The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-09-21
THE POPULITE PARTY.
Extracts From Speech Delivered by Ed
itor E. W. Carmack Of the Com
mercial.Appeal, at Little
Rock, Arkansas,

E0cK, Arkansas,
Following is a portion Of a brilliant
,ration of Editor Carmack, of the
Commercial-Appeal:
My FRIENDS. This Populite party.
What excuse has this Populite party
got for living, anyhow Why don't
it get off the earth? tApplause.)
Now, | want to say that have got
nothing against the great mass of
Populists. They are honest men, but
have awful dishonest leaders. TAP
plause.l ! am willing to admit that
some of the leaders, or rather some'Uf
the sub-leaders, of this party are
really honest and that they believe
what they say. God knows, l have
seen some of them that were fools
enough to believe anything. Laugh
teri
The trouble with these little fell
iowsfs that they are afflicted with
mstit ambitions; they are wearing a
No. 7 hat on a No. 5 head; they are
trying to do the business of states
man on the intellect of a constable.
(Applause.) l have nothing particu-
lar against these little fellows; they
do not mean any harm; am willing
to forgive them, for they know not
what they do.
But, l want to say, my friends, With
respect to the real leaders of this Pop
ulist movement, that l believe they
are the most graceless, the most God
less, the most constituencies and the
most unscrupulous set of demagogues
that ever poisoned the fair face of the
earth. (Applause.) They are willing
to plunge this whole country into
chaos and ruin in order to accomplish
their own selfish purposes: they
wonld set the world on fire to roast
themselves a dinner. 1t is one of the
misfortuncs, my friends, Of hard times
and evil conditions, that they bring
such men as these to the front; that
the people, in their impatience, will
follow after men who, in their sober
moments, they utterly despise.
once heard little fable that /
believe / will tell you. A serpent--a
Shiny, Kissing serpent lifted his
head out of the dirty pool in which he
was born, and he saw an eagle soaring
in the air, rising higher and higher
with every sweep Of his magnificent
wings, until he perched upon his eyrie
on the mountain top. The little soul
Of the serpent was filled with an en-
yious disposition to emulate the
flight of the eagle. He couldn't fly,
but he could crawl; and he wriggled
out of his Shiny pool and began his
tortuous ascent, leaving the filth of
his slime on every leaf, shrub and
flower in his tortuous progress toward
the top of the mountain.
So it is with these Populist leaders.
They have seen able and distinguished
statesmen achieve success by their
own merit, and their little souls have
been filed with envy, and they have
wriggled out of the Shiny pools in
which God Almighty intended for
them to die. (Applause.)
The people that follow after these
Populite fellows are good deal like
the man that has grown impatient
with Il long illness, and turns off his
old family doctor, call in some preten'
tious quack and is killed in short
order.
| You have often heard of quack
doctor whose rules of practice was t(
throw everything in fits, because he
said he was "hcll on fits" l think
that must be the rule of this Populitt
party. | cannot understand theil
financial and political program upor
any other theory, except that they
intend to throw this country into fits
and then cure the fits.
You know, my friends, nowadays
when the doctors think they have dis
covered some new remedy they first
try IL on some animal, some member
of the brute creation, in order to note
its effect on the system before they
try it on human beings. Now, l say
!, to. these Populists, your wild theories
may be all right, but before you prac
tice them upon 10, 000,0 of American
people, you ought to at least take you
platform out behind the barn and tr!
it on Il dog daughter and applause.
My friends, had you. ever though
about how this Popullte party CAM
into the world, and the ceremonie
that attended its birth? Abou
three years ago, few demagogue
issued proclamation, in which the,
called for all the producers in thi
country to meet at st. Louis. Th
invitation was promptly accepted b.
, all the cranks, and by all the politica
vagra nts and dead-beats In the conn
try. All the rejected remnants Of ht
manity came swarming to the scene.
All gathered there at that conver
, tion, and every one of them wa
, bursting wide open with speecl
. The convention had hardly been calle
. to order, the .Populitc chaplain ha
hardly concluded his political prayer
0 when every man woman and thing /
that vast audience was on his, her {
. its feet, whooping and howlint
screaming and yelling, eursIng an