Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, September 17, 1904, PART 1, Page 7, Image 7
THE OMAtIA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. BErTEMnEK 17."100r TEARS DEMOCRACY'S 1IASR Candidate Watwu (htahines Brj&n fcs a ' Political Spellbinder. . HOT SHOT FOR HIS FORMER PARTNERS tirrlaft and Eloqaent peh By the "Jefteraon of iwvt" Wrala Those .Who WooM Betray th Ideals of 1TTO." Hon. Thomas Watson. popullat candidate for president, noted- a a -free- Jane In politics, sustalne hla reputation by deliv ering acme hard knocks at the older par tita. Mr. Watson Is rartleularly fervid and eloquent In dressing down hla former associates, the democrats, whom he charges with grossly betraying the Interests of tha plain people. As an associate of Mr. Bryaa on the ticket of 189 Mr. Watson knows whereof he speaks, and 'he speaks out in meeting, too. Bpeaklng to a multitude of his party as' soelates at Atlanta, On., a few days ago, the populist leader said: "In this campaign the democratic na tional leaders have prostituted the narrie of democrat and are demanding that they ahall be blindly followed. In spite of the fact that they have renounced every prin ciple of democracy. Will the teal demo crats follow the name rather than the prin ciple)? "In the south we are told that we must submit' to the surrender to Wall street because, of 'the nigger.' What a blessed thing -It-is for democratic leaders .that they always have 'the nlgge,r" to fall back on. For thirty years they have been doing business on 'the nigger' and today he la their only .stock In trade. ''Hypocrisy in Platforms. "Note the hypocrisy of It. In their na tional platform of 1872 they solemnly pro tested their allegtanoe to tho doctrine of 'equality' regardless of race or color, and pledged themselves to maintain tha eman cipation and the enfranchisement of the blacks. "In .IK78 at St. Louis Henry Wattcrson being; chairman of the convention they srt emnly declared their devotion to the con stitutional amendment growing out of the civil war. ' "In 180, in 1S84, In 1888. the national con ventions of the democratic party reaffirmed these declarations on the negro question, and thus stood pledged to oppose any re opening of the questions settled by th thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments. 'Yet, after all these formal pledges, we are now .browbeaten and Intimidated by democratic leaders who say we mast endorse, their capitulation to Belmont, David B. Hill and Fat McCarren, because of tn nigger.' What can the southern negro do? He has been disfranchised In nearly very . southern state, excepting Georgia, and In Georgia he has been 'white prl marled.' In Oeorgia they-do not dare to disfranchise him because the men who control the democratic machine in Oeor gia know that the majority of the. whites are against them. They need the negro vote to beat us with. For that reason the Georgia senate a few days ago, killed, tha Australian ballot law which would have thrown the elections entirely In the hands of th whites, .Why do democrats In Geor gia refuse to disfranchise the blacksT Why do they kill election laws which would Insure the political obliteration of the blacks T There can be but ne answer. Organised democracy In Georgia cannot be maintained by the white vote. Therefore, the cry that we are In danger from 'th nigger' is the most hypocritical that un scrupulous leadership could Invent. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, with all their armies, could not reverse the law of na ture In the prostrate south. The white man Is master wherever he plants hla foot the ' world over. Do you tell me that boose ' Velt can do against the recuperated south what Thad Stevens could not do against th exhausted south? Roosevelt could not do It even If he would. Foollnar the Plain People. "Th democratic leaders- whp talk this stuff, and the editors who write it, laugh and wink at one another as they pass; they know what a humbua- It all in. an A bow It Is being used to make tha people xorget, or condone, the inglorious surren der to Wall street which they made at St. Louis. In the West VI convention the state of the demoeratlo nominee for vice president, the 'white su premacy' resolution was voted down and on August 1, 1904, Judge Parker himself, In writing to the negro. James A. Boss, addressed him as 'My Dear Sir,' Just as inougn Koaa had been a white man. "The south should demand to know th facts about Judge Parker. How does ho stand upon this alleged question? Is his position at all different from that of Roose velt? If so. In what respect? The south should demand explicit reply to the follow ing questions before it votes for him upon tne assumption that he differs from Roose velt on the negro question: "First Would you refuse to eat at the, ame table with Booker Washington? , "Second Would you refuse to appoint ne groes to office In the south? "Third If elected will you refuse to e eelve on terms of equality at the Whit House such negroes as Bishop Turner. Booker Washington and T. Thomas For tune? "Fourth Do you approve of the mixnd schools of New Tork, Inaugurated under drover Cleveland in which