People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-30

and now, that I am the candidate OF
as many good farmers in the Tenth
Congressional District as he is.
Cheers from the Augusta crowd. I
| say here that | am the candidate
of as many good women in the Tenth
Congressional District as he is. Re-
newed cheering from the same
crowd. ] He says in one of his
speeches that if he was stricken that
thanksgiving would go up from the
bankers, the monopoliSts, and the
oppressors of the poor, and if he is
successful that p@ans of praise will
90 up from the humble novels of the
land. He enjoys this advantage
over me, that he is personally known
to a great many of the people before
whom we come for these discussions.
[ am personally unknown to them,
but | say it here, and repeat it
as often as it is to necessary without
entering into detail or paradIng my
virtues, that l call upon life of
twenty five years in the city of Au-
gusta, and | ask you to talk to any
man, white or black, rich or poor, If
am not entitled to the credit of
as much interest in, and sympathy
for the poor as any other man.
A voice. Hurrah for Black.
Mr.. Black. Please do not do that
my friend. Applaud at the right
time. Naughter.) | will tell you this.
Now listen to me. l will tell you this.
AS l look into your honest faces, as
l have no interest subserve, except
as best Ill me lies to promote your in
terests-to promote the interests of
every man in the tenth Congressional
District, / assure you that l did not
seek this nomination, and every man
who knows the facts in the case,
knows that tried to get my party to
nominate a farmer.
A voice. That is right daughter
Mr.. Black. Let me tell you this,
my friends, as I stand here to-day
and look into your honest faces,
sympathise with every fibre of my
nature, with every burden that bears
upon your backs, with every sorrow
that comes into our homes; but
would scorn the highest honor that
could be conferred upon me if | had
to earn it by arraying class against
class, farmers against professional
men, laborers against capitalists,
locality against locality, the country
against the cities and towns. 1t looks
a little singular to me that when !
come into the country the suggestion
should be made that | cannot know
anything Of the wants of the farmer:
and am not competent to represent
them, but my competitor does know
their want. On the other hand he goes
into the city of Augusta and claims TO
be the best friend the day laborer has.
Cheering for both Black and Wat
SON. Now it is fact that I do not
live in the country, and do not be
lieye that he lives in the country. I
live In the city Of Augusta and he
lives in the town of Thomson. But
living in the town or the city neither
qualities nor disqualifies a man to re-
present the tenth congressional dis
trict. | say this, that any man who
wants to go to Congress ought to go
as the representative Of all the peo-
pie of the tenth congressional dis
trict. (Cheers for both Now, listen.
Listen to these two platforms, have
got them before me let us see what
they say. Here is where I am at.
A voice. You are in the soup.
Mr.. Watson. addressing the
voice.) Ish, ish, don't say that, my
friend.
The voice. Mr.. Watson, that slip
ped out. I don't mean bit Of harm.
Mr.. Black. Four years ago he
was bitter in denunciation of the
tariff, and says that he is bitter to-
day. He has bitterly declared in
favor of free trade, when your own
platform is not in favor of free trade.
He denounces the tariff and says
that such and such per cent is wrong,
that tariff of such another less per
cent is also wrong. Are we to aban-
don all practical VISIONS. He says
to abolish the tariff, | am for free
trade. His own platform does not
say it. Now listen to this platform
on that question. 1t says Reads
That the revenue derived from the
graduated income should be applied to
the reduction Of the burdens Of taxation
now resting upon the domestic industries
OF this country.
He turned with an air of triumph
and asked me how | was going to
raise the money to support the gov
eminent if | reduced the tariff. He
says that he will abolish the tariff
altogether, and then support the
government by graduated income
tax, when his own platform appro-
PIRATES the receipts Of the income
tax, not to defray the expenses
of tbs government, but to relieve the
domestic industries Of the country.
The Democratic party has been held
up before the people of this country
as the friends Of trusts, and as the
friend OF monopolies. I say that