The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-06
TOM WATSON IN NEW YORK POpuliSt Candidate at Dollar Dinner.
 -> cALLsPARKERAPRETENsE Says Esopus Man is in the Wrong Place. 'fAe ceorsian TAiaks He sheuia Be the Nominee Of the Demoer.ss a.a Have Support of Their
 Papers.
New York. oct. 5.-Thomas E. N

the Presidency, was dined by his frfenu,ss tonight at 8 dollar dinner In the Palm Garden on Lexington Avenue. More than 800 members of the Peoples Par ty, accompanied in many instances by their wives. were present to greet the candidate. William A. Coakley pre-, sided.
 ME. Watson was late in arriving. He carne alone. clad in a plain dark busi- facss suit. He walked through the long line of tables. looking neither to the right nor the left, and took his seat at the center of the guests table. This was the signal for prolonged cheers of welcome.
 After dinner. Joseph Buchanan re- sponded to the toast, The wasted vote" He declaSed that votes cast for candi- dates not elected because of principle were not wasted.
 Were the votes cast for good old Peter Cooper wasted?" he demanded
 "No. a thousand times no" came the shout.
 Bryan Was Counted Out.
 Continuing, the speaker referred to the votes cast for Bryan. Bryan" he said. Bryan, who was counted out in 1886 :" At the mention of the Nebras- kan's name, the cheering began anew.
 John H. Gardiner. whose guest Mir. Bryan always is when he Is in this city. spoke on Equal rights to all and spe- cial privileges to none" He declared that he and. he alone was responsible for his presence and for what he said coming even against the entreaties of some of his best friends
 Some of us minority stockholders in the old Democratic plant" he con tinued refused to be taken over into the party trust. Some of those whose wages were raised, however. stuck to the old plant"
 Watson wildly. Cheered.
 Thomas Watson then arose amid wiia cheers. He was the last speaker. H began by saying, ''oh., if that pre- out of my way; Oh. if Judge Parker would only get out of my way and give me the Democratic papers and give me the Jeffersonian speakers and give me that noble army that followed Bryan in '96. if he would only give me all these would show the Rapub- lican party and Theodore Roosevelt great militant Democratic party from sea to sea. would accept his challenge. I might not whip him. but he would know he had had a fight I am a fighter.
 "on July was not even a news paper item; but now they are fighting me with newspaper cartoons and edf- torials. I long for and love the thun- der of the guns and if only Judge Parker would get out of my way and let me command the army that he may command. I would give Theodore Roosevelt a battle royal"
 The Speech of Watson. N Mir. Wetson said. in part:
 "rhe Government which does not grant equal protection to all, equal op- portunity to all. equal justice to all, prostitutes its power and is false to its mission. If your system is not what 1t should be, yours is the fault. for you have within the hand the weapon with which it was intended you should for ever defend your liberties--the ballot.
 Where is the greater part of all thIs wonderful production of %ealth which has taken place here for the last ono hundred years? Almost entirely if is in the hands of men who never created one dollar of 1t; and they got 1t mainly by operation of laws which violate every principle of common sense, com mon Justice. common right. No fndi- vidual can resist the operation of law. Tho man in whose favor the law works will grow stronger, the victim weaker. To take from him who made and givo to him who did not make Is one of the
 
 Had the Government governor tuet- ly, the probability Is that we never would have had labor question in this young repbulic-never a strike, never lockout. never a Cripple Creek horror, never Chicago pandemonium. The frightful tenement house cancer would not now be eating its way into the vitals of society The horror of pow erty ana despair would not now be raA Am quenchless hatred to the rich and the system which made them rich. Both of the great political parties have al- ternately been in power, both have had the opportunity to correct these abuses; both are responsible and both should be condemned. Tn this campaign of 1904 Theodore Roosevelt might safely swallow Parker's platform without the slightest fear of an attack of acute his shoes and walk barefooted all over Roosevelt's platform and be in no dan ger of running splinter fin his foot
 Only Je6erzOnlan Party.
 The party which I have the honor to represent in this campaign is tho only one which stands for Jeffersonian principles We are not bound for any Fl Dorado, any Utoplan dreamland. We want to keep our feet on the earth
 
 man who Is willing to pay the price of working for 1t, shall have a fair share of the wealth of this land.
 The struggle of the labor classes 10 retain in their own hands a greater share of what their hands produce is just and natural. Instead of a compe- tition and conflict between labor ani capital, there should be cooperation and concord. Capital is.not to be hated for itself. believe in private prop erty.
 ''The party represent does not think 1t can do its work fin one day or in one campaign. But 1t says that all re- forms must start somewhere No mat ter how small the beginning. if it ia right it is not to be despised
 ''The Peoples Party has not founded itself upon any temporary issue, any trivial grievance.
 ''Jeffersonians. your flag was pulled down at St. Louis. and you are left without leaders. have picked up your flag from the ground where lt lay ana