People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-30
ES PARTY PAPER ATLANTA GEORGIA. FRIDAY


Mr.. Black. All over this district,
in McDufie county, in Hancock
county, in Taliaferro county, In Lin
coin county
A voice from the Lincoln county
band wagon. Old Lincoln is here
for Watson, you bet.
Mr.. Black continuing. Some of
the best Alhancemen-some of the
most prominent farmers in the ALI
ance-are standing side by side with
me, with this Democratic banner in
my hands. Now, when anybody
suggests the idea that I am not the
friend of the farmers [ ask the ques-
ton, where is your Alliance? If it
is not dead, it is almost dead.
A voice. We know you want it
dead, Major, but you cannot kill it.
Mr.. Black. Now, I appeal to your
sober intelligence | ask your calm,
impartial judgment; l ask you to be
honest with yourselves, who killed
the Alliance?
Voices. Livingston Livingston !
Livingston! From the Augusta
contingent. Hurrah for Livingston I!
'Rah 'Rah RahD
Other voices. You and Living
ston can't kill it It amt dead !
We will show you and him in
November
Mr.. Black. Yon will remember
that | told you awhile ago that there
is not any one who did as we'll as he
ought to do. There Is not a man in
this assemblage who can stand up
and look God in the face and put his
hand on his heart and say, 81 have
done just as ought to have done"
And let me tell you, you will never
get political party to do it. II you
expect to get political party of
which every member is wise, every
member is just, every member is
consistent, and makes no mistakes,
you are deceiving yourself with a
delusion and snare. Now, | want
to call your attention to the Demo
cratic platform. We denounce the
Republican system of protection as a
fraud. We declare it to be a funda-
mental principle of the Democratic
party that the Federal government
has no power to collect tariff duties,
except for the purpose of revenue
only. We demand that the collec-
ton of such taxes shall be limited to
the necessities of the government
economically administered.
Now, | invite any fair man to take
these two platforms home tonight
and say which is the most method
cal, the most consistent, the most
effective against this Ubiquitous tariff,
which Mr.. Watson admits Is an
enormous wrong put upon the peo-
pie Of this country. The Demo
cratic party from its earliest history
has been the party of low tariff. I
do not mean that it has always
spoken In the same language, but I
do say that all through it's history it
has spoken against high tariff with
emphasis, and the candidate of that
party is the man who stands before
the country as the most llustrious
exponent of tariff refoam. (Great
cheering) You talk about the tariff
as an iniquitous tariff. I say that if
it was practicable to cut it out, root
and branch, that / would put the
knife down as deep as any one, but
it is not practicable. We must have
money to run the government. One
of our great troubles is the extrava-
gance of the government. I would
join hands with any party, Peoples
party or any other, to check this
growing evil. I do not approve of
the appropriation of twenty thousand
dollars to bury a senator, but that
was done by Republican Senate.
If such thing was done in the
Democratic House | would condemn
it as quick as [ would the Senate.
say that the way to cure these evils
is inside and not outside the Demo
cratic party.
Now lock here. Do you know
what think is one of the greatest
impositions put upon US in this coun.
try, and especially in the South? It
is these pensions. And [ am here as
candid man to acknowledge that
the Democratic party is not faultless
in this, but do say that the record
Of the Democratic party is better
than the record of the Peoples par
ty. I am talking of this party now
as we see it in its platform, and not
what some individual representatives
say. Don't you know that this pen
sion roll has gone up to $150,000,O00
year; and they tell you that it is
going to $2O0,000,O00? He may
point to the Democratic party and
say with truth, perhaps, that it was
more liberal than the Republican
party. But [ say that it is a ques-
ton environed with embarrassments;
and I say furthermore that the far
mers in the field that the laborer on
the public works that the mechanic
at his bench, and all the oppressed,
tax-ridden people, have a thousand
times more hope for relief through