When Mr. Hardwick states that he lost the
support of Mr. Watson because Hardwick
wouldn't desert Smith in 1908, he is guilty
of as wilful and deliberate falsehood as any
politician ever stated, in his desperate desire
to secure a re-election to an office in which he
has not made good.
Mr. Hardwick has in his possession letters
from Watson, dictated to Watson’s secretary
more than a year ago, in which he was told
that, because of his abandonment of his post
in Congress; and because of his unprovoked
and malicious attacks upon Watson in the
speeches that he made in Macon, Valdosta,
Gibson. Wrens and Dublin, THAT WAT
SON IITIN DONE WITH HIM, POLITI
CALLY. If he dares to repeat the statement
which he made at Louisville. Watson will call
upon him to publish those letters, and if he
refuses to do A.-WATSON WILL HAVE
HIS SECRETARY TYPE OUT HER
NOTES. AND WILL PUBLISH THOSE
LETTERS!
Watson is getting tired of being forever
made the victim of the lies of no-account
Congressmen. The time occasionally comes
when forbearance ceases to be a virtue; and
if Mr. Hardwick doesn’t exercise more self
restraint and more temperance in his public
allusions to Watson, it is possible that he
may have cause to regret his failure to do so.
