The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-19
Gov. Hills Critic.

II was to be expected that Gov. Hills
speech at Atlanta would not please the
republican newspapers. 1t was not in
tended to please them. Gov. Hill kept close
to the truth, ard the truth, in political
matters, is not relished by them. The New
York Press SAYS: "Gov. Hill told he PEG
pie of Atlanta yesterday that the south was
solid for good government and solid for
American ideas The Press begs to differ.
There can be no good government in this
country when the principles which underlie
its very foundation are subverted for par
tisan purposes. 1t cannot truthfully be
said that the south is solid for American
ideas 50 long as a majority of the repre-
sentatives from the southern states in con-
gress advocate and vote for an economic
idea which is exclusively British"
The Press is not sincere. II Is edited by
a native Of Elg land, who has succeeded in
getting one of the best Offices in the gift Of
the government. How is it that this En-
glishman pretends to be a better judge Of
what are american ideas" than the people
of the south. who are more nearly all
Americans than the people of any other
section! The editor of the Press is net only
a foreigner, but he lives in a city whose
population is largely made up Of foreign RS,
aud he is ide.tlfied with a section Of the
country which contains nearly all the Euro
pean immigrants. Does he think the ideas
of the foreign born population of the coun-
try are the genuine American ideasE If
he does, then perhaps he is sincere IN assert
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that the south is solid for american
ideas
The editor of the Press should visit the
south and miugle with her people. He
would get a better idea of Americans than
be has ever yet had, because the vast ma
jority of the men he would meet would be
Americans, and he would find out what
american ideas" are.
What nonsense is it for him to assert that
in the south the principles which undsrlie
the foundation Of the government Of this
country ARE subverted for partisan pur-
poses" Does he not know that the party
to which he belongs, and in which he is a
shining light, has been particularly active
in subverting the principles which underlie
doesn't, he hasn't read the recent history of
this country a1d that of the Republican
party to much advantage.
What has done more to undermine the
foundations Of the republic than the cor
rupt methods employed by the Republican
party to carry elections? has the editor of
the Press forgotten the great fraud of 1876,
by which the Republican party stole the
presidency? Has he forgotten the "blocks
of five" letter which contained scheme for
carrying great state for the Republican
party by bribery? Has he forgotten
that in the last national cam
paign a man raised an immense sum
of money for party purposes, which was
put where it would do the most good, and
that that man was given place in the
present administration as a reward, proba-
bly,, for That service9 The editor of the
Press has ideas, but they are not "Ameri-
can ideas" They are ideas that are in
harmony with those of the party which has
conferred profitable office upon him.
The economic idea of the south is ex-
clusively British, is it9 Well, it is the
economic idea that has had a mighty strong
hold upon this country for more than a
century, aud il is the idea that is going to
prevail in the very near future. because 1t
is the idea that the people are recognizing
as the true one. The other economic idea,
the one fostered by the Republican party,
is the idea Of the monopolists. If it had
not been for their money it would not have
been possible to keep it at the front so long
The attempt OF an Englishman to teach
such an American as David Bennett Hill
what American ideas are is amusing.