The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-30
Mr.. NORWOOD AT HOME.
NOT 4 SENATORIAL CANDIDATE
BUT WILL SERVE IF ELECTED.


The Author Of "Plutocracy" En- Rap
port With the Alliance. Which In
spired the Writer-He Predicts That
the Next House VIII be Democratic,
and says it is Being Conceded by
Some Republican Corgressmen-The
Mad Folly Of the Party in Power
Will Compass Its Defeat throughout
The Country.
Hon. T. NJ Norwood is in the city and
was found busy at his desk in his law office
when a MORNING News reporter called
Upon him yesterday. Mr.. Norwood was
asked what grounds there are for the an
nonncement from Washington to the south
ern press that be would be candidate for
the United States Senate, and in reply Mr.
Norwood said that he had authorized no
such statement and would make no canvass
for the place.
WILL ACCEPT II ELECTED.
MY views said Mr.. Norwood, toward
the senatorial race are, that | am not a
candidate, and that have not come home
as stated by some kilograms in the press Of
the state, 10 enter the senatorial race. |
occupy the same position that did in ref
erence to the nomination for representative
for this district a few weeks ago.
1t Is a position am not seeS-
ing, but one l would not decline
if elected. l suppose the public know-at
least those who have read my book-that |
am thoroughly in accord VITA the alliance
movement, and have felt and thought that
way for years: and it was at thought and
feeling which impelled me to take the time
and trouble to write the book"
''Have you abandoned the idea Of
locating at Washington for the practice Of
law e. Mr.. Norwood was asked.
"Yes, I expect to practice law in Savan-
nah, but at the same time l shall conduct
some legal business in Washington as
occasion calls. | shall probably form a
partnership here in a few days and go right
on with the practice"
REPUBLICANS CoNcEDE DEFEAT.
Mr.. Norwood talked very entertaiuingly
on the political outlook, and among other
things he says that he entertalns no doubt
that the democrats will control the next
House, and this opinion is based on his OBJ
servations while in Washington and from
conversations with republican members of
the House, some of whom say that they do
not expect their party to be in the majority.
They say that 1t will be an off year, but
Mr.. Norwood gives other reasons why the
democrats will be successful in the pending
campaign.
There are a number Of reasons cited by
MIR. Norwood why the country will not elect
republican House this year He said
the public sentiment of the country is pro-
nouncedlY against the force bill, and that
that threatened legislation alone will be
SUFFICIENT to defeat the party in power this
fall. de entertains the opinion that the
Senate will not pass the bill at the present
session, and he does not believe that an
extra session of congress will be cllled He
says that the bill cannot be passed by the
Senate at the December session without in
Voklng the gag rule. and he is not prepared
TO believe that this will be done.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT AGAINST THE BILL.
Mr.. Norwood thinks that the appropria-
tlon bills and other routine legislation will
tully occupy the short December SO sion,
and the force bill will fail then as he pre-
diets it will fail If passage this session. Mr..
Norwood says that northern capital is
largely invested in the south, and it has a
tendency to make those who have invested
more conservative. They want peace.
ana as they know the force bill is
calculated to disturb this section their
influence will necessarily be felt in the
senate, which he believes will not be gov
erned SO much by extreme partisanship as
was the House. He believes that whether
the force bill does or does not become law
at this session, the Republican party will
De affected in the election for congressman,
as the partisan element will be dissatisfied
at the failure OF the Senate to pass the bill.
and should the Senate pass it at this session
the conservative element Of the party
would show their displeasure at the polls.
MAD FOLLY REIGNs.
The mad folly of the republicans in the
House has clearly shown that they are will
ing to subordinate the public interests to
advance their party. This, he says, is not
only manifested by the tyrannical rules
which have made an autocrat of the speaker,
but by the unseatlng of elected members Of
the House and the SEATING of those who we're
defeated. This policy also extended TO the
Senate IN the seating Of the two republican
senators from Montana, and NJ. Norwood
teeis satisfied that the country will reese {
such partisan action. The tariff bill which
Increases the burdens Of taxation. Mr..
Norwood says, will be another and an i'm
portant factor in the defeat of the Repub-
Hcah party at the approaching elections
KNOCKED OUT BY THE HOG.
The lard bill, Mr.. Norwood says, will not
strengthen the Republican party in the
north, and will certainly materially weaken
u IN the south. He says that Congressman
Enloe OF Tennessee summed up the situation
IN felicltous manner when he said that
the negro had been knocked out by the
hog, aud he says the colored people Of the
south can very readily understand this very
simple and truthful way of putting it, as
they are directly and indirectly interested in
cotton seed, from which the veg
etable oil is made, all industry
which the Republican party seeks to
destroy, and which will necessarily reduce
the price OF cotton seed. Many colored men
are lessees or owners Of land, aud, being cot
ton planters on their own account, are di-
rectly interested in seeing the price of cot
ton seed maintained, while many thousands
OF colored men and women employed in the
cotton fields are indirectly interested, SO
that an attack upon this industry will be
severely felt and resented by them.
Referring to the disgraceful scene in the
House this week, wholly participated in by
republican congressman, MIR. Norwood saws
that 1t cannot fail TO make a most unfavor-
able impression upon the country. Such a
display of billingsgate and indecent Ian
guage, he says, is unparalleled in the his
tory OF that legislative body, and must tend
to lower the party in public esteem among
the better class OF republicans in the north
and convince them that their represen ia
tives are not what they thought them to be
when they were elected.
DROPPED DEAD ON THE FLOOR.