People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-08-12

and harmony, for mutual good will, and
to wipe the color line out in politics. :"
Stand for your rights, and let every
man be man in politics. Voices:
owe will, we willH'] You are doing
nobly in the way of educating your
children; your daughters are beginning
to dress nicely and behave themselves
decently, and be respected, and now
Will you tear down, in one campaign,
all the virtue, morality and honesty
that your schools have been trying to
inculcate because your leaders have
been sugared and accepted by the lead
ers of the democrat party in the cit
ie? A voice: eve will never do it.
My friends, this campaign will decide
many things, and one of the things it
will decide is whether or not your PEG
pie and ours can Oily meet in harmony,
and work for law, and order, and morall-
ty, and wipe out the color line, and put
every man on his citizenship irrespective
of color Great cheering.
NV friend, Mr.. Young says that | had
better quit, that [ am hoarse, but | want
to say one Or two things more, and I
have done.
You have before you certain platforms
and certain candidates, and would like
to show you just how much Democracy
the Democratic platform contains-the
good old Jeffersonian Democracy, as
they love to call it. Why, my friends,
there is not enough Jeffersonian timber
in all the planks Of the Democratic
tooth-pick [Great applause and long
father of Democracy, Thomas Jefferson,
in his first inaugural, said equal and
exact justice to all men of whatever
state or persuasion, religious or politi-
cal" Do they give it? Do they try to
remove the inequalities? The whisky
men have got a sub-treasury warehouse
where they can borrow your tax money
to the extent of millions of dollars at
five per cent. interest, while the farmers
who pay the taxes are laughed to scOrn
when they ask to borrow on substantial
collateral-wheat corn, cotton and
other commodities. They simply tell us
that we must have patience A voice,
They want chance Yes, and they
exercised it-you know how. Laugh
ter. Again, Thomas Jefferson says
''The preservation of the general gov
eminent, in its whole constitutional
vigor, is the sheet anchor of our peace
at home and safety abroad" How do
they keep that tenet of Democratic
faith? They have mixed us up in the
Nicaraguan Canal a voice, Eyes, they
have, and yet the authorities did not
preserve the peace at Homestead, but
allowed the great corporations 20 hire
their men to shoot down, in cold blood,
the honest wage-workers who objected
to work under the reductions. jefferson
advises the encouragement of agrIcul-
rure, and commerce, it's handmade.
Yes, they have encouraged commerce
and manufacture, but every gun is
leveled at the agriculturists of the coun-
| try.
On that line, I will state that I
stood on the floor of the House the day
that the resolution came up to print TO-,
900 copies of the force bill for the use of
the campaign committee. I thought
that campaign committee ought to bear
that expense, as the usual number had
already been printed. General Wheeler
denied that, and I have been abused for
that vote from one end of the country to
the other, but here is the proof in the
correspondence between Mr.. Dockery
and myself:
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 20, 1892.
| HON A M. DOCKERY:
Dear Sir: Some days ago I stated in the
House that previous to the resolution of Mr..
King to print 10000 copies of the Force Bill
Il resolution had already been adopted to print
the usual extra numbers of that Bill / insist
tbat my statement is correct, and that you
tlar first resofr51 fSf TO print the usual number
ofNeXtra COPIES Please do me the kin dness to
state whether | am right. Very respectfully,
THOMAS E. WATSON.
Mr.. Dockery replied as follows:
Mr.. WATSON: Replying to yours I beg to
| f. I of q on
to make the usual reprint of the Force Bill
the number of such reprint being some 1900
copies.
| afterwards introduced the resolution to
print the additional 10000 copies, which was
also adopted by the House. IL was this lat
ter you objected to- posnoo+f,,,r
July 18th. 1892 A. N. DocKERY.
In other words, what objected 10 was
the printing of campaign literature at the
expense of the tax payers more espe-
cially as [ asked them to print an equal
number of Thomas Jefferson's first inau
gural. and they refused to do it. They
did not want you to see what Thomas
Jefferson's Democracy was. "a voice
'It would not agree with them-hurrah
for Watson!"-lOng continued applause
I have been denounced all over this
district in the most bitter terms as a
traitor. Now, have nothing to answer
in the way of public abuse-I have no
personalities for anyone, but say this,
that stand today upon the very same
platform you put me on at Harlem two
years ago (Cries of, ''that's where you
are, and that's where we want you to
stay."] say furthermore that if am a
traitor they have condoned my crime,
and stopped themselves from taking me
to task, because they have put in nomi-
nation Adlai Stevenson, on the demo
cratic platform, and his record upon
leaving the Democratic party is precisely
the same as mine. Great applause.)
His record on the financial question is
the same as mine. (Renewed cheering.)
That was what was making them SO mad
in Congress. I was showing up the
proof that he was elected in 1879; that
he did not go into the democratic caucus;
that he did not vote for the democratic
speaker any more than did; that he
was classed as greenbacker, and voted
with General Weaver on nearly every
proposition that came up in that Con-
z T l.