The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-27
He Is Thoroughly In Earnest
In His Canvass For the
Vice-PreSidency.
What His Nei2hbors Say of the Man
Who Takes Politics So
Seriously.

where Lincoin's homely Illustrations and
more temperate argument Were retained in
the memory.
Watson has the oratOrical temperament.
Where some would say: Yes. it's mighty
hard times he speaks. as he did ID Cen
gressiD 1913. OF ''homes becoming desolatc.
fields stripped and bare. and children
wandering the earth, asking for work and
for bread
This phrase occurred in the funeral ora
ton Mr.. Watson deiiyeEd in the lower
House in memory OF Coz Eli T. Stack
| house, N. c. Stackhousc was a member
of [ he Farmers Alliance and this fact gave
Watson an excuse to defend the organiZa
to-, Ia ic. ais uSi si,-- L.; - iv,'s. ,g' Died.
In ringing periods, He spoke OF laws
more infamously unjust than any people
| nave had to suffer since free government
was founded"
We would ne shouted, his deep-set eyes
aiming fire, his long arms working like
windmill sails, I'VE would give new life tn
| the South, put upon her paie, sunker cheeks
the rnddy glow Of health aud hole. We
would put upon her bruised and tkeding
feet the sandals OF true prosperity We
would lift from her sacred Hulbs the sack
ciot II Of grief and despair and array her
| once again in the splendid attire of the
| bride"
In debate on a bill ne spoke of the
-'overgrown and insolent mOnorOlies, and
added: There is peS.ilence, there is food
there are cyclones, there is poverty, there
is industrial depression"
| IL is perhaps characteristic Watsunism
that The speaker never paused to Consider
1
! TONS in this diatrbe were al visiiatipns
! of Providence. hardly attributablet To human
1 La VS. good or bad He was in too much ola
hurry to think of that
Better remembered because more recent
/ is hi, dcnunCiation of Mr.. SewalI. When
! ever my son begins to make speeches gainst
me- he said. Il will get off the ticket and
crawl undcr the and hide myself. Mr.. Scwall
! cannot carry the ward in which he lives.
lie cannot carry the state in which he lives.
| He is a wart on the party He i knot
on the log
THIS man has the ring OF honesty when
lie says: "Sewau has got to come down;
can't You may try to run me of. tut
| am going TO fight before you do it.
am willing to go into partnership with
you but l don't want any Iorah and
the whale business. You Nigh forget 10 do
what the whale did with Jonah. We might
| never get out any more.
Watson is having any quantity II fua
He revels in the excitement He cannot he
| hushed up OF gagged or brlbed or bought
| Ii he were less earnest man he woGld
say to the Democratic managers: What DO
| get for being sacrificedr What seat IN
| the Catinc. have You reserved fJT me as
the price of keeping stilt:' and upon get
ting satisfactory answer might lapse iiitn
| silence.
But Watson's neigii.urs say that he il
| honest. lie is earnest. he is faithful a. u
| understands the faith. The chances are at
! together that he will continue to the end
! of the campaign the delicate attentions ne
is paying to the Democrafic ticket ard th''t
he will do his best to spur the PopnliSts in
every State to stick u the middle "t tie
! road
liza fellow is not too much interested IN
the result TO appreciate it there is plenty
of FUN in this political campaicn