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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE DOUGLAS, GtURGIA ESTABLISHED 1888 Published Every Saturday By THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY W. R. fRIER. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE: ONE YEAR SI.OO SIX MONTHS 50 THREE MONTHS 25 Publithes The Legal Advertising Of The City Of Douglas, Coflee County, And County Commissioners. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Douglas, Ga., under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. 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. 0 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. 0- Mutt and Jeff have gone on their annual sixty days’ vacation, much to the regret of their many friends 0 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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