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THE SOUTHERN MERCURT.
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Texas
TIIL'lvSDAY, DEC. 8, 1901.
While a whole lot of noise has been
made about the depredations of the
boli weevil, the facts do not bear out
the belief that any material damage
lias been done.
President Diaz entered upon his
25tli year as president of the Republic
of Mexico on Thursday last. At the
end of his present term (1910) he will
retire permanetly to private life.
Official returns from Louisiana show
that Roosevelt received 9018 less votes
than McKinley received in that State
in 1900, and Parker 6000 less than
Bryani did.
The total vote cast in the State this
year was nearly 1000 less than what
Bryan alone received.
The December issue of Twentieth
Century Home is replete with sugges-
tions on Christmas, its observance and
methods of making happiness. It is
nuperbly illustrated and especially
lielpful for Christmas workers. Our
lady readers will enjoy the number, es-
pecially the articles on dinners and
table preparation will be read with in-
terest by every housekeeper.
Those unreconstructed mossbacks
who have been "eussin*" Roosevelt
for his extreme partizanship will be
surprised to learn that he has just ap
pointed to a cadetship to the United
States Military Academy at West
Point young Stonewall Jackson Chris
tian. a grandson of Stonewall Jackson
of Confederate fame.
will be brought over, and more white
laborers will lose their Jobs. Already In
the rice fields of Texas these almond-
eyed scabs are being employed, and
the day is not far distant when they
will be as numerous in Texas as lo-
custs in Egypt, unless some law be
enacted inhibiting them like Chinese
from coming to the country. Then
what wi'l our white laborers do? Take
what they can get or starve! That will
be the result.
"Let the Populist party push right
ahead. The Democratic party is dead.
Even Dryan can't bring it into life.
The Bryanites may yet be glad to
And a home in the Populist fold. If
a realignment of parties results—let
the Populist be the center—in prin-
ciple and name. No better or more
suitable name can be found. It should
be understood and so fixed at earliest
date in 1905 possible that Watson is
to be "elected" president in 1900. If
the South wants to present a "presi-
dent" this will be the best oportuni-
ty. Wall Street will never give us
recognition. With Bryan, Hearst, La
Kollette or Tom Watson, if they will
join us, for vice-president, why
couldn't we sweep the country—al-
most at least? But we want nomina-
tions made by precinct referendum
vote.
A list of nil Populist clubs organ-
ized ought to be kept by the State
organizations as rapidly as formed.
The voters who think that Populism
Is dead must know that it is rather
the Democratic party thaL defunct is.
Let our leading Populist papers be
used as propaganda material. I shall
circulate all 1 can in my humble way.
I send lis*, of names to whom samples
may bo sent."—J. L. Kibler, llills-
boro, Va.
The cotton crop of Texas for the
present year is estimated by Judge J. i
C. Pugli, the chairman of the Southern
Boll Weevil Convention, at 3,500,000 '
bit >s or 024,000 bales more than the j
crip of last year of Texas and Indian j
Territory combined. In fact that this
year's cotton crop will about equal the
bumper crop of 1900, when, according
to Latlian & Alexander's report for
Texas and Indian Territory, it reached
2.809,000 bales.
"The Jeffersonian Democrats of this
county will go to work for the lining
up of our people in a short while and
organize Jeffersonian clubs all over
tbe county aud arrange for a full sup
ply of Mercury and other literature.
We propose to have regular club meet-
ings and discuss matters local. State
and national fully, fairly and freely, so
that when the next election comes we
will know where we are at."—G. W.
Walters, San Saba, Texas.
"Give us Tom Watson to lead and
the Omaha doctrine as our chart and
we will surely have a landslide of tbe
first quality in 1908. The people are
coming to their senses, and when they
understand fully what Populism truly
and really is, they will move to it In
platoons. Jeffersonian Democracy is
Populism under another name. Wo
care nothing for the name. Principle
is our guiding star."—A. E. Birch-
■ well, Tamma, TexaB.
Our old friend Jacob Coxey, of the
Commonweal Army fame, has been
caught between the pulverizing mill-
stones of plutocracy and forced Into
bankruptcy. For several yenrs past
he had been doing a flourishing busi-
ness and had amassed quite a nice lit-
tle fortune. Recent reverses, however,
prostrated him and forced him into tho
bankrupt mill. His liabilities aro
quoted at $287,000; assets $250,000.
Dun's Review for November shows
that in the past seven years the cost
of living—we mean the stuff a man of
family has to have to live—has ad-
vanced 37 per cent. This Ib hard in-
deed on the fellows who work for
wages, or have a fixed income, but tho
farmer who is provident and has di-
versified his crops and has raised
everything possible at home, can sit
back and snap Ms fingers at the com-
mercial sharks who would snatch his
substance.
