The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-11
WATSON IN CHICAGO
PoPULIsT CANDIDATE. CRITICrsEs HIS OPPONENT.
He Intimates that Both Parker and Roosevelt are Backed by Trusts "A word About Mir.
 Brynu.

| Cnica8o, Oct. " noHss v. WI. son. nominee of the Peoples Party for ! President. spoke here tonight to an au- i dience which filled the Princess Rinh ! to overfowing. The policies cf botf the Republican and Democratic parties were scored bitterly by. MT. Watson l and his declarations were received l with enthusiasm. Mir. Watson spoke l in part as follows:
 The most striking feature of tn, present campaign is that there wat l more energy displayed in obtaining nominations than there has been fl securing electors. In Judge Parker l campaign particularly there was tel 1 times more industry, earnestness. sys tematic efforts put forth to have hin
 named, for the head of the Democrati, l ticket than Is now being used to hay, | him elected president. This Is certain l ly a very peculiar situation. Tt requires explanation. How ar'
 we to- explain 1t? 1s 1t that the cor poration influences which control tn, Republican party desires to perpetuat' that system? To Go this. they must if possible. secure control of the Dem ocratic organization. Naturally the, go about this in the cheapest, most certain manner. and that consists oi purchasing the delegates who make the nomination rather than purchase the voters who roll up the majori- ties. These corporation influences to which Parker owes his nomination were hell-bent on having him nomi- mated. but it Is a matter of indifference to them whether he be elected or not. Standing on this kind of platform, com trolled by, the kind of influences that control him, his election would mean the continued existence of the sys- l tenn as the elctfon of Roosevelt would. l If Roosevelt be elected the system stands pat. If Parker Is elected. the system is not hurt. In either event cor porate wealth controls the ballots. In 1 this way and in no other can be ex- plained the curious fact that Belmont and the Standard Oil Company and kindred combinations of capital spent more money and put forth more effort | to nominate Parker than they are now putting forth to elect.
 One of the great sources of trou- ble at present is that the people do not initiate any policies. do not initiate
 any laws. do not nominate any candi-
 dates. do not frame any platforms. They are only asked to submit to the law after it has been made, support
 the platform after 1t has been framed; vote for the nominee after he has been
 chosen. Politically and financially the country Is governed on the star cham Der system The secret back room | committee, politically and financial | ly, is absolutely controlling the legis- 1ation and the destiny of the republic
 and the reins of power have passed from the hand of the people almost | entirely.
 l "Sfar Chamber Government.s
 I hot Do hfrnaalf Ia n, nj of this star chamber method of gov ernment, no intelligent man will de- ny. And the reason why he cannot take any bold step in any possible d. rection, nor declare himself openly tc
 be opposed to any principle of the Re publican party is that he dare not of fend the star chamber influences who lpurchased the editors and the dele gates and secured the nomination for him.
 "This campaign to a greater extent | than we have ever known is a cam- paign of humbug. so far as Parker is concerned. We know where Roosevelt | stands; we know what we will get fl
 he is elected. for he has told us. We are against him upon 1t and the Peo- ple's Party fight him on the princi- pie. Tn every speech and every let ter. I. as the standard bearer of the
 Peoples Party, have combatted Mir.
 Roosevelt with all the strength which
 could commend. but at the same
 time he is the open enemy whom 1t is the easier to combat, the difference between him and Parker being that
 Parker is the enemy in ambush-the
 foe who wears a mask.
 The campaign is an effort to delude
 the people, confidence game as
 Bryan called 1t, playing with loaded dice as Bryan called 1t, campaign
 against extravaganza, led by the men
 who when entrusted with power in 1892 on 8 platform pledging them to
 rigorous economy, increased the public debt s2s2,00o.000 in time of peace
 without having bought Panama or the Philippines or anything else except
 the paper parchment upon which they
 printed the bonds; campaign against
 miiitarism. inaugurated by the men
 who loaned the United States army
 to the Pullman Palace Car Company | to quell a strike at the point of the bayonet and finally we have a cam
 paign for tariff reform led by men | who opposed the income tax and who | when they had the power in 1892 to
 reform the tariff deputized a Democrat
 ic member of the cabinet to write the l sugar schedule just as Havemeyer di-
 rected. A prohibition campaign led by
 the whisky trust; labor movement led by Bell sand Prick and Peabody; a
 crusade against gambling led by Rich | ard Canfleld of New York and Tom Taggart of Indiana would not be more of a self-evident and brazen at-
 tempt to deceive than this Parker cam
 paign. which pretends to be against
 class legislation and at the same
 time is led and financed by such ben
 eflciaries of class legislation as Au- gust Belmont, the Standard oil Com pany and kindred corporations of the Wall Street sort.
 1 WatsOn's Patriotic Motives.
 T am accused of drawing more votes from Parker than Roosevelt.
 Believing as I do that both of them stand for the same system which I combat, the source from which I draw
 my votes Is a matter of indifference to me so long as they are genuine Jef- fersonian Democratic votes If Mir.
 Bryan had bolted the St. Louis con vention and called upon Democrats | everywhere to rally to his support
 against Wall Street. Parker's cam
 paign would have died in its birth.
 The Belmonts and Germans and Ol-
 neys and Clevlands would have been
 driven into the Republican camp where : they belong. Bryan would have made
 himself the uncrowned king of Amer lean Democracy and in all probability