Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-09-12
WATSON WILL STICK.
Says He Won't Retire for sewall, Whom
He SCORES Mt Dallas.

He Scores at Dallas.
Dallas, Tex, Sept. s.--Thomas 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 to Kansas. In
part he said:
Every man ought to know that II Mr..
Bryan is to be elected he will be elected by
the votes which the peoples party give
him, If he carries Nebraska, where he
lives, It viii be the Tom Watson populists
who will carry 1t for him And put 1t to
you, democrats, If you want our votes don't
You think you ought to tote fair with us?
You say: Let's go into copartnership, but
you want to be both partners. Why, even
in that kind of n copartnership they should
remember that there Is rule of law which
says that man and wife are one, but It
takes two to make the bargain, and yet
You democrats who cannot get along with
out our 100000 votes say that our partner
ship 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 u.s.
'If l came off the ticket II would men n
the death of the populist party. If you are
honest In demanding silver legislation you
should not want the whole thing. Where
WOulu tno silver cause nave neen IN lN5i
and In 1895 IL 1t had not been for the people 8
party? Ask somebody else to kill the peo-
pies party, but don't ask me. / sat by the
cradle where the party was born. j have
fought its battles. / have supported its
principles since it's organization I 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
il now. l am going to stand by 1t till she
dies, and want no man to say that l 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 people S
party, my friends, that made the demo-
Gratis come to taw. We were a
coal of fire on the turtles back, and II
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. l would bring votes to Bryan
and bring thousands of them. Sewall can
come down without hurting his party a
little bit. l have got to stand on the ticket
where my friends placed me. / can't come
down. You may try to run me Off but / am
going to fight before you do it. ] am will
ing to go into partnership with you, but |
don't want any Jonah and the whale busi-
ness, with you playing the whale. You
might forget to do what the whale did
| with Jonuh. We might never get out any
more. Mr.. Sewall cannot carry his own
stump and begins to make speeches against
me like Mr.. Sewall's son is doing against
| MIN ] will get off the ticket and crawl under
| the bed and hide myself Mr.. Sewall is q
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 bondholder, ant
| therefore out of touch with the people. AnG
! make bold here to say that Mr.. Bryur
| himself has laid down the rule which, Il
carried out, will take Mr., Sewall off the
ticket. He said in New York in a public
speech that a candidate running upon a
platform should not only mdorse every
| plank in that platform, but should indors,
every sentence and every word of 1t. Apply
that rule to MIR. Sewall, and Mr.. SewaI
would get off while l stepped on. Mr.
Bryan must have meant that: let him deny
II If he did not. That construction has beer
put on 1t by democrats. 1t is the onl,
construction that can be put on it. Mr.
Sewall does not stand squarely on the plat
form. Let Sewall scoot and Watson ar
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