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From every portion of Texas comes
the cheering information that^ local
banks are full to overflowing"" with
money—real hard cash and govern-
ment bills—and the pleasing part of
the Information is that most of it be-
longs to the farmers—the fellows who
have been bucking down to the work
in the fields and on the farms. Why
should this not be so? We have tho
richest lands, the most industrious
people and the healthiest climate in
the republic. More than a million
bales of cotton are yet in the sheds
and barns of our farmers, waiting for
that rise we have been expecting, and
It will come, if the farmers will only
stand firm.
They can afford to wait, and should
not be frightened by the schemes of
the bears, Who are using every means
possible to scare the holders of cotton.
"There was never a time when re
formers had a better chance to (lo ef-
fective work than now. With Tom
Watson in tho lead we will triumph
without fail in 190S. Tom Watson
has got the people stirred up to think-
ing and acting as no other man ever
has done in ho short a time. The peo-
ple are the worst disgusted and cow-
ed I ever saw them. There were only
400 votes cast at Kaufman at the late
election, when there ought to have
been 900 or over. They actulally
would not go to the polls. They <1 id
not want lo Vote lor Parker and
would not vote for Roosevelt, and
there was no Watson organization
here. If we had been organized like
we were in 1S96 we could have car-
ried this county for Watson.
I long to see the time come when
the people will exert their independ-
ence. If Jim Hogg would take sides
with us we would do something in
Texas in the next election. Say.
wouldn't Tom Watson and Jim Hogg
make a fine national ticket? I have
lots of confidence in Mr. Hogg, but he
can't do anything in the Democratic
party."—W. S. Osborne, Kaufman,
Texas.
creased. There are 130 counties in the
State in which there are unions, there
being as many as twenty unions and
even more in some counties. Lecturers
and organizers are vigorously at work
in the field organizing new unions and
educating the agricultural masses as
to the aims and ends of the organiza-
tion. The farmer who does not give
the organization his earnest and
thoughtful consideration and support
is,to our way of thinking, standing In
his own light and falling far short of
his duty. All othe elements of produc-
tive industry are organized closely and
compactly, and there is no reason why
the farmers should be the exception.
There are now 130.000 members of the
order and they are all recruiting offi-
cers. No one is eligible to member-
ship who is not a bona fide farmer, an
actual tiller of tho soil. It is non-par-
tlsan in politics, several unions being
officered by Republicans, others by
Populists, still others by Socialists and
the Democrats come in for their share.
No discussion of politics Is allowed in
any union, save in so far as it pertains
to economic questions. The order is
non-sectarian also, the question of a
man's religion or lack of religion
never being considered.
Any farmer or community of fann-
ers desiring to know more about this
worthy organization, its aims, plans,
etc., can got all the information desir-
able by writing to N. C. Murray, presi-
dent, or Newt Gresham, secretary,
Greenville, Texas.
Some weeks ago a news item was
published iu the morning press that
Gov. ,J. S. Hogg had been employed to
represent the Farmers' Union before
the Railroad Commission to secure a
reduction of $1 per bale on cotton on
165 miles and over haul to Galveston.
Gov. Hogg accepted and agreed to rep-
resent the Union, and since then the
matter has apparently been in abey-
ance, but in reality it has not.
One of the most important pieces of
OVER E8TIMATEO SOCIALIST
VOTE.
For weeks past, In fact ever Blnce
the election, the plutocratic press has
been parading the Socialist vote cast
in tbe United States on November 8th,
last, at 600,000. Just why, we can not
divine, unless it be to scaro tho con-
servative voter back into one or the
other of the two old parties. Now, what
aro the real facts about the Socialist
vote cast in the recent National elec-
tion? Taking the figures given by the
Appeal to Reason, and the Chicago So-
cialists, both of which are widely cir-
culated and endorsed as died-in-the-
wool Socialist exponents, papers whose
every impulse would bo to make the
vote as large as posslblo, and we find
they claim only 135,000 in round num-
bers, and their claim is far beyond the
facts. As proof of the unreliability of
tholr claim, they put the Socialist vote
in Texas at 8000 when the returns
as made by tbe State authorities show
only 2,791. For Georgia they claim
600, while tho certified report of the
election commission of the State shows
only 197. In Alabama the vote for
these people was only 853, instead of
2,000 claimed by the official organs of
Socialism. In Virginia their vote was
only 56 instead of 500 claimed in the
435,000 estimate, and the proportion
will hold good through the entire esti-
mate. Really, when tlio returns are
all in and the official voto has been
correct ly made, wo do not expect
the vote to go beyond 100,000 in the
whole United States. All this brag
and boast results from a desire to
frighten the people who want reform,
i but are not willing to go the lengths
' proposed by the Socialists. The pur-
pose is to keep them in one or tho
other of tbe old parties, and continue
tho unjust conditions which result
from the perpetuation of either the Re-
publican or the Democratic party.
