The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 13.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1904
NUMBER 20
WATSON IN NEW YORK
RE VIE WS THE SI TUA TION
nominee whereas lie submit- to them
ment Has Begun.
I Bryan's 47 different systems of gov-
Jumping From 50,000 to 500,000 Votes Show the Move- ernf,nent "iiroad.; they may not be
r & 7 in favor of some other p'anks in his
j platform. Be that as it may, Mr.
j Bryan lias no more right at the pres-
j ent time to say what the Democratic
platform shall be in 1908, than any
i other distinguished democrat. For
the next four years the democratic
creed must remain what the St.
Louis convention of 1904 made it, and
the machinery of the party must re-
main in the hands of the men who
nowhold it The air still rings with
the eloquence with which Mr. Bryan
endorsed the candidate of the St.
GOES HOME TO CARRY HIS STATE
when they put up a plutocratic nomi-
nee. From a party so hopelessly
divided, it is th ■ rankest folly, in my
judgment to e::pect any reforms.
From year to year it is a dreary go
round an! round of one factio \ light-
ing and other faction, each of which
alternately whips the other and
neither of which ever whips the
enemy.
WILL CO-OPERATE WITH ANY JEFFER- j
SONIAN.
I should only be too glad to co-oper- j
ate on parallel lines and honorable!
months and got half a million votes.
The men who followed ine are men of
conviction, earnest' enthusiastic,
j united. Parker started out with
| about seven million votes aud lost
I some two millions in the campaign,
j Those who followed him are detnor-
j alized and disheartened. Discourage-
j ment? The democratic camp is the
I place wher that is to be found.
THOS. E. WATSON.
Nov. 14, 1904.
PETE LOGAN KILLED
terms with any Jeffersonian democrat
During the past week the national1 masses got the opportunity to vent
Parker Smashed Because a Cleveland Man—First Time Votes
Had a Good Chance at Cleveland Bond Deal—In 1908 Re-
publicans Will Have Genuine Opposition -There will be a
true Jeffersonian Party—Democratic Party turns its coat too Louis convention, spoke of him as the
often-Parker Lost 2,000,000 Democratic Voters and party Moses of democracy, spoke of Park
.nt .t-> \r hjt r> r~> i i~ . 1 er's ideals as his own ideals, and pro-
Belongs to Belmont Four Years More-Bryan Cannot Get claimed thc sincerity with which he
It. We can Smash 'em in 1908, if we go to work; Watson was advocating both the platform
will work ant' t'ie nom'nee ^'r- Bryan
himself will remain for four years as
much bound by the action of the St.
Louis convention as he was when he
made his whirlwind trip through
Indiana. If the action of the con-
vention bound him then, it binds him
now The election didn't release him.
He can only be released by another
national convention; and that nation-
al convention will not meet until 1908.
Therefore, when Mr. Bryan cuts
loose from a platform which he so
recently asked the people to endorse
in behalf of Judge Parker, he takes a
position which is that of Bryan, the
individual, and whichcannot bind any
other democrats whatsoever. For
four years the democratic party has
got to stand by the action of the St.
Louis convention, whether they wis1!
to do so or not What they did there
is official and binding. Mr. Bryan
himself gave it his sanction. Again,
Mr. Bryan has no substantial reason
for believing that he can ever get the
national Democratic party to adopt
the Populist program which he has
just formulated The democratic
party .lever did do it and never will.
The plutocratic element has just as
much power within the party now as
it had when the St. Louis convention
met Indeed, it has more. It has all
the machinery now which the Bryan
men then had; it has the same con-
like Mr. Bryan or Mr. Hearst or i
George Fred Williams to accomplish 111 Scilfflillg Witll Ills BfOthSF
over a loaded Shot Gun,
and the New York tmd New Jersey
headquarters people had a confer-
ence in New York City with Hon.
Thos. E. Watson, the candidate for
president, and from that meeting Mr.
