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VOLUME 13.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1904
NUMBER 23
For ei£m years 1 had been out of ! trick and all ed the attempt to iiaui-
ttntT-b with the people. Secluded,
politically, an outcast, given over to
book reading, book writing, law
the ruinous tendencies of the
booale tbe American people. They i republican party. It was I, not
know i t now; they confess it now. | Parker, who persistently advocated the etist, the
My sin is that I saw it then, de-
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practice and private business, T knew
nothing' of the masses Naturallj' I
waited for sigps of encouragement,
for indications that a revolt against
existing conditions would be support-
ed. For nearly a month after the
St. Louis "sell out" the country
seemed dazed. Then indeed, the low
sounds of the distant thunder could
be heard by any one who was not
deaf. The storm clouds could be seen
by any one who wm not blind. The
democratic "crime of 1904'' stirred
the country as it has not been shaken
since the civil war, and the unprece-
dented triumph of Theodore Roose-
velt is du^ quite as much to the re-
volt against the cowardice, corrup-
tion and imbecility shown by the
democratic leaders of St. Louis as to
any other cause whatsoever. The
man who does not now realize that
the recent election and the exposures
nounced it then, and did all I could t >
smash the schem>. Had real demo-
crats been willing to listen to me,
Parker wttuld have been driven out of
the field during the first month of the
campaign, the true democracy would
have organized, would have drawn to
itself ail the reform elemencs and
we could have come much nearer to
success than the leader of democracy
wiio set out with seven million demo-
crats and let Roosevelt capture two
million of tbem.
During the entire campaign I said
nothing against Parker or the St
Louis convention that were as harsh
as the things Bryan said of bath.
Without recalling any of his accusa-
tions Mr. Bryan campaigned for tbe
"unfit" nominee and for the "crooked
and undefensibls nomination." Mr.
Bryan will have four years in which
to explain that inconsistency and
the income tax ;.s the method by
which the untaxed corporate wealth
| of the land could tie made to pay its
| tair proportion of the federal taxes,
j It was I, not Parker, who antagonized,
as Jefferson and Jackson did, the ex-
| elusive privileges which the national
] banks have in the creation of nation-
al currency. It was I, not Parker,
who advocated the election of all
officers by the people in order that
we might get rid of that cloui of
generation can it again inspire con
I tiJence. Never ran it again deceive
north or the west. I
pray God that the time is not far off
when it can not even deceive the
south. Why prate about reform in-
side ti e .democratic party? You
might is well talk about reforming
hell from the inside How can you
get rid of Tom Taggart, the gamb-
ling establishment man? How can
you eject Belmont, the Rothchild
man? How can jou banish Pat Mc-
Oarren, the Standard Oil man? Or
I Gorman of Maryland, the sugar trust
corporation agents, the United man? The whole machinery of the
Mates senate, and of the federal j party for ,he next four years will'be
judges who have nullified tbe right | the control of the plutonailc ele-
to habeas corpus and the trial by j nient which overthrew Bryan at St
jury. It was I, not Parker, who ( Louis. Fqr four years the party h;
clamored for a repeal of the tariff
taxes on the necessaries of life and
ior public ownership of public
utilities.
that have been made since vindicate j w"' no doubt find the job sufficiently
my judgment, and my conduct, must j(limcult-
be lost to common sense. No real i During the campaign I said noth
democrat is proud of the fact that he j ing more complimentary of Mr.
supported the ticket of Tom Taggart | Roosevelt as a man than the Hon
no platform excepting the quasi-re-
publican abomination which was ad
opted at St. Louis And for the next
j four years the official cotnmander-in-
J chief of the Democratic party is rot
j Bryan, nor Hearst, nor Bailey. The
commander-in-chief is Tom Tagg.rt,
the gambling hell man of Indiana
THOMAS E. WATSON.
Thomson, Ga.
We give belo n a splendid letter
from Hon. Thomas E. Watson address
ed' to the Nebraska Independent.
Read it and hand it to your neighbor
This is the complexion we must come
to at last.
Editor Independent: During the
eight years which preceded my nomi-
nation for toe presidency on July 4,
1904, I had been out of politics. By
methods which no honest man will
defend, I had been relegated to the
outer darkness. Compromises I would
not make: defeat I was forced to rec-
ognize. Like a sensible man, I knew
when I* was whipped; but I neither
surrendered nor apostatized. Bryan
had organized the fusion movement
of 1890 and with the help of Senator
Jones had lured our populists leaders
into the ambjscade. I protested but
was overpowered. In good faith I en-
deavored to make the Bryan-Watson
ticket a success. In bad faith Sena-
tor Jones held Sewall on the ticket
and made Republican victory a cer-
tainty. Bryan was nearer to the
white house in 1890 tian he will ever
be again; and he did not enter it be-
cause he was ashamed to recognize
the populists whi wanted to elect
him and whose full strength was
necessary to his triumph, For eight
years democracy paraded our plat-
form and controlled the populist
national committ e. For eight years
there was no room to work in for a
midroad populist like myself. See-
ing no chance to do anything under
such circumstances I quit the field,
and I believed, forever, it never
entered my head that the democrat-
ic leaders would be so incredibly
stupid as to do what they did at St.
