Now, in contrast, consider what Populism
did for the South. It forever killed political
intolerance. Do you remember how President
Grant was treated, when he came South?
Have you thought to compare that, to the
hearty sociabilities lavished on Presidents
Roosevelt and Taft? There was a world of
difference: how do you account for it? Don’t
you realize that we despised Pops shattered
the walls of party prejudice? What else did
we do? We broke the spell of party names.
We took up the work of educating the mass
es, where the Farmers’ Alliance had left off.
We have so taught the country people about
economic questions and governmental princi
ples, that many a farmer knows more about
them than some city editors appear to know.
We have so leavened the whole loaf, in the
South., that no man will dare to run for Con
gress without publishing a platform which
looks good to the old Pops.
WE HAVE CREATED A PUBLIC
SENTIMENT THAT NO CANDIDATE
FOR OFFICE DARES TO DISREGARD.
Isn’t that so? You know that it is. Then,
what success could be truer, nobler, more en
during? If I and my despised and outlawed
friends have created a public sentiment
which rules the Southern States with all the
force of England’s “Unwritten Law”—how
can the Ellises and the Dr. Hulls rate our
achievements so much below those of Mr.