Tho intelligent voter will not be de-
eived by such tactics. Neither will he
work at tho Greenville headquarters 1, . , , , . „
since the inception of this movement , <lnven from his demands for justice
has been the preparation of the case ! a prn° ®n the Peoples Party plan
to be presented to the commission.!of rof"rnl- DeeP in the heart of
Tho case will not be brought ljeforo ! fvor;v honest vot^cr in this cotmty thoro
the commission until the legislature j if ,a, , T on(,orSf;'nent of the doctrine
meets in January. At this time an lrn- I "el<J by the Peoples Party, but envir-
mense mass of data will have been ! ODm anrt circ"Jnstances prevent an
accumulated for submission and tho I (.)pen acknowledgement just yet. The
presentation of the case will spring a
sensation from several standpoints.
A reduction of $1 per bale on cotton
to Galveston will, it is claimed by the
Union, save to the farmers of Texas
$2,500,000 per annum. The further
claim is made that Texas pays a high-
er freight, rate on cotton than any
of
REMEMBERING THE RURAL
VOTERS.
Today the nnnual distribution
garden seed will begin at Washing-
ton, anil l'rtr the next few weeks the
mails will be loaded down with "pres-
ents" to the rural voters of influence
throughout the country from their
hired men in the big house in Wash-
ington, tbe.great American Congress.
Of course every voter will
package of seed. Only
" 'fluence" will be remembered. Tlu
day will come, and we think it not far
distant, when the fraud and rottenness
of both the old parties will be so potent
and so unbearable, that tho people will
turn to the Peoples Party, the only
party which offers equal and exact
justice to all and special privilege to
none. That there has been, or ever
other state in the Union, and without! J*"1 1)e a lan<Jslide to Socialism we
reasonable c ause. j haven't the remotest idea.
There Is one thing certain there is Populists should take renewed cour-
going to be the hottest fight before tho ! a,K° work on. and persistently press
Railroad Commission it has ever yer. \ work of education along the lines
had to adjudicate. From the forum of i t'1° °''' Omaha declaration, assured
the commission the fight will be car- j '•'10 Pe°P'e will yet awaken to the
rled into the legislature and from tne ! fuct that tho Peoples Party offers the
legislature into the high court of the ' or,ly tenable position between pluto-
people.
This fight for $1 reduction on tho
cotton rate to Galveston is the little
cloud, no bigger than a man's hand
now, but that bears in its bosom
cyclones and tornadoes that wil shake
Texas from center to circumference.
cracy and a centralized
such as socialism offers.
government
MORGAN'S BUZZ-SAW.
The December issue of Morgan's
Buzz Saw contains sixteen pages filled
with such reading matter as has made I
that paper famous throughout, the r.a- !
not get ai tion. Tobc Spilkins tells how he felt'
those of i when the
POPULAR GAMBLING.
The frequent gambling schemes ap-
pearing in tho. newspapers in every
section of the country causes Rev.
Herbert Bigelow to make the follow-
ing reflections:
"One of our church members told
me that he was competing for the
prizes offered by a Cincinnati paper
for the best guess on the election in
distribution will continue until each of
the senators and representatives has
received his-quota of 12,(too packages
of vegetable and 500 packages of (low-
er seeds.
This seems like a gigantic undertak-
ing and, to some extent, i! is, and the
aggregate cost to the government will
election news hit him after
lie had voted for Parker In order to ! yh'0, atll! that if lie won the big prize
get a post office, and then, in his inl- j
mitnble way, stumbled around over i
the situation that confronts the Deni- j
ocracj. I hero is another chapter in '
the 1 i f e of Polecat Jones in 1
this number, too. Every page'
bristles and scintillates with ;horl.,
epigrammatic sentences and nam.
toot up $250,000. The experts have, graphs that contain volumes in a few
words. Extra copies of this edition I
can be had In quantities of not less
than ten at one cent each. They are
good literature for Populists to distri-
bute. Every one who enjoys reading
a good thing should send for the Buzz-
Saw. The publisher, Mr. Morgan,
wants a good newsboy in every town
to sen the Buzz Saw on commission.
