The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-08
WATSON and SEWALL TALK.
The POpuliSt Candidate Addresses
Mass Meeting in Texas.
SAYS SEWALL SHOULD WITHDRAW.
He Declares That if Bryan is Elected 1t
Will be by the Votes of Populists-De-
clares That sewall Cant Carry
His own Family"

DALLAS, Tex. sept. S.-Thomas L.
Watson, of Georgia, vice presidential
nominee Of the Populist party, addressed
a Labor Day audience Of 5000 people at
the fair grounds yesterday He arrived
Sunday night direct from Georgia, ac-
companied by National Committeeman
Reed, who is managing his tour Watson
speaks at Benham, Tex, today, and goes
from there to Kansas
Watson plead with the people to stand
by the contract between laborers and farm
ers in st. houis in 1889 and the Peoples
party, who represent that contract.
Mckinley and Hobart represent the
| enemies Of labor and Sewall represents the
same thing" he said. "Sowall is just the
opposite of Bryan in everything"
At the state convention of Texas Popu-
lists it was currently reported that deal
was made whereby the state offices should
be delivered to Populists and the state car
ried for Mckinley Without making direct
reference to this Watson assailed it by say
ing; Have no Mckinley his election will
add to the burden now resting on labor.
you feel insulted because Bryan did
not accept your nomination. Bryan is in
a peculiar position, and he acts as he
| thinks necessary TO do The Populist no.
titiCation committee has not done its duty,
but have the word of Senator Butler
that it wfal before sept. 10, and l will
| pledge you my word that Bryan will speak
out and he will accept, Bryan can t throw
away 100000 votes He will accept me as
running mate. If he does not the ticket
will never be elected. Sewall brings the
party no votes; he drives them away.
Mr. Sewall represents that element in
itself to the utmost to tie Bryan's hands
so that he cannot carry out his contract.
1t cannot be done with Bryan and Scwall,
because you can't have Bryan and Sow
all. Mr.. Sewall cannot carry his own fam
lily. Whenever my own son takes the
stumpHnd begins to make speeches against
me, like Mr.. Sewall's son is doing against
him. will get off the ticket and crawl
under uhe bed and hide myself. He cannot
carry the town in which he lives He
cannot carry the state in which he lives.
| He is a wart on the party. He is a knot
on the log He is a dead weight to the
| ticket.
| Every man ought to know that if Mr.
| Bryan is to be elected he will DE elected
! by the votes which the Peoples party give
him. If he carries Nebraska, where he
| lives, twill be the Tom Watson Populists
who carry it for him. If he carries Iowa
| it will be the Populists who carry it for
| him. If he carries the great state of
! Texas it will be the Populists who gave it
to him. And put it to you, Democrats
! If you want our votes, don't you think
| you ought to TO be fair with us? You say
Let's go into copartnership,' but you
want to be both partners
"Why, even in that kind of a copartner-
ship they should remember that there is a
rule of law which says that man and wife
are one, but it takes two to make the bar
gain, and yet you Democrats who cannot
get along without our 100000 votes, say
that our partnership ought to consist of
the same two 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.
You ask us to take Watson off the ticket
! Why? Would you be so blind as to defeat
Mr.. Bryan by taking Watson off his ticket?
'If should get of the ticket instead of
! Sewall, would kill the People party and
would stamp myself as a coward and a
traitor. l won't get off. My party has put
me on guard. and you may run over me,
| but you will have to fight first.
Mr. Bryan said in New York in a public
| speech that candidate running upon
| platform should not only indorse every
plank in that platform, but should in
dorse every sentence and every word of it.
| Apply that rule to Mr.. Sewall and Mr..
Sewall would get off while l stepped on
Mr. Bryan must have meant that. Let him
deny il 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 squarcly
on the platform Let Sewall scoot and
Watson arrive"
Annther snit ArnInst Mnrnwnn.