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

no convention or bishops or prelates,
or anybody else in church or State.
would have any right that | would
recognize from Indianapolis to in
struct me for the tenth congressional
district of Georgia. say If YOU
choose to elect me I get my authority
from you and I hold myself amena-
BILE to you, and no power of alliance
or non-alliance, agricultural, mechan-
ical, political or social on earth or In
hell could swerve mo from doing
that.
Now listen. love the farmers of
this State and this country if | am
not one myself. I cannot tell you
that | am a farmer, but if you far
mers, and if you merchants, and you
lawyers, and you laborers honor me
with this high commission, there is
no power that could ever induce me
to surrender it to anybody but you.
Now do you recollect thus. That
Harlem convention voted down a
resolution to condemn the sub treas
ury, and passed resolutions commend
ing Mr.. Barnes, Mr.. Watson's pre-
decessor. What is the next chapter
in this strange history-a history
that, so far as | know, has no parai,
lei in American politics. What is
the closing chapter in this history !?
Listen, all you good men and honest
men who want the truth, who want
to do what is right and who want
the truth, all the sacred memories of
your past, all that is valuable in the
present and that gives hope in the
future, listen to this continued chap
ter in the history. Here is a letter
addressed to Julian West. Julian
West was the president Of the ALI
ance Of Hancock county and the
Democratic party nominated him the
other day for the legislature. I say
here that Mr.. Watson had no occa-
sion to go outside of the Democratic
party. If he had held his loyal allie
glance to the party | would not be
hore and you would not be here, but
he would be on his way to the Con
gress of the United States. The
Democratic party never had ostra-
cised the Alliance. I could show
you, sir, Mr.. Watson's own language
here to prove that. The Alliance
had everything its own way. They
had nothing to do but to make thai
demand of them and they would
have adopted it.
MEN WANTED WITH COURAGE TO
TELL THE FARMERS THE TRUTH.
There has not been a man in
Georgia in years who had the moral
courage to stand up and oppose what
the farmers wanted, and I dare say
here to-day that that has been one
great trouble with our State. We
have not had the men always to
stand up and oppose unwise meas
ures and tell the people they are
unconstitutional and should not be-
conc laws. MY friend says tina: I
wrote a letter In which Inad so1ae-
thing to, say about the Alliance.
Voices. Now he's telling the
truth. Cheering, long and loud.)
am ready to stand on the record.
IF you will pardon the personal allu-
sion I will say this. was urged to
become candidate for the United
States Senate. I said your sub
treasury bill was unconstitutional. /
said if you carry on your Alliance it
will break up the Democracy. They
told me | had nothing to do but
keep my mouth shut and my pen
still, but I said the power is given
me to speak and, so help me God, |
will speak. Let me tell you, my
farmer friends, that you have not
any honor large enough to plaster
over my mouth to keep me from
speaking when it is for the truth. |
say you are in distressed condition
I say that the Legislation of the
country should be so shaped as not
to continue this. But say that no
man who arrays class against class
can ever get a permanent foothold
on this free American soil, thank
God. (Cheers.) 1t is not only not
democratic but it is un-American
and unchristian, arraying one class
against another, one race against an
other, one interest against another.
It is not only undemocratic and unre-
publican, but no true friend OF the
people would do it. Listen The
man who does it is a worse enemy to
the poor man than he is to the rich.
In every contest arising in this coun-
try between the poor and the rich,
we know that the poor man unfor
tunately goes to the wall. The man
who would do this, would, if he
could, and it suited his purpose, ar
ray the rich against the poor, would
use the power and the wealth of the
rich to Cypress the poor. (Great
cheering.) When it comes to men
and classes, I am a friend of all men
of all conditions. I am opposed
to class legislation and class distinc-
ton; of prescribing any man because
he lives in town.
A voice. That is right.
Mr. BLACK. Can YOU imagine anv-