The Red Cloud chief., 1896-08-14
THOMAS WATSON SPEAKS
Opens Ills e-Presidcniisi Campaign In
Geort r FOR Two Hcurs.

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Geort ia-Talk, FOR Two Hours.
ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. S.-Thomas T.
Watson opened his vice presidential
campaign last night with an address
I'VE hours in length, delivered before
an audience of 5000 people in the
rough shed used for the Moody re-
vival meetings several months ago.
Mr.. Watson appealed at the outset for
q n~on-partisan hearing, declaring
that he spoke with bitterness to none
and in behalf of the men who held
the plow, who used the hoe, who
welded the hammer. IL God gave
him strength, he declared, he would
plead the cause of these people
through pens of reporters present be.
fore $4,000, ono people in the morning.
lie entered into an enumeration Of
the reform demands OF the Populists,
indicting the government for high
crimes and misdemeanors In the grant
ing OF the governmental power of
making money to a special class; ia
the unfair lcvying OF taxes which laid
the heavy hand of tribute upon those
least able to sustain IT.: in closing the
m'nts to the frte and unlimited coin
age OF silver; in leaving the great
public highways Of the country il
the control Of grasping corporations,
who levied ribute upon the people
VIC were compelled to use them, and
In the corruption OF the ballot.
Mr.. Watson explained at length his
course in leaving the Democratic
party after having been elected to
Cnnpresa ne a Dap,t ,.l H.. al.
machinery of the Democratic party.
He said that his opponent had run as
a straight platform Democrat, while
he had made his race on the Alliance
platform and was pledged 20 stand by
that platform though the heavens
fall. Furthermore, the national ALI
ance convention had instructed those
congressman elected on the Alliance
platform not to go into the caucuses of
either OF the two great parties Not
only haC he felt bound to stand
by principles rather than party.
but he had seen then as lie saw now
that the only chance for Jeffersonian
Democracy was to unite the farmers
of the South with the farmers of the
West. To do that required n new
party. The Southern Democrat could
not be induced to go into the Repub-
lican party, o could the Western
Republican be induced to enter the
Democratic party. A common rally
ing point was absolutely necessary.
When Congress met in 1892 eleven
Western congressman stepped out of
the Republican party.
"Of the thirty Southern Congress-
men elected on the Alliance platform,
how many stepped out of the Demo
nrntis ~ re ~ - nxnlui,aJ A.. Nv,~
"Only one, and thank God / can saw
1t, | was that one
He explained further that he had
allowed himself to be run for speaker
simply to emphasize the South desire
to meet the West half way in the COM
mon battle against the Fast.
In conclusion Mr.. Watson mad G this
significant statement: 1--WE are not
going to pat up any candidate against
Bryan. We are going to vote for
Bryan. whether Sewall is withdrawn
or not. I'm going to manage this
campaign 80 that w. J. Bryan gets
every vote we've gdn. | see the dread
evils of McKinleyism threatening us
and fear that II we are defeated IN
this fight McKinleyism will be en-
throncd forever and the battle for
freedom had just as well be given up.
shall tell my people to stand by
the contract made ut st. Louis.
Let Bryan have every vote you
can muster. Let Jones say what
he likes. Let him insult you il
he will. Make no answer. Pray for
your country. Work for her interests.
DO your duty. Here's what we're GO
ing to do in our state convention:
We're going TO put out a fnll electoral
ticket for Bryan and Watson. We
can't vote for Sewall. Then we'll
empower our committee to take off n
part OF our electors and put on a part
OF yours whenever the Democratic
committee rctires Mr.. Sewall. The
Democratic managers may have made
up their minds to put Tom Watson
down and keep him down, bat l thank
God the people OF the South have en-
tered him into no such contract. lie:
it be known, henceforth that the
South and West will never again sit
at the footstool Of the North.r