The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-01
TOM WATSON
To GEORGIANS
AT ALEX. STEPHENS HOME.
HE CONTINUED HIS ARRANGEMENT
OF DEMOCRACY.

Sectional Passion DWelt UpOn-De-
cIarex the Democratic Party Is no
Longer a National, but "a Sectional
Party-PIea for JeffersOnian Prin-
cipIes Is Made.
Charlottesville. Ca, Nov. 3O.-Thom-
as E. Watson. recently candidate of
the Peoples Party for President, to-
day addressed a large crowd at this
place, the former home of Alexander
H. stephens. His address was receiv-
ed with close attention. but with no
marked enthusiasm. He spoke in part
as follows:
After the Civil War the politicians
made capital out of the race hatreds
and sectional passions engendered by
that strife. Every statesman who tried
to breast that current was swept
away. In the state of Georgia this
was amply illustrated.
Joseph E. Brown urged the people
to accept the situation" and become
Teconciled to the re-established Union
He went down under a storm of abuse,
and a whole generation passed away
before the South realized that he had
been right Benjamin H. Hill ventured
TO attend a Republican banquet at the
Kimball House in Atlanta, and to
plead for a better understanding be-
tween the North and the South. Next
morning he awoke to find himself in
famous; and for ten years he was a
political outcast
Alexander II. Stephens, the most IL
lustrious Jeffersonlan Democrat since
the days of Andrew Jackson, spent
his fortune in the effort to maintain
a newspaper, whose purpose was to
recall our people to the principles of
Jeffersonian Democracy and constitu-
tonal liberty. He lost his money and
accomplished little good with his pa
per. The tide was too strong.
Wanted a winning Platform.
Southern politicians, hungry for Of
fee were not on the lookout for what
was right. They wanted a platform on
which they could win. They were
tired of being in the minority"-a
was the st. Louis crowd in 1904. In
steady of trying to regain the conf
dence of the country by firm adher
ence to principle, they began that Sc
RES of attempts to humbug the pub
lie which ended in the earthquake of
Nov. g. When Southern Democracy
trooped at the heels of INSCRIPTIONS
leaders and declared in national con-
vention their devotion" to the Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments,
they lied so artlessly that even the
artless knew they lied.
And Henry Watterson of Kentucky
was president of that convention! Be
ginning with this kind of false pre-
tense, it was no wonder that national
Democracy has had but one success
full leader since the Civil War. Nor is
it any wonder that this leader, Cleve-
land, left the party in a plight so
hopeless that not even the strategem
practiced upon the Populists in 1886
could save it. To secure his victory in
1892. Cleveland's managers had to
make pledges to Wall street which
Harrison had refused to make. When
Congress and Cleveland began to pay
these campaign debts, the people at
last awoke to the truth. National De-
nocracy was revealed i'm it's true light
as the other horse" of plutocracy
CIeveIand's bond Sale.
When Grover Cleveland and John G.
Carlisle made secret midnight deals
with Morgan and Belmont to issue the
bonds which Harrison had refused, and
when those bonds of the richest ma
ton on earth were sold behind closed
doors for a price less than the negroes
were getting for their bonds in ia
maica, a deep-seated hatred and in
dignation was aroused which nursed it's
wrath for ten long years and then
broke like a tempest over the Cleve-
land candidate of 1904.
In national politics the Democratic
party stands without a party, de-
claration of principles, or accepted
leader. 1t is utterly bankrupt in repu-
tation. 1t has no unity of conviction,
sentiment or purpose. 1t contains an
tagonistic element which can never be
harmonized. Its secret purpose is so
foreign to what Democratic masses
annr0xra that tho afarnal CT nf
the national leaders is to prevent the
Democratic masses from penetrating
that secret purpose. What is that Sc
cret purpose? To use the Democratic
party in support of the same system or
class legislation which the Republi-
can party stands for. The watch word
is keep up the attack upon Repub-
lican individuals, but do not attack
the system of special privileges which
is responsible for present conditions"
In other words, the secret mission of
the Democratic party is to keep up a
sham battle. BY keeping the people
divided and deluded, they hinder the
organization of real opposition to
greed. Thus the national Democratic
party is the best friend of which the
plutocratic Republican party can boast,
for the Belmonts, who call themselves
Democrats are just as much in favor
VI SPfNtdi pIlNileEeS as the NarneRleS
and Morgans who call themselves. Re
publicans.
WatsOn's New York Statement.
On Nov. 10, last, gave out a state
ment in New York in which il was
argued that there was no hope of re-
form inside the Democratic party. At
tention was called to the fact that
the machinery of the party was i'm
control of the plutocratic element. -
and that this element would seek to
maintain the advantage 1t had won at
st. Louis.
This prediction has already been
verified. On the night of Nov. q. Judge
Parker and several other chiefs, rem
resenting the plutocratic element. -
met at the Manhattan Club in New
York city for the purpose Of forming
plans to insure the future control OF
the Democratic party. Nothing is more
certain than that this "plutocratic ele-
ment' will maintain its power. They
control the sinews of wharf.-the none v
the newspapers. the machinery.
And / make this prediction: BRYAN
Will be its candidate for the nomina-
tionl
Second to that prediction. make
another; When Bryan runs for Presi-
dent i'm 1908 as the candidate OF the
Parker Belmont Cleveland German
combine, he will be n worse beaten
man than Parker was.
For Mr.. bryan Ia Say.
Does Mr.. Bryan sincerely believe tina,
ne can commit the National Demo.
cratic Convention 10 his recently re.
paired and reDloniehod poptliot ,,tat