Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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SOVTHERN MER.CVRV.
Vol. XXIV. No. 49
Dallas, Texas, Thursday December 8, 1904
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SOUNDS THE SLOGAN AGAIN.
There is Life in the Old Party Yet.
POPULISM HOT DEAD—NEITHEB IS IT SLEEPING.
The Present Condition Analyzed
From the Augusta (Ga.) Daily Tribune:
Thomson, Ga., Nov. 10.—(Special)—
The opening of the campaign by Hon.
Thos. E. Watson here to-day for the
re-establishment and rehabilitation of
true Jeffersonian principles of Democ-
racy in 1908, was a mared political
event.
Indeed no movement was ever laud-
ed with a manifestation of more zeal,
earnestness and enthusiasm or with a
stronger and more apparent- deter-
mined purpose than that which pre-
vailed and permeated the great crowd
of sturdy yeomanry and brave men of
Georgia who had gathered from the
country for miles around to pledge
Bnew their faith in the old Alliance
creed, and their allegiance to a leader
who has stood the test of storm and
severest trial.
Evidence of devotion to principle
rather than submission to the slavish
domination of party without principle,
could be seen upon every countenance
and discerned in every cheer and echo
of response that went up from the
great throng as Mr. Watson expounded
the principles of Jefferson.
Mr. Watson was at his best, having
completely recovered from the worry
and hard work incident upon the recent
presidential campaign, and from the
opening sentence to the closing perora-
tion, there was not a dull moment.
Every paragraph and every period was
marked by the old time flre, energy, el-
oquence and enthusiasm, and fell as a
refreshing shower upon thirsty ground.
Mr. Watson spoke as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen: To the God
who made me, I render thanks this
day for life and health and strength. 1
am glad that I have lost none of the
enthusiasm which ever made me advo-
cate the cause that I thought was
right. (Applause.) I am glad that my
zeal is not abated, and that, as the
years go by, 1 feel as profoundly the
same eagerness to do something
good and great in the interest of hu-
manity as I ever did in my younger
years. (Applause.)
Patriotic Declaration.
If I know my own heart, 1 want no
office. I never expect to hold an office
—never. If I know my own heart, I
am expecting no pecuniary reward. I
know that what 1 am doing will put no
dollars into my pocket; but, believing
that these great principles that we
used to follow and this creed for which
we have been battling, are just as im-
portant and vital as they ever were, I
pledge myself for four more years in
this campaign to redeem this republic.
I render thanks to God for the beauti-
ful section in which I live; for the fact
that my home is cast amid a generous,
warm-hearted people; for the fact that
I am surrounded to-day by neighbors
and friends who have known me since
I was a boy, and who have just as
much confidence in me to-day as they
ever had.
Once more, as far as possible, I
would lead ypu to the altar of duty to
our common country—to pledge our
words and our sacred honor—that, as
our forefathers fought with swords in
years gone by, to redeem this republic
from tryanny and imperalism; that we
will pledge ourselves that the heritage
that came down to us from them shall
never be trampled under the feet of
the greedy corporations. (Cheers.)
Democrats Bought a Gold Brick at 8t.
Louis.
It seems to me I hear the echo of a
voice which said, in the St. Louis Dem-
ocratic convention, "I am tired of be-
ing in the minority." And to keep
from being in the minority for four
years, they dropped the principles,
which, for eight years, they said were
right, and they took the principles
which for eight years they said were
wrong—and to get in the majority they
sold out the Democrats of the South to
New York upon the idea that Dave
Hill and Pat McCarren could carry
New York. And those fellows had the
marvellouB hardihood and impudence
to come back and shake their fingers
in our faces and say: "You are hired
by the Republicans. You have sold
out." And we are fighting for the
same principles that Alex. Stephens
had all his life; we are lighting for the
same principles that Andrew Jackson
fought for all his life, and we are fight-
ing for the same principles that Thom-
as Jefferson fought for all his life!
Now is the Time to Do Effective Work.
There never was a time when a Jeff-
ersonian Democrat ought to be so
aroused to the necessity of doing some-
thing for his convictions as now. There
never was a time in the history of this
government when the greedy, few. re-
morseless corporations, the soulless
combinations of sordid wealth, had so
nearly gotten the industrial world by
the throat and was choking the very
life out of it as today! (Applause.)Thore
never was a time when the national
banks so needed checking as they do
to-day. There never was a time when
the transportation companies, using
public franchises—franchises granted
to them for public purposes—so much
needed the rod as they do to-day.
There never was a time when the over-
taxed laborers so much needed laws to
compel them to contribute their share
to support the government, as they do
today. Jeffersonian Democracy needs
to-day a new baptism, a new dedica-
tion, a new leafier, and a Forward,
march! which will fight to the death
to redeem this republic. In the South
our task is hard. If we stand out and
fight for the rights of the white man,
here is your old-time politician and lit-
tle fogy editors, feeding on the preju-
dices of the past, daring to fling in our
fares that we are trying to divide the
whites so tiiat negro domination
will prevail in the South! (Applause.)
