People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-08-12

a measure whose principles are perfectly
sound, and which would bring relief tO
all our people. After the hardest strug-
gle we obtained report upon it. They
reported it the last day of the session,
but would not give us one minute OF
debate upon it,
Not only did I introduce these bills
and others but from the first day to the
last Iwasan exponent of yourprinciples
and maintained them in debate. Not
only this, [ attended to every detail
of business for the District. Several
voices, "you did.")
AS far as my knowledge of arithme-
tic would allow [ made 5000 packages
OF garden seed go around to the 10000
people who composed the district. In
this connection [ will state that / was
denounced because [ sent to you col
ored people some of these garden seed
and a share of the public documents
for which your taxes helped to pay.
Bear that in mind. How many times
have your Congressman sent you col
ored people these thingslbefore.[ Voices
"none."] Have [ sent you any
Voices, Eyes, yes.
1t is not only right but [ expect to
continue to do it. Not only that, [ do
NOT see why my congressional speeches
will do any more harm to a COlOred
man than to a white man. [ have
been told by my friend Jack Roberts
here that my speeches do not lay a
man out if he will be careful Of him.
self. Laughter I sent you some Of
them and the Constitution and the
Chronicle cussed me out for doing so.
Voice, that's right" Goodbye Jim."l
There is another thing. That is that
[ had confidence enough in my Dis
trict to believe that if [ did what you
told me to do you would do what you
promised me to do. Cries of, 'thats
right. Go it Tom. Good bye JIM
Therefore while SO many other were
away looking after their fence, coming
home to save the Democracy and their
own bacon, laughter and applausel
staid at my post till the gavel fell and
school was dismissed. Cries of,
''that's so. Goodbye Jim. Hit EN-
again.
In other words, if had failed to do
your will in all matters it is not be-
cause [ did not try. [Cries of "That's
right."]
Now my fellow citizens [ want to talk
to you a little about our friends the
enemy.
You y Ill rememberGbat this col
gress was eleeteGe " a I'd %sof "a land
slide--the greateuH1najori' 90 .. ~
ever had IN the House Of y -G1ye
tives. The Democrats fog
selves in magnificent workirvsF'Sf, ~
They went into office Io.@&-mouthed
about what they were going to do.
They promised "a relief. They asked
you TO trust to their pledges. You did
so and elected them.
Woe unto the party which openly
violates its pledges. Woe unto the
leaders who deceive the people.
most earnestly believe that honesty
and fair dealing are as sure to win In
public as in private life. [Great ap-
pIause.
They promised to reduce your taxes.
They have not done it. They promis-
ed to retrench expenditures. They
have not done it. They promised to
repeal the Mckinley bill. They have
not done so. They specially promised
to pass the Silver Bill. They hav not
done so.
Let us examine the record. Let US
see the difference between promise and
performance.
How much have your taxes been re-
duced?
Not one cent. From one end of the
land to the other no man, white or
black, will pay smaller taxes. No
mans burdens are lightened. No mans
reward has increased. FApplause and
cheers
Have they economical? They went
in pledged specially to ecOnCmize.
Not content with this, they passed
the Holman resolution, which dis
tinctly committed the party to no ex-
penditures beyond the needs of the
government. How have they kept that
promise they made to- the peO-
Pile? Going into powet' abusing
the billion dollar Congress- they ad-
journ after having spent about $4,000,
900 more than the Republicans
[Cheers and cries of goodbye Jimmie
Black"
How is that for highl2 CRenewed
laughter.
How have they kept their pledge
against the the Mckinley bill?
They have fired off their little pop
gun bills for free wool and free tin
and free cotton ties, ETC., but the
Democratic Senators have made nc
determined effort to pass them through
the Senate.
How have they kept their pledges as
to free silver
If there is anything a Democrat
needs crutches on when he talks about
it, it is the free silver bill. Laughter.
Whenever a Democrat starts out tC
hold himself up on that question be
ought to have a rail strapped to his
back. Increased laughter.
Why, my fellow citizens, If there
was one pledge upon wich the Demo
Gratis seemed to be solid about it was
free silver.
The newspapers sale you should have
it.
All political ills were to be softly
plastered with free silver.
After the first failure to pass ii
in the House, the Democrats said
ooh, we'll, it does not matter, the Re-
publican Senate would have killed it,
But, sad to say, the Republican Sen
ate passed it and it came to the House
again, and the thirteen Democrats who
left US voted with the enemy. They
cleaned US up.
Why, fellow citizens, if I had time
| would like to go into the record and
show you how, at the opening of the
session, conspiracy was entered into