The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
MIR. WATSON TALKS OUT.
He Gives Very Decided Reasons Why
Sewall Should Step Aside.

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The following Is an extract from Mr..
Watson's speech delivered at Dallas,
Tex:
81 have no ill-will against any man
that lives. cherish no animosity be-
cause of past associations. came 10
Texas, not to stir up strife between men,
but to try and make peace among ell of
our people. l came to speak to the DEM
ocrats of Texas, to urge harmony between
the Democrats and Populists If MIR.
Bryan is elected the Democrats must re-
alize thut it cannot possibly be done with
out the Populist vote.
1.-THE Populists have gone as far rs
they could go. We went outside of our
party to give Democrat the first place
on our ticket. We could not have gone
further. No self-respecting Democrat
could have asked any more. We don't
want to destroy the Peoples party in
this country.
''Jf came off the ticket it would mean
the death of the Populist party. If you
are honest in demanding silver legisla-
ton you should not want the whole
thing Where would the silver cause
been for the Peoples party? Ask some
body else to kill the Peoples party, but
don't ask me. sat by the cradle where
the party was born. 1 have fought it's
battles. have supported its principles
since it's organization. have taken pride
in its growth. Its sorrows have been my
sorrows, and don't ask me, after all my
service with the Peoples party, to kill it
now. am going to stand. by it till she
dies, and I want no man to say that
was the man who stabbed it to the heart
"The Peoples party must never die.
1t has done too much good to die. 1t was
n lnt-ty fti Hc fhnf
made the Democrats come to taw.
(Cheers.) We were coal of fire on the
turtles back, and it never had any idea
of travelling until it felt the force of the
fire. We have been showing them in the
last four years what we could do.
Owe don't ask the Democrats to throw
down their muskets, and when they ask
us to give up our guns wes say: Please
excuse u.s. You keep yours and we will
keep ours. If you had both the guns
temptation to shoot might be too strong
to resist, We can't let you get the. drop
on us that way. If you mean to be fair
you ought not to want us to give up our
guns You would want us to keep them
just as you keep yours.
"Your leaders have fooled us in the
past just as they have fooled you in the
past, and there is no reason why they
may not do 1T again. If the Peoples
party was dead the old leaders might get
In again and where would we bey Just
where Moses was when the light went
out.
"Mr. Sewall brings no votes to bryan;
he drives votes away from Bryan.
would bring votes to Bryan, and thous-
ands of them. Sewall can come down
without hurting his party little bit
have got to stand on my ticket where my
friends placed me. l can't come down
You may try to run me off, but I am
going to fight before you do it. 1 am
willing to go into partnership with you,
but don't want any Jonah and the
whale business, with you playing the
whale. You might forget to do what the
whale did with Jonah. We might never
get out any more.
"Mr. Sewall is national banker, and
therefore out Of touch with his people.
Mr.. Sewall is railroad king, and there
fore out of touch with his people. Mr.
Sewall is n bondholder, and therefore
out of touch with his people. And I
make bold here to say that Mr.. Bryan him
self has laid own the rule which, If carried
out, will take Sewall off the ticket.
He said in New York, in public speech,
that candidate running upon a plat
form should not only endorse every plank
in that platform, but should endorse
every sentence and every word of it Apply
that rule to Mr.. Sewall and Mr. Sewall
would get off while I stepped on Mr..
Bryan must have meant that. Let him
deny it if he did not That construction
has been put on it by Democrats 1t is
the only construction that can be put on
it. Mr.. Sewall does not stand squarely
on the platform. Let Sewall scoot and
Watson arrive.'