Address Morgan's Buzz-Saw, Hardy
Arkansas.
been busy since August collecting the
best varieties of all staple vegetables.
ranging from watermelons, inuskmel-
ons, cucumbers and the like, to the
finest kinds of peas and corn and the
flower seeds.
The work of collection is now about
complete, the department having on
hand all seeds needed except sweet
corn and u few varieties of beans
which develop late in the season.
This year the department has added
a number of new varieties to the usual
list and has also sent out several new
kinds of fruits and vegetables never
before grown In the United States.
These have been brought from all
quarters of the globe, among them be
ing date seed that have been trans-
ported across the desert of Sahara and
mangoes from India.
The department lias divided the „ * •••■
United States Into six sections and I ... . }° ! epartment of Agriculture
at Washington, which estimates the
DON'T GET FRIGHTENED!
The great slump in the cotton mar-
ket during the past week is calculated
to t righten the cotton producers
throughout the South and induce them
lo throw their cotton on the market,
lest there be greater loss from holding
it. Cotton raisers should keep their
heads and not be made wild by the re
Those who are wishing the Japs suc-
cess in their struggle with Russia will
change their tune if Japan succeeds In
overthrowing Russia In the Far East.
Aready the Japs are pouring their sur-
plus lalwrers Into the western part of
our country. Some even are being
brought to Texas. From a Colorado
paper we learn that the first Install-
ment of 210 Japanese laborers had
Inst arrived at Pueblo and taken work
In the smelters there at 78 cents per
lay of 12 hours, displacing a like num-
ber of American laborers who had
into these will be sent only such seeds
as are peculiarly suited to each.
Hereafter representatives and sena-
tors will be given such seeds as the
experts think will produce the best re
suits in their sections.
There will be one exception to this
rule, however, in favor of senators aud
representatives from tho big cities.
For these statesmen the experts of the
department have prepared a special
set of packages containing the seeds
of flowers that will bloom well in back
yards, alleys and in the window boxes
of tenement and schools.
The first seeds Bent out will go to
the Gulf States, as the farmers and
planters there begin to put in their
crops in February. The States on the
Canadian border are the last served.
FORGING TO THE FRONT.
an
Kgvtng 93.50 per day.
another Installment
The Farmers Union Soon to Be
Important Factor In Texas.
From a private letter from Presi-
dent Murray, of the Farmers Educa-
tional and Co-operative Union of
America, we learn that the organiza-
tion Is in a most prosperous condition.
The growth has been phenomenal.
Starting In an obscure village in Rains
County only two years ago* It has
grown to bo not only State wide in its
territory, but Is fast spreading over tho
entire Southern States. The business
of the headquarters has become so ex-
tensive that a removal was necessary
to a more accessible point and where
adequate facilities could be proceured.
A few months ago the headquarters
were removed from Point, Texas, to
Greenville. The headquarters In
Greenville occupies eleven rooms,
necessary for its constantly Increasing
business and employs sixteen clerks,
which force will shortly have to be ln-
he would give us *a handsome dona
lion. This contingency seems suffi-
ciently remote that we need not now
decide upon the propriety of accept-
ing such a gift. This was as remote
as a wedding fee I was once prom-
ised. After the. wedding the groom
explained that ho had nothing with
which to pay me, but that his wif-> was
expecting a rich inheritance from Eu-
rope and that when ijer ship came in
he would see that I was not forgot-
ten. As he, apparently, had staked
everything on those prospects, it
seemed small in me not to he willing
to take the chance. At any rate, since
tho ceremony had been performed, I
agreed to the terms.
"The essence c,f gambling is this:
A man risks s -"thing in the hope of
gaining more ut the expense of an-
other. The objection to gambling is
two-fold. It is likely to develop into
an uncontrolable vice. Moreover, it is
a wolfish thing in that those who gam-
ble have no hope of gain save by the
misfortune of others.
"Take the newspaper guessing con-
tents. There are three reasons why a
self-respecting man ought not to par-
ticipate in them:
"I. The vulture spirits that, exploit
• he public with these schemes will
find no lack of carrion, but a self-
i respecting man will take some satis- i
I faction that he has not contributed to
I the success of the swindle.
"2. Whoever takes part In the con-
; test must contribute to the prize
money, though it is almost a certainly
that he will get none of it. Those who
do win will probably spend their
money in riotous living or have their
| heads turned by unearned riches; and
i it would be humiliattng to know that
1 one's own money had gone to swell
j the heads and spread the feathers of
I such as these.
"3. Finally, I think of the people
cotton crop of this year at 12 1(12000
bales, or S90.000 more than ever before
raised in the l ulled States.
