| Show THE WATSON CAMPAIGN populist vice presidential candidate opens INDICTS THE government ENT charges tho the towers powers with almost all crimes of commission arad and omission explains explain xa why he ha lett left the democratic paile find and Is thankful that tho the south antl west aro united on tho silver question feces aary to bavo a southerner erner on tho the populist ticket atlanta tia ga aug auff 6 thomas r T watson opened his bl vice VI ce presidential campaign tonight with an address of 0 two hours houra in length delivered before a an n audience of 3 0 00 people lit in the lie rough frough csc a alicd 1 used d tor tho i 0 moody revival 1 arnot in insa 9 several months ago sir 1 I watson ati fork appealed at the outset for at a non san bim hearing declaring deolar luff that lie spoke with bitterness to lione and in if i behalf of tile won men who held tile plough ilou gli who pulled the hoc let who wielded the hammer bammer it god gave cave him strength he declared lie would plead the causo cause of these people through the pens ot of the reporters present before of people in the morning ile he entered into z I 1 9 g 0 I 1 I 1 1 I 0 7 Z 4 t k I 1 I 1 az 1 I 1 I v ak x h 1 1 it U p A I 1 i 2 ir i I 1 I 1 1 2 I 1 1 f I 1 I 1 cl 1 I 1 thomas E watson an enumeration of the reforms demanded by tile the populists lists indicting inducting Indic ting the government lor for high crime and misdemeanors s in the alio gi planting ot of the governmental power of 0 making money to a special class in the unfair levying ot of taxes which laid the heavy hand of tribute upon those least able to sustain it 11 in closing the mints to the free and unlimited coinage ot of silver in leaving tho the great public highways ot of the country in ill tit the control of at grasping corporations po rations who levied tribute upon the people who were compelled to use them and in the corruption of the ballot lie ile explained at length his course in leaving the democratic patty pally after ha haune ing been elected to congress is as a de democrat act at and by tile the of tho life democratic patty he said that ills his opponent had lull full as s a straight platform democrat will while he had made ills his race on the alliance plat platform Corm and was pledged to stand by that platform though th the heavens fell furthermore the national All alliance Ianco convention had instructed those congressmen elected on the alliance platform im riot not to g go a into the caucuses of elther either of the two great parties par lies not tit only had bad lie he felt bound to stand by principles rather than party but he hall hal seen then as ho he saw now flow that the only chance for jeffersonian Jefferson Jeffers onlan lari Dern democracy was to unite the farmers barme rs of tile the south with the farmers of the west to do that required A NEW PARTY the sou them n democrats could not be induced to so go into the republican party nor could the western republicans ibe be induced to enter the democratic sparty party A common rallying point wa waa absolutely necessary when congress met in 1892 eleven western congressmen stepped out of oc the republican Republic am party of OC the thirty southern congressmen n elected in the alliance platform he how CW many stepped out 0 of the democratic dem ratio party exclaimed mv mr watson walson only one stilt ant thank god I 1 can say eay X r was that one on he explained further that lie had fall allowed himself to bo be run for foi speaker imply to tho the ruins desire t to 0 nice meet t ahe e west half way in the common comman I 1 battle ae ilist the kast fast events mr ar watson declared had vindicated his hl cowes course jhb southern e n Demoe democracy racy cy was toll today ly bidding de nanco flance to wall street and id tho the saul baat at for the first time in thirty years why because tho the south and west hod had nc fat last joined toc ethor to throw olt off tho tha yoke or tile the eat the western ri democrats had not done this how manyi western states had tilden carried or oil cleveland when he be said gold addressing uin democrats in the crowd haai thero evor ever been a time almo belom before when boix yo could fiala alap the kastern eastern democracy itt ire the face with ono one hand sund wall ivall with tho the other and rely on tho the west to get you out of the hc scrape rape it was tho WCO western teral populist who hac maddt m a d 0 t alq p