social equality la praotlcolly made a matter of compul sion? "Fifth If such schools, wherein black children and whit children are educated together, are a good thing for your natlv Stat of New Tork, would they b a good thing for Georgia and South Carolina? If Dot, why not? Surrender to Wall Street. "Why did national democratic leaders surrender to Belmont and Wall street? "Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia let the oat out of th bag when he declared In th committee on resolutions' that he was tired of being fn the minority 1' Not afraid of Roosevelt's mlllUrdorat No. Not afraid of Roosevelt nlggrlsm? No. All that Is fudge and subterfuge. "Tired of being In the minority,' there vwas the milk in the ocoanut. "Not tired of being in the wrong? ' No. He did not even prtnd that he had bn In th wrong. Simply because they are ready to drop the principle which they . awore for eight year were right, and to adopt those which even now they do not dare say are right. Great God! What an attitude for th leader of a great national tarty. t I "Mert cf th south, will you follow th lead of those who have renounced Jeffer- eonlac principles and for no better reason than that they are tired of being h minority?" You are not bound by their actions. Agents, who misrepresent .their principles should be'rcpudlated In politics as writ aa In- business. Revolt sgalnst this surrender. Let your , stewards know that whenever they go wrefng they must aoriUht to you. their masters. "Patty names to me are nothing. The doctrine Is everything. I call up all Jef fersonlan democrats to help me make this fight against -the two republican parties, headed by Roosevelt and Parker. What do we need with two parties committed to Wall street! Let us hav on fot th peo ple. "Why should Georgians' support Parker of New York rather than a fellow Georg ian? What do you know of Parker? What haa he done that waa notable? What baa he ever aald that was memorable? What haa he ever written that atamped him with individuality? i ' "David B. Hill declared at St Louis that he had been Intimate with Parker for thirty years, and that he did not know how Par ker stood on the money question. Was this statement true? If so, Parker Is th most negative public act on th American conti nent. Was the statement false? If so. David B. Hill In the boldest liar between the twe oceans. Think of a man living on intimate terms with Alec Stevens and Abe Lincoln for thirty years and not knowing where he stood on the greatest political questions of the day. game Old Cry "Democrats are told that they muat sup port the national ticket this time, and that we will U go to work for reform after the election. It is the same old cry, 'Vote for us this time!'. How can any man reasonably hope to secure reforms In the demoeratlo party when we see It bossed by the same old Wall street which de bauched Cleveland's second administration? Bryan has been fighting fop reform Inside the party and Is further off from success than ever before. At St. Louis every empty honor that was worth absolutely nothing was given to southern leaders. In return for childish gratifications, chairmanships, etc., they delivered both the south and the west to Wall street. Southern leader who should never have done it, denounced Bryan In committee and on the floor and helped to knife the Jeffersonlans. Oh, the shame of It) And now because Dave Hill allowed John Sharp Williams to have a chairmanship and John W. Daniel a chair manship the whole south muat be driven under th lash of party discipline away from the gospel f our fathers and Into political Blavery to the Hamiltonians of New York "Let each choose for himself, but let him understand that If he do violence to sens of right, , the whipcords of outraged con science are as certain a fate. ., "Better far to stand In the minority In th outer darkness with the stars of heaven smiling down upon you and the infinite peace of God in your, hear than to hold a guilty seat In the banquet hall of the victors whose triumph fills your sou! with th damning conviction that you have helped at. th victory of th wrong." Dangerous "Fooling;-' A bit of dangerous "fooling" on a Chest nut Hill park car in Philadelphia carries Its vivid warning to other thoughtless young, people The motorman, August Burkhart, was fixing the headlight on his oar when a party of young men and women got aboard. On of th party dared a girl . to turn on the current- She ac cepted the . challenge, went to the front platform, applied the current and the car started with a lurch. The motorman was thrown from his' -feet, -bat grabbed the fender, and begged the girl to turn off th . current. She . became frightened, Jumped from the moving ear, and was followed by her companions. The un controlled car collided with another car with terrific force, cruahlng Burkhart, whose leg had to be amputated, and his death Is likely. No .on can envy tha Illy girl who accepted . a lawless "dare" and then ran away from It consequences with her companions all cowards. It la to be bobed that all of them will be cap tured and brought to book. 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