The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-11-06

SOid.
They want to break it. up. 1 don't
wonder at IL.
"TheIr latest scheme is the Third party.
God help u.s."
None but those who have heard ana
seen the tall Georgian can conceive OF
the scathing satire and rldicule In every
iineament of face and chord OF the voice
that he throws into these references 10
the Third party.
Said he: Let me lay down truisni
that every one of you will acknowiedge
before I get through with this subject.
The stream can't rise any higher than its
source. II the mea who follow weaver
and his gang amt a heterogeneous lou
I'll let up. They remind me OF an ex-
ample given by a school-marm 10 a boy
down in Georgia about a frog In a wei.
which climbed I'D one foot and dropped
back two, and after ciphering all over
his own slate. his sisters slate and ali
he could borrow, he was asked for the
result.
He replied that he didn't know when
he would get up, but he now had MN
some distance beyond half way 10 nell
That Is now about the location Oh the
Third party in Georgia
Old Weaver. Boys did old Weaver get
up here. He came down TO Georgia and
spread himself all around there, and IL
took very little Of US TO do him.
He brought old Mrs. Lease along with
him, and it took still less OF us to DO
her.
Say, boys, did you all see Mrs. Lease?
II there ever was such patch WORK,
crazy, quiet, homogeneous mess as her
never saw IL.
She was one of the gang who met at
Omaha to build a party platform ana
put in the plank on woman suffrage.
Ignatius Donnelly, the fellow who
proved that Shakespeare didn't write
Shakespeare--he was there too. Big Ike
and all the cranks like him.
saw a meeting of these women suf-
fragist once, and--let me tell you, boys
If woman suffrage is going to make our
women look like them, l say God help
us-of all the skinny necked, fat-breasted,
splay-footed. Ratchet faced, bony, SLIM
old, gang that was the worst.
Mrs. Lease is a fair sample.
I'll tell YOU boys-I could take her by
the heels and split an inch board with
her face-her nose is like an ant-eater
and her whole face rank poison to the
naked eye.
1t was such a thing as this that came
down here in the South TO discuss poll
teal platform, i'm which virtue, intelli-
gence and honesty is a secondary consid-
Grafton.
MIR. Ham then turned his attention TO
poor Old Weaver and said the nam
trouble with him was that he had what
they call down in Georgia a ree-cord, ana
then hesused to talk about us when ne
didn't expect to come South for votes
He likened him TO the parrot VINO
followed sic to the dog. and then passed
the verdict on himself: Polly, you talk
too -- much.
referring further to poor Old
Weaver" he said 'if he had said only
this that Lee. Longstreet and the latter
demalions that followed them ought 10
bow on Bonded knees TO ask for forgive
ness for their acts 1t was enough 10
damn him, and when the men OF the
South vote for Weaver they indorse this
sentiment.
Weaver said these words and then came
after votes in a Ian d where the men ana
women bend the knee TO nothing save
God Almighty.
ANY man who or Tuesday next casts his
vote for Weaver commits SIN against
his wife, his mother and his patriot
friends He is not a patriot, hut fool.
We have all sorts of fools In the Third
party down in Georgia.
There's the Ephriam fool-joincd to his
idols, and somebody is leading him.
Then there is the Nicodemus fool and
the Sut. Lovingood kind, the natural-born
fools.
He likened them to the fellow, who,
when tied TO yearling bull running away
with him, was asked where he was gong,
replied: ASK the bull where he's going
He then described the Third party ticket
in Georgia in inimitable style, and said
that there had never been Third party
started since the war that there wasn't a
Republican deaths head under the sad
bags somewhere.
The old Democratic party has stood up
against twenty-seven other parties, and
has attended the funeral OF twenty-siX
of them. A death warrant will be served
upon enemy twenty-seven next Tuesday
and the early voter will be recognized
at the obsequies.
This is the same old gang, dressed in
new uniform.
The Republican party in Georgia is
just big enough to I'LL all the Offices, but
when they fused and mixed up with the
Third party people they actually thought
they would carry something, and really
made us think they warnt fooling, but
when we got up and sent off Governor
Northern with 1850 majority we We're
sure the old party was wide awake and
doing business at the same old stand.
The Third party, said he, was like the
ing lion just one little bite to see If he
was dead.
The Democratic lion laid his paw on
the dirty little skunk OF a Third party
dog and left nothing but a grease spot
in the sand and a little stink in the air.
Next Tuesday we will throw sand over
the spot and ventilate the atmosphere.
We will get hold of little Tom Watson
In Georgia Tuesday and blow him so
high that the birds will build nests in
his hair before he gets back, and when
he strikes the ground he will be so com
posed tina; he will ask where am at"
A half a dozen times Mr.. Ham at
tempted 10 stop, and was made TO con-
tinue by numerous cries Of go on.
Anecdote after anecdOte was neatly
applied to the shortcomings of Republi-
cans and Third partyites, and the audi
ence was kept in the highest good humor
In closing he said: ] want to tell you
we are ready in Georgia. | stood the
other day before 5000 voters in North
Carolina, and they charged me 10 carry
to the Empire State a message that the
Old North State was solid for Demo-
cracy. Then two days later l stood in
Tammany Hall, filled with sea Of faces
and a, 900 were standing on the outside.
l asked, May l. / bring TO you good
cheer from North Carolina, carry the
same good cheer to Virginia, now that the
sunlight seems TO be breaking on the
mountains?
If you could have heard the enc grand
shout that went Zip you would have seen
the roof raised and heard the stars shake
In their sockets.
Boys / want to tell you something. The
Democratic party keeps open house; the
latch-string hargs on the outside ana