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FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 85, 1906,
Tom Watson Exposes More
Of Clark Howell’s Fakes.
In Correspondence, Which He Makes Public,
Watson Shows Ring Candidate as Delib
erately Misrepresenting Him and Smith
The Atlanta Journal received
the following self-explanatory
correspondence:
Hon. Thos. E, Watson, Thom
'son, Ga.
~ My Dear Sir: Hen. Clark
Howell spoke in Henry county
today., The major portion -of
his time was consumed in lam
basting you and Hoke Smith. In
the course of his arguement he
referred to the letter written to
you by himself, and expressly
stated that said letter was of
a business nature and contained
nothing, not even intimated any
thing, concerning politics. And
furthermore, stated that HE had
made a contract with you, in
which he had paid you one thou
sand dollars for some of your
works, and wanted to see you
solely on that account. He was
asked, ‘‘Mr. Howell, tell the au
dience why you wanted to see
Mr. Watson on ,numerous other
things’ while passing thro Atlan
ta?” His answerwas, ‘‘Tosee
him about the contract,” or
words to that effect.
Furthermore, in his . argue
‘ment opposing negro disfrans
chisement. Hoke secretary of
the interior; cited the little inci
dent that happened to you while
in Texas making your campaign
for president, when you mount
ed a carriage and found a negro
woman occupant, your anger was
at its height, and stated to a
newspaper reporter that it was
the blackest thing you had seen
since Hoke Smith’s negro ap
pointments of President Cleve
land’s second admistration.
Feeling that these are some
things on which the people
would be glad to be enlightenedi
thoroughly, trust you will find
time to do me the honor of ani
early reply.
Sincerely yours,
. E, B. Daniel.
Locust Grove, Ga., April 24,
1905. :
Dear. Mr. Daniel: .
Yours received. If Mr. How
ells speech in Henry ;county was
correctly understocd by you, it
proves that he is still growing in
grace as a composer of marv:l
ous fiction.
At the time he wrote me that
letter urzing me to grant him an
interview, there was no business
matter whatever peunding be-'
tween us. ‘
Some two or three years prior
to that date I had sold the serial
rights to my ‘‘Life of Jefferson”
to Mr. Hearstand Mr. Howell.
That transaction happened sev
eral years ago, and was a closed
incident long before Mr. Howell
wrote the letter which now em
barrasses him ao much.
He never paid me for any other
articles in his Life,
After the Jefferson was com
pleted I had no other contract
with Mr. Howell. I had seen
him in Altanta on my way to and
from the cotton conventions at
New Orleans, early in 1905, and
had raked him over the coals
about those Theodore Price ad
vertisements. Mr. Howell had
advised the farmers to plant for
12,000,000 -bales, telling them
‘that they would get 10 cents for
'it. That was early in 190%.
Then when the farmers had|
[made the 12,000,000 bales, and
the price was down to six cents
he published Theodore Price’s
full-page article advising the far
mers to take 6 cents before cot
ton went down to five. ;
When I met Clark on the
\streets of Atlanta on theoccasian
’referred toI “boned” him about|
lthfs. and told him it would be al
point against him in his race for
Governor. :
I said to him:
‘ “Clark, we cotton growers re
‘member how you treated us, and |
‘we are going to give you hell,
}about %
~ Therefore, Clark knew I wasl
‘feeling hostile to him, and there
'is no doubt at all: that he wanted
me to meet him in private confer
ence so that he could talk me out
of my purpose.
~ That is why he wrote me the
iletter which he has tried so hard
to explain.
If J. L. Cartlege, of the Augus
it'a Tribune would tell about how
‘he came to visit me inthe Blue
‘mountains, last summer, and tell
about Judge Eve’s going to see
}Howell and then getting a go-be
‘tween to see Cartledge—A good
sized cat would be out of the bag{
Clark was mighty anxious to
get in touch with me along about
then—and it was not about liter
ary ‘‘cantracts,’’ cither. }
As to the Houston, Tex., inci
dent, he also composed fiction. ‘
My telegram to John Temple
Graves’ paper, The Atlanta
News,is there on record to show
for itself. I stated that the ne
gro woman wio wanted toride iR
my carriage was the blackest
thing seen ‘'since Clevelanid’s sec
ond administration.” ’
My friend, John Temple
Graves, telegraphed me for the
facts, and I briefly gave them to
The News in a telegram. Re
ferring to the woman, I stated
that she was the blackest thing
I had seen since Cleveland’s
second adxinistration, v
There was nota word about
Hoke Smith in the entire busi
ness, and Clark knows it.
The statutes in Texas for bid
the mixing-of the races in pub
lig conveyances and the rule is
strictly enforced, both ways.
It was nearly dark when I landed
in Houston, and I hailed 2 pub
lic conveyance—a carriage—to
carry me to the hotel, some
block.away.
After I had seated myself in
the vebicle, the negro driver ia
sisted upon giving mea negro
woman as a companion IN A
NIGHT DRIVE IN A STRANGE CITY.
I simply got out ef the car
riage, and told the negroes that
I would walk.