Those politicians have for thirty years
done business by pulling on the same
old string of sectional discord.
Don't Be Intimidated.
For more than a generation they
have kept you under the rod of Eastern
domination, which has robbed you un-
der every form of law, and to-day they
try to keep up that same system,
which builds the enormous fortunes in
the North and leaves your home desti-
tute of the necessities of life, and they
say that you must submit to anything
that the Eastern Democracy gives you.
The moment we say to the white man,
"Use your brain, use your head to
think with, act like independent men,"
we have the editor and politician say-
ing: "You are a traitor to your race."
The time has come when that policy
must be reversed, when we must real-
ize that great questions like that of
the races, has been settled. Negroes
may call themselves Republicans or
Democrats, Methodists or Baptists, but
when you touch them on a question
that concerns thoir color, they are all
negroes. They stand as one man.
And so with the whites in the South;
we may call ourselves Democrats or
Republicans, Methodists or Baptists,
ciples, our task has been peculiarly
difficult in the South, because of the
fear that, if the white people ever di-
vided, the negro would be the balance
of power and rule the South. That
has been our stumbling block.
1 am accused by a certtain pluto-
cratic newspaper run in the city of
Augusta in the interest of Northern
_ >.
but when any question comes up in . capital, run in the interest of the rail-
the South which concerns us as a race, | roads—the Augusta Chronicle—its do-
then what? Every other distinction | nial to the contrary notwithstanding—
falls down, and we stand together, that paper is run in the interest of
foot to foot, shoulder to shoulder, and
heart to heart, as white people! (Great
applause.) Every man of you knows
that, and yet we have these small
politicians of the hour, who *re strong
only in the fact that they have com-
bined. driving us to vote for men that
we know nothing about, and for plat-
forms that we utterly detest. I say.
the time has come for the South to be
independent in the truest and best
sense. The time has conie for us to
tell the New York politicians, "You
take New York wherever you want to
take her; the South i ■ going to stand
. for what she understands to l>e Jeffer-
I sonian Democracy and we will reach
out to the great West; we will defy the |
! Eastern Democrats and have one great
Northern capital. 1 say I am accused
of having betrayed and destroyed the
Alliance. This room is filled with peo-
ple who used"to belong to the Alliance.
They know I never did belong to it;
they know I hnd no right to enter a
single council of theirs—and, in fact, I
never did. The Farmers' Alliance, in
a convention of Its own, decided on in-
dependent political action, and that
was voted on in the AlliSnce through-
out. the South, and was a matter of
their own. and in which I had no voice.
And. therefore, that cry is as false as
the heart ef II o man who gave utter-
ance to it! (I/otid cheers.)
Was Never a Member of the Farmers'
Alliance.
I did not lead the Alliance; I fol-
; rule of the people, by the people and lowed the Alliance, and I am proud 1
for the people. (Great applause audi did. They decided on independent po-
cheering.) , litical action, and everywhere you
The South and We;t Should Stand j wi re told that tf you divided the
Together. j whites the negro would he the balance
For fourteen years 1 have told you of power and we would have negro
that you couldn't get anything out of domination in the South. No Southern
an alliance with the Northern Denioc- ! man ever wanted negro domination;
racy; for fourteen years I have tried to) no Northern man ever wanted negro
make you ashamed of having suffered ■domination; no Eastern man ever
so long under those leaders in New ; wanted negro domination, and no
York; you know 1 told you they were j Western man ever wanted negro doml-
making of you a mockery; yon know nation. (Applause.)
I told you they were deceiving you,
eternally misleading you and your peo-
ple, and hence in that direction you
would never reach any reform what-
ever. For fourteen years I have urged
you to get in a position where the ag-
ricultural interests of the South and
West could get together, and these two
great sections would make a combina-
tion which would insure the perma-
nent, the final and the blessed victory
of real Jeffersonian Democracy! (Ap-
plause.)
Now, let's see. What is another dif-
ficulty we have in the South? it is that
the plutocrats of this country, the
corporations of this country, the bene-
ficiaries of class legislation and special
privileges in this country, have got the
people divided. And I have said that,
in order to get these principles advo-
cated and to get our people lined up
to take political action for these prin-
The white race hits made civilization
v hat. It. is to day, and it intends to keep
it so.
We will have other campaigns In fu-
ture. We will! Let us see what the
last one was; it hasn't been so long
ago. What was that campaign, in the
name of God? Was there ever such a
humbug as that campaign? Ever such
a fraud as that political campaign?
