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NOMINATING SPEECHES
At St. Louis.—Howard of Alabama;
Amazon Murphy of Georgia and
L Others Tell of Tom Watson.
B ALABAMA TOR WATSON.
■ The name of Alabama was called
Bor the second nomination from that
fctate, and Mr. Howard took the plat
form and said:
r “Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
Ithe Convention: We have often
peen the storm clouds gather and
•rise above the horizon; we have heard
the thunders roll and seen the light
ning flash, and then the silver drops
began to fail on the earth, and after
iwh.de the storm would roll away,
md the rainbow of promise would
come out in the sky. Today, and
luring this convention, we may have
lad some stormy scenes, my friends,
>ut I am glad that the lightning
lashes have been harmless, as they
lave fallen upon the crested helmets
>f the true knights of the People’s
>arty (applause), and now I am glad
hat the storm has all passed away,
md that the rainbow of promise
ipans the American continent. (Ap
ilause.) My friends, another storm
iloud has gathered, and a man has
iome forward in our dire extremity
;o lead the people out of bondage
nto the land of freedom. lam glad
oday, my friends, that he has been
lominated, and I see a disposition
lere that we will stand by this party
md protect it.”
I “My friends, the grand old ship
if the People’s party will sail on un
lit it will reach the harbor of safety.
.want now the privilege of naming
i man who will be one of the pilots
in board of this ship of the People’s
rty, and who will steer it into the
rbor of safety. He is a man who
s suffered in the cause; a mm who
s sacrificed his money and his
xe for its good; a man who has
rne the cross and who should wear
i crown. (Applause). A man
o has been the friend of his fel
;-men and who is known through
of Georgia and throughout
as a true friend of his fel-
K’l no ruinate for the effioe of vice
president of the United States Thom
as E, Watson of Georgia.” (Great
applause.)
When Arkansas was called the
chairman of that delegation an
nounced that Hon. J, R. Sovereign
would speak for Arkansas. He took
the stand and seconded the nomina
tion of Watson.
When California was called the
chairman of that delegation an
nounced that her representative had
been chosen in the person of Joseph
Ashbury Johnson of San Francisco,
who took the platform and also sec
onded Watson.
GEORGIA NAMES WATSON.
The secretary resumed the call of
the roll of states, with Connecticut,
which had no candidate, and the
states of Delaware and Florida was
passed without any oratory. When
Georgia was reached Mr. Murphy
from that delegation came upon the
platform and said:
“Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gen
tlemen of the Convention: If you
will give me your ear for just a short
while, Georgia—one member from
Georgia—will attempt to <£lk some
sense to this convention. Let me
promise by saying that I am from
Georgia and an original Bryan man-
Let me say further that I was made
a Populist when Geogia people rot
ten-egged General Weaver. (Cheers.)
Let me say that I was made a Popu
list when I, as a Democrat, was
forced in the city of Atlanta to pro
tect Tom Watson from the same in
sult. (Applause.) I was born into
Populism from patriotic motives. It
was the intolerance of the Demo
crats of Georgia that led me into the
Populist party. Some of you peo
ple do not understand the situation
in the south. My friend Pence from
New York spoke of the great con
test of Lincoln and Hamlin. I
thought, my friends, that this con- |
vention had destroyed Mason and
Dixon's line. (Loud cheering.)
‘Fellow citizens, the time has
come when you people from the
north, and you people from the west
must aid us in keeping the integrity
and the power of the organization c«f
H EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL ; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NOXE”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 189 G,
the Populist party of the south.
(Cheers.) We have in our delega
tion a black African. (Cheers.) The
Populists stand for the rights of the
colored people in Georgia. (Cheers.)
The Democrats say they are the best
friends of the colored men, but they
cannot allow him in cflloe, and they
count him out every time. Now,
fellow citizens, I come here, as my
Georgia colleague will tell you, a
Bryan man, from patriotic motives-
My friend Pence has said something
about patriotism. Now, I insist that
the Democratic party be as patriotic
as the Populistic party. (Cheers.)