Louis in this year 1904, I never
dreamed that they would shed their
principles like a garment, frame a
quasi-republican platform, put at
the head of the committee a notor-
ious gambling housekeeper like Tom
Taggart, sell the nomination to a
Rotschild agent and corporation like
August Belmont an.l put up as a
nonimee for president a featurerless
candidate who was utterly unknown
except as a creature of the most j
crooked wire worker in American
politics David B. Hill.
Neither 1890 nor in 1904 had I 1
sought the populist nomination. No j
man can say that I ever moved a ]
finger or spoke a syllable to j
get either nomination. Each of
them came to me absolutely un- |
sought. As soon us it was known
that the democratic bosses had sur- J
rended to Wall street at St. Louis,
as soon as I learned that Bryan, Till-
man, Baily, Daniels, Williams, etc., 1
had not only knuckled to Parker as J
nominee but had llattened themsel-
ves out beneath that "gold standard I
telegram" I fully realized what a i
monstrous crime had been committed
against the people and what a splen
did opportunity the politicians had
left open for the men of principles I j
did not believe that the American |
voters would stand for the "crime of |
1904," it was only a question of how
to protest.
Pat McCarren, Dave Hill, August
Belmont and Alton B Parker. Only
those democrats whose principles are
republican are satisfied. These
democrats whose principles are demo-
cratic are ashamed, and apologetic.
They know that they were tricked at
St. Louis. They know that to the ex-
tent of thsir support of Parker they
condoned the fraud, endorsed the
John Temple Graves said since the
election in the Atlanta News. The
fact that I said it during the battle
and that tbe brilliant editor said it
afterwards, will not militate against
either of us, I am sure. Throughout
the canvas I was the one nominee
who constantly leveled every gun I
could bring into play against the
principles, the measures, the polic-
In other words. Parker made
fight for the democratic principles;
he stood for nothing beyond the plain
simple proposition that he would
rather haye the ollice than to let
Roosevelt keep it. Throughout the
campaign the republican party was [ Morgan's Buzz Saw.
consistent with itself and its creed : The December issue of Morgan's
Socialism was consistent with ItselM Huzz-Saw contains sixteen pages
and its creed. The People's party filled with such reading matter as
was consistent with itself and its | has made that paper famous through-
creed. Democracy was at war with out the nation. Tobe Spilkins tells
itself and had no creed. Hence, na-
tional democracy came out of the
campaign utterly wrecked—without
policy, principle, purpose or leader-
ship, discredited before all the world
for all time to come. Never in this
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i-i/W he felt when the election news
hit him, after he had voter for Park-
er in order to get a postofflce, and
then, in his inimitable way, stumbles
around over the situation that con-
i Ironts the Democracy. There is an-
other chapter in the life of Polecat
•'ones. Every page bristles and
.-cintillates with short, epigrammatic
' sentences and paragraphs that COD-
I tain volumes in a few words Extra
copies of this edition can be had in
quantities of not less than ten at one
cent each. They are good literature
j for Populists to distribute. Every-
one who enjoys reading a good thing
should send for the Buzz-Saw. The
J publisher, Mr. Morgan, want* a good
newsboy in every town to sell the
Buzz-Saw on commission. Address
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j Voice who pay one year in advance
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it you will find it worth many times
; what both papers cost you. The
subscription price of the Peoples
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both paper for 1905 for $1.00.
Japs Win an Important Position at Port
Arthur and Sink the Kussian Fleet.
At a cost of over 12,500 lives the
Japs captured what is known as 2011
i Meter Hill at Port Arthur and from
this Hill sent the llussian fleet at
Port Arthur to the bottom of the sea
and it also marks the fall of Port
Arthur into the hands of the Jap
forces With this advantage gained
at Port Arthur a large number of
Jap soldiers no longer needed at
Port Arthur, were sent north to help
1 the army facing Kuropatnin in r
Mukden and fighting a' Mukden has
j bee.i resumed the Japanese forces
attempting to llank and surround the
Russian Army or force It to fa.I
back towards Siberia.
Grand Oonocrt.
The first concert of the season un-
der the auspices of the Conservatory
of Music, will be given, Friday even-
; ing, Dec., lfith, at K o'clock, Musi;
; Hall on Main Street. The program
will be furnished by the University
■ Hand, Orchestra, tiiee Club, Ladies
Quartette, etc. The band of eigh-
teen members in uniforms will make
\ its initial appearance in concert.
I The orchestra, whose reputation was
well establiseed last year, has been
i increased in number and is now in
I the best condition since its organiza-
tion. There are 10 players in the
j orchestra. The Glee Club, a chorus
of .'50 singers, v. ill be certain to please
j everyone. The ladies quartette-
I piano and violin selections are addi,
j tional features. General admissioit
I 25 cents.
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Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1904, newspaper, December 16, 1904; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117837/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.