Watson sent out the following as his
statement of the situation:
"It should be borne in mind that at
the time the Springfield convention
tendered me the presidential nomin-
ation, the Peoples Party had had no
existence as a factor in national poli-
tics for eight years. In the Presi-
dential election of 1900 it gave to its
nominee only 50,000 votes. To that
extent had the fusion of 1896 swallow-
ed up a movement which in 1894
counted nearly two millions of votes
and about 1500 active newspapers,
therefore we had to bui'd from the
grouud np in 1904. We had almost
nothing to start with in the way of
party organization, campaign fund
and newspaper support; we had only
three months in which to work.
These things being first considered
some fair idea of what was accom-
plished can be had only when the
ofHcal returns are known. Up to this
time no official statement has been
made of the vote, and I can only
guess what it was from information
conveyed to me by friends in various
parts of the country. These sources,
of course, are not very reliable.
Basing an estimate upon them, how
ever, my opinion is that I received
something like half a million votes
scattered through s'o many states,
North and South, Ea-t and West,
country and town as to indicate that
the sentiment which gives its moral
support to the People's Party is
national and not sectional. I have
found everywhere that the current
was strong and deep in favor of Jef-
fesonian Democracy. I believe to-
day that if all those who believe in
that theory of Government could be
united in harmonious political ac
tion, we could sweep the country.
NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF TRUSTS.
Mr. Roosevelt's overwhelming
majority was not so much due to fact
that our people believe in class legis-
lation and the reign of special privi-
lege. It was not by any means an en-
dorsement of corporation tyranny,
the greed of the trusts, or the
methods of capital. I sincerely be-
lieve that Mr. Roosevelt's majority
over Mr. Parker was due to two
things, one was the immense personil
popularity of Mr. Roosevelt himself,
and the other was the immense un-
popularity of Mr. Cleveland's second
administration.
upon a national candidate the in-
tense hatred which they had been
nursing for years against such men
as Olney and Belmont and Carlisle
and Cleveland himself. They knew
that I could not be elected and they
were too eager to make the best of the
opportunity to safeguard the country
against a repetition of that saturn-
alia of class legislation which mark-
ed Cleveland's second administration
that they rushed to Roosevelt and
gave him a majority which does not
under ordinary circumstances belong
to the Republican Party. In other
words the personality of Mr. Roose-
yelt and the unpopularity of Parker's
environment carried into the Repub-
lican columns vast multitudes of men,
who under ordinary circumstances
would not be found there.
My own plans for the fu'ure em-
brace a complete organization of the
people along the lines of Jeffersonian
democrecy, the re-establishment of
reform papers, and a sjstematic pro-
paganda of Jeffersonian principles,
in order that in 1908 there shall be a
party of genuine opposition to the
Republican .Party and its present
policies If political history teaches
anything it is that old parties never
accomplish any reform unless they
are irresistibly driven to it by pres-
sure from without. I hope at least to
be of some use to my country in aid-
ing those who will apply that pressure.
It is immaterial to me who does the
work which the reformers want done
so 'hat the work itself is done.
a purpose which is common to us all
but I believe that the best way to
assure the final success of the reform
movement is for us to build up a par-
ty of Jeffersonian democracy on a
solid foundation where unity of sen-
timent goes hand in hand with unity
of purpose, and where, therefore
some hope of accomplishing that
which we wish to accomplish can be
reasonably entertained.
In the south, there are peculiar
reasons why the present policy of the
democratic leaders should be defeated
and a better line of policy accepted.
For the last twenty or thirty years
the democratic machine politicians
have made that great section a mere
tool in the hands of Wall Street an.I
Last Saturday evening about eight
o'clock on the road near the Bri.-co
place on the Ten Mile Flat, Bob and
Pete Logan, brothers, while engaged
in a scuttle over a loaded shot gun the
gun was discharged the content . of
which entered Pete's body under the
arm killing him almost instantly.
