The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-12-29

agin three jacks. 1t julie Majors can
tell you anything as to where the Third
party come from on where it is goin, or
what it is here for anyhow. then ]
mougI,t find somethin to talk about and
further remarks on the issues at stake
in the comm election. Whereas l will
now retreat and fall back. and if julie
Majors has got anything to say as to
in this great and GROWN country hadn't
ought to vote the reglar Democratic
ticket, let him come forth and say. it
now. or either henceforwards and for
ever hereafter put briddle on his
tongue and wear a pad lock on his lips.
And julie lie Game Forth.
But then when julie come forth it was
the crowd would hear sOmethin from
his side of the case now presently.
After THROWN away a wad OF tobacco
his mouth with a pint of hard cider and
hit spiked. he went on to say:
Fellow sufferers in this patient and
have heard tell of julie Majors. the
Third party man from Rocky Creek.
Well, this is him. Maybe some of yo%,
notice that there amt no padlocks
on his lips to speak OF, and If you tarry
together around here much longer you
he don't wear no briddlc or his tongue.
started to say this is Il free country,
but it amt. 1t use to be free, but.
amt now The Democratic party has
got the country down. and Wall street
has got the people down, and it has now
come to the pass when you can't drink
your own branch water or breath the
free air only when the Democratic ma
chine says SO. If the people amt
slaves they are all natural born durn
fools. and you can't make nothin else
of the Ths day
comm fellow sufferers. if we don't do
something to head it off. when every
man in this country will have TO wear a
Democratic ring in his nose and go to
the Denocra tic party for his rations.
| 1t has been going from worse to worse
and more of 1t for I, hundred years, and
| the On1yest way to save this country
| from war, famine and ruination is to
| kill Off the Democratic party and stop
| the breed. Look at cotton, fellow SUI
! ferers-down to ii 'e cents a pound, and
| when the Democratic party come into
| power the people was gettin fifty cents
i a pound for their cotton. with the bag
| gin and ties throved in free gratis for
look at clothes. fellow suffers-fifteen
or twenty dollars for storc-bought
suit that you could buy for three dol
| lars and six bits before the Democratic
party shut off free silver and brought
| the people and the country into this
terrible trouble and cOnfusionment.
Look at potatoes. fellow sufferers-goin
a begin at twenty cents a bushel now,
whilst the town people use to run after
us to buy all we could raise at fifty
cents Il peck. They tell us we can feed
potatoes, but fellow sufferers. where
| in the devil are we goin to git the hogs:
And even if we had the hogs they
would be ashamed to eat fine yam po
| tatoes at twenty cents Il bushcl. They
tell us we can buy meat and Hour anI
sugar and coffee and other town pro
ducements three times cheaper than
we could when cotton was up TO ten OF
| fifteen cents pound, but what is that
to us since they have sGuashed out free
silver and we amt got nothin to buy
the stuff with? That amt worth n con
tinental durn with me when l COULDN'T
buy me Il mess of chitlins if pork was
coin at two bits hogsl,ead. and all or
account Of the Democratic party: That n:
ferers. 1t is thinner than some sor
gum syrup Andy Lucas turned out fol
me last summer. which the same yo,
| couldn't take two biscuits and hem i
up in a three cOrnercd plate. Free sill
yer is the lnaincst thing with us. fel
low sufferers. and we can't git it from
the democratic party
| What They Are Here For.
"Handy Stribblin wants to l<no"
what we are here for and what thu
to give the people free silver and saw
the country from general starvation i
it takes ten years brings on anothe
war and busts up the government
done. fellow sufferers. cNcePtin t.
build plenty OF Iails and Poor Houses
and when the people called for breat
fed en- mess of stones: Ih
Third party will tear down where the.
have been b,,ildin up. and build NJ
where they have been tearin down
. We are ;cOin to bring this lost and ruin
country around right side up with car
, and strike off the shaclzles OF povcrt
and hard ti,slr:'and iniquity with >vhic
the democratic party has so cvcrlaStln
, ly bcSct the helpless and down-trodde
peor,le-that'S what We are here fOl
, follow sufferers. and that's what w
arc GOiu to do in this righteous cause
.'Who was Thomas jefferson. fcllo>
sufferers: lie was great soldier an
, I, mighty statc>'na and the first orig
| inal Third party man of this country
He built up the democratic party an
STAYED wit IL it as long as he could stan
: the smell. but when they took to stuff
: ballotboNcs and went square back O
free silver. the old man laid down III
hand and took o:,t and quit and got II
the third party. Thomas jefferson wa
, for free silver. too. and they tell III
2 that the last dyin words he give fort
| on his death bed was fraud and fire
| silver. the government be burned!
IF You want to git under the mai
: tent and sec tn" show out. fellow Su
: ferer.s. yo,1 must follow the Third part
5 band wagiu. The people are comm OF
+ way now-tfcy arc com II in droves-
{ comm on horseback and in waEinS an
Il foot. The righteous fec when til
: | wicked purSu eth after them. The tin
t is comm. fellow sufferers, when Il der,
ocrat will feel as lonesome in this cOuE
t try as a bobt;lil dog at log wall<in. {
? words to that extent. Let cverybpd