Let's see. How did tho uational Dem-
ocratic campaign start? Mind you, I
am not holding any of you local Dem-
ocrats responsible. You're not respon-
sible for anything! You are not al-
lowed to say anything, not allowed to
think anything, not allowed to do any-
thing except to walk up and endorse
what Wall Street says you must do.
You didn't know anything about the
candidate; you didn't want to know.
You didn't care anything about the
platform; you didn't read it; you pim-
ply wanted to know It it was labeled
"Democratic!" It's tbe same old Jug and
whether it is Feruna or apple-jack, or
champagne cider, or whatever it is,
you just put the Jug up to your lips
and drink it dowu without question.
(Cheers.) That is all in good humor;
no hard feeling Intended, and I am put-
ting it just as mild as 1 know how.
(Cheers.)
The Late Campaign.
They opened that campaign by do-
ing what? Surrendering everything
which they had opposed for the last
eight years—everything they had said
was true, they said was false; every-
thing they had said was false, they
said was true. Great God Almighty,
think of that! For eight years there
was the record of what they said was
true, and they went to St. Louis and
said il was false; for eight years there
was the record of what they had said
was false, and they went to St. Louis
and said it was true. They swallowed
everything they had said. Well, it's
something like the negro said about
| the miracle of the loaves and fishes;
.the old man said, "Well, if them five
people eat five thousand loaves and
five thousand fishes, it's a wonder to
ine they didn't bust!"
Understand. I am talking about Na-
tional Democrats. I couldn't have the
heart to hit a loenl Democrat. The Na-
tional Democrat swallowed their old
record for eight years; it was worse
than the dog which swallowed his tag
which showed where he was going.
Such a thing never happened before
since God Almighty made the world!
Aiul the South took it. Have we got)
down to the point where no man dares
speak for himself? Have we got down
to a point, where no man dares vote
for himself? Hut they didn't want to
throw away their votes. Even when
neighbors came around and said,
Won't you throw away your votes on
me—old schoolmate, neghbor fellow
llaptist, won't you please throw your
vote away on me? No, I can't do that;
1 must vote for Parker. What do you
know about Parker? Don't know any-
thng. Ever hear of him before? No.
What did Parker do? 1 don't know.
What do you expect to do? The more
he talks, the less he says. What do
you do It for? Well, it'B the Demo-
cratic party!"
Began and Ended With a Telegram.
Well, they commenced by repudiat-
ing the principles they had advocated
for the last eight years and by declar-
ing that what the Republicans had
done was right. By telegraph, Parker
says, "It's right!" They asked you to
turn out the men who had been right,
and put in the,fellows who
wrong, and they Bald, "All right,
will do it." And you did it, didn't you?
The campaaign started with a tele-
gram and it ended with a telei
(Applause!) It started with a
gram in which the ^nominee of
Democratic party telegraphed tp the
St. Louis convention that Rooserelt
was right on the biggest question that
had been before us for eight years.
And after the returns were all in, and
It was seen that Parker was one of
worst beaten frauds In the his-
tory of the country, then ' what1?
Parker gets up out of bed
at midnight to send another tele-
gram. And who was that to? Waa
it to me? No. Was it Bryan? No.
It was to Roosevelt, and what did he
say? "I heartily"—I heartily—"con-
gratulate you upon your election!"—
and then he got back into bed again!
(Applaause.) Oh, what a campaign—a
double-header—a telegram at one end,
and a telegram at the other! The first
telegram r.nid to Roosevelt, "You are
right." The second telegram said, "1
heartily congratulate you upon being
right!" (Loud applause.)
WHY NO REPORTS OF THE
ELECTION.
The people of Texas no doubt won*
der why the papers—and in Texas
nearly all the papers are Democratic—•
are so silent about the returns from
the recent election.
The fact is the Democrats were so
badly beaten they are ashamed to
mention the subjcct
We have been watching in every dl«
reel ion and have succeeded in getting-
approxlmately a correct estimate.
From our best Information we find
that. Roosevelt received 7,702,180 votes
and Parker 5.119,704. In 1900 McKin«
ley had 7,207,.'ISO and Bryan 6,358,076.
Thus Hoosevclt's gain over McICinley'a
vote waa 404,794, while Parker's lose
from the Bryan vote was approximate!
ly three times that figure, or 1,238,372.
For every new recruit in the Republl*
can army there were three deserters
from the Democrats. This shows the
combined vote for Roosevelt and Parle
er totaled 12,821,S84, which was 743,578
less than the combined vote for Mo«
Kinley and Bryan In 1900. Add 100,000
for the Socialist vote and the total
la still about 1,000,000 short of the total
vote of all parties in 1900, which wa<
13,956,672.
Now it Is pertinent to enquire what
became of that one million or more
unaccounted votes.
Swallow got some, and Watson got
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