There is a strong suspicion, and ii Is
not without foundation, that the report
referred to has been "doctored" with
the sole purpose of frightening the
Southern cotton growers into turning'
loose their cotton. Harvey Jordon, the
president of the Southern Cotton Grow-
ers' Association, In an a Idress to the
cotton growers of the South says: !
"The spinners enn well afford lo
pay tin1 producers 12 cents per pound
for every 1 ale of American short staple i
cotton made this season. The price
of yarns has advanced 3 cents per
pound within the last sixty days, and 1 w'm comparative poverty and
an unprecedented demand for eotton
exists, while stocks generally are low-
er than they have been for the past
twenty years. The thing to do now is
to give the markets and shippers a
rest during the next sixty days and
allow present stocks of spot cotton to
be gotten out of the way. l.ct the
spinners who are living from hand to
who grasp at these chances like
drowning men at straws; who attack
their savings, who mortgage their fu-
ture wages, who pawn their keepsakes
that they may buy chances. A pawn-
broker told me that the Cincinnati En-
quirer guessing contest increased his
business $2000 a year. The people fly
into this game like moths into a flame.
mouth run short of cotton and force When it is over they come down to
thetn into the markets as active buy-
ers.
"Let every holder of cotton absolute-
ly stop selling and sit down at home
and quietly contemplate results. Let
each holder put no luoro cotton on the
market until prices advance and never
sell a bale on a depressed market.
"Let country meetings bo held all
over the belt and strong and active
steps be taken to defend this most
valuable agricultural product from the
greed of selfish speculators."
If the people will heed this advice,
we believe that before February 1, the
speculators will be glad to take cotton
at 10c or even higher. At any rate,
there la nothing to be lost by trying U.
earth with a thud. Whoever enters
one Qf these contests says by bis con-
duct. 'I am something of both fool
and knave.' He becomes the patron of
a scheme which subjects the weak and
the thoughtless to temptation In the
vain but vicious hope of reaping a
fortune out of their folly.
"It is well to pay for what one gets,
and*to hope for notlilug which one
cannot earn. If honest industry does
not bring satisfactory rewards, and it
does not, it is better to aid the social
I.-ogress which will prove a blessing
to all. than to be consumed with the
gambler's ambition to win a game
which of necessity means somebody's
loss."
HOW TO REFORM OUR LINE8.
Now when the anxious reform work-
ers are casting about for the best way
to rebuild our organization and estab-
lish our lines for future work, the sug-
gestion from Bro. W. S. Morgan, the
Buzz-Saw editor, is not without merit.
He Bays:
"In the old greenback days we had
the school house campaign. It was
Mie most effective that has ever been
made. People in the rural districts
will turn out to hear a speaker. This
is especially true when there is no
campaign on, during the winter
mouths when the nights are long and
the farmers not rushed with their
work. I remember twenty-four years
ago I used to go on such trips and be
gone for months at a time, speaking
mostly in country school houses.
"I want to organize just such a cam-
paign for this coming winter. My
plan is this:
"I want a dozen or more speakers
who can devote their time to the work
just atj organizers devoted their time
to Alliance work.
"Then I want to hear from counties
that want a series of speeches made.
If there aro three or four counties
lying together it will bo better, as it
will save expenses.
"The speaker, of course, should be
remunerated. Part of these expenses
he would make in taking subscriptions
for Populist papers and selling litera-
ture. lie would have the days to work,
and some good brother could go with
him in a buggy over the neighborhood,
while ho took subcriptions and sold
literature. Of nights he could speak.
He could carry bills with him anil
send runners ahead to post his meet-
ings. It don't take long to get up a
good school house meeting.-
In addition to his commission on pa-
pers and literature, the Populists in
each county should guarantee liim a
reasonable amount. Let him canvass
the county thoroughly, making from 10
to 20 speeches in it, and then go on to
the next. In this way much expense
will be saved.
"In order to get this movement on
foot I should like to hear at once from
speakers, aud from committees who
want a series of speeches made in
their county. I know that during the
old greenback campaigns, which never
ended from one year's end to another,
this plan was a success, and I believe
it can be made a success now. At any
rate I will sustain a bureau for the pur-
pose of furnishing speakers to those
who desire them, and would like to
hear from both speakers and others
who want a series of speeches made."
SUICIDAL POLICY.
"Those whom the gods wish to de-
stroy, they first make mad," is an old
saw, maxim or proverb, whichever you
wish to call it, that some innocents
have asserted was a quotation from tbe
good book. Wherever it is from, or
who said it, it has a great element of
truth in it.
