The Reason. (Savannah, GA.) 1908-19??, April 23, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE REASON COMPANY 81 Express Building. No. 1. DR. WATSON GROWS FUNNY, FUNNIER, FUNNIEST, EVERY DAY. “I am now’’ says Mr. Watson, “fifty-one years old”—an important item to be sure—“and have seen lots of funny things in my time, but I've never seen anything funnier, in its way than the present gubernatorial mix-up in Georgia.” He adds that if Hoke Smith had any sense of humor which he hasn't —he would look at himself in the mirror and drop dead from laughing. This all presumably from the governor's trip to Europe, his leaving the polities and policies of the administration in the hands of its enimies and his refusal to call an extra-session of the legislature when all the measures to which he stood pledged had not been passed at the July-August session. Mr. Watson is positive that it was the duty of the Governor if he wanted to make good his prom ises, to call the legislature in extra session “with a plain statement of what it was expected to do.’’ And the funniest thing of his whole life is that the Governor did not do it. Mr. Watson’s own sense of humor must have been dulled by his association with Hoke, else he would see in his line-up with him in the campaign of 1906, something funnier than Hoke's refusal to back all his words by deeds. That may be funny, but what is funnier than Hoke's ability to get the support of a man whose policies he had fairly burned alive with firey elo quence all the days of his life? And it was the funniest sort of support that Mr. Watson gave. On the day that the mothejr of Smith’s leading opponent lay a corpse, in a signed article .Mr. Watson referred to this gentleman as a dirty little, bow-legged, pop-eyed liar. Is it not the funniest thing at all that the Gover nor should fail to do Mr. Watson’s bidding after he had said such funny things as this to defeat an op ponent and elect him? If this doesn’t make of Hoke a hopeless in-grate, pray -what else could do so? But there is a serious side to this question which convicts Mr. Watson of a dullness of perception, as well as a lack of humor. He fails to see anything done by the last legislature that he wanted done. The question is, what on earth do reformers want done that, that legislature did not do? THE REASON ONE YEAR St.OO. Savannah, Ga., April 23,11)08 A MILITANT WEEKLY. < th AC (3 SINGLE COPY E. FIVE CENTS. If Dr. Watson has any more reform pills like those he prescribed for the railroads and corpora tions of the State and put in the hands of the revised railroad commission his trained nurses to be ad ministered, pray let him keep ’em. He will have to write bis prescript ions in future like the real M. D.’s- in hierogliphics- before he is able to work many more of them off on the people. Instead of curing our ills his medicine is making us sick. Aint hardly a railroad or corporation in the State of Georgia but has got the belly-ache from taking it. The doctor said beer was bad. wine was worse and liquor was worst, an I prescribed for the legis lature a prohibition pill. Without any question of its worth in treating the poverty of the working classes, as a cure for the increase of crime, as a remedv for the decrease of drunkenness and the moral up-lift of men, they passed it on to the people and told them to take it. Esually the doctor is in vited to treat you before he calls and then if the case is a bad one waits days and days before pre scribing in order to get a proper diagnosis so that he ma gr such medicines as will assist nature in restoring x to health instead of aiding the dis ease ir its struetive work. But not so with Dr. Watsoi . h<- ent against all precedent and called on his >\\ u» i..-ok and said here take this and tak<* tha\ it doesn’t matter a d —- whether it dries up your vi eyards, closes up your breweries and stops the sale of yi> ir corn and rye or not You're a sick devil, your ease is not unlike all others, from the same cause, and this medicine is the only kind known to man to do any good and I'll make you take it. Dr. Watson got off a corporation pill and a pro hibition pill all in a jiffv. These are items numbers ONE and TWO. He got also a disfranchisement pill fixed up in such shape ~ t may now be passed to the people who will b I lowed, because fie couldn’t help him self. to saj hether they should take it or not. This is iten amber THREE. But thei was one thing the legislature would not and did ot do. It did not give the Governor authority to anion wife murderers, no matter of how much st ice such people may have been to the I AMAR PARKER. Editor and Proprietor. Vol. 1.

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The Reason. (Savannah, GA.) 1908-19??, April 23, 1908, Image 1