Show TOM WATSON THE POPULIST estimate r z tm I 1 ate of cf the man by A 11 lewis of tho the exandine Exan niner line toni tom watson of georgia eor gia just now DOW the populist nominee for vice president is physically at an atom of a man his hi frame is small email he be I 1 is s mengie in in lie sh avd ard what there ia Is seems laid 0 on n grudgingly is as if hesitated to make the man a at t all tile the entire individual wont weigh pounds but pliant 1 though he be almost to the point of feeble watson has tile the vivacity and heat of fire no one in georgia can cops cope mth aith him before a crowd unless it is ia cr crisp whom he bitt bitterly eily hates watson s face is smooth no mustache D no 0 beard Wats watson las eyes of prey arcy with yellow hair long I 1 this last and of the sort that hangs in strai straight lit locks and flaunts deri defiance alke it is is divided well over on the oft left si side d e this hair and combed smoothly back aud and over without any flourish or effect boward the beautiful As lie he talks watson has a Dan Danlon tonian iau hicl to gesture and whirl disarms his arm sways his small body toses loises his head like a bacr this seta a lock of hair to waving and hai hanging nging across his fore forehead morehed hed and d low it takes part in in his disputes arid falling and li ll like a donys maue mane punctuates his bis periods with emphasis ever and again as he talks his thin nervous right t baud will recover this disputatious forelock and m nith ith one motion furl it smoothly away linck hack of his hia ear where it is pi ioner however hu wever only a moment watsons Wal sona face is fine and sensitive it a rather bony face hungry and drawn with the reading of many books his forehead is broad but retreating and gives 0 one lie the that watson sees gees more things than be thinks this thia is true watson is not so much an originator as a perceiver ile he sees gees thing ile he reads things he hears things he be is not so apt to think them consistent with these latter attributes is ill the hawkish tendency of watson his face rather prominently phrased as to nose is of the hatchet beamish kind and has decidedly a falcon effect and what watson is and if there is aught in theosophy y which I 1 much mi misdoubt doubt what watson was wag a falcon ile he has the shrill raspy voice the power of strong high light flight the pinion the talon the beak and liN withal ithal the swoop of the hawk he thinks fiercely too and while watson may have the wrong wrong side bide of the debate as often as knors 0 ners one may be sure by beak or claw hell set the subject bleeding before hes hea closed when watson was iu in the house few men cared for contest with him aim ile he fears fear no nn one his record ia pure his character chir acter without stain ilis hogetv hone honesty tv has never bred a doubt industry Indu industrious ous to the point of overwork with an indomitable bent to labor and di ilig book fed to a degree watson is always bitterly full not to say eay brilliantly adafe anare of his subject lie ile has ha moreover a lancet like incisiveness incisi venes that cuts and if interfered with by taunt or jeer or contradiction contra dirtion watson can talk like the thrust of a bowle bowie knife his rhetoric stabs for all these reasons most members preferred to give the pale over trained young man from Te orgia a wide berth in debate they got no v victory ic no honor and only wounds from colli collision sinn with him watson dresses well but not modishly his garb is not new but lie he has hag all of a cats scruples to be neat he has no sense of humor and life ia a beriou aberion s struggle with him ilis hia sense of honor is not only high but acute and lie he i painfully faithful to a i brinl principal apal or a briend As you look at him you vou realie after a bit that watson is one who would ride on a tumbrel arid and give his head to the guillotine for a conviction when the north produces a john brown I 1 the fouth puts forth a watson they are alike to te their regions yet it is doubled loub tad if either would frel feel complimented by the compain pori watson juato hano tact no talent for personal friendship and is disagreeable while doing right lie ile is essential essentially lv a creature OF of his environment viron ment believes in tho the duello and personal onal responsibility of men for their words and deeds he once shot several satisfactory holes in a fellow allor altor nty iv who 0 invaded his sensibilities as they tr tried erl a acate caer when watson came to congress in december 1891 one or two thought to bully hirn livingston ivingston I 1 a giant was one of it N was as a at t a po populist p u 11 A ca caucus cu and the trouble arose out of watsons refusal to support crisp cripp tai oi Sp speaker aier ealter Livin gacon used lang nage tinctured kalher with fre freedom edorn than enbom encomium aum ium for watson tile tiie latter latler to use a ant phrase called cal cd the bi big georgian with such verve and hearty abandon that livido livington t i never tied to him bini again n prompt asa as a hornet to resent Wa watson is on hia part a man of singular gentleness and care or what hat others fe feel ea he will never in insult others any more than he 11 ll brook outrage hom them even when watson sti stirred up tip C G bb of alabama in his hook book and made that slow statesman camul s for his unsteady inquiry ellered on the floor of the house mr speaker where am I 1 att at colb cobb and wheeler and others of cf alabama had cast the first tone stone cobb was vot rot at all graceful on oil the occasion adverted to it was durin during 7 the debate on the report to unseat rockwell of elmira hills man and put a rt republican publican noyes in his place this lat last by the way was a secret demand of cleveland as aa a moe mol e a against hill at a time when hen both were candidates for tile the presidency cobb was on the hill side ide odthe of the case arid and bec be comings bit vague n not to say vacuous in debate he be suddenly rolled his eyes on the speaker and after a deep pause put the plaintive question quoted mr speaker where am I 1 at watson had bad it in his book two weeks later and it created a good deal of heat in a houel strongly democratic the democrats attempted censure or some som other eother form forin of house torture and in the debate which ensued watmon arr his bis claw marks all over them ile he fought the majority to a standstill and evinced such a thirsty ve rocity for it all that his assailants were only too happy to quit as be becomes cornes men of senie elle who inadvertently hae caught a tartar watson is not a 0 poor I 1 man n in for hs his region he is rich ile HB has farms which pay a law practice which pays and a paper which does not lose much ile he held a seat only in the fifty sec ond congress Congre 9 ile he has haa been a c candidate indi date who failed enice since then watson is self made every sp splinter linter of him dorn born and reared in georgia child as aa lie he was at the time the war wrecked watsons early prospect and all there is to him today he built himself altogether he is a better american and a better man than either ile brt or mckinley thinks less of himself and more of the people and a syndicate could no more buy watson or own watson than it could avy or own a star atar no hannas go with the boros horoscope cole of uch as watson between u us the populist nominee nominee for vice president is the sort of person one would not hesitate to name as executor of his estate one would feel reasonably sure as one drear dreamed in his grave crave 0 that his widow and orphana were getting their dues one might go a long summers day and meet no better man yet one must say of watson as emerson did of Thoreau it exactly states a case in response to loan an inquiry while we love thoreau we dont like him |