_The Silence of Johnny_ _Harriette M. Collins_ _93_ _Vanished Years_ _Helen A. Saxon_ _95_ _Letters from the People_ _97_ _Putterin’ Round_ _Cora A. Matson Dolson_ _111_ _Educational Department_ _Thomas E. Watson_ _113_ _In Passing_ _Lurana W. Sheldon_ _122_ _Home_ _Louise H. Miller_ _123_ _Books_ _Thomas E. Watson_ _133_ _The Say of Other Editors_ _139_ _His Grudge_ _Tom P. Morgan_ _146_ _News Record_ _147_ _Along the Firing Line_ _C. Q. De France_ _156_ _Chastened_ _Kate G. Laffitte_ _160_ Application made for Entry as Second-Class Matter, February 17, 1906, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1906, in U. S. and Great Britain. Published by TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE, 121 WEST 42D STREET, N. Y. TERMS: $1.50 A YEAR; 15 CENTS A NUMBER [Illustration: HONORABLE HOKE SMITH, OF GEORGIA. Photo by Russell, Atlanta, Ga.] _WATSON’S MAGAZINE_ VOL. IV MARCH, 1906 NO. 1 _Editorials_ BY THOMAS E. WATSON _Down in Georgia_ CLARK HOWELL’S DEFENSE OF THE CORPORATIONS A national magazine can do no better work than to take a hand in a local fight, when the issues involved are national. As explained in previous articles, the state of Georgia has been completely conquered by a Wall Street combination. Morgan, Belmont and Ryan are our masters. They rule Georgia through the Democratic party just as they rule New Jersey through the Republican party, and New York through both the old parties. In New York, the tools of this Wall Street combination are such men as Murphy, Pat McCarren, Judge Parker, and Bill Sheehan. In Georgia the tools are such men as Hamp McWhorter, Joe Terrell, Clark Howell. These men call themselves Democrats, but they work for Morgan the Republican as earnestly as they work for Belmont the Democrat. The Wall Street Railroad Kings rule and rob our state, and they do it by means of the men who control the machinery of the Democratic party. Hoke Smith is leading a great revolt against this Wall Street domination, and he is doing it superbly. He is going to win, because the people know he is right. He is going to win, because the people know that they are being foully mistreated by the railroads. He is going to win because the people can no longer be driven by the party lash. He is going to win because the people have at last determined to vote for _what they want_.