The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-27
REPUBLICANS HAVE A FEAST.
Col Atkins and Col. Deveaux Lay Out
the Democratic Party.

the Democratic Party.
The republican meeting at the theater
last night was attended by about 300 peo-
pie, about 25 of whom were white. The
meeting was presided over by Lewis NJ
Peasants (colored). Rev. Floyd snelson
tcolored), the republican candidate for con-
gress, was not present. On the stage were
Col James Atkins and Col. John II. De-
veaux (colored), the speakers of the evening,
and NJ j. Doyle, William II. Mathews and
James +. w hlteman, the last two colored.
Col. Deveaux was the first speaker. he
wanted TO know if his audience wanted four
years, and possibly twenty five years more,
of democratic misrule, and he was answered
by laundering MOI and cheers. He
charged the democratic party with all tue
evils OF the present, which he did not name,
and all the evils of the past thirty years.
which he argued was oppOs ton to the thir-
teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments. He criticised the management of
democratic conventions manipulated by
few people, and when he asked If his hear
ers wanted democratic or republican gov
eminent three or four in the parquette
shouted republican He started out to
discuss the tariff, but made bad break
at the outset by calling attention to
the fact that the free trade sent ment of the
Democratic party had encouraged Russia to
system labor commands and 10 cents per
day cheapening the wheat at the expense Of
the Americans farmers, and upset his argu-
ment by abusing a ring of usurers, scoun-
drels and thieves who have raised the price
of wheat so that the poor man has to pay
higher price for his bread" He asserted
that If the Democratic party is continued
in power four years longer the factories will
close and 3,500000 people will he turned out
as paupers and tramps. He was very
humorous in dealing with the populations of
two democrats holding offices in Cleveland
and Atlanta, and seemed afraid that the
Republican party would not find any money
To count when they elected Harrison His
allusion to Our plumed knight and chief
tain, James G. Blaine" was wildly APP
plauded. The colonel closed with very
eloquent appeal to his hearers to vote for
Rev. Floyd Snelson for congress.
Col. James Atkins, republican candidate
for presidential elector, went over pretty
much the same ground, and argued that the
democratic party is an opposition party
and that its platform of 1884 was the first
declaration of principles it had shown for
twenty-seven years. OGe was that Blaine
was unfit to be President, and the other that
it was III favor of civil service reform.
Blaine being no longer a candidate, and
Cleveland having reformed the republi-
cans out" the democratic party had
to get something new this year.
and so Watterson, Mills, Carlisle
and Lame Duck Morrison" had formed
protecorate and got Cleveland out in a
suburban place, put out guards to keep
Randall out, and had agreed uDon the free
trade message of Dec 1887. He said
that it was merely a catch trap to catcl
those who are always willing to jump at
anything free. The policy of the demo
Gratis, he said, is to lay tariff on those
things which do not enter into a competi.
ton with home products; ths Republican
party is for the opposite method He proved
that prints cost but from to 5 cents per
yard under the protective tariff, and
10 cents yard before the tariff
was laid; that "the foreign manu-
facturers sell it lower than the tax,
because they get hard up" and
he argued that the tariff tax is paid by
comparatively few people, and again that
the foreign manufacturers pay it, and yet
he took a third position admitting that the
people pay it, but he told how they pay it
in such sweet and oily speech that his
hearers must have felt real happy that they
have the privilege of paying the nigh tariff
tax, for the colonel said: The tax comes
like gentle wave, and is an insensible
burden to the people, for they do not feel
it."
He was quite persuasive and eloquent in
alluding to the campaign made by the late
United States Senator MCPHERSON In Geor-
gia in 1910, "for the grandson of our present
candidate" who carried Georgia. and he
wanted to know if the degenerate sons of
the sires who had voted for Harrison and
protection in 1910 were going to vote fer
free traders this years. The speaker
was not frank in abiding to the letter of
the British minister, who wrote the letter
to the Cal fornia Englshman the other day,
for the speaker said West wrote, Cleveland
and the Democratic party are the friends
of England aud for free trade" neither of
which propositions are embodied in the lei :
ter alluded to. The speaker was frequently
| applauded, references to Grant and Lincoln,
especially the latter, being wildly cheered
AT the conclusion Of Col. Atkins remarks
| Mr.. NJ. j. Doyle made 10minu Q talk, fol-
| lowed by sport speeches from Justice
Mathews and Chairman Peasants, after
which the meeting, at a late hour, ad-
| journed.