Show AND ABOUT ALL THE POPULIST CANDIDATE SAID AT A DOLLAR DINNER speech confined to an attempt to compel the grave to give up its dead the 96 followers of bryan now york oct 5 thomas E watson nominee of the peoples party for the presidency was dined by his frienda tonight at a dollar dinner in tho palm garden on lexington avenue more than members of the peoples party were there to greet abo candidate thomas E watson began hia speech by saying oh if that pretense up at esopus would only get out of my way oh it judge parker would only get out of my way and give me the democratic papers and alvo me the jeffersonian Jeffers onlan speakers and give me the noble army that followed bryan in 96 if he would only give me all these I 1 would show the republican party and theodora roosevelt the great militant democratic party from sea to sea I 1 would dare to accept his challenge I 1 might not whip him but he would know he bad a fight I 1 am a fighter oa july the fourth I 1 was not worth even a newspaper item but now they are fighting me with newspaper cartoons and editorials I 1 long tor and lave the thunder of the guns and it only judge parker would get out of the way and let me command the army that he may command I 1 would give theodore roosevelt a battle royal continuing mr watson said the government which does not grant equal protection to all equal opportunity port unity to all equal justice to all prostitutes its power and Is falso to its mission it your system ia not what it should be yours is the fault for you have in your hands the weapon with which it was intended you should defend your liberties the ballot where is the greater part of all this wonderful production of wealth which ha staken place here for the last hundred years almost entirely it is ain the hands of the men who never created one dollar of it and they got it mainly by operation of laws which violate overy principle of common sense comman right no individual can resist the operation 0 law the man in whose favor the law works will grow stronger the victim weaker to take from him who made and to give to him who did not make is one of the worst forms of had the government governed justly the probability is that we never would have had a labor question in this young republic never a strike never a lookout never a cripple creek horror the tenement house cancer would not now be eating its way into the vitals of social order the huge arm ol 01 poverty and despair would not now be marshaled under the black flag of quenchless hatred to the rich and to the system which made them rich both of the great political parties si ave alternately been in power both have had their opportunities both have bad their responsibilities and both should bo condemned your flag was pulled down at st louis and you are left leaders I 1 have picked up your flag from the ground where it lay and J call upon you to rally to it |