The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-03-04
WATSOy,S FIRST GUN.
He Opens His Campaign with q Plea
for Harmony.


audierce at the theater tonight Every
seat in the balcony and gallery was occu-
pied. and many had to stand. Many were
seated on the stage. The audience num-
bered fully twelve hundred and the speaker
was uIlinterrUptedly listened to for one
hour and tkree-quarters. He discussed the
national questions OF the day.
His FOEdness for Democrats.
MIR Watson's talk was principally adj
dressed 10 the democrats. He told them
that lie loved them in spite of themselves:
that If he could make fUien Is out CT them
he would Go so, and he beIir yed that they
would yet be friends and would work as
heartily together as they nave worked
apart. Let the tongue of partisan ran
cor be silen, tonight and let you and me
men who love our homes who lc:e right
and law and liberty, speak Il word FIR inc
south and unite our uear.s together. States
men have said. show me your statute
books and ] will tell yaI Ike ec;!dition OK
the people, Good Laws bring happiness
and bad laws unhappiness. That is cause
ard effect. Things are not imply by
accident. They are designed Things do
not jus; happen SO. The angel OF marble
is chiseled out OF the rough stone from
the mine by the sculptor Your sljleIl
temples reared on every hand through the
influence Of religion check the hands or
Iaxlessness and strengthen those Of the
law
Il say tonight. as / have ever said in
convention, Oh the stump in the country
and in the cities that q better democrat
than L am does not breathe the breath OF
Ire. / want democracy, but don't want
four years more for Grover.
'ihe Two O:8 schools.
'''ro have a democratic republic for the
benefit Of all you must have laws. but now
even the democrats don't love
III Raw
jefferson was democrat, and
he was opposed by Alexander Hamil-
ton in his election. jefferson was opposed
to national banks and heavy issue OF bonds
because ne considered them an injustice to
the people. hamilton favored tnat plat
form which benefited the few. and he was
defeated. his three cardinal doctrines,
which lie designed, were:
'Iirst, perpetual public debt--a bonded
debt.
Second, national banks.
"Third, nigh tariff. The last of the evils
was the high tariff.
Thomas jefferson said that the rrouols
with national banks was that they antagon-
lied the spirit Of &c mocracy: that they were
benefit to = few, to the suffering of all.
Jefferson saia TO allow any lot Of men,
city or corporation To uaurp governmental
power to exercise the risht Of sovereignty,
makes the classes more powerful than the
government itself The bond system, JET
ferson opposed, and Hamilton advocated.
Jefferson favored the people paying taxes
according 10 their ability. The sJroEg man
saOuld carry the burden of taxation as well
as the weak. With the bonded system, we
relieve from taxation a special class allow
them to be fed and become richer on the
taxes OF their fellow citizens by the interest
they receive on the bonds, which are
mortgage on every mans house"
Things Hoped .or hut hot Realized.
Mr Watson then said that he spoke of the
Individual losses because he had been
through them himself. Take 1888. Look
how many were mOrtally wounded oman
cialD in that year. LabOrers lost their
jobs, farmers their lands and merchants
their business. - know today that banks
are taking the merchants along and they
are hesitatinS 10 start break fearing no
end to the collapse. They fear to give the
word Co because there is no one TO give
the word Stop. L want 10 ask you deIno-
Gratis who believed everything that was
told to you by your ieaders-who promised
to rescue your homcs-to let me ask TINS
question: What have you been nghuns
Tor the last thirty years! What did you
expect to accomplish" For thirty years
You believed in the democratic party. VIII
try ana tell you what you have hoped Tor.
First, reduction of taxation. You nave
been told d great deal-pOssibiy truthtully-
of the extravaganza of the republican par
~. You got the president, cabinet senate
and the house very mitch TO your heart as
1t happened 10 turn out.
They have nOc Left you single psS 10
hang an excuse on, from the he,0 OF Buzz
yards roOst. including Gresham ana Lon
Livingston. that sweet smelling sourdVlhs
OF Atlanta. You wanted lower taxes Did
YOU get them reduced? jefferson ran the
? hon - ral
and up to the time of Monroe 1t was less
than 81 a head. Up 10 the war Il was
little over 81 50 Republicans ran Il UP Win
their greed TO 50 heaC. You DID not liho
that. Strange to say, it is now $50 q head.
You said the republicans ought not 10 ha'e
done it and looked to democracy lor r.
dress. but il was the same old six and seven
game It is higher today than ever. IL taxes
more cotton, and more good land thah II
ever took under a single administration ol
a republican party to pay your DEBTS
H. s9fi the people We're hurt by the golo
standard in this way. y man comes TO give
GOLD for his treasury notes The law says
YOU can make MIN take SILVER CieHei'lI'
saws he can have gold. The government
-avs to the fellow who gets gold. as soon
49, can print a bond ! viii swap that bona
fo,. that cold " New York bankers get pig
piles of greeubacAs, carry them 70 nc
treasury and get gold for them me gov
arp wants Lbe -5-u bel'-1Nf '1-'e'~~ =
taxable bond which is q mortgage on your
r,rnnartv: the banker gets the bond ana the
government gets the sold back. As result
~ national aeut has been Increased S1o-'-
4on en- tie illustrated The danger OS rep
,..e,-lt;r,s- colo silver and s.oenoachs d
fhr-e horses, bay, black and white = man
,yro owns d black would have 10 corner
IN blsc<s TO get q monopoly. After ne cor
,,srsa The blacks and cornered the WhlleS'
-,,,,r4.,'t the value of the bays increase
e,,t any nr,ice could be demanded Tor them.
So with the single standard OF money. WIN
tI,,.sa issues. 10 man soull corner me money
-,srlxet as is now done with gold as d stahu-
- The democratic congress. MI
- said first struck down silver. Ea
.I,-,--.J tre. bad effects of the English gold
'.i.s,,dard in ireland. where the people Dor
,.,,,eI money from the government at 4
-,,,. cent nor year for fifty yeIrs 10 buy their
ian5.aod homes, and after paying on them
f,r YnaDv yearc, were forced 10 lose their
homes because they could not afford 10 pay
the advanced price Tor gold 10 pay BACK
=, tho .r,,t-rnfneut. Mr.. Watson said there
,-,s IA all about three ana d half billions
of cold in the old world, one billion locked
m N government vaults. which leaves TWO
ana a half billions in circulation. Inc
Rothschilds own, he said. one billion six
hundred millions OF the two and halt oil
lions Of gold and they demand payments