The Farmers' Co-operative Union is
composed of a class of our citizenship
which produces seven-tenths of the ac-
tual wealth of the nation. They have
associated themselves together for pro-
tection against the predatory bands of
middlemen and gamblers who are daily
speculating and gambling in the prod-
ucts of tho farmers, forcing down
prices and compelling tbe owners to
accept, not what, the fanner thinks it
is worth, but what the gamblers see
lit to pay, and the National Govern-
ment lends assistance, probably unwit-
tingly, to tile gamblers by furnishing
them ready-made statistics, every week
or mouth, these statistics being collect-
ed for tho government, not by the man
who grows the cotton, but generally
by a middle man or speculator, him-
self more or loss interested. Throng*
this means the gambler is enabled to
play the game open with a full know-
ledge of how the cards run.
It would seem that every business
man, preacher, and laboring man,
should be interested in the success of
tho farmers in their efforts to get the
best price for their cotton, for every
dollar that is thus placed in his hands
goes directly into the monetary circu-
lation of the community, and every one
is more or loss benefitted. This will
be denied by no one. It is a plain
fact!
Every city or town in Texas is strug-
gling night, and day to bring foreign
capital and foreign manufacturers to
its town. This is all legitimate, and
no oro objects. But what are these
same towns and cities doing to help
the man who is already here, has been
hero all the time, and has made it pos-
sible for the people of the communities
to progress? Aro they offering any
bonuses for any one to come along and
build good roads so as to enable him
to come to town at any time with a full
load? Are they making any effort to
furnish him any accommodations when
he does.-come to town to dispose of his
products? Are they holding meetings
to instruct, their representatives in
Congress lo introduce a bill to utterly
wipe out the gambling fraternity of
Wall Street? Is there any effort being
made by the Boards of Trade, mayors,
governors, or officers of any kind, to
help the farmer get higher prices?
Nobody has heard of such effort. Do
you think any one of these towns could
be induced to appoint a committee to
call on these "lighting calculators"
who are located in towns and cities for
tbe purpose of gathering statistics in
aid of the speculator, and find out. how
he does it? Not much they won't.
These towns and cities, through their
Boards of Trade and business men,
pre busy Inducing foreign capital and
other foreign truck to come and spend
some of their time and money among
them, to think of wasting any time on
the man whose produce keeps bread in
the mouth of all people and the wolf
away from the door. Arlington, Texas,
I believe, is an exception in some re-
spects. I am glad to say, but the ex-
ception proves the rule.
The policy pursued has been sui-
cidal. Through organization, co-opera-
tlon. and hard thinking, the farmer has
come to the conclusion that it is about
time he was looking out for himself a
little bit. He has had a lot of ex-
perience in the past, and while he com-
prises the most cenaervative and law-
abiding class of our citizenship, he has
about resolved that If some one else
doesn't move in the matter of relieving
him of the leeches and barnacles that
are living oft oC his labor, he la
enough to attend to tbe matter him-
self.
It is not the desire of the writer to
advise the farmer, for I believe that
he is perfectly capable of taking care
of himself, but I can predict that un-
less the po. leal bosses of this coun-
try change their methods and cure
these evils, they will witness another
landslide four years from now that will
make the recent ono look "like small
potatoes and few in a hill." Mark my
prediction! There are many Tom Wat-
sons, in faith if not in ability, who will
lend a hand, for the accomplishment of
this purpose.—Marse Bunck, Tarrant
County, Texas.
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the remainder of what were cast.
It is not reasonable to believe that
there wero over 100000 who refused to
vote at all.
Out of the entire list of States there
were only three in which Roosevelt's
vote was smaller than McKInley's aud
Parker's greater than Bryan's. These
were Georgia, Mississippi and Sauth
Carolina. In eight states—Alabama,
Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, North Car-
olina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia—
i)oth Parker and Roosevelt received
fewer votes than Bryan and McKinley,
respectively. In four—Delaware,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and West
Virginia—Parker's vote was larger
than Brayn's and Roosevelt's larger
than McKinley's. In the other thirty,
Roosevelt had more votes than Mc-
Kinley and Parker less votes than
Bryan.
Bryan's Paradoxial Position.
Bryan congratulated McKinley after
saying McKinley would be the ruin
of this country. I didn't do that. It is
always a fight to the finish with me,
and I don't congratulate the fellow
who whips me, either.
There is your Democratic campaign!
