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

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United States. Great cheering. }
Now you have not got so much to
laugh at, have you?
Voices. No, no, no. (Renewed
cheering.)
Mr.. Black. We have you in a
corner now, have we not?
A voice. Are you speaking about
the sixty million corner?
Mr.. Black. No; the thirty-three
million corner.
There was a renewal of merri-
ment all around at this sally, Mr..
Watson's friends being largely in the
majority, getting the best of the
badina3e.
Mr.. Watson. My friends, leave
him to me. | have got fifteen min
utes to scalp him, and it will not re-
quire half the time. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Black. Suppose that a man
had an outstanding obligation on
which he was paying interest, and he
had plenty of money lying in bank
drawing no interest, would it not be
the part of prudence to take out the
money and pay off the debt, thus
stopping the interest?
Now, he cites Andrew Jackson and
his methods for our guidance, and
asks why we did not give it to the
people Of the country. My answer
to that is that the conditions are
changed. Here is a large surplus
that was not accumulated under Dem
ocratic methods. Mr.. Cleveland, all
through his administrative career,
has made the most earnest protests
against surplus in the treasury, and
said that it is a temptation for reck-
less appropriations. Now, I appeal
to every man who is o student of po-
litical history whether Mr.. Cleveland
did not make his fight for the presi-
dency, and throw away his almost
certainty of success because he would
not stife his convictions about this
iniquitous system, and yet he is held
up to you as man who has entered
into an unholy alliance with Wall
street, and with trusts, and with mo-
nopoies. Now, my friends, in lieu
of Cleveland, who has brought back
the unstained banner of Democracy
which he carried four years ago, my
friend, who went before the people
and told them that Mr.. Cleveland
was ion-hearted man, a bold man,
a man who had the courage to strike
at every wrong; man who had the
courage to veto reckless expenditures,
to veto unjust pension bills-that
man, I say, came back with the ban
ner entrusted to him trailing in the
dust, and the blood-red sword of an
enemy in his hand, and asks you to
vote for-whom :? Why, for General
James B. Weaver. That is the stand
ard he has unfurled and asks you to
fight under.
Voices. Hurrah for Black; hur-
rah for Watson; hurrah for Weaver.
Mr.. Black. Now listen to this !;
he admits that the tariff is ubiquitous.
He admits that it is so bad that it
ought to be cut up root and branch.
I say that it is impracticable ; you
must have money to pay the expen-
ses OF the Government. He says to
pay the expenses out of the income
tax his own platform says that the
income tax shall not be appropriated
to the expenses Of the Government
but to relieve the domestic industries
of the country. ] say we must be
practical; that we cannot get rid of
all the tariff. We cannot have a per-
feet political party, !. do not claim
that the Democratic party is perfect.
I do not claim that it has not made
mistakes; that it has not been incon-
sistent. | acknowledge that the Dem
ocratic party, like individuals, may
not live up to its professions. No
political party ever has done it. No
political party ever will until God in
his infinite wisdom shall send his Son
to redeem this world and make us
all perfect.
Voices. Right, right, right.
Mr.. Black. Why, fellow-citizens,
you talk about divisions and dissen-
sions among us. My competitor will
admit that one of the ablest men that
his party has stood on the floor of
the House of Representatives and
made a speech against the sub treas
ury bill. And speaking about the
Alliance, where is your Alliance to-
day?
Voices. Gone where the wood
bine twineth.
Other voices. It is all right.
Well show you where it is in No
vember.
Another voice. Livingston has
got it. (Some Kisses at the name Of
Livingston.)
Mr.. Black. | ask where is your
Alliance to-day mean as an active,
combative organization, able to &C.
complish the great purposes laid
down in it's platform, the principles
and purposes of which Cleveland
himself approved?
A voice. Why did not you ap-
prove them? (Laughter.l