Show I WATSON IN LINCOLN He Pays n Great Tribute to Urjan nncl In Chrereil LINCOLN Neb September IGThe Lansing theatre was crowded to the doors this afternoon the attraction address being Hon Thomas E Watsons dress on the Issues of the campaign Mr Watson was introduced by State Chairman Edmiston and spoke for an hour and a half Mr Watsons speech was a defense of the Populist national platform and in no sense did the vice presidential candidate refer to Mr Sewall or to the recent election inane Maine ane Coming to the silver question Mr Watson showed the manner of putting put-ting a nation in bondage be dwelling dwel-ling upon the situation in Egypt and the recent absorption of the Fiji Islands Is-lands by Great Britain Quoting from a recent speech of Major McKinleys he showed the inconsistency in-consistency of protection and gold standard finance contending that whereas a high tariff would raise I prices of commodities the appreciation apprecia-tion in the value of money under gold monometallism would depress them Mr Watson warmly eulogized Mr Bryan and when he said I sincerely hope and trust he will b elected he brought out tremendous and long continued con-tinued applause He was particularly emphatic in declaring de-claring that under no circumstances would ing he withdraw from the race say ingThey They put me on sentinel duty t hold the party In the national campaign paign to hold a place on the national ticket They selected the post of duty and without solicitude effort 01 desire on my part they selected me to fill that post of duty and no matter what any Republican newspaper or Democratic Demo-cratic newspaper may say upon that subject I shall hold that post of duty until the last gun in this campaign is fired Applause and l cries of Good 1 for Wntson5 zz z Mr Watsons address was surprisingly I surpris-ingly free from personal references or i abuse though he was press by his I I partisan auditors t venture that line o attack A reference t Major McKinley I Mc-Kinley brought a remark from one in I tlt crowd He dont pay his debts followed by hissing and a response fro Watson that he would not descend des-cend to personal reflections on any candidate no matter how he differed politically He was cheered Mr Watson left tonight for Alma eb wh > r he speaks tomorrow and will go from there to Colorado |