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PAGE SIXTEEN
THE “OLD GANG’* DIES HARD.
In. another column we publish to
day an editorial from the current is
sue of Watson’s Jeffersonian Week
ly in which the truth about the re
cent session of the Georgia legisla
ture and what it accomplished is
set forth with admirable fairness and
vigor. ’ ;; ! Ulil
Mr. Watson points out, what every
fair-minded man in Georgia knows
and recognizes, that the “old gang”
was well represented in the general
assembly which has just finished its
first session and that “Governor
Smith had to fight” for every enact
ment made in response to the reform
sentiment in the state. It is unques
tionably a matter of regret that ad
ditional reform measures were not
placed on the statute books, but the
disfranchisement bill alone, as Mr.
Watson puts it, is “a monument”
to the governor’s “courageous per
sistence in the determination to make
good the pledges of his campaign.”
while the Candler-Overstreet bill “is
an immense advantage gained over
the ‘old gang’ and over the Yankee
corporations that are plundering the
state. ’ ’
That the rest of this reform sched
ule will be carried out and the men
responsible for the continued defiance
of the constitution will be brought
to a strict accountability is absolute
ly certain.
Mr. Watson sets forth with clear
ness and candor the reason why ad
ditional reforms were not secured.
The fact of the matter is that there
were scores of men in the general as
sembly who were not only chosen be
fore the Democratic platform was
adopted, but they were selected by
the enemies of the present adminis
tration at the very time when it was
fondly hoped that those enemies
would triumph at the polls and the
old guard would be able to perpetuate
themselves in power, 'there were
men in both branches of the legisla
ture who were sent here for the spe
cific purpose of defeating the meas
ures to which the successful candi
date was committed and from begin
ning to end they did everything in
their power to embarrass and ob
struct the administration policy.
There have been more or less art
ful effects to obscure all this and to
place the blame upon the present ad
ministration for not carrying out the
additional pledges of the platform.
These criticisms come, of course,
from those whose motives are easily
understood. They are those who cor
dially desire that all reform measures
shall be defeated. They are already
demoralized and chagrined that the
leading demands of the people have
been enacted into law —a result which
was accomplished in spite of their
bitter and persistent opposition,
which was not even cunningly con
cealed.
One would think that people even
more obtuse than these enemies of
reform would see thatythe people are
not being deceived by these transpar
ent tactics. What has already been
done toward redeeming the people
from the bondage in which they have
lived so long is but an earnest of what
will yet be done.
Those enemies of the new regime
who were sent to the legislature while
the corporation agents were still able
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. '
to manipulate the elections in certain
counties will yet hear from the peo
ple, even in their own counties. They
will discover that the old tactics can
not prevail longer and that unless
they get in harmony with the-'wi&hes
of the great body of the people they
swill be punished as they deserve
when the people themselves get direct
control of the election machinery in
those counties which have heretofore
remained under the domination of the
old crowd.
Mr. Watson is right. “The old
gang dies hard.” But die it must
and shall, and ondei- the newer and
better conditions every reform de
manded by the Democratic platform
and endorsed so overwhelmingly by
the people will be e.naeted into law. —
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