. of a large group of the populs-
loii of Georgia. Ag they say It. he
■ouW do no wrong, and he could not
ie wrong. To them what he said
accepted as (act and truth because he
said it. Only rarely does such a
appear. Other leaders here their ups
and downs; they have their periods of
oblivion. But Tom Watson, trim the
moment wheu be acquired hi* real
litical power in Georgia, from the time
hen his name meant, first. 20,1
Dtes. then more and more, in I
ate.’ bad his large following which
polled Us votes for the man over whoa*
for the moment a corner of the Wat-
sonlan mantle was cast.
that he is dead the "Watson
will break up: other men may
to make political capital as he,
did, but It will be strange if any ol;
make--it and invest it wkb
such high interest production a* he
There ere few Watsons in a hun-‘
,dred years; there is none In Georgia
ich men may be either groat
benefactors of their state and nation.'
it* worst enemies; the appeal to'
prejudice’always is wrong; the capital-'
izatlon of ignorance la never right _
Leadership has its responsibility; sd- (
vice that It Is known will be be fol
lowed should never be given except
-1th the greatest clearness of tbougnt
and the strongest honesty. Maybe R !
111 be a long time before everybody)
i Georgia can know Jest what Wit-J
,u did to and for his state. In,»he
meantime it is certain that there will I
change; U was he who did the*
guiding for years; others who thlns^
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differently, whose'idea# ore different
whose brain actions are different, will
do It now.- -Savannah Morning Now*.
Tbe poltical upheaval In Georgia
going to be righted after a very
stormy session Just at the time that
hll imagined that the worst was
If Tom Watson could have known
what the papers have all said he
would not have been so bitter, per
haps, In the last days of his stormy
politic si career.
When the wife comes back she is
lucky If she finds that things have
been kept fairly -dean and then the
suspects that maybe hubby dlJq!
stay at bom* enough.
The men that can’t say what they
sal to anybody, anytime about any
thing always get an Idea that they can
scare somebody into letting them kee^
Atlanta, Ga., SepL 28-—A charter
haa been obtained for a new organi
zation, lncoperated In Delaware, to
be known aa th* National Ku-Klux.
Klan, Inc. by William 8. Coburn,
former grand goblin tf the Knights
of the Ku-Klux-Klan in California,
Owen, J. P. Wilson, and A. M.
Senator Watson knew the political
value of prejudice oa oral) as any man
who ever used that old gold nugget of
political Ho
llgSou are two subjects upon which
mss can easily loos* their
per, sad he used these two things
with political results very eetlsfa»
tory to hriaeolf; lot It be admitted that
he may have been sincere tn hie attt
tads on theea {wo subjects, although a
man of his high lntelHgsac* cdujd
tart* lar. »«n nu w pmon. Mm u, a,
cr. W M u«d them .Uh ^h-
Wilson, of Atlanta, Mr. Cobum
that th* * new order would
tbe good features of
th* old Klan and eliminate the ob
jectionable features, sack as the use
That naturlized
citizens of the United State* would
bo admitted to the order after a
of five yeara here. .It
that only persons bom in the
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