The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-02
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clared that he leaned toward Harrison.
He bounded over the platform,
swung his arms and exclaimed:
II have stood this abuse as long as
1 am going to, and my friends have
stood it as long as they are going to-
We have been called the rag, tag and
bobtail long enough. Here, where
am exposed to every man who chooses
to make me his target, I, who have
been denounced as traitor, Judas
Iscariot-I say the man who says Il
have betrayed anybody is willful and
deliberate liar
AS he said this the high stand, which
had become crowded, gave way in the
rear, throwing a score Of people to the
ground, but the front, on which the
speaker stood, remained intact.
The crowd had become very noisy,
and soon many Of them crowded upon
what remained of the platform. With
a great crash it gave way and precip-
itated everybody on it to the ground,
six feet below, amid the broken planks.
No one was injured, and Watson, who
is agile as a cat, lit upon his feet.
Quickly he pulled table from the
wreck, jumped upon it and cried out:
This was an old, weak Democratic
platform, but / will now speak to you
from a Peoples party platform, and it
Then he went on intimating that un-
less he had followers at all the ballot
boxes in November the Democrats
might attempt to count him out.
Maj. Black spoke for an hour and a
half. Mr.. Watson, he said, had ar
raigned the Democratic party. He
would defend the party by impeaching
the witness. II would not" said he,
consider myself honest to denounce a
o,~fxy xxyI0 r L
pocket"
Then turning and pointing his finger
in Watson's face he said:
Whatever crime or iniquity the
Democratic party is responsible for you
were part of it.
Watson" said he, "calls himself a
Democrats Jeffersonian Democrat.
You represent policy that is totally
at war with everything that Jefferson
has ever said"
AS the audience grew boisterous Mai.
Black urged it to keep quiet
I am not going into any theatrical
performance" he said. Nobody is 60
Ing to kill anybody. IF thought any
body was going to shoot at me, I
would not be up here. I think my
friend Watson knew he was safe. else
ne would not have done the theatrical
act. But in November somebody is
going to get killed politically"
Talking to the third party men, Mai.
Black said:
-Four years ago your leader went
out of the district with the flag of De-
mocracy. Where is it now? I call
upon him-we want our flag. What
have you done with it?"
A Voice-Mrs. Lease took it from
him!
Il tell you what he did with it. He
should have held it aloft in the face of
the enemy. Instead of planting it on
the battlements of the enemy. he laid
1t down, trampled it under foot and
came back with the sword Of the enc
my crimson to the hilt with the blood
of the party that had made him. He
not only turned his back upon the
party, but he denounced it.
Even the dead haven't been spared.
He has gone into the grave Of Samuel
j. Tilden and declared that he obtained
his wealth by piratica1 methods and did
not have sense enough to write his own
will. Shame!"
At this moment some one cried, "Oh
Watson has been bribed to do thisp'
Watson heard the cry, jumped to his