The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-06-22

the pathway, and this plutocracy viii
swallow Us up; that We have reached ,
point where it requires 81 900, 900 t,
place presidential candidate In tn,
field, and $100, 900 to launch or elect /,
man 10 the senate Of the United States
| Now can not divert my mind of tn.
Impression that there is q contradiction
between the baby story and the presi
Dental story. (Applause and laughter.
Where Is that poor child who steals into
life by the back door to get his million
dollars TO be nominated for president:
(Laughter.) want to say right here
that l know Of man In this country
who didn't pay . million dollars to BE-
nominated for president. (Applause. !
II he had belonged TO either old party
he would have been compelled to pay /,
or gone along without Z nomination.
Col. Watterson IL able to represent the
Democratic party and is the ablest man
that party has to-day to defend its doc.
trines and to tell what it intends to do
Tor the laboring men, and when he re-
fuses, any other man who undertakes it
Will rush in where angels fear to tread.
(ApPlsuse and laughtsr.) Itsimply can.
not be defended, (spplsuss) and he has
too much respect for the Republican
party to attack 1t. Laughter.
I said awhile ago, and you will permit
me here to allude to it again, that we
are in tho midst Of revolution, and Wa
have, my friends. sll the evidences OF q
revolution before our eyes, II We will but
open them and look at tho situation.
Those Of you who have read of the great
revolutionary periods OF the world know
that they are always preceded by flood
OF pre-revOluti0nary literature. In our
colonial days We had Q pre.revolutioa.
ary literature-an m age of pamphlet
ering, the writings of Paine, Franklin,
Madison, Hamilton, and the fiery elo-
quence Of Patrick Henry, who aroused
the people from one end of the colonies
to another. We had the pre-revolu.
tiOnary literature in France, that revo-
luton which followed ours. There was
the age Of pamphlotoring, there wore
the nobility who were expressing the
people, and there was the uprising Of Q
third estate-the common people
which introduced to the world the most
tragic chapter in all it, history. Ifyou
will take the pains to take the first vol.
ume OF Bancroft's history Of the United
States and read the letter which Mr..
Jefferson wrote to Mr.. Madison, only
three years and ten months before the
opening Of the bloody drama OF the
French revolution, you will find his do
scriptiOn OF the French poor. Now We
are In the same kind of q period. We
have tho same kind of pamphletering:
every department OF society to-day Is
full OF tracts and of new books, and of
reform literature Of every kind. and so
powerful Is this reform sentiment, this
spirit OF inquiry among the people, that
II has even invaded this grand Church,
and God grant it may inyade the
churches from ono end OF this country
to the other. (Applause.) But the
greatest evidence that We are in the
midst OF revolution was furnished by
the lato election. That was . genuine
revolt, my friends, . revolt against the
party In power In the various sections
OF the Union without regard to what
party it was. Take for instance the
vote in my state that had been Repub-
lican for thirty years. For two success
sive aubernatorial elections the Demo-
Gratis had carried the day; in 1892 the
pendulum swung back and replaced the
Republican party In power and threw
tho Democratic party out. Why? Be-
Cause the majority Of the people in Iowa
wished to return the Republican party?
Not At al). For in 1888 Harrison car
ried that state by 19, PCS majority over
all, and in 1892 he il 4, 900 in the minor
ity! Now the majority Of the people of
Iowa were not trying 10 re-elect Harri-
son; they were trying to defeat him,
but owing to the fact that they were at
cross purposes Mr.. Harrison got the
vote Of Iowa by q plurality as
. nero incident of the situation, not as
the result OF intention of the voters of
Iowa. Take the Republican states of
Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. Mr..
Cleveland got the electoral votes of
those states; but was the majority Of the
people Of any ono OF those states irving
TO give 1t to Cleveland? Certainly not;
they were trying TO defeat him, and the
TACT was that he did not carry them BY
. majority, but BY q plurality; the M
jority would have defeated him; but they
we're at cross purposes, and - . mere
Incident, growing out OF the situation,
the electoral vote went to Cleveland.
Take the 450, 900 votes which We polled |
n the south-white votes. One wear
before that time that had voted every
one OF them, tho Democratic ticket,
but they revolted against Democracy,
half . millioa Of them, and cast their
votes amid terrorism and prescription
peculiar to their locality, against the
Democratic party. Tie revolt was
Against the party In power.
Now again were the msjority of the
people OF tho United States trying to
place Mr.. Cleveland In the White /
House? Certainly not Why do Say
70? Because he 10 more than one mil
ion In the minority On the popular
Iots. A majority Of the people Of the
Cnlted States were trying TO defeat him
put they we're At cross purposes. II
. revolution, my friends, and the
Democratic power comes into power