The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-05
BUCKS RULE IN GEORGIA
A TIME WHEN THE CONSTITUTION
LEANED HIS WAY.

The Boss So Confident of the Papers
Inclination to Split the Democratic
Party On the Tariff Question That
de Opened Negotiations-Ihe Papers
Second Thought the Best aaI It
Failed to Flop-The Disclosure of the
Scheme Incident to Reply to Gen.
Longstreet.
WASHINGTON, April 4.--Col. Buck, the
'boss of Georgia" )" has prepared STAT
ment in reply to Gen. Longstreet, in which
he reviews the history Of their relations to
the republican party in Georgia for the
past eight years. He then says: 1.-The
general complains of the want of recogni-
zation of his recommendations. de unfor-
tunately recommended for some of the
most important offices IN the state avowed
democrats, declaring them to be good
republicans, in other cases men of little
value to any party or any cause as republi-
cans worthy of confidence and trust, while
in few cases he recommended fair repub-
licans.
TREACHERY CHARGED.
"His recommendations, however, for the
most part were made in hostility to, an d
perhaps largely for, the Gripping of the
party organization in the state aud TO build
up practically nothing in its place. Having
little political ability and less following, he
is now even powerless to destroy much loss
to build. / Thought that his not voting the
republican electoral ticket was of no
moment in itself. and that it only illustrated
a characteristic of the general to be always
in opposition TO any party action taken and
in keeping with his previous record, which
have teen informed is that of not having
voted republican ticket in IL years.
DENIES PUBLISHING THE FACT.
81 made no publication of the general not
voting the republican electoral ticket and
voting for the regular democratic nominee
for congress, nor have | nor any Of my
friends, believe, caused such publication,
| first seeing it in print in. a charge that
was fighting him ON that ground. Nor is
it true that was making opposition to him
personally or on the ground that he
was Catholic, and his state
ment that Senator Colquitt joined
with the republicans in any way, much less
on religious and political grounds, in oppo-
sition to him or what he represented is ut
terly false, and is asserted by the general,
think, not that he does not believe it, but
because some trlfiing person having charged
~ Al eAAO 40 ~ NAo A0 AANSb 10
true.
DREW ON HIS IMAGINATION.
''He must have drawn largely upon his
imagination in making his remarkable
statement that Il recognition by the repub-
lican administration Of the leadership Of
himself and his associates would have
brought several southern states into the
Endorsement OF the party nominees in 1892.
He had no organization at his back aud no
pronounced public policy to be pur-
sued. He aud his few adherents
have done nothing to inaugurate any move
ment in the south, or III Georgia for the
past six years that has been heard of, and it
is inferred that a recognition of what he
presented meant that appointing active
democrats to office in part, and worthless
pretenders in part, who for spoils only
urged him on in opposition to the party,
would win states from the democrats"
THE GEORGIA APPoINTEEs.
In reply to Gen. Longstreet's charge that
the Georgia offices have been filed with
''carpet-baggers and niggers," Col. Buck
states that only four of the hundreds of
postmasters appointed in Georgia are col
ored men and only seven men are of north
ern birth. He adds: ''There are no other
cases OF applications OF colored men to be
acted upon OF which am aware"
He states that in the internal revenue and
customs service Except as storekeepers and
gaugers l can recall only three colored per-
sons appointed, and there are very few, il
any, men of northern birth"
Under the department of justice, he
states that no colored man has been ap-
pointed, and only one man of northern
birth.
THE DEAL FOR 1892.
Speaking of Gen. Longstrest's charge
that Col. Buck has been giving the offices in
return for the Georgia vote in the con-
vention of 1892, Col. Buck says: 1T is only
charitable to say that the gentlemen has
not the vigor of mind he once had, for il he
were his former self be would see the abb
surdity of such an imaginative statement
as it is entirely untrue and hardly needs
contradiction. Col. Buck says: ~ never
solicited or desired to be chairman of any
committee, or asked to 60 to any con-
vention, state or national, but shrank from
political responsibility. and shall be glad
when | can be honorably removed there
FROM
DENIES REPELLING RECRUITS.
Col. Buck says that far from repelling re-
cruits, he has invited all men believing in
republican principles to vote the republican
ticket. He says that in 1888 he brought
Congressman Mckinley to Atlanta to help
divide the white and colored vote on the
tariff question. The democrats have con-
tinued, by drawing the color line, to keep
all white men from voting the republican
ticket and "any negroes" from voting the
democratic ticket. At the November cleo
ton IN 1888 he saw little resllt.
NEARLY WON OVER THE CONSTITUTION.
He says: "Seeing that without an indie
pendent press we could not induce protec-
tionists to vote with us | undertook TO
make terms with tho Atlanta Constitution,
then suffering under its defeat in the free
trade democratic council, to come grad
ually TO the support of the republican ad-
ministration upon its Inauguration upon the
line of protection. had reason to believe
that that paper would do so, and then the
independent protection democrats and re-
publicans would join in opposition to
the regular democratic party, by which II
was thought we could elect several members
Of congress in $780, But this paper could
not stand the pressure, and TO recover good
standing in its party dropped its strong sup
port of protection and began to howl about
negro supremacy and straightway
tusned its wrath upon the republican lead
ers, magnifying the strength of and giving
prominence to Gen. Longstreet and his few
| followers, with the purpose 70 prevent ac-
cessions to tie republican party"
A Liquor Traffic Commission.