Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-10-12

ANIMALS again. He proceeded to ssh NV !
how Northen and Livingston were both
candidates for governor. Northen Sc
cured the nomination and Livingston
broke with him on the sub-traaSury
platform of the alliance Northci
esaied that platform anarchy and
Livingston broke with him, but now
both are calling it anarchy. Again the
crowd was ready to fight and both
speakers tried to make the people sit
down. 1t became a free discussion be-
tween Livingston, Watson and the
cnowd Livingston yelled to a big
wool hat" to sit down, and the ''wool
hat retorted that he would on both
Livington and NOrthen. Some man
Started another disturbance by d's-
tr buting copies of the Augusta Chrun-
icie making a eyere attack on Watson.
The wool hats were ready to % } D
him and Livingston induced the man TO
60 avay before he siiauli De pat ayv.ay.
Watson began agai,, when lar -
banner made OF roses. " ita the inscrip-
tion ''Ail honor to Watson was csr-
ried through the crowd 1t was q gift
from the ladies of Conyers, and it Gre
ated such an uproar that Watson had
to have it hidden before he could pro-
ceed. He then said: They may have
their travelling bar to evade the law
and their bowling mobs, but have the
hearts of the people with me in this
fight"
That's right, Col. Tom, we're with
you," shouted dozen alliancemen.
The democrats showed fight at this
and Livingston and Watson had to show
their good feeling towards each other
to prevent general pitched battle
Watson's next fire brand was a quota
ton from Northen's speech in which he
said: $50 home and strike the wife of
your youth now grown old, strike the
innocent and prattling child at her
knee lifting up her voice in prayer, but
don't strike the grand old democratic
party"
His comments on this made the dem
ocrats mad and the ''wool hats hilari-
ous and there were loud shouts of de-
nial.
The little Colonel Tom threw open
| his coat and vest, barring his breast, and
shouted: I'm not afraid; you never
saw my lip CULVER nor my face blanch
| in the hour of danger"
''Bully for you, Col Tom. we're with
you; give it to emf came from his
| crowd
Watson then sailed into Livingston,
| Northen and Cleveland, and berated
them for their attitude on the free sill
yer bill. He tried to quote jefferson
on state banks, but the democrats
howled him down.
| One section of the crowd became
| wilder than the others, and a man
shouted Don't you cut me.''
Coats were she'd knives and razors
became the arguments, and the whole
5000 men began to surge toward that
center from which came the voices.
Col. Livingston jumped to the front
of the platform, in front of Watson, and
yelled: bill vandergriff, for Gods
sake go away from there and keep
quiet. If you fellows don't put on your
coats and settle down I'll get down and
lick all of you"
Livingston is a big man and said to
be brave His prompt and defiant com
mand quieted the men who were get
ting ready to fight and then friends
separated them The knives again
were slipped up their sleeves and after
Col Livingston had threatened to lick
half dozen other men in different
parts of the crowd. he succeeded in get
ting them quiet enough to allow Wat
SON to proceed
Watson took up the silver plank again
and jumped into the democratic house
for refusing to pass the bill even after
a republican senate had passed it. He
also ridiculed the democratic record on
tariff reform and regarding its profess
sions of economy said its house had
spent more money than the so-called
billion-dollar Reed congress. He took
up the force bill and quoted from south
ern democratic papers to show that the
democrats were afraid that the repub-
licans would drop that measure. This
cry of force bill had been used by dem
ocrats to hold the south solid for years.
1t had been the only power to prevent
the laboring classes in the south leav-
ing the democratic party. The demo
Gratis were yelling to the republicans:
For Gods sake keep Up the agitation
on the force bill, for it's our only saliva
tion in the south. So long as you sup
port such a bill in the north, we can
frighten the south into standing to-
gether against It." But the people OF
the south no longer feared the force
bill, they wanted honest elections.
They no longer feared negro domina-
tiou.
The negro was not asking for social
equality. They did not want it. but
they did .ssEz and they should have
their poilO4vor rIgnus, and the poor
negroes and poor whites were begin
! 70, -,
lay along the same lines They should
stand together yainst tteir oppressor
[cheers ami That's right" from viii,
men and black, who stood closel
packed together near the standl :.
pray God for a eure ballot" said Wat
son, and there were loud ''amens" IL
spoke of Weaver, and the democrats
howled him down. but he got back at
them with the declaration that tia
south professad to love brave men. tner
who would fight Weave. ha tn
courage to fight for his side, but Clevc
Iand and Stevenson had not the cour-
age to fight for either They stayed at
home while north and south were bat
ting for what each believed 10 be right
1t was then the farmers tried to shout
and jeer at Cleveland and ask demo
Gratis how they could vote for such
towards. They were dangerously near
the fighting line again when Watson
ended his speech and Livingston took
the platform t. reply.
The old father of the alliance in
Georgia had an embarrassing role to
play. He was face to face with the
men who followed him for years in "a;
the doctrines of the people, party, and
who believed that he had des .rted them
to secure Office, just as did Gov. Northen.
another old alliance leader. He tried
to discuss the issues calmly ard reply to
Watson's charges against him. but he
had to battle with the crowd and a
dozen times sfl9pped and said he would
not speak further. Watson then came
to his relief as he had come to Watson 5
and induced the alliance men to keep
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