The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-04-14

statesmen of the South did, that we can never
have equitable distribution of wealth and the
enjoyment of national happiness, so long as the
tariff robs the notwithstanding classes, to Gre
ate huge fortunes for few Specially PRIVILEGED
manufacturers.
Therefore, willing to risk my life polit-
cally and otherwise, to bring about realization
of my dream. In the effort to stop the legalized
and ruinous exploitation of the South by New
England, lost my life politically; and only those
personal friends who were nearest to me know
how narrow my escape from assassination
In the last speech made by the late John A.
Johnson, Governor of Minnesota, he declared that
the time had come to throw off the domination of
the East. This declaration proves that the great
Western Democrat had caught the same idea
which inspired my own course. Johnson's speech
es resembled Lincoln s, and he realized as few
statesmen have done the immortality, the inius-
tce and the ruinous consequences of our tariff
system.
Poor Bill Howard! he was in such a tantrum
that his two weeks Of cogitation and ferment
brings him to such lamentable state of mind
that he enters me as Presidential candidate for
1896! He figures it out that prevented Bryan
from becoming President by getting ~ electoral
votes. He argues that had Bryan, instead of Nc
Kinley, received those votes which I wickedly got
of malice aforethought, and at the instigation of
the Devil, Bryan, and not Mckinley, would have
become President!
Bless my life! And to think that I am discuss
ing puDllc ana pOutlcaI questions with the ableSt
member of the Georgia delegation
Every school-boy of Georgia ought to know that
the Bryan ticket of 1896 had two tails to it, and
that was one of them.
Why dog gone it and plague take it and dad
drat it, [ went to Nebraska in 1896 for the ex-
press purpose of helping Bryan carry his own
State From Georgia to Colorado made speech
es Tor the ticket of Bryan and Watson. When
got PACK to Atlanta my throat so liberated
that could only speak in whisper Ask Dr.
Arthur q. Hobbs what answer he gave me when
asked II L might not go around to the Sam Jones
tabernacle, where ten thousand Democrats were
WalCng TO give me an ovation, on my return from
the West. And why did those warm-hearted
Democrats wish to give me public greeting?
Because I had sunk my own personality and
my own ambition in the effort to win for Bryan.
Had the Peerless hearkened to me- had he
given me recognition, had he spoken from the
same platform once, he would have been elected
l did my level best to make him see it. In every
way possible I sought to have him realize the
danger OF driving the Mid-Road Pops to despair
and desperation.
But the nomination, the fame which followed
the plagiarized Grown of Thorns-Cross of
Cold peroration, had turned his head. He would
not remain i'm Nebraska, while stumping it
for him. He went East to make that silly effort
TO win New Notwithstanding the Southwest,
where our only chances lay.
l addressed a packed opera house in Bryan's
home town, and loyalty urged his election Mrs.
Bryan occupied one of the boxes during my speech
i'm behalf of her absent husband; but she sent
no flowers, any invitation, any message
though we had been introduced i'm Washington.
When I returned South from the Western tour,
| brought as heart as lacerated soul
ever throbbed in any human being. Ignored by
my running mate; betrayed by my national Chair