Last Sunday morning J. D. Grigsby,
acting as >ioroner, held an inquest
and the verdict was that the deceased
came to his death by the accidental
discharge of a gun. It is reported
that the brothers were considerably
under the inlluence of liquor at the
time accident occurred, Bob having
the gun and wanting to go to Brisco's
a handful of eastern democrats who \ where he had been a short time be-
have no purpose in common with us
and who use the electoral vote of the
solid south for their own selfish pur-
poses. In this manner, our southern
country, which is an empire in itself,
has been made a mere province for
a few great financial magnates who
exploit it for their private gain with-
out the. slightest reterence to the wel-
fare of the southern people. The
situation is pitiable. The degrad-
ation of it finds expression in the
phrase "The solid south would vote
for a yellow dog on the democratic
ticket." As a southern man I am
ashamed of such a state of affairs and
resent it profoundly. If I can do
anything towards accomplishing the
political independence of my own
people from this slavish servitude to
a handfu l of Wall Street politicians,
I consider it a duty to do so. If the
peoples party had no other
mission in Georgia than to
relax the grasp which the great rail
fore and had some trouble with Mr.
Brisco; but not of a serious character,
and Pete in attempting to tnke the
gun away from his brother, was kill-
ed. Mr. Brisco knowing that the
boys were under the inlluence of
liquor and fearing trouble, had taken
his family and left home, before the
shooting occurred The whole affair
is due to too much booze.
trol over the newspapers which it | way corporations have upon the corn-
then had; therefore, it is as certain , rcja| throat of the southern states,
as anything can be that they will be I a Kragp which maintained by the
able to again defeat Mr Bryan in the
national convention when he comes
before it with his Populist platform.
Suppose, however, that he should be
victorious over them in the national
convention—can they not knife him
just as successfully as they did in
1896? Is it not absolutly certain that
they are just as much joined to their
idols now as they were then? Will
they not be as desperate and as un-
scrupulous in knifing their own ticket
as they were in 1896? Every argu
ment based upon human nature says
that they will. Then even if Mr.
Bryan should win the nomination on
his Populist platform in 1908 the
plutocratic element in his o n party
| will bar his progress and compass his
defeat just as they did before.
Again, suppose that the plutocratic
element should triumph over Mr.
Bryan in 1908, as they did in 1904,
then wha ? Mr. Bryan will have to
A TURNCOAT PARTY.
I have no fai'h whatever that re-
forms will be accomplished by the
Democratic party. It is not only dis-
credited in the eyes of the people by
a series of crushing defeats, but it
has been so vacillating in its course,
it has changed its principles so often,
it has run from one extreme to an-
other so recently, it had
such a magnificent opportunity
in 1892 to work out the reforms to
which they stood pledged, and they
made such a wretched use of that
opportunity, that it cannot inspire
the conlidence which leads to success.
Since 1892 the Democratic party has
almost entirely boxed'the compass in
political professions of faith. It has
been pretty much everything until !
this year, when it stood for every j
thing or nothing, according to the |
interpretation which the voter I nQt bolt ln uo8i TU<J time t0 have
chose to put upon its.ambiguous ' d(jne thal was That opportun.
platform Mr. Bryan, while a great j w,n nQt return He l)imself ha8
Democrat, is not the Democratic
party. There are other distinguished
Bound Over to The Grand Jury
One night last week a house occu-
pied by negroes on Tom Woods place
near Little River Falls was shot into
several times by some persons and on
thc following day warrants were
sworn out for Joseph Dyer, Geo.
Richardson, G o. A hite, John Rich-
ardson, Mosa Richardson and Dick
Stewart and Deputy Sheriff Stowe
arrested the parties and landed them
in jail and last Tuesday, they had
tlieir preliminary trial before Judge
Grigsby, the hearing resulting in the
binding over to the Grand Jury on a
charge of "attempt to kill'' bond
fixed at $500. Joseph Dyer, Geo.
Richardson and Geo. White The
other three were released. The
parties bound over made bond and
were also released The affair as
lliance between democratic bosses
and Wall street financial kings, then
it would have sufficient mission to
warrant its continued existence. ,
^ | near ai we could learn is about as
My own state of Georgia is as com-1
pletely unler the thumb of Morgan
and Belmont, one of whom controls | npSroes
., . ,i,„ put them in one of the houses on his
the Southern railway combine the 1
other of whom controls the Louisville j 1' ace an
& Nashville combine, as the state of
i follows. Mr. Wood had secured the
to pick cotton for hiin and
Pennsylvania is under the control of
the Pennsylvania railroad, or the
State of Wisconsin which LaFollette
has won national fame in combating.
