Excerpt from Georgia's Public Men, 1902-1904 Senator Bacon has played a prominent part in many of the exciting political campaigns in this State. After one of the hottest contests ever waged in any State, he missed the nomination for Governor by a single vote. But nothing daunted, he did not give up the battle for gubernatorial honors. And, although in a following election he again met defeat when Opposed by John B. Gordon, he did not relinquish hope of high political preferment, but simply bided his time. In a few years the Senatorial toga settled over his deserving shoulders. In the seat rendered illustrious by Georgia's greatest men, Senator Bacon has shown himself altogether worthy as their distinguished successor. He has a mind of a very high order, and his services mark him as easily ranking with the leading intellects of those most potent, grave and reverend seigneurs. Among the manv distinguished services which Senator Bacon has rendered the nation, the magnificent stand which he took against the Philippine policy of the Republican Party perhaps won him the greatest fame. In recognition of his notable work in this particular, he was made one of the leading mem bers of the joint committee of the two houses of Congress, which was sent on a tour of investigation of conditions in the Philippine Islands in 1901. This committee made an elaborate report to Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Southern Populist leader Thomas E. Watson was a figure alternately eminent and notorious. Born before the Civil War, he lived through the turn of the century and past the close of the First World War, pursuing his career in an era as changing and paradoxical as himself. In the nineteenth century, Watson championed the rising Populist movement, an interracial alliance of agricultural interests, against the irresistible forces of industrial capitalism. The movement was broken under the wheels of the industrial political machine, but survived into the twentieth century in various “fantastic shapes...to be understood mainly by the psychology of frustration.” Political frustration transformed Watson as well, from liberal to racial bigot and from popular spokesman to mob leader. In this biography, through careful study of public and private writings, and through objective and tolerant exposition, Mr. Woodward has attempted to solve the enigma of this man who did much to alter his times and who was, in turn, altered by them. “Mr. Woodward’s biography of Watson is a model of its kind. It has all the obvious qualities of scholarship, thoroughness and impartiality. It has, in addition, a sympathetic understanding of broad social movements, a mature appreciation of character, an original interpretation of economic facts and factors, an incisive criticism of political techniques, and a literary style that is always vigorous and sometimes brilliant.”—H. S. Commager, New York Herald Tribune Books “Mr. Woodward’s biography of Watson constitutes the best one-volume history that has appeared of that first crop of social ideals, politically garnered in Populism...Mr. Woodward’s biography is also valuable in that it is something more than the story of Populism. It is a striking portrait of a man.”—W. A. White, Saturday Review of Literature Includes the Author’s Preface to the 1955 Reissue.