The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-07

ATLANTA. Ca, Aug. 6.-Thomas E.
Watson opened his vice presidential
campaign tonight with an address of
two hours in length, delivered before
an audience of 5000 people in the rough
shed used for the Moody revival meet
ings several months ago.
Mr. Watson appealed at the outset
for a non-partisan hearing, declaring
that he spoke with bitterness to none,
and in behalf of the men who held the
pillow, who pulled the hoe, who welded
the hammer. If God gave him strength,
he declared, he would plead the cause
of these people through the pens Of
| the reporters present, before SiXty-flVe
millions of people in the morning. He
entered into an enumeration of the
reforms demanded of the Populists, in
dieting the government for
HIGH CRIME AND MISDEMEANOR
in granting of the governmental power
of making money to a special class;
in the unfair levying of taxes, which
laid the heavy hand of tribute upon
those least able to sustain it; in clos
ing the minis to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver; in leaving the great
public highways of the country in the
control of grasping corporations, who
levied tribute upon the people, who
were compelled to use them. and in the
corruption of the ballot. He explained
at length his course in leaving the
Democratic party after having been
elected to congress as a Democrat
and by the machinery of the Demo-
cratic party. He said that his oppo-
nent had run as a straight platform
Democrat, while he had made his race
on the Alliance platform, and was
pledged to stand by that platform
though the heavens fell. Further
more the National Alliance convention
had instructed those congressman
elected on the Alliance platform not to
go into the caucuses of either Of the
| TWO great parties.
THE SOUTH AND WEST.
Not only had he felt bound to stand
| by principles rather than party, but
he had seen then, as he saw now, that
the only chance for Jeffersonian De-
| mocracy was, to unite the farmers of
the south with the farmers of the
west. To do that required new party
| The southern Democrats could not be
induced to go into the Republican par
ty, nor could the western Republicans
be induced to enter the Democratic
party. A common rallying 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-
cratic party?" exclaimed Mr.. Watson.
Only one, and thank God, I can say
1 was that one
He explained further that he had
allowed himself to be run for speaker
simply to
EMPHASIZE THE SOUTHs DESIRE
to meet the west half way in the COM
mon battle against the east
Recent events, Mr.. Watson declared,
hhd indicated hts course. The south
eTn Democracy was today bidding de-
fiance to Wall street and the eaeE for
the first time in thirty years. Why?
Because the south and west had at last
joined together to throw off the yoke of
the east. The western Democrats had
not done this. How many western
states had Tilden carried, or Cleveland?
When he said, addressing the Dem
ocrats in the crowd, mas there ever
been a, time before when you could slap
the eastern Democracy in the face
with one hand and Wall street with
the other and rely on the west to get
you OUT of the scrape?"
IT WAS THE WESTERN POPULIST
who had made this possible. And who
did the western Populist use to be?
The western Republican. Looking at
affairs as they stand since the Chicago
convention, the western Popultsts say
to the Democrats: We are going to
help you in this fight, and the western
Democrats say we are very glad TO
get your help
Here in the south the Democrats
say: We dbn't need you fellows. and
we've got a little machine that'll turn
out Just the majority we need
''Tfey want to sail in our ship, but
they want to expel our crew. They
want to run our train, but they wn1.it
to kick out our engineer They say
they want fusion, but it is the fusion
of an earthquake with the city it en-
CULTS.
At Chicago, the Democratic polite
ians swallowed OUT platform and they
thought they had swallowed u.s. For a
while after the Chicago convention they
thought they had caught the bear. Now,
since the st. Louis convention, they
are beginning to
FEEL SURE THE BEAR HAS
CAUGHT THEM.
The present political situation is the
first case on record where a half a
loaf was not found to be better than
no bread.
1--WE can stand Mr.. Bryan. He has
been with us and has fought for our
policies. But when we are asked TO
swallow Mr.. Sewall, we beg to be eX-
cused. We cannot vote for Mr.. Sewaal,
because he does not represent our plat
form. If we do we say we DAD non
mean what we said in that platform
You cannot consistently say this Is a.
fight for vice president. Therefore, see
ing that your Democratic leaders mad
made a mistake, we
STEPPED INTO THE BREACH
and did what they ought to have done
nominated a southern man for vice
president.
'Tqlis is a movement of the south and
west and you must have q. sputheTner
on your national ticket.
In the name of the south we have re-