The situation is simply appalling and
would not be believed by anybody
who was not conversant with the
facts 1 expect to return home and
open a campaign on the lines of Jeff-
ersonian democracy to take our state
government out of the control of
Morgan and Belmont, and to put it
in the control of the Georgia people
jvhere it belongs. In nearly every
submit just as he did submit in 1904. | Southern state there is a
after having declared publicly and
it was an attempt to run
the negroes out of the settlement
The house was pretty well riddled
with bullets but none of the occu-
pants injured. A team of mules on
the outside, however did not escape
so luckily. The thing of shooting
into a house, whether occupied by
whites or negroes ia a bad business
as parties doing such things are like-
ly to learn.
Display Windows.
F. J. McGinley of the Lion Store
put in a very fine Thanksgiving dis-
play window for the market depart-
ment of his store. It was one of the
Unfortunately for Mr. Parker be j Democrats who are yet to be heard
became so compeletely identified with j from and they may not endorse his
the marauders who plundered the j Populist platform. There is John
Government during Mr. Cleveland's Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; there
second administration that he bad to is Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of
bear all the odium which they had in Texas: there is Senator Ben Tillman,
curred. The people have never had
a chance to show just what they
thought of that second administra-
tion. Mr. Bryan's two campaigns
did not give them the opportunity;
it was only when the old Cleveland
combination secured the defeat of
Bryan and Hearst, and dictated the
nomination of Mr Parker that the
of South Carolina; there is Senator
Morgan, of Alabama; there is Sena-
tor John W. Daniels, of Virginia; in
fact, there are quite a number of
distinguished Democrats who may
claim the right to put in a word be-
fore the next national Democratic
platform is fixed They may not be
willing to take, for instance, Mr.
similar con-
test to be waged against corporation prettiest display windows in the city,
positively that he would never SUP" | tyranny. Bv the time the next preb- Geo. M. Winans & Co, also fixed up
porta gold standard nominee of the | ideI,tial eKctiou rolls around there is two very artistic window displays for
Democratic party Mr. Bryan could | every reaBon t0 believe that there Thanksgiving one showing off the
will be a sufficient sentiment and market department and thc ot ler
" j organization in favor of the reform j the shoe department of his big store.
J j principles which are embodied in the ^ Q iaed.
I national platform of the peoples par-
alihough j ^ to wjn succe9s at the polls. It all
set the example of submitting
what was wrong, because,
it was wrong, it was regular.
In short, the democratic party pre-
sents this hopeless situation 1'he
Bryanites cannot drive out the pluto-
cratic element, the plutocratic ele-
ment cannot drive out Mr. Bryan.
They exhaust their strength with
internal struggles leaving the party
where its enemies can always defeat
it at the polls. There is this further
weakness in the program of Mr.
Bryan. The plutocratic element has
shown that it can safely defy him
and combat him, although hs is tli
I depends upon the work which is done
! in the years between now and then.
! I expect to do my share of it, that is
! all I can say at present. I will, how-
ever, repeat that 1 have not pur-
chased or rented a home in New York
or anywhere else, mid do not expect
to do so. My home is in Thomson,
Georgia, in a region which my ances-
tors settled 150 years ago, and it is
there that my home will be to the
end.
Am I discouraged? By no means.
1 began with nothing, working three
A Rebecca Lodge of fifty three
members was organized in Norman
last Monday nijjht by Edith M, Rober-
son of New Kirk President of the Re-
becca Assembly. The Rebecca staff
of Lexington put on the initiation
floor work.
Protracted Meeting.
A protracted meeting conducted by
Elder J. D Taut will be^in at the
church of Christ next Sunday.
Little Miss Gladys Crawford is
quite ill at the home of her parents
in this city with Typhoid-Pneumonia.
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