People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-16

platform.
Voices. That's SO; and, ''hurrah
for Major Black"
Mr.. Black. I admit here, as I did
at Charlottesville, that he was
elected on a platform in favor of the
prevailing sentiments of the Demo-
cratic party. I could read from his
record, in his own language, that it
was not at all necessary for him to
leave the Democratic party in order
to insist upon these demands; and
there are hundreds and thousands of
Aliancemen all over the State of
Georgia to-day who are loyal to the
Ooala demands and loyal to the
| Democratic party. Now, I do not
censure him for his fealty to the
Ocala demands; but what I do
charge upon him, and challenge, is
his right to go into Congress with
the Democratic banner in his hands
and come back with that banner
trampled under his feet and the
sword OF an enemy in his hand.
(Long continued cheering)
Now, friends, just be quiet; If you
cannot be quiet, be as quiet as you
can. Oaughter)
My friends, if I understood his po-
sition, he says in 1888 it was "Hob-
sons choice;'' he said that he had to
take Cleveland because he could not
do any better, and now he can do
better. No, how can he do better
than to take Grover Cleveland?
Grover Cleveland, who stands to-
day as the finest type of American
citizenship. Great cheering, and
cries Of "Hurrah for Watson.") Yes,
the highest type of American citizen
ship; and SO acknowledged by his
enemies in the Republican party.
Why cannot he support Grover
Cleveland, the man who furnished
} record as President Of the United
Statea that for sterling honesty,
clearheadedness and fidelity to the
people of the Republic. Yes, an
administration that was not sur
passed by the administration of
Washington. (Great cheering.) Yet,
he says that he cannot give Cleve-
land support, and where does he
look to find man to take the place
Of Grover Cleveland? Why, he has
selected General John B. Weaver.
A voice. James B., Major.
Mr.. Black. I beg pardon; James
3. Weaver.
He says we are not in a position
to oritioise him for supporting Wea-
YER because we supported Horace
Greeley in 1872. Cheering from
both sides.)
} A voice. He ought never to have
} been born. (Whether he meant
Greeley or Weaver, your reporter
knoweth not)
Let us see. You know that in
1872 we had scarcely gotten out Of
the shadow Of the war; but Horace
Greeley, although he had been noted
| as hater of the South; although
: he had dipped his pen in gall in
scoring the people of the South ;
{ yet, the day he dipped his pen in ink
, and went on the security bond Of
,, Jefferson Davis, he wiped all that
out. Great cheering)
Voices. Hurrah for Major Black
! Hurrah for General Weaver! Hr-
rah for Watson! Hurrah for Horace
Greeley! (Followed by considerable
J confusion, but nothing to equal Oraw-
fordsville.)
Mr.. Black. He not only did that,
but he went before the country on q
t platform that demanded amnesty for
all acts growing out Of the war F.; that
demanded the restoration to their
| rights under the constitution, enemy
} to the South, as he had been. He
; acted the part Of manly man-of
a true man--for no brave man will
strike man when he is down.
| Now, my friends, as we see Horace
| Greeley going before the country,
putting himself before the country
/ with a spirit of true nnagnanimity,
2 offering amnesty, what was General
Weaver doing? We have it in his
} own language, from his own pen,
; written in cold blood, that they
ought to be thousand miles in hell !
A voice. A million.
l Mr.. Black. Yes, a million !; thank
you.
Then, agaln-I want you Third
party people to listen now never
have abused your leader; never
. have abused you; but he said in his
l Charlottesville speech that [ did not
, disclaim certain things. Now, I
l never have abused either him or
f you; but let me tell you that with
4 this record in my hand, sustaining
: what I am about to say, say here
that he has abused that trust re-
j; posed in him, and held out hopes to
you that are snare and delusion.
He tells you that it is a new party,
t say that it is not new party it is
e an old party. And say, further
9 more, that Mr.. Weaver and his col
f leagues from the West have sue
]. ceeded at last in doing what the