People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-09
THE JOINT DEBATE.
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tight on me Is BECAUSE L WOulu AOb
bow my head to the city politician,
but served you with all my soul and
heart and strength.
Voices. "That you did, Tom !!
Hurrah for Watson!" Other voices.
(Sueeringly.) "Hurrah for Mrs.
Lease! Hurrah for old Weaver |!
Hurrrah for Sockless Jerry!"
Mr.. Watson. am dealing to-day
with what Mr.. Black says; not what
Mr.. Moses says. Mr.. Moses says l
killed the Georgia Alliance Mr..
Black says that the Georgia Alliance
killed the Democratic party and then
committed suicide. daughter, and
sneering)
Now listen here is a letter to
Mr. Austin from Mr.. Black, written
October 20, 1890; listen to it. Great
confusion and an evident determine
ton to drown the speakers voice. }
No, they don't want to hear this.
This has a tendency to solve it.
Reads.
''Dont the character of your organiza-
ton introduce methods to excite antag-
onism in the party that may lead to
division and disruption? Undoubtedly
you had the right to meet" etc.
But it goes forward to say that
they have no right, under that or
gauization, to take any political
action on their demands, and the
only difference between then and
now is that he is afraid to fight the
Alliance ike a man, but wants to
offer me as a victim to his dislike to
those Alliance principles. (Great
cheering.)
Ten years ago / stood side by side
with Mr.. Black IN his race for the
Senate against Senator Colquitt.
What was his position then? He
said that the bosses were ruling the
State; that the people were indus
trious that the people were in state
of unrest; and standing by him I
heard him denounce Atlanta ring
and the Augusta ring in the bitterest
terms. Believing in the justice of
bis position, I stood by him when he
barred his breast to the storm in his
endeavors to break that ring. I
stood by him in his gallant efforts to
fight the enemies Of the people.
(Great cheering)
Voices. Hurrah for Watson! Good
bye, Jimmie
BIr. Watson. To day, where am
I? / am fighting the same ring and
standing by the people just the same
as did then.
A voice. That won't do; you are
with Mrs. Lease. A storm of voices
That will do; them's lies.
Mr.. Watson. Where is Mr.. Black
to-day? He has gone into Goliath's
Hoon, just as Lazarus went into the
bosom Of Abraham. wild and long
continued applause. And 1o-siaY,
ss3sgg fsrr+HsH9S 6fF -tAe eden time, VINO was
the enemy of rings, and fought those
rings SO manfully, is spokesman of
those rings is the servant of those
rings, trying to put down the people
and the leaders of the people, and
saying he is free to declare that their
distress is exaggerated.
A voice. He knows better. Hit
him again, Tom.
Mr.. Watson. We are going to
have some fun now. Listen! He
says that the Georgia Alliance ought
to stand by the State bank platform
because the legislature recommended
it. Let us see how that argument
acts. The democracy of Georgia met
in Atlanta in convention and said:
owe must have modification of the
National bank system; we must have
an income tax" Yet they went TO
Chicago and met with that conven-
ton of drunkards, who jeered the
preacher, and struck down the prin-
ciples enumerated by the Georgia dem
oorats, and came back, like the cow
ards that they are, and
The great confusion at this point
prevented your reporter from hearing
the conclusion of this sentence, and
the enthusiasm continued for several
minutes.
A voice. Hear how he tears his
speech all to pieces. (Laughter.)
Yes, my friends, when get through
with him there will not be enough
left to carry home. His friends will
wonder where he is at. (Laughter)
At Indianapolis a mighty gather
ing of the farmers of America met,
and no matter who drew the resolu-
ton, they passed it as representatives
of the Alliance, and you elected me
to Congress, and your Alliance, in
convention assembled, told me to stay
out of the democratic caucus.
Voices. That's right; we didn't
want you there.
Mr.. Watson. Mr.. Black says I
ought not to take any order from the
Indianapolis State convention. You
say ought. Why, | ask Mr.. Black,
did the Georgia Democrats let the
gamblers and tricksters and thimble-
Triggers of Wall street to dictate to
them at Chicago, in the facs of the
instructions of the Georgia Demo
cratic convention . /6.11