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

SCUM while, at the same time, Old
Weaver was denouncing our people
and saying they ought to be a mil
hon miles In he'll. You take your
choice-if you want old Weaver,
take him to your hearts content.
A voice. He's all right, and
storm of dissenting voices. The
confusion lasted several seconds.
Mr.. Black. You are a farmer;
you are an economist. You farmers,
you laborers, you mechanics are 60
ing to lift the burdens from the
bowed backs of the farmers and the
laborers of the country.
You laborers, you mechanics, you
farmers who are going to leave the
party and turn your backs on the
Democratic party, are you going to
take old Weaver with his record in
three Congresses to appropriate
$3O0,000,000 to pay Federal pen
sions to the North ? You criticise
Cleveland, you denounce Cleveland,
you denounce him for his pension
record, and yet roll under your
tongue sweet morsel this miserable
Old wretch who has hated us all his
lie, and would conslgn not only
Voices. Hurrah for Weaver! Hur-
rah for Weaver! What about that
appropriation (Your reporter could
not hear the remainder of the ques-
ton on account Of the noise.)
Mr.. Black with vehemence). Is
it possible that you would compare
vote on that subject with old
Viewers record?
am not running against General
Gordon for Congress-. | am not 60
ing to 90 through any dramatic per
Torrance and jump up here and say
| am ready to die, because I am not
ready to die. / want to live q little
while longer to serve God and my
country, and [ want to serve my
country in this cause, but if it were
necessary to die, l would as soon die
in this cause as any other. Now,
you know that is simply little
by-play by the way of off set.
l have no idea that anybody
wants to kill me. / say that was
just little by-play to offset my
brothers. theatrical performance. He
knew very well that nobody was
going to kill him, and I know that
too, and if | did not, I don't know
that I would jump around so about
it. / believe that | am on the best
of terms with everybody in this au-
dience. You know that nobody was
going to kill bIr. " atson, and [
know nobody is going to kill me. Ii
l did not know that, I would not
jump around here so lively. No
body is going to hurt anybody until
the grand old Democratic columns
come marching down in November.
(Cheering) l think that I hear the
voices now, in the distance, growing
weaker and weaker, and the vic
torious cries Of Democracy growing
louder and louder; and yet, the
voices in the distance distinct enough
to be heard by all, saying "Where
avn at ?" (Long continued cheer
ing.)
Now listen; have got something
for you; listen. 1t is not Demo
cratic lie It q Democratic truth.
A voice. If it is, it is the first one.
daughter and counter jeering)
Nov listen you third party men,
listen, and see If you won't accept
the authority as the statement of a
truthful man
A voice. That's the way it looks
to man up tree,
Mr.. Black (to the man up tree)
Ny friend, you are the best behaved
man IN the crowd.
Listen. This letter was written
in April, the exact date Of which I
do not remember. 1t was addressed
to the Augusta Chronicle. Hear
what it says: (Reads.)
'"You speak of the Democratic plat
form. You assert that the Ocala plat
form is the one for you and me to stand
on. Certainly, but one can be 81 sound
Democrat and yet endorse the latter. /
made the prediction that the Georgia
legislature by a formal vote would IN
dorse the Ocala platform at the summer
session. make the further prediction,
that the next delegates from this State
to the National Democratic Conven-
ton, will go pledged to the Ocala plat
form.
In your clipping, you have one from
the New York Sun, wherein GIr. Dana
requests that l leave the Democratic
party or leave the Alliance. | do not
have to leave the one TO be put in har-
monv with the other. The Democracy
is not yet ostracised by the Alliance.
Now, that letter is signed Thomas
Z. Watson.
Here is what he said: He went
out of the Democratic party that put
him in office because it was uufayor-
able and hostile to the Alliance. lie
saws here in this letter, as we all
know, that it is true that man in
Georgia may be a true Allianceman
and Yet stand and take his place In
the Democratic party.
A voice. What do you fight us
for?
Mr.. Black. Some individuals may
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