The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-08
WATSON IN ATLANTA
PoPULIsT APPEALS FOR VOTE OF
 THE SOUTH.
Presidential Candidate Sees Grave Dnn-
 ger in CoddIing the Negro Tor His vote-Says People Are Helpless.

Atlanta Ga. Oct. 7--Thomas E. Wat son. Populist nominee for President, addressed an enthusiastic audience at the Grand Opera House here tonight He said in part:
 ''In theory, am king, addressing an assemblage of fellow-sovereigns: As a matter of fact, l am political nonenity. addressing a good looking crowd of citizens who are just as help less as myself.
 wye imagine that we have a great deal to do with the government of our country. In theory we rule 1t. The actual truth is that nobody consults us in the making of laws the shaping of policies. or the election of rulers. To prove that this is so. we have only to take a passing glance at the laws which govern us.
 "We had an income tax which was compelling the Accumulated weath or the country to pay $70.000.oo0 per year to, the support of the government: That tax was repealed. By whom:
 What are the chief evils that afiict you? First. your public service cor- porations have been given the terrihc advantage of levying taxes upon the public for private gain. In the coun- cils of those who fix those taxes-rail- way rates, express company rates,
 
 common people have no representation whatever. consequently the literal fact Is that we are tamely submitting to a violation of the principles upon whicn the revolutionary war was fought--the principle that no free people should
 be taxed in the councils where they have neither voice nor vote.
 Every thoughtful observer of events is convinced that the present situation is full of danger. Things cannot go on es they are.
 "One of two things is certain. The militarism of such men as President Roosevelt will culminate in military despotism. or the revolt of the prole-
 tariat will convulse us with the great est revolution known to history. we don't want either the one or the other. Let us. then, earnestly study the pres ent political situation with view to finding out which candidate for Presi- dent. and which party offers reason able, practicable effective. remedy Tor
 the evils which affiict us and which
 endanger the Republics
 q am the only candidate in the race who makes a stand for Southern rignts and white supremacy. The South furn- ishes two-thirds of the electoral votes
 which elect a Democratic President
 but what Is the South getting in re- turn? In what manner is she recog- nized? Who consults her about plat forms, governmental policies. or Con gressional legislation? Nobody-least of all Mir. Bryan.
 q stand squarely for white suprem-
 acv as the best policy for the blacks and the whites alike. The law which was adopted by popular vote today Is the best guarantee of the earnestness
 with which I speak.
 "On the other hand. consider the at- l titude of MT. Bryan with reference to the negro vote. The leaders of that
 race are organized and they are ma | king a relentless warfare upon the Republican Party, because the Repub- Ilcans have at last recognized the jus
 tice of the South's contention that she should be allowed to regulate her own Democratic affairs.
 "In the City of New York there Is a
 club known as the Cosmopolitan Club, composed of negro men, white men | and white women. The object of thle club Is to promote social equality and | the lntermarriage of the two races. Tn l the early part of this year. white mcn | and white women. sat down to eat and drink on terms of social equality. Du,
 ring the banquet miscegenation was
 earnestly advocated. and the theory advanced that by the intermarriage of | black men>with white women the black skin of the Ethiopian would gradually