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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29
Gov. Gordon and the alliance.


The Farmers Alliance Of Georgia has no
Gov. Gordon. At an alliance meeting sew
eral weeks ago It was decided u ask these
whc were known tc be candidates for Office
certain questions. 1t is understood that
Gov. Gordon is a candidate for the United
States Senate. A letter containing the list
Of questions was, therefore, sent to him. In
the last issue Of tho paper published by the
alliance the letter to Gov. Gordon and his
answer appear.
The governors letter is an eloquent one.
He always writes and speaks eloquently,
but on this occasion he seems to have made
sort of prize effort.
He hints that there was no occasion to
ask him whether or not he favors the ALI
ance because for fifteen years he has been
urging the farmers to organize. He has
been firmly convinced during that period
and longer, that an all-embracing brother
hood Of the tillers of the soil could exert a
powerful influence in behalf of the farmers
1t could protect them from unfriendly leg
INDEPENDENTLY hurtful discrimina-
tion-and it could influence the shaping of
the policies of the government so that they
would be favorable TO the farming interests.
Gov. Gordon's letter bears the marks of
sincerity, and there is no reason to doubt
that his utterances are sincere; but the
question arises, what does the alliance gain
by addressing letters of inquiry to the can
didates for office9 Does it suppose that any
candidate is going to oppose the alliance, par
ticularly as there is no sentiment anywhere
against the alIiancel If fight were being
made on the alliance, as is the case in Ala
bama, then its action in sending out letters
of inquiry would be regarded as timely and
wise, but as it has no opposition it could not
reasonably expect that the replies of the
genuine candidates for Office would be other
wise than strongly favorable to the ALI
ance.
Although Gov. Gordon approves the
alliance he does not promise to support
every policy the alliance may adopt
with wise counsels to guide them to con-
sentative action" he says, land with full
recognition of the rights of others, 3
the success of this great movement by the
brotherhood of farmers will be doubly
assured" If the alliance is guided by wise
counsels the governor thinks it will be a
success. OF course it will be, and it ought
to be.
The men of whom the alliance should be
suspicious are those who want to use il to
advance their ambitious purposes. The
counsels of such men should be received
with hesitation, because they care nothing
about the alliance except in SO far as they
can make it helpful to themselves. There
are plenty of such men. 1t would not be
difficult, perhaps, to spot some of them
now. The alliance knows them, doubtless,
and, if it hopes for success. it will not put a
great deal of trust in them.
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PERSONAL.

TIE youngest professor of modern languages
ia the country is A. T. Abernethy. in Ruther-
ford college, North Carolina.
TIE AUTHOR Of "A FOOLS Errand," Judge A
W. Tourgee. has been given a pension at the
rate Of So a month from 1868 to date.
WALTER BEsANT, the novelist, will come to
this country next summer, going to the Pacific
coast and carefully exploring the west.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has had an
electric railway built for bringing dishes from
the Kitchen into the state dining room.
TIE former viceroy of Ireland, Lord Spencer,
is mentioned as a probable successor to Glad
stone in the leadership of the Liberal party.
PROF. HuxLEY's DEAFNESS is growing on him,
and now when he attemps to speak at any
length he becomes very tired and loses control
OF his voice
The REV. ANNA SHAW is one of the best speak
ers in the service of the Woman's Temperance
Union. She was for time pastor Of a church
on Cape Cod.
THE secretary of the Chinese legation at
Paris, Gen. Teheng Ki-Tong, was married re-
Gently to a country girl at her village home in
the South of France.
GEs. E. KIRBY Smith, the famous confederate
soldier. claims the unique distinction of being
native OF st. Augustine.
ARcHDEAcoN FARRAR says he desires to impose
limited period of celibacy upon the English
Clergy. being of the opinion that it is a choice
between ceiibacy and beggary.
SAN JONES is going to stomp on the DEVILS
tail feathers in Richmond, beginning June.8.
This Is only the Sam Jones way of saying that
he will begin a revival on that date.
MILE. D'ALBE, niece of ex-Empress Eugene,
at her wedding received gifts which were valued
at 81 100000. The guest who gave a paper
crowd.
ANNIE BEsANT who is soon to visit America
to preach theosophy, is most interesting plat
form orator. She is not particularly pretty
woman. but her face is attractive and full of
force.
DURING the summer holidays of each year
the Duke of Westminster takes in about 5000
In sixpences and shillings, paid by sightseers
for admission to his country seat, Eaton hall
he gives every penny of it to charitable institu-
tons.
SToPFoRD BROOKE and his brother, together
with Prof. Knight of st. Andrews and Others
are making an appeal for the saving of Words
worth s cottage at Grasmere. 1t can be secured
with the orchard and garden for the modest
sum of 8650
Miss VIRGINIA LONG, granddaughter of Gen.
Sumner and daughter of the confederate Gen.
Armistead Long, the bographer of Robert E.
Lee. is brilliant bruno aad one of. the dis
tinguished beauties of Charlottesville, Va. She
is an intrepid horsewoman. Her father is quite
blind and she acts as his amanuensis.
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index 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

