and was fined one and costs.  Billie didn’t appear, but if he stays in this country Marshal Wimpy will have him, when all these things will come to light, both in the council chamber and grand jury room.

The scandal of newspaperdom in Georgia is, of course, Tom Watson, who publishes the “Jeffersonian”—­a misnamed paper if there ever was one—­in the town of Thomson.  Many years ago, when Edward P. Thomas, now assistant to the president of the United States Steel Corporation, was a little boy in Atlanta, complaining about having his ears washed; when Theodore D. Rousseau, secretary to Mayor Mitchel of New York, was having his early education drilled into him at the Ivy Street school; when Ralph Peters, now president of the Long Island Railroad, had left Atlanta and become a division superintendent on the Panhandle Road; when the parents of Ivy Ledbetter Lee were wondering to what college they would send him when he grew to be a big boy; when Robert Adamson was a page in the Georgia Legislature—­as long ago as that, Tom Watson was waving his red head and prominent Adam’s apple as a member of the State House of Representatives.  In the mad and merry days of Bryanism he became a Populist Member of Congress.  He was nominated for vice-president, to run on the Populist ticket with Bryan.  Later he ran for president on the ticket of some unheard-of party, organized in protest against the “conservatism” of the Populists.  Watson’s paper reminds one of Brann and his “Iconoclast.”  Reading it, I have never been able to discover what Watson was for.  All I could find out was what he was violently against—­and that is almost everything.  He is the wild ass of Georgia journalism; the thistles of chaos are sweet in him, and order in any department of life is a chestnut burr beneath his tail.

CHAPTER XXXV

SOME ATLANTA INSTITUTIONS

There has been great rejoicing in Atlanta over the raising of funds for the establishment there of two new universities, Emory and Oglethorpe.  Emory was founded in 1914, as the result of a feud which developed in Vanderbilt University, located at Nashville, Tennessee, over the question as to whether the institution should be controlled by the Board of Bishops of the southern Methodist Episcopal Church, or by the University trustees, who were not so much interested in the development of the sectarian side of the university.  The fight was taken to the courts where the trustees won.  As a result, Methodist influence and support were withdrawn from Vanderbilt, which thenceforward became a non-sectarian college, and Emory was started—­Atlanta having been selected as its home because nearly a million and a half dollars was raised in Atlanta to bring it there.

Oglethorpe is to be a Presbyterian institution, and starts off with a million dollars.