River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-09-10
WATSON WILL STICK.
Says He Won't Retire for sewall. Whom
He SCORES at Dallas

He Scores at Dallas
Dallas. Tex, Sept. s.-Thonas E. Wat
son. or Georgia. vice presidential nomi-
nee of the populist party. addressed
Labor day audience of 5000 people Mon
day. He will speak at Bonham. Tex. to-
day, and from there goes 10 Kansas. In
part he said:
Every man ought to know that II Mr..
Bryan is to be elected he viii be elected by
the votes which the peoples party give
him II he carries Nebraska, where be
lives. II viii be the Tom Watson populists
who will carry II for him. And put II to
you. democrats. II you want our votes don't
you think you ought to tote fair with us2
You say: Let's go into copartnership. but
yen want TO be both partners. Why, even
In that kind of a copartpership they should
remember that there Is a rule of law which
says that man and wife are one. but II
takes two to make the bargain, and yet
YOU democrats who cannot get along with
out our 500. GOO votes say that our partner
ship ought TO consist of the same tw1
partners and you want to be both. Well,
we want to fuse with you. We don't want
to swallow you. and we don't intend that
you shall swallow US.
IF l came of the ticket II would mean
the death OF the populist party. If you are
honest In demanding silver legislation you
should not want the whole thing. Where
NOulQ the SILVER cause nave DGGn IN IVA
and in 1895 II Il had nos been for the peoples
party? Ask somebody else to kill the peo-
pies party, but don't ask me. l sat by the
cradle where the party was born. have
fought its battles. I have supported its
principles since its organization. i have
taken pride IN its growth. it's sorrows have
been my sorrows. and don't ask me after all
my service with the peoples party to Kill
IL now. / am going to stand by II till she
dies. and l want no man to say that was
the man who stabbed 1t to the heart The
peoples party must never die. 1t has done
too much good TO die. 1t was the peoples
party, my friends. that made the demo-
Gratis come to tsw. We were q
coal of fire on the turtles back, and IL
never had any idea of travelling until 1t
felt the force OF the fire.
''Sewall has got to come down. He brings
no votes TO Bryan; he drives votes away
from Bryan. / would bring votes to Bryan
and bring thousands of them Sewall can
come down without hurting his party a
little bit. / have got 10 stand on the ticket
where my friends placed me. 1 can't come
down You may try to run me off. but am
going TO fight before you do IL. / am will
ing to go into partnership with you, but
don't want any Jonah and the whale bust
ness, 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 cannot carry his own
family. Whenever my own son takes the
stump and begins 10 make speeches. against
me like Mr. Sewall's son is doing against
him will get off the ticket and crawl under
the bed and hide myself Mr.. Sewall is
national banker. and therefore out of touch
with the people. Mr.. Sewall is a railroad
king, and therefore out of touch with the
people. Mr.. Sewall is a bondholder. and
therefore out of touch with the people. And
| make bold here to say that Mr.. Bryan
himself has laid down. the rule which, tf
carried out. will take Mr.. Sewall off the
| ticket. He said I'm New York In a public
| speech that a candidate running upon a
| platform should not only indorse every
| plank In that platform. but should indorse
| every sentence and every word of IT. Apply
that rule to Mr.. Sewall, and Mr.. Sewell
would get off while l stepped on. Mr..
Bryan must have meant that; let him deny
| II IL he did not. That construction has been
put on 1t by democrats. 1t Is the only
| construction that can be put on Ii. Mr..
| Sewall does not stand squarely on the plat
| form. Let Sewall scoot and Watson ar
/ RI