MEETINes-So lomon's Lodge No. 1. F. & A.
NJ. Southern Star Castle No. z, K. G.E.
MILITARY ORDERs-General Order No. IS,
Savannah Cadets.
SPECIAL NoTIcEs-Calhoun Tobacco, Levi J.
Gazan, Pulaski House; Notice, Barbour & Co.;
Special Notice, NJ. J. Egan; Memorial Day, May
80; Auction Sale of Fine Furniture Today by
c. H. Dorset; Artesian Shower Bath, ETC., in
the Two Cottages at Tyhee for sale by c. H.
Dorset; Special Notice to Vegetable Shippers
per Steamship " m. Crane; To Those Looking
for g Comfortable Home on Easy Terms, Har-
mon, Walker McHarrie: Several Live Agents
Wanted, G. B. Whatley, Director Of Agencies
Georgia state Building and Loan Association;
Grand Entertainment by Fleming Dramatic
Club for the Benefit of the Colored Orphan
Girls Attached to st. Benedict's Church, Thurs
day, May 90
RAILROAD OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Tampa
and Key West System
AUCTION SALEs-Household Furniture, by ].
Mclaughlin & Son.
OUTING GooDS-A. Falk & Sons.
RIvERToN HOLDS THE KEy-Riverton Land
Company, Sheffield, Ala.
FoR THE BABIEs-Solomons & Co.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULEs-Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
AMUsEsENTs-A Calico Hop at Catholic
Library Hall Friday Evening, May 80.
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENTS - Help
Wanued; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
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DELAYED Tariff Legislation.

Their is a pretty fair prospect that there
will be no tariff legislation at this session Of
congress The MORNING NEWS suggested
some time ago that the outlook was not
favorable for the early passage of a tariff
bill. Senator Plumb's resolution. calling
for table showing the changes which the
Mckinley bill makes in the present tariff,
and also giving the reasons for the changes,
cannot be prepared under a month or two.
There is another thing that viii delay tariff
legislation. 1t is the determination
Of the finance committee TO open its doors
and hear what those who are directly in
terested in the tariff have TO say with re-
spect to the changes which the Mckinley
bill makes. 1t is evident that these hear
ings will consume an immense amount of
time. They will take so much time that it
will be rather remarkable if the Senate
reaches a vote onany tariff bill during this
session.
The republican organs pretend to be en-
tirely satisfied with what is understood to
be the tariff programme of the Senate.
They declare that the more the Mckinley
bill is discussed the more popular it will be.
the House was practically denied there is
reason for suspecting the sincerity of this
assertion of the republican organs. If they
are so anxious 10 have the bill discussed,
why did they not permit it to be debated in
the Houses
The Philadelphia Press, which follows its
party upon about all matters with slavish
fidelity, says: ''The Mckinley tariff in prin-
ciple and in its policy will profit by every
hour in which it is explained, advocated
and debated, and become immeasurably
stronger before the country" And yet
this same party organ favored the means
by which the Mckinley bill was put
through the House-means that were the
very opposite of free discussion. Indeed, it
is quite certain that the bill would not have
been passed at all if it had not been made
caucus measure. The pretense of the re-
publican organs, therefore, that they want
the bill discussed is a very hollow one.
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The Carpenters Victory.

The Carpenter, the organ of the United
Brotherhood OF Carpenters and Joiners of
America, summing up the eight-hour move
ment in its issue of this week, declares that
the eight-hour day has been secured for
carpenters in twenty-seven cities and towns,
affecting 1886 men in the trade. Nine
cities are still out for the eight-hour day
and six compromised on nine hours. The
nine-hour day, the same authority asserts,
has been established in seventy-two cities
and towns, with the addition of eight hours
day on Saturday in many instances. The
concession affects IA, $50 carpenters, while
gains are claimed to have been made in the
shape of increased wages in eighteen other
cities, affecting 1869 men. In round num-
bers 1000 carpenters have been benefited
by the movement.
This is certainly great victory for the
carpenters. They were chosen by the
American Federation of Labor to inaugu-
rate the eight-hour movement Eight
hours work, eight hours play, eight Hours
sleep, is an ideal division of the day, and
division which may ultimately find place
in the more complete and perfect organiza-
tiOA VI oOClobJ. Dun III has uOb Dy any
means been established beyond questioning
that such division is expedient under
existing conditions and certain it is that, at
present it has not been deemed
desirable by more than limited
number of trades into which the laboring
class is divided. No argument is needed,
however, to prove that for the development
of an individual leisure is necessary-not for
idleness. but for Improvement in those
things that will enable him to earn better
livelihood and to enjoy what he earns Nor
is argument needed to prove to the fair
minded that the laboring class. on the
ground of manhood. is entitled to such
freedom for such purposes.
The carpenters have demonstrated that a
large proportion of the employers are ready
and willing to concede this, and others are
only waiting until it will be deemed expedi-
emit to follow their lead. 1t is also note
worthy that the concessions made were
secured, except in a few instances without
strife or trouble, and where extreme diff
ferences of opinion existed compromises
were made for nine hours or an advance in
wages. But in all cases where an issue was
made the workmen gained some concession.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29
Where he Left the Baby

