Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03
WATSON WALLOPS PARKER.
Asks the Judge Pertinent Questions
Prefers Roosevelt to Parker.

dispatch from Atlanta, Ga, says:
Thomas E. Watson, candidate for Pres
ident of the peoples party, addressed
an immense audience in the nail OF the
house of representatives of the Georgia
legislature Thursday night He spoke, In
part, as follows:
In this campaign the democratic national
leaders have prostituted the name OF demo-
crat, and are demanding that they Shall
be blndly followed, in spite of the tact
that they have renowned every principle
of democracy. Will the real democrats fol-
low the name rather than the principles?
In the south we are told we must suomi
to the surrender to Wall street because or
the Niger" What a blessed thing 1t Is
for democratic leaders that they always
have the niger" to fail back on. FOR
thirty years they have been doing business
on the niger. and today he Is their only
stock in trade.
The democratic leaders who talk this
stuff, and the editors who write it, laugh
and wink at one another as they pass
they know what humbug it all is, and
how it is being used to make the people
forget. or condone, the inglorious surrender
to Wall street which they made at St.
Louis. In the West Virginia democratic
convention. the state of the democratic
nominee for Vice President, the white su-
premacy' resolution voted, down. And
on August /, 1904, Judge Parker himself.
in writing to the negro, James A. Ross, ad-
dressed him as My dear SIR just as
though Ross had been white man.
The south should demand to know the
facts about Judge Parker. How does he
stand upon this alleged negro question? Is
his position at all different from that of
Roosevelt? If so, In what respect? The
south should demand explicit reply to the
following questions before it votes for him
upon the assumption that he differs from
Roosevelt on the negro question:
1. Would you refuse to eat at the same
table with Booker Washington?
2. Would you refuse to appoint negroes
to Office in the south?
3. If elected. will you refuse to receive
on terms of equality at the White House
such negroes as Bishop Turner Booker
Washington and T. Thomas Fortune?
4. Do you approve the mixed schools OF
New York. inaugurated under Grover
Cleveland-fn which social equality is prac-
ucally made a matter of compulsion?
o. If such schools-wherein black chill
dren and white children are educated to-
gether-are a good thing for your native
state of New York, would they be a good
thing for Georgia and South Carolina? Ii
not, why not?
Why did national democratic leaders sur
render to Belmont and Wall street?
Senator John w. Daniel of Virginia let
the cat out of the bag when he declared I'm
the committee on resolutions that he was
tired OF being In the minorityi' Not afraid
of Roosevelts militarism? No. Not afraid
of Roosevelt's nggerism? No. All that is
fudge and subterfuge Tired of being In
the minority there was the milk in the
cOcoanut.
II could become politically tipsy enough
10 vote for Parker, on the platform of 1904
as constructed by Parker himself l would
take one more drink-a small one at that
and vote for the other twin Roosevelt.
Give me the original every time rather
than the blurred. indistinct copy Give me
the genuine article, rather than the spur
ious substitute.
Come veal or woe, 1 am going to lead a
revolt.
The address was delivered at the closing
session of the state convention of the
Georgia populists, which met this after
noon. selected electors and Endorsed the
nomination of Mr.. Watson for the presi-
dency. The electors chosen were the fol-
lowing:
At large-John H. Sibley of Talbot and
w. S. Weir of Fulton.
Distrlcts-First, r. Lee Moore: second
Jesse Ward; third, c. Montgomery: fourth
bion Williams; fifth, w Z. McDanieI:
sixth Dr. w. p. Glover; seventh. w n
Nally; eighth John P. Brightweli; ninth
}. r. Brooke: tenth, L. D. McGregor: eley,
enth. d. r. Johnson.