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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE
DOUGLAS, GtURGIA
ESTABLISHED 1888
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WHY SHOULD HUGH DORSEY REPUDIATE IT?
The Enterprise has always had a great admiration
for the Augusta Chronicle, the South’s oldest news
paper, and considers it one of the best edited papers
in th South. Its editor, the Hon. Thomas Loyless, is
one of Georgia’s greatest men and is doing a mag
nificent work for his country. He is a grogressive cit
izen and a lovable character. His politics and his
religion are the same as ours, and we have agreed
with him for many years in his political reasoning.
But these things have had nothing to do with our rea
sons for admiring him, although they might have open
ed the way, helped create the thought, and nursed it
into a living thing. His ability, courage, far-sighted
ness, patriotism, and many other accomplishments,
have endeared him to us.
But what we started out to say was something
else. It is about Mr. Loyless, and before we say it,
we thought best to preface our remarks with the above
statement.
Here are some statements that our friend is mak
ing daily, working over-time in trying to prejudice the
voters of Georgia against a certain candidate for gov
ernor, just because, he says, Tom Watson claims him,
lock, stock and barrel.
“The man who put Hugh Dorsey in the race for
governor.”
“The political wet-nurse of Tom Watson.”
And many other statementsof this character which
we don’t believe Mr. Loyless can back up. Mr. Loyless
can tirade Mr. Watson all he pleases, and he certainly
has been doing his share, and a greater part of his
work is commendable, in our opinion, Dut whatever
Mr. Watson is, has been, or ever hopes to be, has not
got anything in the world to do with Hugh Dorsey’s
campaign for governor, and we think Mr. Loyless
should refrain from making clean-cut statements like
the above, unless he goes further and completes the
declaration by satisfying the public that Tom Watson
is responsible for Hugh Dorsey’s candidacy, a thing
we don’t believe, in the present light.
The Enterprise is not supporting Hugh Dorsey or
anybody else in the present race. We don’t know
what we piay do, but we will at any time try to sup
port the iirtfcgrity of any candidate when we think he
is being treated unfairly, as we think Mr. Dorsey is
in this instance. In a recent issue of The Chronicle,
Mr. Loyl<j«s.states that Tom Watson was flying at the
mast head of his Jeffersonian an advocacy of Dorsey’s
candidacy, pledging him his support, long before Dor
sey ever‘hnnounced for governor. Is this true? To
our own certain knowledge, Mr. Dorsey had announced
publicly and in the press that he would be a candidate
and would issue his platform in a few weeKs, long be
fore Mr. Watson ever declared at the top of his editor
ial page that he was for Dorsey, “tooth and toe-nail.
For the simple reason that Tom Watson is sup
porting Hugh Dorsey is not a reason that he is Wat
son’s candidate. Was Joe Brown Watson’s candidate.
Was Hoke Smith Watson’s candidate? Watson sup
ported both of these gentlemen on different occasions.
At the same time Tom Watson was giving his undivid
ed and loyal support to Joe Blown in one ol his races
for governor,-our friend, the able editor of The Chron
icle, was raising-h 1 for Joe Brown. He and Wat
son were trying to see who could spread it on the
thickest. Why the difference now, Mr. Loyless?
Suppose Watson should decide to support your can
didate for congress in the Tenth district, and there was
a great contest on; what would you do about it? Would
you abandon your friend and come out and accuse him
of being the “political wet-nurse of Watson?" Has
it come to the point in your life that you won’t sup
port a man Watson supports? Because Watson sup
ports your friend does that fact poison him (your
friend) ?
We are fully aware of your attitude towards Tom
Watson. The Enterprise is not a Watson paper. We
don’t agree with him in a great many things, and es
pecially in his abuse of Woodrow Wilson and the dem
ocratic administration. But our views of Watson are
not booked for this occasion. We don’t care how bitter
we might be against the Thomson statesman, just be
cause he voted for our man, would not run us away
from our candidate, and most certainly would not
cause us to make accusations against him which we
failed to back up.
