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THE 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
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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.
