The Red Cloud chief., 1896-09-18
MR.. WATSON IN KANSAS
lis speech Likely to Make Trouble for tho
Fusion D,aI-vents a New Ticket

uGtpT WnltH tltOilu nave bshs thS
advent Of the Vice Presidential candi-
date of n great political party TO n
sovereign state. No one was at the
depot to meet him B~reidenthal
finally arrived at $3.50 o'clock and was
met at the hotel by a large crowd of
local and visiting Popuiists, but stop
ped only for hasty handshakes and
fastened on to Mr.. Watsou's room,
where he went into executive session
with Mr. Watson and Mr.. Reed.
The local committee had announced
that the speech would be made IN the
afternoon, but Mr.. Watson vetoed
that and said he would speak in the
forenoon, as soon after ~ o'clock as
possible.
MIR. Watson began speaking 10 about
!, 800 people, who sat in front OF him
in the grand stand, sheltered from the
suns ray 10y "a roof. 1t was an audi
ence mostly of farmers and their
wives and daughters. AS the speaker
progressed Others arrived 10y tram and
team, and before he mad closed 1000
persons were present.
Mr.. B~rcidenthal was made chairman
OF the meeting and introduced Mr..
Watson as the champion of the people.
Mr.. Watson began by reviewing the
history of the Peoples party. from its
inception, saying that the West and
the South, the great agricultural sec
tiOns of the country, mad joined hands
in the great work Cf securing the
rights OF the people. The West should
stand by the South as the South has
stood by the West. The time has not
come for the Peoples party to die.
Cries of NO, NoD lou of the West
told Us OF the great evil the existing
transportation system was putting
upon the country. For Gods sake don't
desert the Peoples party now, when
the great work has been fairly begun.
We Of the South still believe in that
doctrine of reform and so should you.
So do yor. Don't make any mistake.
The evil that we started M TO reform
Is as great now as il was then. |
come to you with a message from the
South that we are in tins fight TO stay
until we shall have won. Is the
West still with us? Thank God, | sec
it in the faces OF these honest men
and women OF Kansas that you ar c
still firm in the faith
Then the speaker attacked Presi-
dent Cleveland ana his position on the
money question and spoke OF dear
money and its cause.
Getting to his nomination for Vice
President Mr.. Watson said amid ap-
pause: IL was nominated unanimous
~. Mr.. Bryan was nominated unani.
mously for President. Neither of MS
was in the war. Mr.. Bryan had said
before his nom nation that IL the Dem
ocratic party should adopt the gold
standard he would leave the Demo-
cratic party. am not seeking to he
taken on the Democratic ticket ] am
no political beggar. Nor is my party.
The Democrats and Popu.ists ought to
unite. The ticket ought to be the st.
Louis ticket. Bryan, the Democrat,
and Watson, the Populist. l saw that's
no surrender; it is a fair compromise"
The speaker then discussed the sit
uation as it related to himself and
Sewall. IF they mean he went on,
ito pass the silver bill, why should
they obiec: to our staying in? We
want TO help the Democratic party,
but we won't surrender. | will come
of the ticket when my boy gets GU,
and makes speeches against me, as
Scwall's boy is making against him,
A man who can't carry his fam
ilt carries no political strength. Our
people would not consent to my com
ing off the ticket. The surest way &c
defeat Bryan is to disrupt the silver
forces. and the way to do that Is fol
me TO he driven off the ticket, but
say that ! am not here to be run of
the ticket. would not take an cleo,
toral vote that should not be given &c
Bryan, too.
I.''n,, ana Il op,,, , nd ,.,,, lnpa To a. a
Tennessee. Kentucky. To elect BrvaI
the Peoples party nominee for vic'
president must stay on the ticket, anC
| say Watson is going To stay. ! sa,
To YOU what l say in Georgia ant
Texas. | have had reason TO believ'
in the past that | have some friend
in kansas. "a voice, ''You bet 20,
have: you will lind out ! have stoo'
by the West when Livingstone, Everes
and others failed you l do believ
that | have n right to expect loyalt,
from Kansas. Kansas voted for IN
unanimously. | am going to ge
your support? Cries Of YES
sir,') Well no man can vote 70
me and Scwall, too, You will hav
to vote for Watson electors. You will
have TO first pnt up Bryan and Wa,so'
men, who will stand by me. Hold u
your hands right now, hold up you
hands. about half the men in tn
audience held up their hands, Now
every man who would vote for Brya
and Sewall in preference 10 Rrya
and Watson, hold up your hand:
(Not IA hand was lifted
lie concluded by saying that com
veal or come woe, he was for WilliaI
j. Rryan ard that four years hence h
would be found as now, fighting fc
= the peoples party and its integrity.
Again the crowd cheered and tn
speaker and his companions and new
paper correspondents jumped into ca
I rIages and were driven to the trai
already in sight bound for lola, whei
G Mr.. Watson will speak tomorrow.
a w. +. Rightmire, who Is in the mic
dle-of-the-road, says that within
week there will be a cali issued for
= meeting of Populists to put u Brya
ma Watson ticket Of electors in It
a field.
LOOMS Named ny Acclamation.
O MopFRIY, Mo, Sept 1.-THE r