Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-12
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WATSON'S SPEECH.
Some Tart Sayings by the Georgia Populi.

Some Tart Sayings by the Georgia Populist'
Tom Watson made rousing Popu.
list speech to the convention of Geor.
gia Populists in Atlanta last week.
The speech was quite lengthy; but
the following condensation of the
most pithy sayings will give an idea
of its tenor:
Let us meet tonight in spirit OF
mutual respect, pray you. Let there
be no partisanship tonight. Let no
man consider the welfare of parties as
parties-of the Peoples party or the
Democratic party merely as party
names. But let every man here to-
night be concerned for the welfare of
the south and of the whole nation and
of the great common people.
A great many people seem to think
that money was always here, like
trees and water and flowers and skies
and stars, and that it just happened
80. A great many people believe that
God made money. God no more
made a $40 bill than he did ten
penny nail, or nickel than he did a
gingercake. The government made
the money.
God pity the country where any
subject is left entirely to the editors
and to the politicians.
We say this, that your public high
ways ought to be unshackled from
robbers and the pirates, the railroad
kings, who now stand sentry at every
crossroads of commerce and levy trib-
ute upon every traveller who passes
thereon.
stand for the craftsmanship which
seeks new alliance for the south ;
which seeks to lift up and put the
light of inspiration in her eyes; the
craftsmanship which endeavors to
break her chains and to put new hope
in her heart; the craftsmanship which
leads her to. cut loose from the eastern
and northern connection and make an
alliance with the great west.
In order to show to the west that
the south meant business it was abso-
lutely necessary that when we met
together in Washington in 1891 and
those western alliancemen stepped out
of the Republican party there should
be some Democrats to step outside of
the Democratic party and thus show
the west that the south meant to be
loyal and true. [Great applause.
Eleven congressman from the west
stepped out of the Republican party.
Thirty. congressman from the south
had been elected and pledged, as we
understood, to step outside of the eau
Gus and meet the men from the west.
When the test came how many were
there who met the men from the
west? One man, thank God And
he beat his own breast dramatically. ]
ave don't ask you fellows any
odds." That is the voice ofthe Demo
cratic party. They have taken our
doctrine, but they don't like our doc
tors. They are fond of our physic,
but they don't like our physicians.
They want to run our ship, but they
want to expel our crew. They want
to run our train, but want to kick the
engineer off. They say they want
fusion. So they do. 1t is the fusion
that the earthquake makes with the
city that it swallows.
The st. Louis convention came
along, cut off half the ticket the
Democrats had named; and the entire
Democratic party is in misery because
it is discussing the problem-Is a half
q loaf better than no bread?
We can vote for Mr.. Bryan because
he has been advocating our principles
and been running on our ticket, and
because he stood with US in congress.
But when you ask US to give our sup
port to Mr.. Sewall from the rigorous
realms of Maine, we respectfully stop.
We cannot afford to vote for Mr..
Sewall. He does not represent our
platform, and he does not represent
our cause.
We are going to vote for Mr.. Bryan
whether you take Mr.. Sewall out or
not. I am going to try to so manage
this campaign that William J. Bryan
shall get the benefit of every silver
vote, even if Tom Watson goes to the