People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-23


experience meeting" said: 1--WE
farmers have to sell everything we
raise that's fit to eat in order to buy
clothes and other neccessaries, and
we eat the refuse Of our product that
ought to be given to the hogs. All
of the butter and eggs is sent to
town. The best fruit and vegetables
are sold. Every fat two-year-old
steer is taken to the butcher. We
who produce these things have to live
on what other people won't have.
We live on the slops, you may say"
A single days programme OF the
Brentwood picnic may be interest
ing:
Song by choir.
Speech by Hon. Thomas Gaines
'eThe land Question"
Five-minute speeches.
Adjourn for dinner.
Singing.
Speech by Gov. Marion Martin;
subject: "What is the Paramount
Issue"
Song by choir
Speech by Mr.. W. D. Gordon:
reformation From q Historical
Standpoint
Music by the band.
Speech by H. F. Jones; subject:
democratic administrations in
Texas"
Music by the band.
The five minute speeches are the
best of all. They bring out the old
fellows who are full to the chin with
natural Texas eloquence.
A bright particular star in the
third party galaxy is the Hon. John
O'Byrne. Mr.. O'Byrne is always in
troduced at the picnics as the "wild
Irishman of Upshur." He has a.
rich brogue, somewhat richer on than
off the stump. With uproarous effect
upon the farmer be tells the story Of
the two Irishmen who discussed
finance during the time of the govern
ment bond controversy:
"Pat," said one, "what does all
this name about the tin forties and
siven thirties and five-twenties? Can
you tell that?"
CAV coorse I cam" said Pat "It
names that the poor man will have
to get up at five twinty in the mornin'
and work till siven thirty in the even,'
so that the rich man can sleep till
tin forty"
"Methodist jim" Davis has a
national reputation. He is known
up north as "Cyclone'' Davis, because
of his whirl wind style of eloquence.
"Methodist JIM is not a parson,
although he wears. a long tailed black
frock coat, swinging his arms and
exhorts. Mr.. Davis was a newspaper
editor, and the fraternity bestowed
upon him the name of "Methodist
Jim" at one of the annual meetings
of the Texas Press Association. He
has read law, and is on the third
party ticket for Attorney General.
"The worst sight Of social equality
to be seen in this land" said the
Cyclone at the Stephenville picnic,
ssis the sight of a sweet white girl
hoeing cotton on one row and big,
burly negro in the next row. Talk
of negro equality when your indus
trial system forces a good woman's
precious Anglo Saxon girl down on
a level with a burly negro in a cotton
row. Oh, my God! And that is in
free America"
The third party has an "earth-
quake" as well as cyclone orator.
Earthquake Jones, of Baird is a
good running mate for Cyclone
Davis"
"When I marketed my crop Of
cotton just after the war, I got %
CENTS" ssld Mr.. Jones. Il paid every
debt, [ paid my taxes, laid in a
years family supplies, I got Lizzie
what dresses she needed, I bought
myself ten-gallon key of good
whisky, and drove home hitting only
the high points in the head. Now |
sell my cotton at six cents, pay my
taxes, get no supplies, no dresses for
Lizzie, but sneak around and get
a quart of mean whiskey on credit,
start home, and hit the road in only
one place, and that hole called
home and stay there growing cotton
until next tax paying time. They
say there is more money out Of the
United States treasury than ever in
the country's history. Grant it, but
it is all piled up in the banks Why?
Because you have not got the security.
There is no more community Of
interest between you and the national
bankers than there Is between
heaven and h-ll."
A very bald headed man was in
troduced at one Of the picnics as can
ordinary clod-hopper." He came
forward in his shirt sleeves and said 4:
81 didn't expect to make speech,
and [ will not try to make a speech,
but if there is a man that would be
gladder to make speech in this
cause he will have to part his hair
nearer the middle. The democrats
say tariff reform, and the republicans
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