Charles. have you seen anything of the
babys" asked distracted woman about noon
last Thursday. according to wild-eyed Buffalo
Courier reporter.
No. How'n thunder can take care of baby
and see that this crockery is put on the wagon
without being smashed TO finders
But I'm sure / hear the darling crying
somewhere. Are you sure she is not in the
clothes basket with the preserves
No, she amt. How dyou s'pose she'd get
In there:"
But hear her Just as plain as can be. Why,
Charles Smith, do believe she's in this roll Of
carpetr'
IL was true. The baby had been left in the
middle OF the sitting-room floor, and the men
who took up the carpet tossed breadth over
her without observing her. rolled her up in it,
and stood the carpet in the hall
The child when rescued was punctured here
and there with rusty tacks. and its mouth was
parity stuffed With carpet dust, but otherwise
it was quite hearty
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29
Nothing Extraordinary About That

Some ten or twelve years ago an incident
happened at Gibraltar which illustrates the
practical views of certain class of people,
says the New York Tribune. A subaltern
named O'Donohue was the officer of the guard
at the Elphinstone Guard. At this point of the
world-known rock there is q sheer drop of over
1000 feet. A lieutenant who had taken too
much champagne at mess dinner walked over
the rock and undoubtedly was dead before he
reached the rocks far below. When the officer
of the guard upon being relieved made out his
report of his guard he made no mention of the
fact. Indeed, when he came to fill in his report
and reached the question: Has anything
extraordinary happened while you were officer
of the guard?" he wrote in the blank space re-
served for the answer, Nothing"
OF course. he was summoned before Lord
Napier of Magdala, the governor of Gibraltar.
When he appeared, Lord Napier asked:
You were the officer of the guard at Elphin-
stone Guard yesterday"
Il was, sir"
And this is your reports
Lieut. M was killed by walking over the
rocky"
HE was, SIR
'You knew that when you made out your re.
port?"
THAT he was killed."
"Yes, SIR
"And yet you said in your report that moth
ing extraordinary had happened on your
guard?"
Il did, sir.''
swell, Mr. O'Donohue," said Lord Napier
sternly, don't you think it is extraordinary
when q lieutenant walks over the rock, falls
1000 feet and is killed.''
Indeed. sir" was the prompt reply IT
should think it was extraordinary. if he had
fallen that far and not been killed"
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Electrical Love.

Said a Maine telegraph operator to a writer
in the Lewiston Journal the other day: You
wouldn't think that spoony lovers would re-
sort to such public means of correspondence as
the telegraph for the transmission of their
sweet little messages of love and devotion
would you? They do just the same.
Very often certain young man in this
place, il he does not regularly receive letter
from the future source of his joy and happi-
ness, rushes here with crestfallen counte-
nance and flies a message like this:
'My dear, why did you not answer my last
letter? Yours. devotedly.
Perhaps you don't believe that such a mess
age as this was ever SENT but would show some
of them to you If it wasn't against the rules.
I'VE fellows on the wire enjoyed quite an
amusing incident not very long ago, in which
Sophia sort of gave away Johns brilliant
scheme of popping the question by wire. We
surmised that this brace of folly's victims bad
been conducting correspondence for some
time, which the artful John eliminated with
the following dispatch, which was evidently in
tended to draw forth an answer to an entirely
different question:
Sophia:
"Did you receive my last letter? JOHN.
sophia, in her ecstatic delight evidently I'M
derstood the query in different sense from
that which the ordinary reader of the epistle
every lineament of her countenance, she pro-
ceeded to the telegrapber's sanctum, and left
the following to be forwarded to the flower of
her affections:
John: Yes. How about next Christmas?
SOPHIA.
This gave the thing dead away and John was
much chagrined when he received it. It ac-
complished its purpose, nevertheless, and now
the couple ara soaring in the rapturous realms
of double bliss"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29
A great deal of adverse criticism is bein