Mr. Loyless asks the question, “will Hugh Dorsey
repudiate this?” That is, that he is the political wet
nurse of Watson and the candidate put In the race by
Watson. We are certainly surprised that our able
friend would ask for such a statement from Mr. Dor-
r —. V r ?.r. ■ vt re' for hu life, is it up
to him to prove his guilt. If Mr. Loyless honestly
believes that Hugh Dorsey is a candidate for governor,
put in the race by Tom Watson, then let him prove it,
and it is up to him to prove it, when he makes the
assertion. He is doing Mr. Dorsey a great injustice,
his party a great wrong, and certainly not building
himself up in the estimation of Georgians, when he
uses his £reat journal in making ,flimsy accusations
against an able democrat, in an effort to prejudice the
voters of the state against him in the approaching
primary-
While we have not committed ourselves to Hugh
Dorsey or any other candidate in this race, we try to
be fair to all of them, and we say in all candor that
we don’t believe Tom Watson had anything in the
world to do with the present candidacy of Hugh Dor
sey. We presume the support of Watson is welcomed
by Dorsey, and would be by either of the other candi
dates. We don’t believe that Hardman, Pottle or
Harris, would throw it down, should it have been ten
dered them. Joe Brown didn’t throw it down. Hoke
Smith enjoyed and glorified in it. Show us a candi
date in Georgia that ever told Watson he didn’t want
his support. Hardwick did, after Watson had started
after him. They all want it, and some of them get
awful sore if it don’t come their way.
We are afraid that our able friend is so saturated
with his contempt for Watson, and he may be justified
in it, that he forgets himself and lets his prejudices
extend too far, in that he cannot tolerate any man who
will accept a kindness from Watson. That kind of
religion won’t last, and we will have to part ways with
our friend, religiously speaking, if he continues to ex
pound this far-reaching doctrine.
What in the world has Hugh Dorsey got to do with
Tom Watson’s attitude toward the Democratic party
and its national standard bearer? He may regret it the
same as we do, but he has no more to do with it than
does Hardman, Pottle, Harris or Loyless. It seems to
us absurd for a great editor like Mr. Loyless to come
out so boldly and continuously with articles calling for
Mr. Dorsey to repudiate it all, and asking him if he
endorses the words of Watson about our government.
It is not up to Dorsey to do anything of the kind, and
we hope he will ignore it as he justly should.
Let Hugh Dorsey run for governor on his own mer
its, if he has any, and we believe he has, and the other
candidates may do the same. Let Tom Watson vote
for Dorsey, if he wants to, fight for Dorsey if he
chooses, and it is nobody’s business but Watson’s. Ii
Hugh Dorsey is elected we don’t believe that Tom
Watson or anyone else will dictate to him in the least.
He never has been dictated to up to this time, and we
don’t believe that he will now accept any from Tom
Watson.
If Dorsey is elected governor, the state will have
a man capable and able to fill the chair. In the event
either of the other three are elected, the state will
have as good a governor as any state in the union.
If the able editor of the Chronicle is just against
Dorsey anyway, then be against him on the real
grounds, and not ring in the Watson reason just be
cause he is accustomed to talking that mostly in his
editorial columns.
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A NATIONAL CALAMITY.
We should regard the defeat of Mr. Wilson by Mr.
Hughes as a national calamity. Aside from all other
considerations, there would be a period extending from
November 7 to March 4 in which the foreign affairs
of the United States would be in chaos. Europe would
know that the American people has repudiated Mr.
Wilson, It would .have no official knowledge tff Mr.
Hughes, of what he proposed to do and what he pur
posed not to do. That every interregum might in it
self plunge the United States into war. This is pe
culiarly the case when Mr. Hughes’ candidacy Is ve
hemently supported by the professional German lead
ers, who are determined to punish the president for
presuming to have a foreign policy that does not meet
the demands of the German government.—New Y'ork
Times.
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Mutt and Jeff have gone on their annual sixty
days’ vacation, much to the regret of their many friends
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In the presidential race the issue is whiskers against
the clean-cut man. Give us the latter on all occasions.
0
The legislature is now in session for a fifty-days’
grind. It promises to be a lively session as several
important matters will be acted upon during the next
few weeks.
0
We believe the campaign in the Eleventh is warm
ing up a little. The candidates appear to be slightly
more active. But it is a long time yet before the
primary on Spetember 12.
0
The Progressives and Republicans have joined
forces, but we don’t believe that with this union they
can hope to put one over the greatest president the
country has had in several decades.
0
What has become of the European war? We
haven’t seen a thing about it in several days. The
press is covering the Mexican Situation so thoroughly
that the. war in the orient is receiving scant attention.
0
They say that Clayt. Robson is behind Pottle’s cam
paign, Ichelberger is behind Harris’, and Tom Watson
behind the candidacy of Dorsey. Dr. Hardman should
get him a backer as well known as these three gentle
men. It’s all bosh about anybody being responsible
for the candidacy of either of the four candidates. They
vanted to bo governor, and each thniks he can win.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, JULY 1, 1916.
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