People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-07


election, and it may be fairly said
that government of the people is dead,
and that class rule is perpetuated.
Is Mr.. Watson doing anything to de-
feat that? [ do not know what he is
doing, in his speeches. This is the
first time I have heard him, and l
beg him before he sits down to put
himself clean on the record and
say, II am for the Peoples party
first, and, secondly, for the Democrat
ic party l am against the Repubi-
can party for reasons that l have
stated.
A voice. Just like you said two
years ago.
Mr.. Livingston. I want to make
this proposition to Mr.. Watson. If
be can point to a single vote either
by the House or Senate, in the last
session, in favor of class legislation
| will yield the contest. will make
him another proposition. And that
is, that he cannot show single vote
by any Democrat, either in the House
or Senate, that has not been cast
against class Legislation, in the past.
/ defy him to show to the contrary.
Let me state that proposition again,
or rather, / will complete the propo-
sition. In every instance, on the
national bank question, on resump-
ton, on the refunding, on the de-
monetization Of silver, in every single
instance the Democrats in the House
and Senate voted against these meas
ures. II that be true, the Peoples
party cannot consistently fight the
Democratic party. You must fight
the party that brought them on.
There is one suggestion he made
in his speech, and that was that the
Eastern Democrats would not vote
with us, and we could not hope to
effect anything. If that be true,
what hope have we from the Peo-
pl's party, for they cannot hope to
have majority in thirty years,
There is only one way to accom-
plish it, and that is to raid the East.
Are there any Peoples party up
there? No. Is there any hope of
a Peoples party there? No. The
only hope is through the Democratic
party. Aud why you are fighting
that party instead Of fighting your
enemies, is something [ cannot I'M
derstand. My friends, | want to
make this appeal to you. Go to your
homes and study these questions, and
then think who are the leaders of
this Peoples party movement; look
at its pledges as we have done and
come to an intelligent understand
ing. The Democratic party carried
you safely out of the Radical carpet
bag era in 1872, and it carried you
safely from 1872 up to this time. No
State has grown so prosperous, so
rapidly as Georgia since that time.
Your commerce, your business, your
schools are a credit to you.
(Some confusion occurred at this
point, and the speaker said
want to put you on notice that
there has not been three minutes
since [ commenced speaking that
some fool Third party man has not
been interrupting me.
Mr.. Watson. Is not that an ex-
IRENE statement?
Mr.. Livingston. I repeat it,
want to repeat what I said. Go home
and take up the platform Of the Re
publican p2rty, and the Democratic
party, and the Peoples party, and
study them one by one. Then study
the leaders one by one. Then take
up General Weaver and study him.
/ would not have mentioned him if
my friend had not. When he had
an opportunity to hurt you, he hurt
you. When he had an opportunity
to curse you, he cursed you.
lLr. Watson. It is only fair to
notify you that in reply to that at
tack on Gen. Weaver, in my conclu-
sion I will show that at the Cincinnati
Convention, the Georgia Alliance
offered q resolution to pay his way
down here, and that you yourself re-
cognized it as good piece Of work
by advancing the money to pay it.
lr. Livingston. Mr.. Watson says
that he is going to reply by saying
that the Georgia Alliance paid his
way down here, and that I advanc-
ed the money. They did do it, and
advanced $40, because the Chair
man Of the Finance Committee asked
me to attend to it.
Mr.. Watson. And in connection
with that, that the Georgia Alliance
sent delegates up North, and that
You yourself named 9. c. Post to go
up there and make these speeches.
Mr. Livingston. That is right
| Qaughter) Now, when Weaver was
invited to Georgia, there was not
single leader in Georgia who knew
that he had been curse to Southern
men and women [ never knew it
until I got to Washington City, and
Mr.. Henderson, Of Iowa, referred
me to his record. Now, / want to
be candid enough with you to say
(Laughter), that when Weaver came
to Georgia, if | had know that I
would not have gone over this state