Beginning with an endorsement of the
Republican position on tho money
question—which is radically wrong—
and closing with a midnight telegram
heartily congratulating Roosevelt,
whom Mr. Parker had been abusing
24 hours before! Is there any honesty
in that kind of thing? It is playing
politics with sacred principles. You
know it is, as I do. Are you ready to
go forth and strike as I am, for South-
ern independence against such -things
as that and align yourself with the
masses of Jeffersonian Democrats
everywhere, and take the battle axe
in hand and go forth and fight for
these principles?
The Hon. (?) Tom Taggart.
They had a chairman of the na-
tional Democratic executive commit-
tee—Mr. Thomas Taggart of Indiana,
commonly referred to as Tom Taggart.
And who is "Tom" Taggart? Off the
coast of Italy there is a little island
called Monaco, and on that island is
a gambling establishment called Monte
Carlo. It has more victims every year
than almost any gambling establish-
ment. in Europe; it is famous and in-
famous all over the world, as a gamb-
ling hell, and all the world hates it.
Have you such a plant in the United
States? Yes . Where is It? French
Lick Springs, Indiana. And who is the
head of it? Tom Taggart. The big-
gest gambling hell in America Is run'
by the chairman of the Democratic
National Executive Committee. I say
it, and I challenge contradiction from
tho Atlanta Journal, the Augusta
Chronicle, the Macon Telegraph, the
Savannah News, and any other paper.
Tom Taggart is your boss for four
years, and he owns the biggest gamb-
ling establishment in America.
I wonder if any preacher here voted
that way on Tuesday, November 8th,
(Voice, "Yes, I saw them.")
Oh, no; surely not! Surely no preach-
er in this vicinity voted for a party
whose banner was held in the hands
of a man who runs the biggest gamb-
ling hell in America! If so, let him
go home tonight and fall down on his
knees and ask God to forgive him.
(Laughter and applause.)
Controlled by Standard Oil Trust.
Who else is a leader in the National
Democratic party for four years? Na-
tional, now. mind you. I will he ex-
tremely tender in dealing with the lo-
cal Democracy. Who else is the head
of it? Why, here is Pat McCarren,
boss of the Democratic machine in the
great state of New York. McCarren,
besides being a low politician of the
modern spoils system type, is the paid
lobbyist, from year to year, of the
great Standard Oil Company. Is that
denied? He himself doesn't deny it.
Thomas W. Lawson offered to pay
$100,000 into the Democratic campaign
fund if McCarren would deny, under
oath, that lie v. as 41ie paid lobbyist of
the Standard Oil trust, and he never
did deny it! (Cheers.)
Who else? There's August Belmont,
head of one of the national banks of
Wall street; one of tho men who was
in the midnight deal with Grover
Cleveland Bold to those consiprators
your bonds at private sale. And for
what price? For a smaller price than
many a New England town gets for
its bonds; for a similar price that the
negroes get for their bonds in Jamaica!
And he is one of your leaders for the
next four years. You can't get rid of
him; he is there. And the splendid
manhood of the South, the pure man-
hood of the South, are asked to follow
that party.
Time for Plain Talk.
This is a time for some plain speak-
ing, a time to use our heads for some-
thing besides hat pegs. Our eyes ought
to see, and our hearts ought to feel
something besides selfishness.
This is a start for four years (cries
"we are with you, Tom) and we mnst
start out right.
Let's see; there are eight preachers
In Thomson. How many voted for
Swallow? (A voice, "one.") How many
voted for Watson? (Cries of "one.")
The other six then followed Tom Tag-
gart. the gambling hell man. Are you
sure of that, boys? We must not make
a mistake, for this Is a powerful fact.
(Cries, "we are sure of It.") Where
is the preacher who voted for me. I
want to put him on exhibition here to-
day. (Rev. S. A. Walker was grasped
by the arm of a comrade and carried
up on the rostrum amid loud applause.)
"An old Confederate soldier.'* said
Mr. Watson," and the sole preacher
who voted for Swallow was a Con-
federate soldier." (Loud applause.)
Let me call your attention to another
fact. During the campaign of Harri
son and Cleveland there was not a
single Republican banner displayed on
Wall street, and in the recent cam-
paign there were three great Parker
banners streched on Wall street, and
no Republican banners were to be
seen. This showed that the plutocratic
element and beneficiaries of special
privileges were behind the candidacy
of Parker.
Democratic Lies.
On the very eve of the election on
Tuesday, they charged that I had made
a fusion with the Republicans; that I
was'a secret ally of Roosevelt's. On
the next morning here came the bal-
lots, and by their own count, Roose-
velt got more votes In Georgia than I
did. If there had been a fusion what
would have been the case? If Roose-
velt got 24,000 votes, as they say he
did, and 1 got 23.000 votes, 3s they
say I did, then half of the Roosevelt
ticket and half of the Watson ticket
would have got 47,000 votes. And, by
tho Democratic count, every Republi-
can voto went in the Republican col-
umn where it belonged, and all my
votes went In my column where they
belonged. (Applause.) In other words,
they lied about it And did they apol-
ogize? No. Any old lie against me
goes.