I insist that the Populist party should
not go all the way. (Cries of “Good,
that’s right,” “That’s the stuff-”)
Why, my fellow citizens, you must
have Tom Watson for vice presi
dent. (Che’ers.) You must have
Bryan for president, (Cheers.) Let
us have this platform, and my word
for it, we will go back to Georgia
and we will carry that state by 25,000
votes. (Cheers.) So wall? Can’t
the Democrats take Mr. Se wall down
if he is not patriotic enough to come
down himself? (Cheers.) Sanator
Jones, of Nevada, said to me—and
he said it eloquently, as our chair
man here knows he can say it—he
said: ‘Murphy, be patriotic; rise
above men; above party.’ I sail:
‘Senator Jones, be patriotic; rise
above party, rise above men; let us
divide the thing.’ (Cheers and
laughter.)
“My fellow citizens, is that not
sense? That is what we call corn
bread sense down there on the red
hills of Georgia. (Laughter and
cheers ) Sewall! They want it all.
“Fellow citizens, let me tell you
something about Tom Watson.
There is not a brighter man in all
Georgia, in all the south, in all the
country. Sam Jones, of whom you
all have heard, says he is a Bourbon
Democrat, a Cleveland Democrat,
and you know that he is something
on a speech himself. He says that
Tom Watson is the most magnificent
and the greatest stump orator on the
American continent today. My
friend, Judge Allen, says there is not
i. a man there who will question his
• ability. Bryan never saw the day
s that he could swing an audience as
e can Tom Watson. You all know
) ibout his politics, ft is as pure as it
I is bright. It is: true. As to his per
il sonal character, not a man stands
1 higher in Georgia. There is not an
, orator in the state of Georgia but is
afraid to meet him on the stump—
i not one. Now, he is the man, in my
• humble judgment, that will hold the
; Populists in the south together. I
t don’t want to take up the time of
i this convention by making further
I talk, but I appeal to you to give us
1 Bryan and Tom Watson, and the
, Democratic party will take down the
i name of Sswall as certain as we ad.
t journ to go home.” (Applause.)
INDIANA SECONDS WATSON.
i The clerk continued the calling of
; the roll until Indiana was reached.
I When Indiana was called, Mr. Stock
i wall took the platform and said:
i “Mr Chairman and Members of this
Convention: Indiana wishes to sec
ond the nomination of a man that is
i known from ocean to ocean and
■ loved from the lakes to the gulf by
every laborer in the United States a
man who has been instrumental in
teaahing Populist principles through
out Indiana more than any other one
man, and whom we have learned to
love for the principles he has advo
cated. He has been twice fairly
elected to a seat in the lower house
of congress and as often counted out.
If he cannot be permitted to serve in
humble capacity in the lower house,
we propose to call him up higher
and let him preside over the senate
of the United States. Andrew Jack
son was respected and loved because
of his integrity and his fearlessness
in times of danger. The man whom
I shall name is the prototype of
“Old Hickory.’
“The gentlemen of the newspaper
fraternity will appreciate his pluck
when I tell them that he is engaged
in the conduct of a Populist paper,
for they all know that to conduct a
Populist paper and lose money every
week takes a man of pluck. I think
I could prove that by every Popu-
list newspaper man in the United
States. I know whereof I speak, for
I am one of them myself.
‘“When I go back to my constitu
ents in Indiana, to the men who have
spent the last dime they had for lit
erature in order that they might find
out what was the matter with them,
some of whom went down into the
pockets of their overalls, overalls
with only one suspender, they will
welcome the news when I tell them
that the man I have in mind has
been added to the ticket for their
support. You all know who I mean,
and his name is Tom Watson.”
MAINE DENOUNCES SEWALL.
Prof. L. C. Bateman, of Maine, the
Populist candidate for governor,
nominated Marion Page, of Virginia,
president of the Farmers’ Alliance
of that stite. In doing so he pro
tested in behalf of the entire Maine
delegation against Sewall’s nomina
tion. He had nothing against Mr.
Sewall personally, he said, but he
objected to the nomination of a man
who had not one particle of sympa
thy with the principles of the Peo
ples’ party, save the one minor ques
tion of silver. The story has been in
dustriously circulated that Sewall was
a greenbacker. That he never was,
Prof. Bateman said. He was, how
ever, instrumental in arranging a
fusion of the Democratic and Green
back forces in Maine, and, by doing
so, he accomplished the destruction
of the Greenback party. The speak
er declared that the Maine Central
railroad, of which Sewall was presi
dent, had reduced wages. “In the
name of the Populists,” he shouted,
“I ask you not to press this bitter
chalice to our lips.” Replying to
to Mr. Pence, he said that to couple
the name of Sewall with Peter Coop
er was an insult to the memory of
the noble philanthropist.
