WATTERSON, wafer-eon, Hew,. Ameri can journalist: b. Washington, D. C., 16 Feb. 1840. He was privately educated and began work as editorial writer for the ashington Star. In 1861 he joined the Con federate army as a private, and later was aide de-camp to Generals Forrest and Po& In 1862 he withdrew from the army to edit the Rebel at Chattanooga, a daily paper, recognized as an organ of the Confederate government, but in 1864 returned to the army, and had part in General Johnston's campaign, and the siege of Atlanta. After the war he revived the pub lication of the Nashville Republican Banner; and in 1867 became editor of the Louisville Journal. This paper he united with the Courier, under the name of the Courier-Journal, of which he became editor-in-chief and which he has made one of the leading Southern news papers. He has been active in politics as a member of the Democratic party, although a leader in the Liberal Republican program of 1872; was delegate-at-large to every Democratic National Convention from 1872-92, and was permanent chairman of that of 1876. He was a member of Congress in 1876-78, and hotly op posed all greenback ideas. Though a staunch supporter of Tilden for the Presidency, yet in Congress he was one of the leaders in obtainiag a peaceable adjustment of the election dispute. and approved the appointment of the Electoral Commission, 1877 (q.v.). In !Mb he refused
to support the Chicago platform of the Demo cratic party, and was affifiated with the Gold Democrats. As a defender of the tariff, be was not over strenuous, believing that its main pur pose was to raise revenue. He was ever antag onistic to trust policies and the dominance of industry by great capital. As speaker and editor he has been a consistent advocate of free trade. and particularly of a policy of conciliation be tween the North and the South. He retained his vigor of utterance and influence in politics in his latter days. He has published 'Oddities of Southern Life and Character' (1wn); 'History of the Spanish-American War' (1899); and 'Abraham Lincoln' (1899). In 1911 he was conspicuous as being among the first to urge the fitness of Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency. His famous slogan 'To hell with the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollern' in 1917 was largely instru mental in arousing the United States to war against the German atrocities and brutal dis rrd of the rights of neutral nations. On 2 March 1919 a world-wide tribute was paid him in the special 'Marse Henry edition' of the Louisville Courier-Journal in which over 200 thinkers and statesmen of the world voiced their esteem of the veteran editor.