Railroad Monopolies.
Do we want reform or not? Do we
waut conditions changed or not? At
the present time the railroads have
more power than the government—the
railroads, the telephone and telgraph
companies. In all fields of industry
they exact their tribute, and all the
lines we have in Georgia are today run
down. The tracks are in bad fix, tha
bridges in bad shape, the road bed
bad , railroad accommodations miser*
able—where you have to wait out in
the rain at night to take the car; no
privacy for whites or blacks, men, wo*
men or children—nothing. They hand
out to you anything they want to. They
have today the same accommodations
practically on the Georgia railroad and
the Central railroad that they had 40
years ago. In the effort to get divi-
dends on watered stock, the railroads
are robbing the producer on the one
hand and tho employe on the other.
On the Georgia railroad recently they
have had their train crews out from
25 to 36 hours, the result being that
they had collisions and accidents and
smasliups. Here are single tracks
where there should be double tracks,
with collisions of constant occurrence,
and the other day the Coast Line rail-
road declared a dividend of 25 per cent
—put in the pockets of the railroad
magnates of Wall street—and at the
same time almost from one end of the
line to the other there was a streak
of territory not one mile of which was
free from the stain where some man
or woman had poured his or her life
blood, which could have been avoided
by that railroad?
The national government pays tha
railroads $65,000,000 to carry youi
mails.
Another Whopper.
A friend of mine sent me the othei
day a little clipping from one of hia
rural delivery magazines. And right
here Boykin Wright inspired the Au-
gusta Chronicle to say that while I
was in office I never did anything for
the people. I was in congress once.
The Democrats said they couldn't
stand it any longer, and the Republi-
cans conferred with the Democrats,
and they unanimously, vociferously,
emphatically said, "You git up and
git!" and I got.
And now this little pusillanimous
sheet published in August, backed by
corruption money, says I never did
anything for the people, whereas, to-
day. from one end of the country
to the other is a testimonial showing
where, after I was defeated, I put
through congress the first appropria-
tion that this government ever made
for the rural free delivery! I say if
the government will take from the rail-
roads part of the outrageous price
they pay for carrying the mails we
could put an R.. F D. box at the home
of every man in this country.
Gentlemen, it is the most sickening
record on earth. You sit here and
take anything Democratic papers see
fit to give you.
Bryan Condemned by His Own Written
Statements.
Mr. Watson read several selections
from Mr. Brayn's book, "After the first
Battle." which clearly showed that
Mr. Bryan in the support of Judge
Parker during the recent campaign,
had repudiated what he had written
only a few years ago.
He quoted from pages 123 and 124
in regard to the demonetization of sil-
ver, where Mr. Bryan asserted that ho
would not support the gold standard
yet he did so in Judge Parker's cam-
paign.
He read from Page 125, where Mr.
Bryan declared that when an unfit
a man should bolt his party/' Mr.
Bryan declared that when an outfit
man was nominated, a voter should
bolt the party. Mr. Bryan said Judge
Parker was unfit for the nomination,
yet he did not bolt. Also when a party
changed its principles, a man ought, to
bolt The Democratic party changed
its principles at St. Louis, but Mr,
Bryan refused to bolt.
Bryan book (page 125) declared thai
it was impossible for a national con-
vention to harmonize discordant ele
ments in the Democratic party and
that it could not serve God and Mam-
mon. Page 126 of the same book,
pointed out that if it yielded to plutoc-
racy it would lose. It yielded to th«
plutocrats when it nominated Parkei
declared Mr. Watson, and it lost, jus!
as Mr. Bryan said it would in his book,
but Bryan yielded, too, and he lost.
Pages 460 and 461 of Mr. Bryan's
book declared that a money trust was
more cruel and heartless than a for
eign power, and Mr. Bryan said h«
would resist it, but he did not do II
for when the test came he went with
the party and left the people. Mr. Bry-
an says the party must now come back
to Populist principles; why does he not
come with us? Why play politics? ii
we agree In principles, why not get to
gether?
Now what do we want to do? W«
want an income tax. Did it ever occur
to you that you paid all the taxes?
Every man here who is dressed in a
decent suit of clothes pays a tax on
every article that he wears; your
clothing represents a tax of from 12.50
tot 926, depending on what you hare
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