The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-14
HATED CLEVELAND
AND HIS WORKS
50 VOTED FOR ROOSEVELT
,,rHER THAN RISK PARKER AND
HIS FRIENDS.

.-..ou Gives His POst-Etcctton
,,;a1vs-Why Roosevelt Got More
,r.ou the Real Republican Vote.
watson Wants to Rally the Peo-
- Arouud JefersOnian Princi-
nIes as He ExpOunds Them.
Thi,ks He PoIIed 100000 Votes.
vow York Nov 1S.-Thonlas e.
watson to-day gave out the following
statement: ..,..
:. sbould be borne in mind that at
.,o time the Springfield convention
.ordered me the presidential nomina-
.on the Peoples party had had no
s.o1 existence as a factor in national
nolitics for eight years. In the presi-
sontiaI election of 1900 it gave to its
aorninee only 5000 votes. To that ex-
tent the fusion of 1896 swallowed up
r,ovement which in 1894 counted nearly
TWO million of votes and about 1,5OO
active newspapers. and therefore, we
hod 70 build from the ground up in
1oO4 We had almost nothing to start
with in the way of party organization,
o.,nnaign funds and newspapers sup
rort we had only three months in
which to work.
These things being first considered,
soma fair idea. of what was accomplish
ad can be had only when the off1clal
returns are known. Up to this time, no
oficial statement has been made of
the vote, and I can only guess what 1t
WAS from information conveyed to me
bv friends in various parts of the
country. These sources, of course, are
not very reliable. Basing an estimate
upon them, however, my opinion is
than I received something like 100000
votes. scattered through many
states. North, South, East and West to
Indicate that the sentiment which
gives its moral support to the Peoples
party is nationSl and not sectional.
Want JefTersOnian Democracy.
Il have found everywhere that the
current was strong and deep in favor
of Jeffersonian Democracy. I believe
to-day that if all those who believe in
that theory of government could be
united in harmonious political action
we could sweep the country. Mr..
Roosevelts overwhelming majority was
not so much due to the fact that our
people believe in class legislation and
the reign of special privileges. 1t was
not by any means an Endorsement of
corporation tyranny, the greed of the
trusts or the methods of combined cap
ital.
Mr.. Roosevelt's majority over Mr..
Parker was due mainly to two things,
one was the immense personal popu-
larity of Mr.. Roosevelt himself, and the
other was the immense unpopularity
of Mr.. Cleveland's second adminlstra-
tion. Unfortunately for Mr.. Parker,
he became so completely identified
with the marauders who plundered the
government during Mr.. Cleveland's
second administration that he had to
bear all the odium which they had i'm
CURED.
Hatred of Cleveland.
The people have never had a chance
10 show just what they thought of
That second administration. Mr.. Bry-
N''O SoAAPdA6tlS ulQ DOL give LQGIu
the opportunity; it Was only when the
OLD Cleveland combination secured the
de1eat of Bryan and Hearst and die
tated the nomination of Mr.. Parker
mat the masses got the opportunity
10 vent upon a national candidate the
intense hatred which they had been
nursing for years against such men
as OIney and Belmont and Carlisle and
Cleveland himself. They knew that
could not be elected, and they were
% eager to make the best of the op-
portunity to safeguard the country
s''lsC repetition of that saturnalia
u class legislation which marked
CieVeland's second administration that
my rushed to Roosevelt and gave him
majority which does not under or
mary circumstances belong to the Re-
F0'Hcdh party. In other words. the
personality of Mr.. Roosevelt and tba
lpopuiarity of Parker's environment
,Sa a'i'eu INTO the Republican column
80 49, multitudes of men who under
.aiary circumstances would not bo
found there. ~
TO Organize the People.
MY own plans for the future en-
D.ace a complete organization Of the
Teope along the lines of Jeffersonian
s''oeracy' the re-establishment of re-
IN - papers and systematic propa-
- a. ol Jenersonian principles in or
~ ae mat in 1908 there shall be a partv
eehuine opposition to the RenubIi-
-. li party and its present policies. II
~. eai history teaches anything. IL is
rsso.s oiu parties never accomplish any
,O'l Unless they are irresistiblv
!" 1t by pressure from without
a,s, ,'Ope at least to be of some use IN
eng those who will apply that pres-
,Sa II Is immaterial to me who does
-. "ork which the reformers want
so that the work itself is done
'"ith In Democratic Parry.
nave no faith whatever that ro-
n.," ~ "iil be accomplished by the
-. 'oefatic party. 1t is discredited in
49, Eyes OF the people by a series. Of
'i''ils defeats. but Il has been a.
ed le,'.-llng a.. in its course: It has chang
~. principles so often, has run from
h.a 'Nlreme 10 another 30 recently.
,sss auen magnificent opportunity IN
n - ~ work out the reforms 70 which
w.s.'s ..'oa pledged and made such a
3, me. NEG use OF that opportunity that
ltsd- nvi inspire the conadenee .,btcb