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

t0T. Lucy can manage TO shout tor
Maddox with great gusto. They can
halloo for my friend, Major Black, the
peerless gentleman 0aughter), they can
hOller for NOrthen with great deal Of
vigor and energy, but I notice this, that
whenever an Atlanta Democrat hollers
for Leonidas Livingston, he has to be in
one of two conditions, he has to be half
drunk on mighty mean liquor, or he has
an involuntary inclination to put his
hands about here Gndicating) to press
down natures revolt. daughter, min
gled with all the deviltry described in
the preceding descriptive paragraphs }
This great and good Qaughter) man, Lon
Livingston, undertook 10 settle the negro
question. Well, we all know that is a
difficult question to handle We have
had various plans, but Leonidas' plan is
the most unique ever proposed.
A voice. Hurrah for Livingston.
Mr.. Watson. You ought to hear his
plan first (Laughter.)
While speaking in Mississippi last year,
the Hon. Leonidas Livingston announced
that he had a plan to settle the negro
question. That he would not tell it to
the general public, but he would be will
ing to submit it to the Supreme Court
and let that tribunal pass upon its con-
stitutionality. He also guaranteed that
it would settle the question beyond per-
adventure 1t was to buy large strip
of land in Texas, thinly settled, q para
disc for jack rabbits and chappaxel
bushes. He was going to cut it up into
forty acre lots-he said nothing about the
mule. The niger was to carry his own
mule. He was going to take the tax
money, partly appropriated by the COL
ored people themselves, and pay for that
land. Every white man who went into
that country was to be DISTINGUISHED, and
every negro who stayed out was to be
disfranchised and disqualified from hold
ing office. Now, here is a colored man
out on a farm. He has worked. hard
and paid for it. He has the alternative
OF selling out that farm for what he can
get and go to Texas or he disfranchised,
Do you like that plan, my colored
friends?
Ve.ces. No, no, no.
Mr.. Watson. Under that plan every
colored man in Atlanta who has little
home would be compelled to facrifice it
and emigrate to thus paradise of jack
rabbits or forfeit his citizenship.
A voice. Rats rats; rats.
Mr.. Watson. Yoh are talking about
the Atlanta Constitution rats now, amt
you? cloud laug liter, in which he Her
aid and Journal reporters jOlned.) Some
fool Democrat is Away running his head
into fence crack like that (Renewed
laughter.) Our friends, the enemy, were
getting awful nervous about Lon, and
sprung the question of rats on us. up
roarous laughter.) Now, let me ask
you in all seriousness, white and black,
how do you like Governor Northen's
idea of driving man out of the district
who has the misfortune to not know
how to read and write?
Voices. No, no, no.
Mr.. Watson. My colored friends, how
do like Col. Ions plan to transplant you
to the jack rabbit paradise?
Cries of. No, no. Hurrah for Mr..
Watson!
Mr.. Watson. [ just want to say this.
These are two prominent men. Both
for prominent offices. One
is denouncing your platform as rank
and would Danish poor illit-
crates. The other would drive you
colored people out of the coun try.
And vet these two men stood shOul-
der to shoulder at st. Louis in 1889,
and framed the very platform which
I announced at thesbeginning of this
address, and which you all endorsed,
except that one man who dissented
from the railroad plank. Look here.
These gentleman were elected on that
platform. Their course is approved
only by the Democrats who would not
approve that platform. Where is the
man who can deny it?
IT, Lo4 %01Ir h.
Mr.. Watson. No one who tells the
truth, but truth is rare virtue among
leaders. [ stand just
where I did two years ago. Where do
Col. Leonidas and Governor NOrthen
stand?
Voices. Bow Wow, WOW. New cock
a-doodle doc! And great deviltry.
Mr.. Watson. And yet the very men
who helped to frame that platform are
now denouncing itself as rank COM
munism.
This organization began in st. Louis
IN 1889, as a compact body. The cOun-
try laborers and the city producers,
representing the needs of labor, met
and formulated it. These gentlemen
representing the country laborers and
producers, and Grand Master Powder
y representing the laborers and pro-
lucers of the cities and tORwns met and
put their signatures to that and pledg-
ed their faith that they would work
side by side to the end that the pro-
lucer and the laborer should have
fair share of the profits on the articles
which their labor produced. Cheer
ng.)
There had not been a distinct ad-
vance along those lines in this coun-
5ry. Why? Because the city labor
ers had been taught TO believe their
interest different from that of the
country laborers. The country labor
srs had been taught the same, and thus
5hese two classes of Iaborers were kept
apart by mutual jealousies, distrust
md dislikes.
In the St. Louis convention was
achieved the victory of bringing them
together. And ever since that day
he knights of Labor and the farmers
nave been loyal to each other, except
he few leaders here and there who
have only been loyal to the spoils of
,ffice.
Voices. Black, Black, mewing.
Bow wowing and other species of row.
iyism.
Mr.. Watson. Yes, you seem TO be
getting black very fast. Down here
It Thomson their colOrs were black
md blue. While you are bowling for
Black, you are really blue. Now amt
you? Laughter.
Now these are questions that ought |
% be discussed on their merits. They |
ire questions affecting all classes of |
society, rich and poor, learned and
white and black. [ have |
to say to the poor that the
ich may not hear I have nothing to
o Y to the illitarate that the laarnad