The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-07
HIS CAMPAIGN FOR VICE PREsI-
DENT FORMALLY OPENED AT
ATLANTA,
RESPECTS TO Mr.. sEwALL.
MAINE EWAs A DOSE
SOUTHERN POBULIsTs COULD
NOT SWALLOW.
BRYAN ALL RIGHT in HIS WAY.
In the Opinion of One Running
Mate the Boy. Orator Is
POpulist.


Watson opened his vice presidential
campaign tonight with an address of
two hours in length. delivered before
an audience of 5000 people. Mr.. Wat
son appealed at the outset for non
partisan hearing, declaring that he
spoke with bitterness to none and in
behalf of the men who held the pillow,
who pulled the hoe. and who welded
the hammer. If God gave him
strength, he declared, he would plead
the cause of these psople through the
pens of the reporters present. before
IS, 900 of people in the morning. He
entered into an enumeration of the re-
form demands of the Peoples party
indicttng the government for high
crimes and misdemeanors in the grant
ing of the governmental power of max
ing money to a special class; in the
unfair levying of taxes which laid the
heavy hand of tribute upon those least
able to sustain it; in. closing the mints
to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver; in leaving the great public high
ways of the country in the control of
grasping corporations, who levied
tribute upon the people, who were COM
PEELED to use them, and in the corrup-
ton of the ballot.
He explained at length his course in
leaving the Democratic party after
having been elected to- congress as a
Democrat and by the machinery of the
Democratic party. He. said that his
opponent had run as a straight plat
form Democrat while he had made his
race on the Alliance platform and was
pledged to stand by that platform
Furthermore the national Alliance con-
vention had instructed those congress-
men elected on the Alliance platform
not to go into the caucuses of either of
the two great parties. Not only had
he felt bound to stand by principles
rather than party, but he had seen
then, as he saw now, that the only
chance for Jeffersonian Democracy
was to unite the farmers Of the South
with the farmers of the West To do
that required new party. The South
ern Democrat could not be induced to
go into the Republican party nor could
the Western Republican be induced to
enter the Democratic party. A com
mon rallying point was absolutely
necessary. When congress met in 1892.
eleven Western congressman stepped
out of the Republican party.
"Of the thirty Southern con-
gressmen elected on the Alliance plat
form, how many stepped out of the
Democratic party?' exclaimed Mr.
Watson. "Only one, and thank God
that I can say it, was that one"
He explained further that he had
allowed himself to be- run for speaker
simply to- emphasize the South's de-
sire to meet the West. half way in the
common battle against the East. Rec
ent events, Mr.. Watson declared. had
vindicated his course. The Southern
Democracy was today bidding defiance
to Wall street and the East for the
first time in thirty years. Why? Be
cause the South and the West had at
last joined together to throw off the
yoke of the East The Western Dem
ocrats had not done this. How many
Western states had Tilden carried or
Cleveland? When" he said, address
sing the Democrats in the crowd, "has
there ever been a time before when
you could slap the Eastern Democracy
In the face with one hand and Wall
street with the other and rely on the
West to get you out of the scrape ?''
1t was the Western Populist who had
made this possible. And who did the
Western Populist use to be? The
Western Republican
Looking at affairs as they stand
since the Chicago convention, the
Western Populists say to the Demo
Gratis. I'VE are going to help you in
this fight" and the Western Demo-
Gratis say, eve aresevery glad to get
your help Here in 1.-The South the
Democrats say, I'VE don't need you
fellows. We've got a. little machine
that'n turn out just the majority we
need.
They want to sail in our ship" Mr..
Watson continued, tfbut they want to
expel our crew. They want to run our
train, but they want to kick. out our
engineer. They say they want fusion.
but 1t is the fusion of the earthquake
with the city it engulfs.
AT Chicago the Democratic politi-
clans swallowed our platform and they
thought they had swallowed us. For
a while after the Chicago convention
they thought they had caught the bear.
Now, since the ST Louis convention
they are beginning to feel sure the bear
has caught them. The present politi-
cal situation Is the first case on record
where half a loaf was not found to
be better than no bread.
I'VE can stand by Mr. Bryan. He
has been with us and has fought for
our politics. But when we are asked to
oWdllOW NIL SeWdll, we Deg 10 be eX-
cused. We can't vote for Mr.. SewalI
because he does not represent our plat
form. If we do, we say we did not
mean what we said in. that platform.
You can't consistently say this is a.
fight of the West and. South and go off
to Maine to get a candidate for vice
president. Therefore, SEEING that your
Democratic leaders had made a mis-
take, we stepped into the breach and
did what they ought to hive done
nominated Southern man for vice
president This is a movement of the
South and West, and you must have a
Southerner on your national ticket
In the name Of the South, we have
repudiated the error of the Chicago
convention. We have said: Let it
be young leader from, the West and
young leader from the South Has
not the South been in political bond
age long enough? It was a dream Of
mine to do what could to reinstate
the South to her place in the royal