Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-25
THOMAS {. WATSON
HAS BEEN NOTIFIED
Informed of His Selection to Head
National Populist Ticket.
REPLIES IN A LENGTHY SPEECH.
Fake a Pot Shot at Judge Parker,
But Says He Has No Words of
Abuse For Theodore
Roosevelt.

New York, Aug. 19.-Thomas e.
Watson, of Georgia, the peoples party
candidate for president, and Thomas
u. Tibbles, of Nebraska, vice-presi-
aential candidate, were formally noti-
led of their nomination here Thurs
lay night at Cooper Union. The big
hall was crowded when, at eight
o'clock, the two candidates, accom-
panied by Alfred G. Boulton, of Brook
Ign, chairman of the meeting, ap-
peared on the platform. There was
much cheering.
Chairman Boutelle at once intro
duced Judge Samuel w. Williams, Of
Indiana, who made the speech official
" notifying the candidates Of their Sc
lection.
In addressing Mr.. Watson, Mr.. WILL
ANS said the convention that nomi-
mated lin was made up Of unselish,
self-sacrifcing patriots, who attended
Ind participated in its deliberations
solely through a high sense of duty.
'"The purpose of the convention" he
continued, was to take one more step
in the evolution of progress which is
inally to bring up to that ideal on
iition of society, where the laborer
shall receive the full fruits of his la
Dor, and IN injury to n shall be the
concern Of all.
"The work of the hour was not to
trim q sail of expediency. to catch a
passing breeze Of popular, though
transient approval, but rather to pro-
claim and again declare in plain and
soncise language the principles and
promises of the peoples party as first
laid down at Omaha in 1892, and SUBJ
sequently reaffirmed in 1896 and in
1900. 1t was understood there that our
aominee must be a man with whom
politics vas a matter of conscience,
Ind who believed truly and fully in the
senets Of populism; who subscribed to
the doctrine of the brotherhood of man
and the fatherhood of Almighty God;
who stood ready, able and willip; to
defend, against any and all corners.
each and every plank in our platform,
and who, if elected president of the
United States, would have the broad
ness of mind, the goodness of heart,
the firmness Of character, the knowl-
edge of men and affairs, to so admin
tster the duties of that high Office as to
bring the best possible degree Of
peace, harmony and happiness to the
whole people.
I'VE confidently invite the country to
say whether or not the convention full
dlled these requirements.
I'VE know your zeal for and fidelity
to u party, and its principles during
all the years of it's history.
1--WE realize with pride that you
stand with Jefferson and Lincoln, with
Peter Cooper and Henry George, with
Polk and with Donnelly, in placing the
mar above the dollar"
When Mr.. Watson arose to speak,
The cheering continued nearly four
minutes. Chairman Boulton intro
duced him in half a dozen words, sim
ply referring to him as the candidate
Of the peoples party.
After a formal notice that he would
soon prepare a formal letter of ac-
ceptance, Mr.. Watson gave up a great
portion of his address to a discussion
Of the democratic and republican plat
forms and the candidacy of Judge
Parker. He referred to the democratic
candidates gold telegram as follows:
Surrounded by the Wall street mag
hates who had financed his c,ompaign for
two years, Judge Parker bided his time
till the perils of the two-thirds rule were
passed, and when 1t was too late for the
convention to retrace its steps-for even
the democratic bosses require more than
fifteen minutes to turn completely u
lu-he cracks the Wall street whip over
the heads of his leaders, and with prompt
obedience the great democratic legions
were made to furl their flag and reverse
their line of march.
Roosevelt. l believe him to be a brave,
honest, conscientious man. l rave him
full credit for having a splendid courage
of conviction, but inasmuch as he stands
for those government principles, which,
In my Judgment are hurrying this repub-
lie into a sordid despotism Of wealth, I
will combat him and his principles as
tong as there is breath in my body.
tits an easier and quicker job to strike
an open enemy right between the eyes
than it is to tear off the mask from the
face of a pretended friend, and show him
to be the hypocrite that he is.
Deep down in their hearts," he said,
the masses of the people feel that the
reins of power are slipping out of their
hands. In spite of all that can be done
by a partisan press, the fact can not be
concealed from the eyes Of the average
citizen that the vast preponderance of all
the wealth produced in this land is trans
ferred by legalized robbery into the hands
Of a few; that the courts are run in the
interest. Of the. few; that the law-making
power is manipulated by the few; and
that while both the old political parties
pretend to devote themselves to the in
terests of the common people, they are
both financed by Wall street, both DOM
mated by Wall street, both the willing
and the servile tools Of Wall! street"