People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-08-12

to crack about ms. cries OF good bye,
Jimmie, good bye'']
Here is an address that made on &C
cepting your nomination two years ago.
at Harlem, and leave you to compare
the promises / made with my course
nee. when my term of service is well
nigh over. I can afford TO compare
publicly what | promised to do with
what l have endeavored to do, and no
man. having the same confidence i'm
posed in him that you have imposed in
| me. can afford to do less. Here is what
I said:
1T may be that I can accomplish
nothing for your welfare 1t may be
that however carefully plant and pa
tiently I cultivate, my harvest will be
fullness of disappointments and plen-
titude of barren regrets, but [ can prom
isa YOU, my comrades, that while re-
suits must be with Him who rules US
all, no man shall justly suspect my Fl
DEITY or question my LOYAL ZEAL
| TCries of, s'no one can do it in the old
| tenth"1 [ need not take up your time
in the discussion of public issues. My
platform is well known. | have dis
cussed it from one end of this district
to the other. Giving to those who differ
ed from me the credit of honesty, |
claim like credit for myself, and now
repeat my devotion to the principles
upon whir h my campaign was fought,
and shall strive for their success with
all the strength of my mind and soul
What was my platform then? 1t
was we'll known; it was the .Ocala
platform. voice: "Hurrah for the
Ocala platform and Tom Watson."]
What is my platform to-day? 1t is
precisely the same in substance and in
spirit. That is what said then, and
[ repeat here to-day, [Great cheer
ing.] | said then:
awe of the south are among the
politically unhappy. With a great
political failure, which, like all fail
ures, q never secures the charity of
Judgment which success commands
pressing sus down, we live under the
| ban. Our people are oppressed, our
leaders slaughtered, or record distort-
ed. our views misrepresented, our
hopes doomed in the hour of their
birth. it is little wonder that stout
hearts grow faint and have no
strength to lift from the willows the
harps which the mourning daughters
of the south have hung thereon.
"But there comes to me the belief that
there is the stir of a new life through
out the ranks of Southern life; that a
new spirit is moving over the waters,
and that the chaos of our fortunes
which was without form and void,
is taking unto itself shape, and to the
listening ear of her patient patriotism
there comes the blsssed words, Let
there be Light.
ETo be one of those who shall work for
betterment of this great people; to be
a comrade of those who shall rehabili-
tate the South, is the ambition which
most earnestly cherish. If I can,
amid the wreck of the past, and the
crude material of the present con-
struct the splendid edifce Of future pros
perity, it will be an achievement beside
which that of conquerors fail; and if in
that grand work there shall be a part
born of my thought, builded by my
hands, my ambition will be satisfied,
and my cup filled with content" At
this point the Immense multitude gave
vent to the widest enthusiasm
I promised you that then, my fellow
citizens, and I want to know whether
I have kept my promise? Cries Of.
You have! Yor have; We'll send you to
do it again. u If there is a thing which
L could have done and have left
4 und0ne let my bitterest enemy mention
it: if there is thing which have done.
that should have been left undone. let
my bitterest enemy mention it, and let
me be relegated to the shades of private
life. TCries of, "Never! never! never !"
Now, my friends, but little time is left
me, and I want my friend, Charley
Young, to listen to me. [Several voices:
F'We are all listening; go it Tom, Good
bye, Jim, glory! gloryl'
Now am coming back to the question
of the extravaganza of the expenditure
of your money. What is the report of
the Secretary of the State? | want you
to see how your money goes. The Sec
rotary reports that $40, 100000 of the
money of you tax payels, were taken
for the burial of Senator Hearst. Cali
fornia millionaire. Murmers Of"disapro-
bation."1 Twenty thousand dollars to
bury one man the money of struggling,
impoverished black and white alike--to
bury one man, and that man million
air without the least warrant of law.
But that is not all. Here is list of
great many other expenditures with
out warrant of law. Here are the
items; / will not read them all, or go
into them specifically The fitting up
of barber shOp-yOu are shaved while
paying for shaving them. daughter
Fitting up a saloon; appolinaris water;
alcohol.
A voice: "Did they give you any OF
that appolinaris water, Tom?"
Mr.. Watson: 81 presume they would
give me a part of the beef if had gone
into the conspiracy" MANY voices
"Y gu did not do it, though. Bully for
| u
must conclude, my fellow citizens,
because my strength is almost ex-
hausted. But [ want to say this to
you. You all know as we'll as [ do that
the reason why [ have fingered here
this evening, and talked to you until
have come so near to exhaustion, is
because these principles are dear to my
heart, and because they have been mis-
represented, and your leaders have
been misrepresented. You all know
that there was combined assault made
upon me by the press of the State.
The Constitution says they are deter
mined to kill me off forever, politically.