Show WAIT JONS THf DEBS CUM f SIGNIFICANT SPEECH OF COLO I RADOJS HOODOO Doubts Whether Populism Can Be Saved and Believes I Uniting With Social Democracy Kansas City Mo Dec 12At a joint meeting here today of the Debs Social Democracy and the Socialist Labor Party clubs strong Populist addresses were made by G C Clemens the supreme court reporter of Kansas a leader In his party and exGovernor Waite of Colorado Clemens speech was rabid He said in part The liberty of the American people is without comparison Honest now I would hate to curtail this liberty we enjoy today I is perfectly lawful to shoot men down on the public highway shoot them down in the back too The negro slavery was a blessing to what we enjoy today He had a price was worth 1000 or 2000 and had to be clothed and fed He was cared for I and nursed when sick like a faithful I horse But look today The American I laborer goes from door to door begging I people to give him a chance to earn a I meal even enough to keep the spark I of life in his almost naked body I j I Comparatively Governor Waites I address was mild He began by saying say-ing he represented the peoples party There is a crisis in that party today to-day he said There ha been an I organized attempt to destroy that I party and it has largely succeeded Where is the Populist party I is I like a ship started on a grand cruise on the ocean that has been deserted j by its trusted officers after being I looted Its last national convention was held after the conventions of the I other two parties despite the will and j the wish of the vast majority of its followers At that convention it I I the because adopted Chicago platform I as it was given out then it stood on j I the Omaha platform Does the Chi I I i cago platformstand upon the Omahha platform I say i does not and our I party was led to throw away its I principles I j What is cur duty asked the venerable I j erable speaker pausing Can the organization i or-ganization of the Populists be saved I know not I venture on no prediction God grant wisdom to those patriotic I i I members of the Populist party who are to meet in St Louis on the 18th of j J I i January Where are we who hold our j principles dear to turn For myself I I know nothing in the history of the j i Democratic party that warrants any j general confidence Its record is as Ij i i foul as that of its Republican twin I I it is best that the Populist party j i should go outside its own organization j i organiza-tion to unite with others who in good i faith have adopted the principles of I the Omaha platform and are in sympathy sym-pathy with the highest aspirations of I the Peoples party why not have a union of the organizations that are I j I agreed I ExGovernor Waite will go to Texas tomorrow or Wednesday to look after I the interests of his colony I |