cv i b 1 an and d w who h 0 did mel western populist use to be bea tho the western W e st er n R republican e jb 1 1 c TL L looking oo 00 kl n X at affairs as 3 they stand since the Chlo agnf conven convent llon lol tile the western populists lists slav to the th wo wi are going trw help belp you in ili this fight alent and the west i ern democrats say pay we tire are very blaa to ket get your holn help here in the donth sonth tho the Dimo crata ga say Y 11 we dont need you fellows and W a trot got a little machine tu turn rn out 9 just juel the majority we need I 1 I 1 CROWDING OUT TIIE CREW I 1 they want to 10 sail nail irk in our ship butt 1 they want mant to expel our crew chiw 1 want to run i our tra train but they stir to kirk kick out our engineer they fay amr I 1 they want faublon but it is a tho fusion I 1 of i tho the with the city it en ent cm t gulfs at chicago tl thi dern ratto plans swallowed our conr platform andt and thy they th y thought they had swallowed us ll 11 i pat it a while after tho the chicago convention they thought they had caught thel bear now no since un uni i st louis convention they are beginning to feel sure surd tile tho beathas caught them the present political situation la Is tho the first casel on record ahm half a lost loaf was waa riot not found to be better than no bre bread acl we a can stand by mr bryan he H has haa been with us and has fought for 0 our ur policies but when we wa fare aro asked to swallow mr sewall nv beg bee to bo bal excused we cannot vote for or afir sira sewall he does riot not OU our r platform if we do we say wo we did not lot mean what we said galdi irv that plat form you cannot consistently say eay ghisi i Is 13 a fight ot of tho the west and south la 11 andl go oft air to mainc neo to rot get eu a candidate for aice alce therefore seeing that your democratic leaders had made mada AJ a mistake we stepped into the breach and amt did what they ought to havel have done 4 nominated a southern man tor for vice VICC president tills Is a movement ot of tho the south sourm and west and you must have a south f erner on your national ticket in the name ot of the south we bava repudiated the error ot of the chicago i convention we have sald said lot let it lp Y a young ayoung leader from the west and ai ak i young youner leader from tho the south has nott noo I 1 tho the south been in political cad bondage I 1 conf lung enough has not it played second I 1 eddlo long enough it was a dream of mine to ad what I 1 I 1 could to reinstate the south to her place lit in tho the royal sisterhood ot of states I 1 appeal to you as a georgian ba III aj southern mart man to seize thi thlu i opportunity to make this alliance all larce with the went I 1 to throw oft off the domination of 0 thes north and east bast which has provell ruinous to the farmr farmar tho the laborer labor cri mere iner hants chants and tho the entire people peaple 1 WILL VOTE FOR BRYAN in conclusion sir watson made 1113 statement we are not goings to put up any candidate agal against list bryan we aro am going I 1 to voto late for bryan whether whet lier sk bivall is 1 withdrawn or not I 1 arn ami going coins to manago manage tills oils campaign so that W J bryan bryam geta every vote we have poh goh I 1 sea bed tho the dread evils of 0 threatening 1 1 us and I 1 fear that IX if we ue are cl felted in ahls fight McKinley ism will I 1 bo be enthroned enthralled forever and tho the battle I 1 for freedom had just as well bo be given up I 1 shall tell my people to stand by the contract at st bt louis let bryan I 1 have every vote you can muster let iet I 1 jones say what ho he likes let cilmi in alt you it ho he will mako makel no answer pray for your country work for her do your duly cluty heres cleres what we axe aie going coins to do in our state convention we ve aro ara going to put up a full electoral ticket for or bryan and watson we cant vote tor for sewall then we will empower out our committee to take oft off a pat pait t of our electors and put auton oil il 21 part ot of yours whenever the derno democratic ratan committee retires mr sewall tho the democratic managers may havo have mado made up their minds to put tom watson down and keep him down buti but thank god the people ot of tho the south have entered into it no 0 buch contract let it be known henceforth lence forth that the south and west will never sit at the footstool ot of the north I 1 |
