The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-01
WATSON THINKS
 PARTY IS RUINED.
Is In Hands of the 0IutOcratIe
 Element
GIVEN CLOSE ATTENTION
Urges the South to Throw of Leaders Who Have Sold the South Year After Year to
 Wall Street.

Crawfordvile Ga, November 3o.- thomas E. Watson, candidate of the peoples party for president addressed a iarse crowd today at this place, the turner home of Alexander H. Stevens. HIS address was received with close at tention but with no marked enthusiasm. ne spoke in part as follows;
 The democrats party can no longer ' clalm to be national. It is sectional The | soutn IS still It's victim The south is still | quadrennial sacrifice which corrupt or stupid southern politicians deliver over to Wall street. But for the solid south, l the eastern democracy would have to shut | up shop joint the republicans, and face genuine party of opposition.
 " nat keeps the south solid? Nothing m the world except an out-of-date sec tonal animosity, and the shamelessly hypocritical cry of negro domination.
 III each southern state there is mo- nopoly of privilege and power which is hghtlng for it's life. As a rule, this mo- nopoly IS based upon the support of northern railroads. northern banks, north ern manufactures, the school book trust, the Standard oil trust, the topacco trust, the whisky trust and the cotton seed oil
 
 sources, the democratic machine in the southern states is very naughty, indeed. It wants no change. Southern politicians will sacrifice national ticket any time to maintain the local monopoly. And the negro question" is the joy of their lives. They exist upon it. They fatten on it. With one shout of 'nigger" they can run native democrats to their holes at any hour of the day Men who appear to have some common sense in other directions lose all their mental bearings when the negro question Is sprung, and they im- medately begin to hop around in Dery- sh dance of political hysteria.
 Have Disfranchised Negro.
 'In vain you point to them that the southern states, excepting Georgia, have disfranchised the negro. In vain you re- mind them that the negro i5 completely in our power. and that there Is absolutely no limit to what we do to him when we want to do 1t.
 Tn vain you suggest that in spite of the political cry of negro domination" the southern people are so determined not to part with the blacks that we are ready to lynch the emigration agent who tries to carry them away. Nothing counts mot during the campaign. AA.er the cam paign the politician laughs, the editor laughs, the office-holder laughs. We fooled them one more time"-and they wink as they meet and pass.
 Take the state of Georgia, for exam pie, 1t is ruled by the railway combina- I tion of which Hamp McWhorter is the
 lobbyist, the professional corruptionist. | He is the creature of August Belmont, democrat, and J. P. Morgan, republican. | "All this talk of having the south form l ing party of It's own is mere bosh. The | civil war Is over and the south is just as much part of the union as New Eng 1 land. We have as much right to influence in the union any other section.
 Cannot Afford to Be Sectional.
 "The south cannot afford to be sectional | In self-defense she must be national If we allow our southern leaders to put us l in a degrading position nationally, ours is the fault As long as we allow the solid south to be a political slave to a | handful of eastern capitalists we may expect to feel the lash of the slave driver and to feel the weight of the cnaln. Every four years the southern politicians carry the solid south to New York, expose her In the political slave market, have her 1 points carefully looked over and sell her to the highest bidder
 Infamous bargains having been made, those politicians retgYa home and tell us we must ratify the seaSnln for the sake of the democratic part5 and to avert the dangers of negro domination.' Oh! the infinite shame of iti
 Tt has been going on year after year, regularly repeated every presidential cam paign until climax has Leen reached which neither gods nor men shoul- toler- | ate.
 Let us put finish to this degradation of the south Let Us assert our manhood | against the tyranny of political bosses. Let us break the shell of this Bourbon- ism which neither learns nor forgets. Always Favored Democracy.
 "The south has always been in favor of the democracy-the rule of the many, for the benefit of the many. She has always been opposed to the rule of the many by the few. for the benefit of the few She has always been a foe to privilege. She has never favored class legislation. She has struggled vietoriously, time and again. to destroy national banks, and to curh the power of greedy corporations She has never favored the protection which builds up one mans business at the ex- pense of another She has always favored the income tax. She has ever looked with distrust at the federal judiciary. and she furnished a President who defied John Marshall, and who by this assertion of the power of the executive checked and balanced the attempted usurpation of the supreme court of the United States Had Andrew Jackson been where that hatulent humbug Grover Cleveland was in 1894 he would have collected the income tax and left the self-reversble supreme court to wallow helplessly in the contempt which it's corrupt conduct had deserved In other words, the south has always been in favor of popular self-government based upon the eternally correct principle of equal and exact justice to all men
 "To that standard the southern people must again rally.
 Let every man study the issues for himself. reach conclusions which satisfy his own mind and then nave the courage to stand for his own convictions.
 "Only such men are capable of rising to l l.s. .,f