A great deal of adverse criticism is being
made in the north because the promoters of
the worlds fair have discovered that it is
necessary to amend the constitution of Illi-
nois in order to have a state appropriation
of Sc, 1000, 900 made for the exposition The
men who were opposed to the fair being
given to Chicago say that this is
tantamount to a confession that it will not
be nearly the grand show which was
projected. This method of warfare is
usually resorted to by rival lingo boom
towns, but such talk coming from New
York and Philadelphia is in bad grace.
1t is almost a confession that those cities
are jealous of Chicago; and we'll they may
be, but it should not epgender ill-feeling
and strife. Now that the Windy City has
been chosen as the site of the fair. every
citizen in the country should take pride in
it and help to make it a success. The
money will, no doubt, be forthcoming 1t
is an obligation which the people of Chicago
cannot afford to let go to protest, and there
is every reason to believe that they will
NOT
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29

illustration of the administrations con-
tempt for civil service reform is the order
just issued by Secretary Window to Col
lector of the Port Erhardt of New York
to dismiss from the surveyors department of
the custom house nineteen weighers, whose
places are to be filled by Harrison's bench
men. The collector has been directed to
report at once "the name of the employees
selected for separation from the service. =
Separation from the service is delicate
way of announcing to the victims that their
heads are about to be cut off.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29

Post Mcpherson, G. A. R., of Brooklyn,
N. Y, made a lamentable exhibition of its
SUPERFICIAL idiocy in set of resolutions on
demning the use of the confederate flag at
the unwilling of the Lee monument at
Richmond. The resolutions TEEN with silly
utterances, and are full of venom and hate
toward the south. From the tenor of the
resolutions it appears that the members of
Mcpherson post are the kind of men who
would delight in persuading heretics to
their way of thinking by the gentle influ-
ence of the rack and stake.
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What NV Love is Like.

My love is like tender flower,
Sheltered from the worlds rude glare,
In some fair and shady bower,
Blooming there so sweet and rare.
Her pure life well worth the living,
Sweet perfume around distilling.
o, would that could worthy prove,
And win this little maiden's heart,
I'd be content to win her love.
Content with riches all to part.
And work for aye-yes, day by day,
Result of toll before her lay.
But this know can never be,
She is to me as some bright star,
That !, a wanderer of the sea,
Behold, and worship from AFFAIR."
Praying that yet may be
Half as pure and good as she.
Barley, Ga. Mrs. W. G. PARKER.
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The unsettled state of affairs about the
tariff is bar to the negotiations for the
proposed commercial treaty between this
country and Mexico. If the Senate should
accept the free sugar provisions of the
House bill it would remove great difficulty
in the way now, as it would not be neces-
sary to stipulate for it in the treaty. The
duty on silver and lead ore may prove the
stumbling block, however, but treaty
conceding the free entrance of Mexican
ores in return for free entrance for Ameri-
can products into Mexico might solve the
difficulty.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
Sunerloval Idiocv.

From, the st. Louis Republic (Den,).
The SUPERFICIAL idiot who introduced the bill
in congress making it misdemeanor to print
a picture of the United States flag on the
ground that it is sacrilegious should be in
formed that the people of this country are the
government, and that they are not to be COM
PEELED to uncover to any Gesslers cap. The
United States flag is entitled to reverence only
as it represents the idea of the inherent right
IN tihertv
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The Spanish cabinet has decided to give
an English syndicate the contract for the
Cuban Central railway, because it offers
better security than the American syndi-
cate, but will stipulate that American firms
shall supply portion of the material. The
contract for building the Cuban Central
railway is for millions of dollars, and it is
surprising that the Americans did not look
more closely after their interests in the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29

The disclosures of rottenness and corrup-
ton in New York city before the Fassett
investigating committee expose the low
state of political morals in the metropolis.
The revelations made sustain the view of
affairs taken by the Rev. DR.. Heber Newton
in sermon preached last Sunday, that the
city government is a combination of the
bosses for jobbery and political lodges to
escaI Q responsibility and to permit all sorts
of rascallty.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-29

Headsman Clarkson's explanation in ans
wer TO Henry Cabot Lodges reply to his
Boston speech doesn't explain. Clarkson
turns loose his lingual artillery on the
Massachusetts, reformer, and tries to create
the impression that he was misinterpreted.
Whether misunderstood or not, Mr.. Lodges
reply is manly, courteous and logical, while
the imprint of the blatant demagogue is
plainly marked all over in Clarkson's speech
and his interview.