People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-16
PAPER GEORGIA.

such facile pen and eloquent
tongue in endeavoring to put down
Gods Israel in It's fight to throw off
the chains and be a free people :?
Long continued applause.)
When we were over at Crawfords-
vile ! asked him three questions.
He shall never get away from these
questions during this campaign.
(Applause.) Let me go on. I asked
him: "Do you believe that the
people are suffering from vicious
Legislation p He says, eyes, but
standing here before these thousands
of people, I dare to say that this
suffering is exaggerated" And in
his letter to Mr.. j. B. Austin, No
vember, 1890, he further amplifes
that by saying that one of the
troubles of this country is that the
politicians have been too anxious to
obey the demands of the farmers of
this country. My GodIi exagger-
ated II! when there are S30,000,.
100000 of Indebtedness on the farms
of this land; when there is an in
debtedness Of 1927 per capita in
some of our Western States when
there are millions of homes Swallowed
by mortgages; when the army of
tramps becomes greater and greater
year by year; when those who lose
their homes become larger year by
year when the tenant class that
lose their homes and have to rent in
crease year by year, he talks about
exaggeration!l Why, as a matter
Of fact, just after the war we had
over $2,000,000,000 Indebtedness ;
we have paid upon that about one
billion and quarter dollars, accord
ing to some, but | think that it is up
wards of two thousand millions; yet
it will take more of your cotton,
more of your corn, more of your
wheat, more of your muscular exer-
ton to pay off that debt than it
would have taken at the beginning
if the volume of currency had not
been contracted. wild shonts Of
approval.) And yet he says that he
dares to tell this people that the stu
alton has been exaggerated. Fellow
citizens, it cannot be exaggerated.
Voices. We see it we have been
seeing it all along.
Mr.. Watson. You can read the
situation in every worn out and de-
cayed farm; you can read it in the
humble homesteads of Georgia; you
can tell it in the thousands of unem-
ployed laborers in every State of this
Union; you can see it in the in
creased pauperism ; it is photographed
in the increase of drunkenness and
crime in this land; and yet when
| ask Major Black the question, "Do
you believe that there is suffering re-
sulting from vicious Legislation 2" he
says he does, but he dares to stand
before you, the honest farmers OF
Georgia, and say that he believes it
is exaggerated. loud cheering
Yes, he utters that with a true class
pride-with the true Indifference of
a man who mas no interest in com
mon with you-that he dares to
maintain that it is exaggerated.
A voice. Tell us about Mrs. Lease.
Hurrah for the Kentucky gentleman.
Mr. Watson. Buddie, you keep
quiet and let your man do his own
talking. If he is not able to do it,
why, trot out some other one, and do
not make a fool Of yourself. Why,
even your candidate is ashamed Of
you. (Laughter.) Yes, say, with
the true indifference of a gentleman
who does not know your wants !;
with the true Indifference of q gen.
tleman who does not feel your wants;
with the true Indifference of a gen.
tl9man who does not care for your
wants; with the true indifference of
a gentleman who has not the impedi-
ment Of your necessities; with the
charming sang froid of man who is
not in your shoes, and does not know
how or where they pinch, he says
that your distress is exaggerated.
prolonged applause.)
FIRST ANECD0TE OF THE DISCUSSION.
It is Just like the little boy who
went home after getting a whipping,
and, through pride, did not tell about
it. A few days afterwards, his father
having heard of it, said, Johnnie, I
am sorry to hear that you got
whipped the other day; I did not
know it, or I would have sympa-
thized with you. "Well," said John
ME (boo-hoo), elf you had been in my
pants you would have known it,
Cries Of Bah! Bah! Bah! and
Kissing from the sheriff 8 gang.
Mr.. Watson (smiling). I am sor-
ry for you, boys. Stand it the best
you can. am going to roast you
directly. Think of the position of your
candidate-of David. daughter,
almost enough to shake a half dozen
picaninnies out Of the trees, who had
taken refuge in the branches)
Voices (from the dude black
guards). Weaver, Weaver, Weaver;
tell US something about Weaver and