New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-09
ONE PARTY IN GEORGIA.
M rvIDrNcE OF A BREAK.

THE PRESS OF ONE OPINICN-WHY III IL sO-THE
BRowN-GoRDON CONTROvERsY-wILL GORDON
AND HILL ALWAYS ACT TOGETHER THE NEGRO
QUESTION DEAD-NO REPUBLICAN PARTY.
IFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT oF THE TRIBUsE.l
SAVANNAH, Ga, May 21.-What are people
talking about here in Georgia What public
questions interest them most Is there any
prospect of breaking up of the $4,000 Demo-
cratic. maortyi Has anybody discovered "a
new party movement What is the gist OF the
constitutional convention proectf What sighin-
canee has the recent newspaper attack OF eA-
Gov. Brown on Senator Gordon These questions
and others like them have put to number OF IN
teIlieent men in different parts of the State and
from their replies the following information con-
corning current affairs in Georgia is silted. There
are no indications of division in the Democratic
party Not single man of the least influence has
spOken word in public in favor of breaking the
solid white vote and giving a fragment of 1t TO the
Republican party or to q resuTrected Wing party, OF
to any new organization formed for the purpose OF
Iecprocatng the services of President Hayes 10 the
South. And yet the Georgia Democracy Is py no
means harmonious on national affairs. In OPINION
there are two elements but in action there Is only
one. There are the Bourbons, who continue to apply
opprobrious epithets TO the President and are IN
favor of keeping mp a warfare on ilm as long as DE
is in Office and OF running the next campaign IN the
wav GOV. 1ilden ran the last, endeavorlng to win
by a solid South, with two or three Northern States
at its tail and there the Liberals who want no
more sectional politics. and who desire TO coopes'te
with the President and give him the right hand of
fellowship and confidence. The politicians WHO are
rlnning the Democratic party and the newspaper
managers who conduct its organs do not like to adj
nit that such division exists, but any one who
will talk on the subject with the first half dozen IN
tellipent men he meets will have doubt about II.
Still this difference Of opinion gives no indication
of working out in organized action. The machinery
of politics l. IN the hands of men whose se-inser-
est lies in the direction Of keeping the Democratic
party unbrOken. and the newspapers. when now
through the absence of live opposition party, ENJOY
monopoly Of business in their several loealues are
naturally opposed to any new departure. why
sbould the men holding State and county Offices at
the hands of the Democracy favor a division in the
pary7 As to the newspapers their bread Is buttered
on the same side. In every of the large towns III
the State there is only one daily paper. 1t Is OF
course Democratic. II there were to occur division
in the white vote a second paper would be started to
represent the opposition party and the bushes OF
the town would Ice divided between the two Tins
explains the practical unanimity of the Southern
press in favor of keeping mp a solid white party.
and. ioned with The whole body Of active, talking,
oliee-hodng politicians, it Is efectually keeping
down the tendency of the liberal element to crystal
lie into separate political organization There
must be a more powerful incentive 10 such a move
ment than now exists before II will show itself as
anything more than a sentiment.
The recent sharp assault of eX-tov. Brown on
Senator Gordon has been taken in The North as eyi
dence Of an opening breach between the two ele-
meuts of the Georgia Democracy, but tins Is q mis-
take. Tie explanation get of this affair IS that it
grew ont Of personal feeling. Brown asked Gov.
Colquitt to appoint a friend or relative Of his
10 a vacancy on the bench. COlquitt appointed
another man. Now Senator Gordon and Colquitt
are friends Ike Damon and Pytlas, and Brown,
having 10 way II getting even with the Governor,
went for. the Governors next friend. lie tired TO
array the Bourbon clement against Gordon by ac-
cusing the latter of being a party 10 a trade with
Stanley Matthew's and Charles Foster by which
Tiden was kept out Of the Presidency. But Brown
is = new convert 20 B9urbOnsm, and il not trusted.
IL the time when Georgia suffering from the
corrupt rule of Bullock and his crew Brown was a
Republican, and he only returned to Democracy
when il was plain that the negro party was dead
A simple denial from Gordon entirely broke the
force Of Browns blow. Gordon il the most popular
of everybody In the face q the liberal tendencies
he has manifested in the Senate and of his friendly
personal relations with President Hayes, the BogT-
bons appear a. much devoted % him as ever and A.
far.as cau learn the blast Of "Old Joe Brown has
not awakened q single approving echo hcm tie
Democratic press. VI there Is to be an effective
attack on the Senator when he comes mp for r.
elect il VIII De stimulated by man of I'm greater
influence than the ex-GovernoF-I mean by sem
ator Ben ffIll. Well-iniormcd politicians discern
the beginning Of a rupture between the two Georgia
Senators aiYeady in their failure 10 upon
person 10 De appointed L. :. Marshal. GA account
OF the difficulties growing ont of The enforcement 81
the revenue laws ly the reckless, violent nen sent
as deInty-marshals TO hdnt up Illicit dis tiieses, the
President Is DESTROYS of putting in the MaIshais
Office some person in whom the people OF the state
viii have entire confidence. lie asked Senators
Gorion and Hll TO unite in recommending man,
but they have no. yer been able to agree upon any
one If tie numerous candidates. GordoWs friends
say the tsoubc r. all on account Il HIPS ob.tinacy-
that he vii not iudorsc Gorou's man, nos name
anybody hims If for Gordon 10 mdors-.
Another State election is TO take place next June.
II is great year fog elections ia Georga-iouf ia
one year is probably more than any state ever
treated itself 90 before First tlt people voted in
September ior Governor and ConEr ,silen; then
they voted for President in November. few weeks
ago they were invited to 90 20 the polls and pass
upon az amendment t. the Constitution foTbiadIng
the payment Of the railroad bonds Issued
by the bullock government ON the second
Tuesday in june election number four comes Oh.
TO decide whether COW ntion shall De held iu
July 70 ioYm % new Constitution and to elsct dreA
gates % - IN case IL j. held. fhe chief ohio
hear urged against the present Constitution 4 that