People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-09

Mr.. Black. He bows his head and
yet you stand up here and say you
are q Jeff 5rsonian Democrat. You
are not q Jeffersonian Democrat;
you are not a Cleveland Deocrat.
A voice. We know that.
-Four years ago your leader went
out from this district with the Dem
ocratic flag in his hand. Where is
that flag?
Voice. "He gave it away"
A voice again. EMS. Lease took
It from him."
! call upon him here and now in
the name of the Tenth Congressional
DESTRUCTIVE want our flag! What
have you done with it? (Terrifc ap-
plause.)
| will tell you what he has done
with il. He who ought to have
taken that flag and held it aloft I'M
til it was stricken down. But in the
very opening of the Congress, before
the Congress to which he was elect
ed was even organized, instead of
holding your flag and planting it
upon the battlements of your enemy,
he threw it down and trampled it
under his unhallowed foot and comes
back with your flag crimson with the
blood Of the party that put him IN
power.
| have before me extracts of a
speech of Mr.. Watson made upon
the Ocala demands. He says he has
always stood upon it. This is true,
but [ say the great wrong he has
perpetrated is to get the support Of
of the Democratic party and turn
upon it-not only turn upon it, but
denounce it. And even the dead
has not been spared. He has gone
to the grave of Samuel Tilden, that
great Democratic leader, and he IS
so incorrigible in his hatred that he
declares that Tilden obtained his
fortune by piraucal methods
and did not have sense enough
to draw his own will. Shame!
Shame! Shame!
CThe crowd took up the cry of
Shame! ShameD
Listen! Was all this done in the
name Of the Alliance?
Where is anything in the Alliance
that authorized him to go out of the
Democratic party?
A voice. II am an Allianceman
and I am here"
Are you the Alliance? I have
heard for two months that Mr.. Wat
son killed the Alliance, and if you
are the Alliance I think it is about
so.
A voice. "Good-bye Jimmie"
I have no doubt you would like to
see Jimmie go il the good bye direc-
ton, but jimmie is not going that
way. But I will tell you one thing,
if Jimmie ever does go down he will
go down with the flag in his hand,
that his party put there. (Gre&t
cheering.)
He will never go down with the
red flag Of the enemy in his hand.
Here are the proceedings Of the
Georgia State Alliance. Here is the
resolution that was offered at the
meeting of the Alliance. By that
resolution it appears that representa-
tives in Congress are instructed to
vote for no man for speaker of the
National House of Representatives
who is not in full accord with the
principles of the Alliance, and does
not stand squarely on the platform.
But that resolution was offered but,
could not pass:
''ResoIved. That our members of
congress are instructed to vote for
no man for Speaker of the National
House of Representatives who is not
in full accord with our principles,
and who does not stand squarely
upon the Ocala platform"
A voice. That's right; there's
where we put him.
Mr.. Black Now listen-every-
body listen.
81 move that the resolution be
laid on the table" said one dele
gate.
az move that it be laid under the
table," cried another.
A voice. What did Watson say?
Another voice. "Where am I at!!'
I reckon.
Mr.. Black. without needing the
interuptions.)
II move that it be indefinitely
postponed" said another.
The motion to indefinitely post
poned was put and carried.
And 80 the resolution that would
have instructed sleeps the last sleep.
That resolution Of the Georgia AL
lance instructing the Congressman
not to go into caucuses and not to
vote for caucus man for speaker,
the Alliance voted down. (Cheers.)
Your other Alliancemen did not get
on it. There were other Alliance
Congressman there-there were
Moses and Everett. Who says
Charlie Moses is not an honorable
man?
A voice. "No; Moses is with
you"
Mr. RIack Wboovor sove that