The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-27
.amoon NOT OPPOSING LESTER.
pav,ew Of the Legislation Being
H0N- - Rar,1hlican Perty.

ASK lOT eEc-OO -
ment. . :, tho post
Soy saws that ( am q candidate for
congress on in opposition to Mr. Lester Ihae
there NAV be no further instantaneous mace
bout me. I wish to say at once that am
80 a candidate, nor oppoSlhg' nor opposeu
nOS = Ieeter. There are letters written by
10 nj IL POSSESSION of friends in the First
nc - ,Ssonal district stating would not
l.ooI7didate aud expressing my support
OF 1l .,,aiyed an invitation to address meet
- tbe citizens of Bulloch, Etingham
i,s Scriyen on Friday, July y. repled,
eInressing my regret that couId not De
'sl'c,.b concluded by saying, II neither
loa5 nor desire office; that would not volun-
se1H ask for a reversal Of the Judgment
d9rad AGAINST me in 'oS, however IN
- and that were | the nominating con-
!y,a,tion | would vote for Lester"
Tba action in Emanuel was taken after L
bad stated three times in reply by letter 10
fr;ands that | would not be a candidate.
T'bose democrats are of age and speak for
themselves. IN - .ha. 20
animated withoslt my seeking | would not
serve. | was honored by my people three
times-in the Senate and Twice IN the
Tonse-when the position was one OF com
narrative ease and comfort, and now, when
thew are aroused TO the perils surrounding
ham and wish to restore the federal gov
ernment to the plane Of equal rights and an
eonaI chance for all, and are confronted by
81 enemy that has been entrenching itself
=; the national capitol for thirty years,
a1sinst all producers and laborers, it would
he nncrateful and unmanly in me to say |
will not serve you III your honor OF need, II
you wish 1t.
The producers of the wealth of this coun-
try need strong. bold, aggressive, unfiinch-
ing vet. discreet, Just men in congress TO
protect them from robbery under the form
and sanction of law. This has been my
conviction ever since came to the Senate
and began to study the methods or the
money power, under the control of
which the war unfortunately placed the
entire government. | do not claim to come
I'D to that standard. Under and through
that control inequalities have been estab-
lished bu lar, by the tariff and the general
financial system, until to-day the producers.
who are the many, and the manufacturers,
who are the favored few, stand IN
this relative position or condition.
The farmers earn about an average of 8 per
cent. net, while the manufacturers make
from to 25 per cent, and the government
QiueS them, besides, an average OF over 4O
per ceuC. Is III surprising JueIt Oh0 PiO-
ducers, south, west and north, at er bear
ing that wrong-that inequalitv-that class
legislation, which for twenty-five years has
built up a moneyed aristocracy in the north
and east, have risen to defend themselves?
] not only sew to them, GOD SPEED your
but feel gratited to hear from different
sections of the country that my own hum
bic work in behalf of the producers and la
borers. "Plutocracy, or American White
bac haI iuHnarnpa in
ing them to take action for self-protection.
In the face of all this class legislation to
enrich few at the expense of the great
majority (Which legislation it would take
two columns of your paper to name by the
titles of the acts only, extending through
twenty-eight years last past, when the
producers ask for some help, some relief,
they are told, There is no help for you;
the constitution is silent as to producers; it
only knows the manufacturers. If you will
not produce cotton. but will manufacture
it, tue constitution will help YOU. If you
will quit producing and haul produce in
stead-that is, be a railroad-congress, by
authority Of the constitution, will give you
outright millions of acres. If you will quit
producing and be steamboat, congress
has power under the constitution and
will give you bounty to support
you like prince. If you will quit pro-
ducing and be a furnace, congress will
give you, constitutionally of course, any
where from Sl5 to S35 for every ton of rails
you make, and so on to the number of over
5000 other things manufactured. And
now, under the Mckinley bill, if you will
leave your plow, your anvil, your shop,
etc, and just say you don't know but that
at some distant period you moy manu-
facture tin plate, if you can fad a tin mine,
congress, under the constitution, will pro-
tect your lnfant-no, your unborn, and,
may be, never to be born-industry. by
forcing the people of the whole United
States to contribute 100 per cent for your
benefit. In short, if GU are producer, no
constitution, no help; if a manufacturer
plenty OF constitution, and any amount of
help you ask for. Congress is the sole
Judge. CONGRESS is GREAT"
Does any one wonder that the people de-
sire relief and intend to have it? For
twenty-five years the constitution has been
lopslded, and the producers, laborers and
consumers of manufactured goods are under
the topped side, and the privileged few on
top. 1t 1t cannot be righted as it is. it
70 an amendment that will restore
equality, that will forbid congress
to give away the peoples lands
and money, that will forbid class
legislation; that will plug that big hole in
the constitution called 1.-THE general wei
ldIe: II the constitution was not too sacred
70 De amended three times in three years to
eeneht 100000 negroes, can't it be
amended one time in hundred wears to
oeneht 100000 whites? But, Yesterday. a
nign tariff Congressman said he will vote
SIO0,Oo0,0OO to tear down the houses on
tne south side of Pennsylvania avenue
mere, to add that patch of ground to a
PARK. IhlS is only sample case Should
tnere not be limit on that power now held
oy congress and constantly kept busy to
run out the surplus? Congress abhors an
flow. W. ''0'p 01o Az
The election bill now pending shows the
necessity OF curbing congress. General
III name it is strictly sectional in purpose
~ Is the assassin's thrust at the south. Il is
ueaCh TO state rights. 1t is hemlock in our
LLuR' LOT IL destroys the states control of the
uaiot' 1t makes congress a returning board
W.. wtu carpetbag attachment. 1t takes from
Suo sIale the right to commission her repre-
oestatlves. 1t substitutes a petty federal
3lnclal of days existence-an insects life
40! the governor of a state
Is toere not necessity here for an amend
nnehl TO make the words of the constitution
81 pam that no wretch would thereafter
uare attempt to destroy the strongest of all
9ue rights Of states ! do not believe there
a western or southern state that wonld
not vote for reasonable but wrought-iron
aeSIrlctlons on those powers now so freely
% TTI1!raVagantly exercised by congress.