The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-08-19
WATsON's SPEECH.
Some Tart Sayings by the
Georgia PopulIst.

Tom W afSuI maze TouSlDS Op
ulist speech to the convention Of
Georgia Populsts in Atlanta last
week The speech was quite lengthy;
but the following condensation Of the
most pithy sayings will give an idea
OF it's tenor -
Let us meet to night in a spirit Of
mutual respect, | pray you Let
there be no partisaLship tonight
Let no man consider the welfare of
parties as parties-of the Peoples
party or the Democratic party merely
as party names But let every man
here to night be concerned for the
welfare of the South and Of the
whole nation and of the great com
nom people.
A great many people seem to
think that money was always here,
like trees and water aud flowers and
skies and stars, and that it just hap
pened so. A great many people be-
lieve that God made money God
no more made $40 bill than he did
a ten penny nail, or nickle than he
did a gipgercake The government
made the money
God pity the country. where any
subject is left entirely to the editors
and the politicians
We say this, that your public
highways ought to be unshack'ed
from robbers and pirates, the rail
road kings, who now stand sentry
at every crossroads Of commerce aud
levy tribute upon every traveller vino
passes thereon
sand for The craftsmanship
which seeks new alliance foT the
Soutl, which seeks to lift up and
put the light Of inspiration in her
ewes the craftsmanship which en-
deavors TO break her chains and TO
put new hope in her heart; the
craftsmanship which leads her to cut
loose from the eastern and northern
connection and make All alliance with
the great west
In order to slow to the West that
the South meant business it was ab-
solu,ely necessary that when we met
together in ashingion in 1891 and
those western alliance men stepped
out of the Republican party there
should be some Democrats to step out
side of the Democratic party aud
TINS show the West that the South
meant to be loyal aud true Grea'
applause Eleven congressman from
the West stepped out Of the R"pub
lican party. Thirty congressman
from the South had been elected aud
pledged, as we understood, to step
outside Of the caucus aud meet the
men from the West. When the test
came how many were there who met
the men from the West ? Onc man,
thank God ! And he beat his own
breast dramatically
ave don't ask you fellows any
odds That is the voice Of the
Democratic party They have taken
our doctrine, but they don't like our
doctors They are fond OF our
physic, but dom; like oar physicians
They want to run our ship. but they
want to expel our crew They want
to run our train, but want to kick the
eng neer eff They say they want
fusion. So they do 1t is the fusion
that the earthquake makes with The
city that it swallows.
The ST. Louis convention came
along, Gu, of. half the ticket the
Democrats had named, aud the entire
Democratic party is In misery be
canse it is discussing the problem
Is half loaf better than no
bread ?
We can vote for Mr.. Bryan be
cause he has been advocating our
principles and been running on cur
ticket, and because he stood with us IN
congress But when you ask US to
give our support to MI Sewall from
the rigorous realms of Maine, we
respectfully stop. We cannot afford
to vote for Mr. Sewal he docs not
represent our platform, and ne does
NOT represent our cause
We are going to vote tor MIR
Bryan whether you take Mr. Sewali
ont or not. am going to try to 80
manage this campaign that William
j Bryan shall get the benefit Of
every silver vote, even if Tom Wat
son goes to the bottom.