The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-07

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(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated HfeSS.
New York, Oct. 5.--Thomas E. Wat
son, nominee of the Peoples Party for
the presidency, was dined by his
friends tonight at a dollar Dinner"
in the Palm Garden on Lexington
Avenue. More than five hundred
members of the Peoples Party, accom-
panied in many instances by their
wives, were there to greet the candid
ae. William A. Coakley presided.
Mr. Watson was late in arriving.
He came alone, clad in a plain dark
business suit. He walked through the
long line of tables looking neither to
the right nor to the left. and took
his seat at the centre Of the guests
table. This was the signal for pro-
lOnged cheers of welcome.
After the dinner joseph Buchanan
responded to the toast THE Wasted
Vote He declared that votes cast
for candidates not elected because of
principle We're not wanted.
DR.. John II. Gardner whose guest
Mr.. Bryan always is when he is in
this city, spoke on equal rights to all
and special privileges 10 none After
some others had spoken Thomas Wat
son arose amid wild cheers. He was
the last speaker. He began by say
ing:
''Oh, if that pretense UP at Esopus
would only get out of my way; on, if
Judge Parker would only get out OF
my way and .;ive me the Democratic
papers and give me the Jeffersonian
speakers and give me the noble army
that followed Bryan in 90; if he
would only give me all these l would
show the Republican party and Theo-
dore Roosevelt great militant Demo-
cratic party from sea to sea. L would
accept his challenges. / might not
Whip him, but he would know he had
had a fight. l am fighter.
ION July the 9Th l wasn't even a
newspaper item; but now they are
fighting me with newspaper cartoons
and editorials. l long for and love
the thunder of the guns and if only
Judge Parker would get out of my
way and let me command the army
that he may command. / would give
Theodore Roosevelt q battle royal.
The government which does not
grant equal protection to ALL equal OPP
portunity to all, equal justice TO all,
prostitutes it's power and is false to it's
mission. If your system is not what
it should be, yours is the fault for you
have within your hands the weapon
with which it was intended you should
forever defend your Eberties-the
ballot.
where is the greater part of all
this wonderful production of wealth
last one hundred years? Almost en-
tirely it is in the hands of men who
never created one dollar of it's and
they got it mainly by operation Of laws
which violate every principle OF COM
mon sense, common justice, common
right No individual can resist the
operation of law. The man n whose
favor the law works will grow strong
err, the victim weaker. TO take from
him who made and give TO him who
did not make is one of the worst forms
Of tyranny.
"jtad the government governed just
ly, the probability is that we never
would have had u labor question in
this young republic, never a strike,
never a lockout, never a Cripple Creek
horror, never a Chicago pandemon-
ium. The frightful tenement house
cancer would not now be eating it's
way into the vitals of social order.
The huge army of poverty and despair
would not now be marshalled under
the black flag Of quenchless hatred to
the rich and to the system which
made them rich. Both of the great
political parties have alternately been
in power, but have had the opportun-
ity to correct these abuses, both are
responsible and both should be con-
Gemned. In this campaign of 1904,
Theodore Roosevelt might safely swal-
low Parker's platform without the
Slig hteSt fear of IN attack of severe
indigestion, and Parker might take off
his shoes and waltz barefooteJ all over
Roosevelts platform and be in no
danger of running a splinter in his
foot.
1.-The party which l have the honor
to represent in this campaign is the
only one which stands for Jefferson
ian principles. We are not bound for
any Eldorado and Utopian dream
land. We want to keep our feet upon
the earth and work out reforms in
which every man who is willing to
pay the price of working for it, shall
have fair share of the wealth of this
land.
"The struggle of the labor classes to
retain their own hands a greater
share of what their hands produce is
just and natural. Instead OF q COM
petition and conflict between labor and
capital there should be co-operatior
and concord. Capital is not to be
hated in itself. 1 believe in private
property.
'"Thc party which I represent does
not think it can do it's work in one
day, or in one campaign. But it says
that all reforms must start somewhere
No matter how small the beginning if
it is right, it is not to be despised.
"The Peoples Party has not found
ed itself upon any temporary issue, any
trivial grievance.
'tJeffersonians! Your flag was pull
ed down at st. Louis and you are left
without a leader. / have picked your
lag from the ground where it lay, and
call upon you to rally to it. Refuse
end you have d@ne violence to your
own sense of right. Refuse and you
have put party above principle"