People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-30
3IDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1892.

"Said sum to be in full settlement and
payment of said claim" Great
cheering and cries from the colored.
Bless the Lord, Mr.. Watson, we
know'd it was ie.) Does not that
show you how carelessly your bust
ness is enacted when Gen. John B.
Gordon introduces a bill for the set
Element of a claim a second time?
Voices. Yes yes, yes. Hurrah
for Watson! "a commotion in the
rear of the platform among the rail
road hoodlums-the transported
brigade.)
Mr.. Watson. 1t seems to be ut
terly impossible to get those Black
banners where they can be quiet.
They are topping over. The Steph-
ems banner has disappeared entirely,
and the other one is lying prone in
the dust. Laughter.) Yonder
comes another one with funeral co.
ors on it. (Renewed laughter) How
instinctively their judgment yields
to the inevitable, for if there is any
thing known to this country, it is
that the Black campaign is funeral
procession. (Side splitting laugh
teri They decorated their houses
with black flags, this morning but, 10!
they are coming now in Black
shrouds. daughter Of every con-
ceivable sort, the spontaneous and
the suppressed, the guffaw and the
giggle, the horse laugh and the dry
laugh. The organized Democrats
had a monopoly Of the latter.) The
great trouble with the Democrats is,
that this is a campaign of education.
They mean all right, but they don't
know how. There are many Demo
Gratis on account Of the accident of
birth; there are a few Democrats on
account of conviction-but the great
er part are such on account of non
information.
Voices. They will learn if they
attend these meetings.
Mr.. Watson. CA Black banner is
advanced near the stand. Tn q
banner is rushed in just like the
Stephens banner was rushed in at
Charlottesville, with a hrass band, as
is often done in a joint debate for
the purpose Of disturbing the speaker.
But the trouble with these gentle
men is that they never do get there
at the right time. (Laughter.) They
never get there until our standards
are planted and the victory won.
(Renewed laughter.1 AT Crawfords-
vile they rushed that banner tor
ward for the first time. That was
the speech in which my friend SO
strongly denounced me for leaving
the Democratic party. Well, when
l left the Democratic party I was
ready to give good reasons for so
doing. At Sparta I chased him
down. I was glad to get him on
distinctive Jeffersonian principle. I
showed Jefferson as authority.
What do you think he said when |
showed him that Jefferson had de-
nounced State banks? That Jeffer-
son said they could only be failures :?
that the government should issue it's
own money? that fiat money, if you
please, was good money? Now
what do you suppose he said to that :?
Why, he said, II cannot be bound
by everything that Jefferson said
sixty or seventy years ago." APP
plause. If we should dig Jefferson
up and set him to talking again, he
might still say the same thing. But
really, if they claim to be for Jeffer-
son and confne themselves to Jeffer-
son of to-day, ignoring sixty or sew
enty years ago, how can we bring
anything to bind him? for Jefferson
has been dead sixty or seventy years.
[ Laughter. Now, this campaign is
bitter, principally on account of your
non-information, my Democratic
friends. There is many a man here
SO warped by the coiled snake of
hatred which encircles his heart that
he is incapable Of receiving informa-
ton.
My distinguished friend at Craw-
louisville said that my course in
leaving the Democratic party was
without a parallel in political history.
The trouble with him Is that he does
not know anything about political
history. Laughter. The ignor-
ance of the witness destroys the
force Of his testimony, as I will show
you. Increased laughter wish
they had that Stephens banner here
to-day, it would serve so good a pur-
pose to point a moral. Not that I
would seek to justify myself for do
ing anything just because Mr..
Stephens did it, no more than I
would want to be bound by anything
because any other man did it. Let
every man stand or fall by his own
record, but [ say this, they are in
pretty fix to quote Alexander FL.
Stephens and place his picture side
by side with Mr.. Blacks. Oh, my
countrymen, think of these two pic
lures. One saying, "Look how great
I am" and the other saying, "Look
how big I am"
At this point there was ire
mendOus Outburst of applause from