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PAGE SIXTEEN
IN DEFENSE OF WATSON.
Editor Times:-
In your issue of July 4th you
printed an article copied from the
Enquirer-Sun entitled, “Tearing
Down,” in which the writer claimed
that Harvie Jordan has accomplish
ed more for the southern cotton grow
ers than Tom Watson ever has, ever
will or desires to.
Let us pee: Last; year Jordan
wished the farmers to take ten cents
for cotton; Watson argued for more.
Subsequent events showed Watson’s
idea correct. Jordan accepts law
yers, bankers and almost every class
or calling into his association. Wat
son advises the farmers to follow
the rule that bankers, lawyers, doc
tors and all other professional or
business men take in holding con
ferences with men engaged in their
particular avocations.
In his speech before the Farmers’
Co-operative and Educational Union
in Atlanta last winter, Mr. Watson
by U. S. Governmental statistics,
showed where the troubles of the
farmers arise** Jordan had access to
the same tabled but stupidly or pur
posely ignored them.
As to Mr. Watson’s tearing down
and not building, let us see: First,
there are some things that he advo
cates tearing down. For instance,
tariff walls that have harbored be
hind them the trusts and the chances
of rascality that grow out of the op
portunities afforded by class legisla
tion. Where is the speech made by
Mr. Jordan or any other democrat
of modern politics that will compare
with Watson’s speech made in con
gress in February, 1891, on the tariff
in which he silenced Tom Reed on
that question with one stroke of his
mighty logic. In that same congress
Watson passed the automatic car
coupler’s bill, the rural free delivery,
and moved the barroom that was lo
cated in sixty feet of the door to
the hall of the house of representa<
tives?
Steadily, constantly did Watson
fight for the ideas now Folk, LeFol
lette, Hearst, Hughes, Hoke Smith,
Bryan and Roosevelt, especially on
trust legislation. Let us give him
his dues regardless of his political
affiliations, especially since his ideas
have been endorsed by many states,
cities and statesmen.
Mr. Watson will probably never
run for another office, but when
he is invited by as great a body of
men as the Farmers’ Union to make
an address and accepts and expresses
his views, why should we accuse him
of base motives? Why should he
not be either allowed to remain in
solitude or be given due credit for
honesty of purpose when he expresses
his views after being invited to do
so?
Buch expressions as the writer in
the Enquirer-Sun makes in regard to
Watson’s running for governor is
nothing more than the child of a
prejudiced brain. Should Mr. Wat
son make a race for governor, has he
not as much right to run as any oth
er man! Why do most men take an
interest in politics, anyway?
Respectfully,
J. M. CHRISTIAN.
When is tariff reform no tariff re
form? That is easy—when it is left
to the friends of the tariff. —The
Commoner. ~ . J,
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
OSCULATORY.
A dhring theft Bill wrought last
night
On darling little Rose.
He stole some things he wanted,
right
Beneath her very nose.
—Philadelphia Record.
’Tis to be hoped that if fair Rose
Returned the blissful smack,
Bill did not overlook a bet,
But turned and kissed her back.
—Houston Post.
That may be as they do this job
Down in the Sunny South.
But if Bill lived here in the North
He kissed her on the mouth.
—The Commoner.
Why rouse again the bitter strife,
And North and South wax hot,
Let’s all agree to compromise—
Bill kissed her on the spot.
—St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Important quite are alX.these things
Provided they are true;
But if I had so fair a Rose,
Most anywhere would do.
•—Twentieth Century Review.
STRIKE REPORT FOR ROOSE
VELT.
Chicago, August 17. —Labor Com
missioner Neill and Samuel Gompers
today started East, the former to re
port on the telegraphers’ strike to
President Roosevelt, and consider
means of arbitrating, and the latter
to confer with colleagues of the
American Federation of Labor.
In the meantime the Chicago Fed
eration of Labor has ordered a meet
ing for tomorrow to consider a sym
pathetic strike by the electricians of
the drainage canal. Wholesale walk
outs of other trade unionists are
threatened and canal electricians’
strike is imminent because telegraph
companies are negotiating for power
from the canal. However, the men
will be counselled to act carefully at
tomorrow’s meeting.
The Western Union today added
25 operators to its working force in
the main office in this city. The men
arrived at 5 o’clock, all of them com
ing from New York, and were at
once set to work. A number of the
strikers applied for their old posi
tions during the day.
Developments Waited at New York.
Both sides of the telegraphers ’ strike
are today awaiting developments
looking towards arbitration. The
companies say the strike is over, so
far as they are concerned. The men
are evidently willing to accept fair
arbitration propositions.
Situation at Montgomery.
Local telegraph offices say that
they are now handling the business
with little delay, and giving almost
normal service. Word has come to
Manager Fonville, of the Western
Union, that the strikers at Jackson,
Miss., have gone back to work, and
that others are coming into the fold
quickly. Manager Sheppard reports
work with Memphis, j3t. Louis, At
lanta, Pensacola and Jacksonville
without <fclay.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat pre
sents the following for solution:
“Conundrum: If two cents ippre of
cotton and two cents more wages are
put into a shirt, why is the price of
the garment marked up twenty-five
cents?” Dead easy! The thieving
tariff!—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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