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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. — Atlanta Journal. SUBSCRIBERS Watch Your Date The date appearing with your name on your paper tells you when your subscription expires. If renewal is not re ceived at the office in Thom son before date of expiration, your name will be dropped from the mailing list after date of expiration. This is the only notifica tion of expiration which will be given, and this rule will invariably be held to. 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