The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-28
JIM WATSON
TOLD ABOUT
CONVENTION
Former Congressman Spoke
Saturday Night at the Col
iseum and a Large Crowd
Heard Speech.
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the Egyptians to get for the common
people yachts and automobiles, pal
.aces by the sea, purple and fine linen
and retinues of servants. If every
one gets these who will act as the
servants?
"The twang on the heartstring Of
envy! That is what is affecting us.
When a Democrat gets it he thinks 1t
is political economy. When a Bull
Mooser gets it he thinks it is an in
SEPARATION from heaven and commences
to sing Onward Christian Soldiers
Child labor How beautifully Mr..
Beveridge talks about it. And yet
we have had a child labor law in
Indiana for thirty years. All states
have them but the cotton states of
the south. There is not one case OF
child labor in Indiana and l defy Mr..
Beveridge to produce one. We pass
ed a child labor law in the District of
Columbia, model. We put it through
while Mr.. Beverage was away max
ing speeches or resting in his palace
by the sea.
He talks of free school books. We
have them. Any man who is too poor
to buy can get them and clothing
for his children too. l am not in favor
of buying school books for my neigh
Dor who has four times as much mon
ey as 1 have. Are you?
"Mr Beverage raves about the road
tax. He wants it paid instead of work
ed out. And he would destroy the
Republican party which has so hon
ored him for a change on the road tax
law.
II am in favor of woman's suffrage
If they are sure they want to vote.
But l am not in favor of the immoral
woman in the city leading her forces
to the polls while the old gray haired
mother in the country remains by her
fireside. If the women vote, then they
must all vote. Everyone who can vote
should exercise that privilege"
Change Of Heart.
Referring to the opposition of Roose-
welt to Taft, the speaker said that
Roosevelt complimented Taft in the
New York state convention two years
ago. Roosevelt is making the race
to satisfy personal ambition"
Watson then said that at the Rush
vile district convention several years
ago, e. H. Harris, of this city, brought
set of resolutions to the meeting
which Harris said were the ones Bev-
eridge wanted adopted One of them
was laudatory of Taft.
Some of the millionaires who never
made dollar of their own, stick them
selves up as monitors and proclaim
against the bosses. Who made Ed
Lee chairman of the state? Ed did.
Who made Leeds district chairman?
Lee did. And Leeds appointed the
county chairmen of the Sixth district.
The state from Ed down, and the
Sixth district from Leeds, down are
governed by their bosses.
"They nominated Greenstreet for
congress, but unfortunately he was not
in the councils of Dudley Foulke. They
say Foulke wanted the nomination.
do not know, but 1 do know that his
paper attacked Greenstreet. And still
this man Greenstreet who was not
good for congressman is nominated
for the state legislature by the same
party.
Referring to the assertion of the
Progressive leader that they organic
ed a new movement to clean the po-
litical house, Mr. Watson said: What
is the best way to clean house-stand
on the inside and use soap, or stand
on the outside and hurl brickbats and
bombs at the house?"
Defends Protective Tariff.
Defending the protective policy of
the Republican party, he said: "Capi-
tai needs no protection; it protects
itself. l never have lost a minutes
sleep worrying about the protection
of capital. Whoever heard of a mil
lion dollars walking over the hills to
the poorhouse.' But the Drawn of the
country does need protection from the
cheap labor of foreign countries My
Democratic brother, suppose we give
you the reins of government tonight:
could you give employment to a sim
gle new employee? Could you light
another factory furnace, or add anoth-
er penny to the hog? What could you
do that has not been done to better
present conditions?"
when things were cheap We did
not have the money to buy them with.
The farmers couldn't make a living
and left their crops unharvested in
the fields. The laborers walked the
highways unemployed and could not
earn enough to keep them from star
walton. Clothing was cheap, yet many
were unclad. Why the men to keep
busy attended Republican meetings to
change conditions!
Tonight there is not a Coxey's ar.
my or soup house under the flag.
And yet we kick. These troubles OF
ours always come in prosperous times
1t was so in 1892. All of us couldn't
get the postoffice, some of us had run
for office and been defeated"
Setting Her Right.
sYou are familiar, / presume, with