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type. Refinement and comfort they are apt to con- 

 sider quite as objectionable as immorality. That 

 a man should change his clothes in the evening, 

 that he should dine at any other hour than noon, 

 impress these good people as being symptoms of 

 depravity instead of merely trivial. A taste for 

 learning and cultivated friends, and a tendency to 

 bathe frequently, cause them the deepest suspicion. 

 A well-to-do man they regard with jealous distrust, 

 and if they can not be well-to-do themselves, at least 

 they hope to make matters uncomfortable for those 

 that are. They possess many strong, rugged vir- 

 tues, but they are quite impossible politically, because 

 they always confound the essentials and the non- 

 essentials, and though they often make war on vice, 

 they rather prefer making war upon prosperity and 

 refinement. 



Mr. Watson was in a sense born out of place 

 when he was born in Georgia, for in Georgia the 

 regular Democrary, while it has accepted the prin- 

 ciples of the Populists, has made war on their person- 

 nel, and in every way strives to press them down. 

 Far better for Mr. Watson would it have been 

 could he have been born in the adjacent State of 

 South Carolina, where the Populists swallowed the 

 Democrats with a gulp. Senator Tillman, the great 

 Populist or Democratic orator from South Caro- 

 lina, possesses an untrammeled tongue any middle- 

 of-the-road man would envy; and moreover Mr. 

 Tillman's brother has been frequently elected to 

 Congress upon the issue that he never wore either 

 8 VOL. I. 