R. B. Taylor, of Michigan, sec
onded the nomination of “That grand
statesman, that able soldier in the
battle of humanity, Thomas E. Wat
son, of Georgia.”
Michigan also yielded to S. D.
Walton, a colored delegate-at-large
from Georgia, who also seconded
Watson's nomination “in the interest
of all the common people of his state
and of the south.” He said Tom
Watson had made it possible for the
black man to vote according to his
conscience in Georgia.
Frank A. Fogg, of Michigan, sec
onded Mr. Sewall. He brought out
an avalanche of hisses by saying that
when he had undertaken to walk in
the middle-of-the-road he had been
allowed to sleep in the middle-of the
road, and that his campaign expenses
had never been paid. Continuing
the relation of experience, he said
that when he was a candidate Sew
all had sent him SSOO for campaign
expenses. The speech was not at
all to the liking of the convention
and Mr. Fogg left the platform amid
a storm of jeers and hisses.
DONNELLY IS BITTER.
Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota,
eloquently seconded Watson's nomi
nation in behalf of his state. The
whole movement, he said, was caused
by an insurrection against the money
lenders, and it would be folly to
nominate a man worth $6,000,000
and interested in half the railroads of
New England. The Populists of
the country, he declared, rather than
vote for such a man, would see him
500 miles below the lowest pit of
hell. He expressed the hope that
Watson’s nomination would be made
unanimous. They were “willing to
swallow Democracy gilded with the
genius of a Bryan,” but they “could
not stomach plutocracy in the body
of Sewall.”
A l<i TO 1 GAVEL
Pretty Toy Presented to the Con
vention by a Colored Man.
St. Louis, July 21.—The presid
ing officer of the Populist convention
will wield a 16 to 1 gavel. It was
presented to the national committee
today by S. D. Walton, a colored
delegate from Georgia, as the gift
of J. T. Young of that state. The
gavel has sixteen tips of silver and
one one of gold and it is made of
oak, walnut and ash, contributed
from sixteen western and one east
ern state ton presented
the and it was
applause.
NUMBER 46.
The Silver Convention
When in January last the call was
issued for a silver convention the
necessity for such a convention was
apparent.
The indications were that the Re
publican party would declare in
favor of the present gold standard
and the continuation of the prevail
ing distress, and the Democratic
party would either do the same, or
repeat the performance of 1892,
adopt a straddle plank which could
be claimed to favor silver coinage be
fore election and gold after the elec
tion. This silver convention wis
called to meet on the same day with
the Populist convention and its pur
pose was to unite all the opponents
of the gold standard under one banner
and upon one electoral ticket.
The Republican party did meet
and declare in favor of gold. But
the Democrats, impressed with the
silver movement, did the (in Janu
ary) unexpected thing and declared
for a financial policy opposed to the
Republicans and at variance with
the party record. Since the avowed
and only purpose of the proposed
silver convention was to compel one
of the political parties to declare in
favor cf silver, there was nothing
for the convention to do, and it was
useless to hold it.
But it did meet, and for what pur
pose?
Called to order at the same time
that the Populist convention was rap
ped to order, the silverites continued
in session day after day, with no
business to transact. Thatt his was
done for a purpose was plain to
everybody, but it does not appear
that the purpose for which it was
done was as well understood.
But it is all plain now, and the
events have justified the prediction
made by the Tribune, which was,
that the convention was killing time
in order to endorse the Democratic
ticket just before the Populist con
vention should come to a vote, in
hopes of then stampeding the Popu
lists into a like course.
This was the program, and it was
carried out to the letter.
That the hard headed Populisti
refused to be stampeded does not de
tract from the brilliancy of the
scheme. But it was an utter failure.
In only one thing has it been a
success. It has shown conclusively
that the silver men want silver if on«
of the old parties will give it, but
they had rather for the country to
go to hades than to see the old par
ties lose control of the government,