Evening journal., 1896-09-08

the popuiisr party, addressed an audience
of 5000 people at the fair grounds here.
In the beginning Of his speech the Goor-
gian reviewed the platform demands OF
his party and the conditions which created
the demands. As to the issue between
himself and Sewali, Watson said;
Can you remedy the situation by elect
ing Bryan ana Scwalls
II say no. Why Because Mr. Sewall
represents that clement in the Democratic
party which is exerting itself TO the ut
most to tie Bryan's hands so that he can
not carry out his contract. 1t cannot be
done with Bryan and Sewall, because you
cam have Bryan and Sewall. Mr.. Sewall
cannot carry his own family. He cannot
carry the ward in which he lives He can
not carry the town in which he lives.
He cannot carry the state in which no
lives. He is q wart on tho party. He IL
knot ON the log. He Is a dead weight to
tho ticket Every man ought 70 know
that if Mr. Bryan is TO be elected he will
be elected by the votes which tho Peoples
Party gives him. If he carries Nebraska,
it will be Tom Watson Populists who
will carry 1t for him. III he carries Kansas.
it will be the Populists who carry it for
him. If he carries Iowa, it will be tho
Populists who carry it for him. II ho car
rios the great state OF Texas, il will bo the
| Populists wha give 1t to him.
If Mr. Bryan is elected, Democrats
must realize that it cannot possibly be
done without the Populist vote The Pop
/ ulists have gone as far as they could. Wo
went outside of our party to give DEM
ocrat tho first place on our ticket We
could not have gone any farther No self
respecting Democrat could have asked any
more. We don't want 60 destroy the Peo-
ple's Party in this country. If / came off
the ticket, 1t would mean the death Of tho
Populist Party If you are honest In de-
manding silver legislation, you should
not want the whole thing. Where would
the silver cause have been in 1894 and in
| 1895 IL it had not been for the Peoples
Party Ask somebody else to kill tho Peo-
ple's Party, but don't ask me- sat by the
cradle where the party was born; have
fought its battles; / have supported its
principles since its organization; have
taken pride in it's growth; its sorrows
have been my SORROWS and don't ask me,
after all of my service with The Peoples
Party, to kill it now. l am going TO stand
by it till it dies, and / want no man to
say that / was the man who stabbed it to
the heart.
IF the Peoples Party were dead, the
old leaders might get in, and then whore
would we beg Just where Moses was when
the light went out Sewal 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 little bit, / have got
TO stand on the ticket where my friends
placed me. l can't come down. You may
try to run mo off, but am going to fight
before you do it. am willing TO go into
partnership with You, but l 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 n railroad king, and therefore
out Of touch with his people Mr.. Sewall
is bondholder and therefore out Of touch
with his people, and l make bold here to
say that Mr. Bryan himself has laid down
the rule which, II carried out, will take Mr..
Sewall of the ticket. He said in New
York ia public speech that a candidate
running upon platform should not only
indorse every plank in that platform, but
should indorse every sentence and every
word of 1t. Apply that rule TO Mr. Sewall
and Mr.. Sewall would get off while step
ped on Mr.. Bryan must have meant that
Let him deny it If he did not. That con
struction has been put on il by Democrats
1t is the only construction that can be put
upon it, Mr. Sewall does not stand square
ly on tho platform. Let Sewall scoot and
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