The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-11
watson,s Homecoming speech.

WatSOnS homecoming Speech
Representative Watson, in the speech
he delivered on his arrival at his home in
Thomson on Tuesday, had a great deal to
say against the Democratic party and little
or nothing against the Republican perty,
1t should not be forgotten that i'll less than
two years since the party he so bitterly nsA
sails elected him to congress, and he holds
his seat in congress now by virtue OF the
votes of that party. II he believes he is
sustained in the course be is pursuing by
the people OF his district he ought TO resign.
He could then with much better grace at
tack the Democratic party.
He is not fair in his attacks upon the
Democratic party. In his speech on Tues
day he criticised the Democratic party for
not repeating the Mckinley tariff and for
not cutting down the appropriations. In
the course Of his speech, he said; " ask
you IL the democrats didn't expressly
promise that they would reduce your taxes,
| IL they didn't expressly promise to econo-
mise your expenditures, didn't they promise
to repeal the Mckinley tariff act, that
taxes your clothing, farm imple-
menss household and kitchen furniturel
Well, how much have your taxes been
reduoedl Not one cent. From ocean TO
ocean and from the lakes to the gulf, there
is not one man who pays smaller tax on
account of the congress that has just
adjourned. Not one. No mans taxes
are lessened, no mans burdens are
lightened, no mans rewards are increased,
no mans toll has been reduced. / challenge
contradiction when I say 10 you, fellow
citizens, black and white, that you will con-
tinue to pay all of the taxes which the re-
publicans put upon you. Have they ever
economical! AS soon as they entered, the
party pledged 10 economist by passing the
Holman resolution; the newspapers made q
big blow about II. "
Further along IN his speech Mr.. Watson
admitted that the democrats attempted to
reduce the tariff taxes He was compelled to
make the admission because there was not an
intelligent man who listened to bin who
did not know that the House had passed
bills putting wool on the free list, repeating
the tin plate tax, taking the tax of bind
ing Irvine and jute bagging and other bills
Of the same character. Mr.. Watson knows
that all of these bills lessening the burdens
Of the people were sent to the republican
Senate, and that there they were pigeon
holed. But Mr.. Watson wasn't frank
enough to tell the people Of the Tenth dis
trict that the republican Senate did not In
tend to permit any reduction Of the tariff
taxes, and he tried TO belittle tie efforts Of
the democrats In behalf of tariff reduction.
Mr.. Watson also told the people that dur
ing the first session OF this congress there
was appropriated S4o, 00o, 600 more than
was appropriated during the first session OF
the billion dollar congress. The impression
he wished 30 make was that the democrats,
notwithstanding their promises in behalf
Of economy, were not 30 economical as the
republicans But Mr.. Watson did not ex-
plain that laws passed by the republicans
during the last congress had greatly in
creased the appropriations necessary to be
made by this congress. hr. Holman, CHAIR
man of the appropriations committee,
has Just issued a statement which shows
that this is money saving congress. If
Mr.. Watson will take the trouble to read 1t
he will see that be has no ground for at
lacking the democrats on the ground that
they have not kept their promise to econo-
| mize.
The truth IL that Mr.. Watson purposes to
continue his attacks on the Democratic
party, and it need not be expected that he
will be frank and fair In his statements
with regard to it.