People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-23

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tory, and field and farm, for redress
for those wrongs, it is the Democrat
ic party, in the South, that says:
We have never had chance
" Give us chance" daughter
And thousand miles away from
here, away up in the North, where
the laborers in the wheat field, in the
corn field, and the coal field, rise and
ask the Republican party why it has
not given them relief, why, the Re-
publican party puts up the very same
cry: awe have not had chance"
(Renewed laughter) And the Re
publicans are trying to drive the
farmers of the West back into the
Republican party by the very same
tactics that the Democrats of the
South are trying to drive back the
farmers of the South into the
Democratic party.
Cries of: Traitor! Traitorl
Mr.. Watson. How hypocritical is
this cry of, ''traitor." There is not
man on whose lips that insult clings,
for whom I have not used my best
Voices. Devil! Devil! Devil i!
Choke the traitor, boys. Traitor
Mr.. Watson. You try to pull me
down, and you fail at it. (O You
tried it in Charlottesville, and failed.
You tried at Sparta, and failed. You
will fail here, and you will fail in
November. (Great oheering.) All 5!
if you think that you can keep the
people of Georgia from finding out
the truth, you are mistaken. Your
conduct here tonight, is opening the
eyes Of many country Democrat
who came down here to hear these
questions discussed, possibly antici-
pating victory for the candidate Of
his choice, and expecting to hear the
truth. have got no great newspa-
pers to fight my battles, I have got
no Doodle fund to take-(Roars of
rage and angry imprecations, which
drowned the speakers voice for
few minutes, and prevented your re-
porter from hearing some of the
words in the sentence. He conclud-
ed as follows y But there is one
thing to which I have made up my
mind, and that is, that the people of
Georgia shall hear the truth. IRE
newed confusion, and cries of rage
Now, when l was reading this bill
few moments ago, I noticed the
expression of certain gentlemen
when / repeated the question, "what
do you think of-(Here there was
a fresh outburst Of brutality. AS I
write, the whole scene returns
wildly, and I sicken at the recol-
lection) Now mind you, I mean by
this, if the statement contained in
this circular is true-if the state
ments they make themselves are
true-then these honorable gentle
men--(More of the same kind) /
do not know that Senator Colquitt
was in favor of paying this claim,
fraudulently, again; but it is in the
circular, SO and SO, and it is a
Democratic circular.
A voice. 1t is like their dirty
work.
Mr.. Watson. I do not know that
every member of Congress favored
the payment of this bill the second
time, but this I know, the circular
says so, and it is a Democratic circu-
lar. daughter and applause.) This
Democratic circular says that if it
had not been for Watson it would
have been paid, for all the balance
were in favor of paying it. | know
that Senator Gordon was in favor of
paying it. Why? Because / hunted
up the record and found that he in
PRODUCED a bill to pay it. know
that Mr.. Livingston. favored it.
Why? Because I hunted up the
record and found that he introduced
a bill. (Renewed confusion, and a
determination to stiff1e the voice of
the speaker.) Now, what was the
concluding sentence of the bill
passed in 1892? It says, after ap-
propriating $1,000 TO pay this old
man for the cotton that General
Sherman took after the war, ''said
sum to be in full settlement and pay
ment of said claim
Scarcely had the last words
escaped the speakers lips, when like
the roar Of so many angry wild
beasts dashed into their lair, the same
crowd which had been so intent on
keeping up the disturbance, broke out
into the vilest and most scurrilous
imprecations. The few gentlemen
Immediately surrounding Mr.. Black
showed chargrin in every movement,
and the chairman came forward to
expostulate, but bad whisky and
mendacious literature had Invested
the crowd Of every vestage of man
hood
The chairman said: Gentlemen
gentlemen-you are doing both Mr..
Watson and Mr.. Black an injustice.
Mr.. Black cannot conclude until Mr..
Watson concludes.
Mr.. Watson indicating the spot
on the platform where the Hancock
gang held high carnival. II am
continually interrupted from that