People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-29

do and have heard Of Others making
the same threat. Now whether these
are idle threats or not, amunable to
say, but am inclined to believe from
my knowledge Of certain tough cases,
who will not stop at anything to carry
their point. that there is considerable
danger, not only for Tom Watson,
but for others who have been taking
prominent part in the Peoples
movement. Not that they would
dare do anything openly, but they
would get some desperate under the
influence of liquor and get him to in
suit the object of their spite so grossly
that he could hardly help resenting
it and then kill him and make it ap-
pear that it was a general melee and
done in self defense. This is the plan
they have adopted for making way
with certain individuals in the re-
form movement. They will hardly
dare attempt such thing with Wat
son, although there is no doubt but
what they have threatened it. l
would not be at all surprised to see
such things happen to less prominent
leaders in the movement.
Now | want to say to my Republi-
can friends, who have been ranting
about the Peoples party being a
scheme to disrupt the Republican
party, if you want to test the truth
of what say, just come down and 60
into a certain locality that | can
point out to you and go to making a
third party talk, especially to the ne
grOeS and | guarantee that you will
never say again that the Peoples
party is just a scheme of the Demo-
Gratis to break up the Republican par
. ty. You can talk RepublicaniSm this
. year 10 negroes or any one else with
perfect safety any place in the south,
tbut YOU had better keep your mouth
shut when it comes to the Peoples
party. Funny way to break up the
Republican party, isn't it?
So much for this aspect Of the situ-
alton and now for the Peoples side of
it. We have the old moss back party
Of the south the worst scared they
have ever been. Theyare growingmor
and more desperate every day. They
/ have tied the force bill" on the
end Of their party lash and are using
/ it with yigOr. and where that will
not do, they use more violent means.
where they are in large enough major
ity to dare to do 50. We have made
| it safe and easy for the Republicans
to run candidates for any office
they desire to. We do not desire ne
gro supremacy any more than the
Democrats, but we propose to prevent
! it in an entirely different way from
what the old party does. They pro-
pose to hold the white race SOlidly to-
gether and rule the negroes by force.
This is safe enough as long as we have
the force to do so, but the time will
come some time when the other race
will have the force and turn the ia
bleS on us. We propose a more effect
i've way to settle the race problem
than that. We think with the negro
divided and working in sympathy
with us, we can manage him better
than with him united and working
against us. The Peoples party will
just as surely divide the negro vote of
the south as the voting time comes.
More than half Of them will vote
with us this year. am confident of
this and if | was as sure that the Peo-
pies party would elect the next pres
ident as | am sure that the most of
the Republicans of the south will vote
the Peoples party ticket, would feel
perfectly sure of the result. There
will be no formal fusion whatever.
but the negroes have been educating
themselves as well as the whites and
thousands of them realize that they
can expect no more from one of the
old parties than they can the other.
They understand these great issues of
the day as well as we and will vote
from principle this time as they have
never done before.
Nearly all of the strength of our
party is in the rural population. 1t
is only around the towns where mean
whiskey can be had that the danger
Gus opposition is met with, except in
very remote instances. In all the
counties that have large towns the
majoritieS will likely go against us.
except perhaps, in Augusta. There
is strong Knights Of Labor Organiza-
tiOn and we have pretty good pros
poets Of carrying that county in spite
of all the Democrats can do. In
! GlaSScock county, a short time ago,
there was special election to fill a
vacancy in county Office. The Dem
Ocratic organs all over the stats
bOasted of the test vote that would
no made in that alao+;on Tha,, hod