The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-01
wHATrHE ALLIANCE PROPOSES.

Alliauc enen May Hold the Balance OF
Power IN the Next House.
Politicians are having good deal to say
about the alliance nowadays. Even con-
gressmen are scared by it, and have been,
and are still, trimming their sails TO catch
its breeze. 1t will be wonder if the alliance
succeeds IN eluding the clutches of the poll
ticans. who see a chance to get into Office
through its influence. A Georgia alliance
man in New York, the other day, talked to
New York Tribune reporter about what
the ailiancemen propose to do in the next
Georgia legislature. He said:
Wen show them politicians how to run a
legislature when our boys get there. The
boys'll eat breakfast at sun-up, just like
they do at home, and in an hour more you'll
hear a horn blow in the capitol, and they'll
all be tere and go to work, and there won't
be any fooling around. and no excuses and
absentees, nor going down town to get
drink, nor running off on excursions to
Tybee and Chautauqua The clerk shan't
have fourteen assistants to help him, dog
gone him, but shall do the clerking him
self. The last session cost $l50.000, but
the next won't cost $50, 900. We are going
to rent out about half OF the state house.
Every one of them stsll-fed fellows has got
a front room, and a back room, sanctum
and a sanctorum, and $50 sofa to sleep on
their business hours just like the banks,
and you can't see 'em only when you don't
want TO see EN-, and they haven't got to go
to mill, either, or take up the fodder, dog
gone 'em. Oh, wen straighten out their
trace-chains when the boys get there. We
are going to run the machine in common
sense farmer way, without any red tape or
salmagundi, and If the states judges and
solicitors don't do better than they've been
doing we'll turn em out and put in some
old fashioned farmers who don't know much
law but do power Of gospel and high
natural justice. There's too much trigger
work going on. The courts have been three
years trying to hang that devil, Voolfolk,
and he amt hung yet. We could have tried
him up In my county court in three days
and hung him and saved $4,000.
Col. Oates, representative in congress
from Alabama, said TO the Washington
| correspondent of the New York Sun:
II have watched the nominations in the
south for congress with close attention, and
am sure that the farmers alliance repre-
| sentatives will hold the balance of power in
the next House. Nearly all of them will be
new men IN congress As 1t Is now, there
are only four openly avowed farmers ALI
| ancemen in the House. 1t is rather strange
| that out of these four McClammy of North
Carolina and Morgan of Mississippi have
been defeated for denomination. Until
quite recently | have felt most san
| guine that the next House would be
democratic, but the outlook is that it will
be either swayed by the farmers alliance
men or again controlled by the republicans.
In many instances the democrats have NOM
mated a candidate in opposition to the
farmers alliance. The history of politics
shows that where there is a split in the DOM
inant party the candidate of the naturally
weaker faction slips in. In Georgia. Blount,
| Crisp and Turner will be returned. although
it is hard to say what will be developed in
the way of an independent movement be-
+, fore election time comes around. North
| Carolina will send a solid delegation of
| farmers alliance men. In my state | am
sure that there will be a number of us left
at home.
1.-THE effect of the election bill, am conf
dent, would be beneficial to us, but don't
want to see it pass. l know it would cause
bloodshed. The young men of the south run
the politics now. They are not so cool
headed as we old men are, who saw hotter
times during the war, and who have been
accustomed from our infancy to be thrown
in close contact with negroes. We know
| the ways of the colored men, and, notwith-
standing all of the talk in the north to the
contrary, we have more regard and | may
say affection for them than the younger
generation of white men. Election time in
the south. under the Lodge bill or any force
bill, would mean the killing of many colored
men, for the white man is quicker to anger
| than the black man."