And 1 walked, while the
colored iady rode offin the carri
age which I had supposed was
mine,
There were many reports
about the incidents, some of
which represented me as having
struck the driver.
When Clark Howell lugged
‘Hoke Smith’s name into the tele
grams, he simply gave another
exhibition of his willingness to
SAY ANYTHING and DO ANYTHING
to get tee office.
CAMPAIGN POETRY.
. DEDICATED.,
To the Honorable - Hamilton Me-*
Whorter, railroad lobbyist, and profes- t
sional political ringtinkerer. ©~ "
“My name’s Ham |
: And I don’'t givea d----n,
I'd ruther vote a nigger
Than po white man.”
From the beginuing of his cam-l
paign in Columbus, Mr. Howell
has made a specialty of abusing
and misrepresenting me, His
platform consists of a simple half
and half tirade against Hoke and
and myself.
Caught in one talsehood, he
flees to another; run out of that,
he takes shelter in a third. The‘
man’s mind seems to be a howling
wilderness of deceit and prevari-*
cation. He cares no more for
truth than a billy-goat does fori
modesty. He fattens on slander |
as the Mangrove thrives on muck. i
He would rather deceive by mis
statement than to convince by
reason; and his ideal of a fair
fight is to stick a poisoned knife
into your back, and then run.
~ Tocripple Hoke Smith and
fordify the Wall street ring, he
has not hesitated to use every
weapon of the bushwhacker and
the coward.
He has charged upon his only
real antagonist a deal to deliver
the state intothe hands of the re
publicans, when he kNOws that a
baser invention never came from
satan himself. :
He has charged upon us-Hoke
Smith and I-—a deal to put me
into the senate, when he kuaows
that no such deal was ever
thought of by any one save the
tools of the ring. '
But, had I.said ‘‘Yes” to
Howell’s request for a parley,
who doubts that HE would have
heen ever so willing to make the
offer which he THEREFORE
suspects Hoke Smith of having
made?
He has raved and howled over
my alleged support of the Keife-
Crumpacker resolution; and has
uced his machinery in Washing
cn City and elsewhers to have
my name held up to hatred ‘‘as
at enemy to the south.” This
is done to hurt Hoke Smith, and
to bolster up the Waill street
ring which this false and traitor
ous Georgian helps to plunder
the south.’
When he declared that I favor
ed the Republican scheme to cut
down southern representation in
congress he knew that he was
making «a statement which was
utterly and absolutely devoid of
truth.
How can the Republicans
carry this state uniess the
nezroes vote; and how can the
negroes vote if you disfranchise
them by law?
Yet Clark Howell is making
his campaign upon the assump
tion that the people are such
fcols as to be humbugged upon
th: proposition that after the
ballet is taken away from the
negro by law the A Republicans
will carry the state! ;
. What republicans?
Numbg
Chamber of Commerce Meeting;
Fitzgerald, Ga., May 5, 1906
Special meeting of the Chambes
of Commerse body is called for
Monday night May 7, 7:30 af
City Hall to transact importent
buainess. Every member if
urged to be present. 4
B. J. Ried, Secty. D.B. Jayj
Prest,
The Misses Mamie George
and Essie Brown are visiting
relatives in Wray. 4
Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Joh 'A'
son., of Cordele, are visiting Mg
Johnson'’s parents, together with
his brother Ralph from Jackson
ville, Florida. - : -
| WanrED—At once, two whit
girls for hotel work. 1
Empire Hotel.
Miss Bessie Swords took he:
departure this morning for Mas
'yo, Florida., where she will en
‘ter school. _j
~ Mrs. W. Land is visiting her
‘mother, at Chula.
WaNTED—IO cords four-foot
wood per week. |
F.M. Grauau & Co.
EsTRAY:—A young brown mare
mule, four miles west of Fitzger:
ald, Sunday evening, April 30ths
Any information leading to it
recovery will be liberally rewards
ed. ELI WALKER. .
We regret to héar that Mrd
and Mrs. J. Y. Paulk are pross
trated with fever. Their friends
will anxiously await news of
their recovery.—OQcilla Star.,
The foreign Missionary Socies
ty will meet at 3 p. m. Monday,
at the Central Methodist church.
- Auction Sale,
There will be sold at auction
to the highest bidder for cash,
chmencing promptly at 2 p. m.,
Tuesday, May Bth. 1906 on the
premises of each place, the houss
es and improvments on the shop!
land location, known as the Moye.
place, Havice place, Floyd place,;
Bierman place, Knorpp place,
and severalsmall houses. Evers
body invited to go and bid om
said housesand improvments, as’
they must be sold and will there
fore go tothe highest and best’
bidder. 3
Come one, come all.
- COMMITTFE.,
on A. &B.R. R. Shop location. |
Where are the one hundred
thousand white Republicans who
are going to carry the state after |
we disfranchise the negro?
They do not exist. -
They are creature of Clark
Howell’s imagination, born of
his political necessities-and bed=
ied forth in frantic speech and °
editorial to prop the falling for=:
tunes of the Wall street ring.
Thos. E. Watson‘.%,:‘*‘
- April 30, 1906.