The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1894-09-15
Extracts From Editor Carrnack,s
SAppah

Speech,
Following is q portion of a brillian
oratlon Of Editor Carmack, of tn,
Memphis Commereial-Appeal:
This Populte party. What ex
cuse has this Populite party got fol
living, anyhow? Why don't IL get
off the earth3 (Applause.)
Now, want to say that l have 90,
nothing against the great mass Of
Populists. They are honest men,
but have awful dishonest leaders.
(Applause.) l am wiling to admit
that some of the leaders, or rather
some of the sub-ltaders, of this par
ty are really honest and that they
believe what they believe what they
say. God knows, I have seen some
Of them were fools enough to believe
anything. (Laughter.)
The trouble with these little fell
lows that they are afflicted with mis-
fit ambitions they are wearing q No.
2 hat on a No. 5 head they are try
ing to do the business Of a states
man on the intellect of q constable.
(Applause.) 1 have nothing partic-
ular against these little fellows; they
do not mean any harm !; 1 am willing
TO forgive them for they know not
what they do.
You know, my friends, nowadays
when the doctors think they have
discovered some new remedy they
first try IL on some animal, some
member OF the brate creation, in or-
der 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, bat
before they practice then upon TO-
100000 Of American people, you
ought to at least take your platform
out behind the barn and try it on q
dog. Lsughtep and applause.D
My friends, had you ever thought
about how this Populite party care
into this wepldr and the ceremonies
that attended its birth? About
three years ago q few demagogues
issued proeiamotion, in which they
called for all the producers Of the
country meet at vt. Louis The in
vitation was promptly accepted BY
oil the cranks. and by all the polit-
ical vagrants and deadbeats in the
country. All the rejected remnants 8
of humanity came swarmipg to the
scene.
All gathered there at the conven-
ton, and every one of them was
bursting wide open with speech.
The convention had hardly been
called to order, the Populite chairman
had hardly concluded his prayer,
when every man, woman and thing
in that vast audience was on his, her
Or its feet, whooplng and bowling,
and yelling, cursing and
praying-a tumult, riot and cat
fight from The beginning to the end.
They had started to build Babel
tower to the political heaven, and
were smitten with a confusion of
tongues. There never was such an
assemblage under one roof since old
King David held his Populitc con-
venticn in the cave of Adnlam. And
they made platform. 1t is almost
ineoncelvable how there could have
been sufficient deliberation in bran
dance Of lunatics to have constructed
q platform, but the feat was accom-
plished. But it was really a very
simple matter after all. Every fel-
low there had his own peculiar phase
Of lunacy that he was anxious to
engraft upon the platform I; he did
not care what else went in so he got
his part in so they set great big
iron pot in the middle of the hall,
and they whooped and danced a.
round it, each fellow threw in his in
gredient, stirred 1t up together, and
the mess they made was the Popu-
lite platform.
There never was a pudding fixed
up since Macbeth's witches danced
their Internal can can on the blasted
heath. / imagine / can see them
now, as they go dancing around
the burning cauldron, old Hecate
Lease leading the procession, chant
ing their Internal dltty as they go:
Round about the oauldron 60;
In the poisoned entrails throw.
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog.
For charm of powerful trouble;
Like hellebroth boil and bubble.