Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-23
HILLS rz1ENDs m GEORGIA.


A Scheme to Send Cleveland Delegates
to the National CONVENTION.
Special Dispatch to The Evening star.
ATLANTA, GA, July 28.-One Of tho pretties,
games on the political chess board Of recent
years is in progress in this state. It is an at.
tempt on the part Of the Hill men to send an
anti Cleveland delegation from Georgia to the
democratic national convention next year.
The Atlanta Constitution, the leading demo
cratic paper Of the state. but which has more
or less decided protection" views on the tariff
question, il the chief actor in this conspiracy
against the ex-President. and the weapon il has
chosen to club Mr.. Cleveland with is the
Farmers Alliance and the ocala platform.
Tho Consultation hos been encouraging the ALI
ance leaders, and they have been fighting
Cleveland under cover Of the Ocala platform.
THE PLAN OF THE uuL MEN.
The view Of the Hill men has been that II the
attention Of the farmers could be concentrated
| on Cleveland as the greatest and most danger
Gus opponent Of the Ocala platform the idea
could be gradually perverted into desire for
anything to beat Cleveland" which in their
opinion would result in the collapse Of the
third party and the selection Of Hill delegates
to the national convention.
Inc game had been going on pretty smoothly
until last week, when Congressman Tom"
Watson made an unexpected move which has
made the Constitution crowd madden than wet
hens.
Watson was elected az an alliance democrat,
but at the great alliance rally here last week,
at which President Polk Gen. Weaver, Senator
PETER, Congressman Jerry Simpson and Tom
Watson and Rev. Sam Small spoke, Mr.. Watson
came out hatfooted in favor Of third party
national ticket. Now the Constitution, which
he's been patting Watson on the back and urg-
ing him on In his defense Of the alliance, 10
pouring out the walls Of its wrath on his Offend
ing head.
TIE CONSTITUTION" CRITICISED.
The Augusta Chronicle, one of the ablest
edited papers in the south, has been warning
the Consultation Of the probable result of its
course for some time. 1t now takes that paper
to task in the following decided language: MIR
Watsons speech Wednesday night has set the
esteemed Constitution to thinking. Perhaps
Mr.. Watson is wrong about the third party.
Perhaps the alliance is not ready to 60 out Of
the democratic fold. We respectfully submit
that the Constitutions alarm has come n little
late. The Chronicle has been pointing all
along to this inevitable drift. The creed advo-
Gated by the alliance and encouraged by the
Atlanta Constitution points naturally to the
third party. This is the logical trend Of the
whole matter. The man who believes that tho
Ocala platform is tho hope of the country
KNOWS that 1t will never be accepted by
the national democratic convention. Mr.. Wat
son has committed the crime Of coming out
boldly and saying Just what the other leaders
are only limiting at. He at least is consistent.
We trust the esteemed Atlanta Constitution will
see what conclusions its position has led to
and where its acquiescence in alliance princi-
pies has brought it. The Constitution, Of
course, will eject to stay in the democratic
party, but to do so it must shed some of its
alliance trimming. Manager Hemphill Of the
Atlanta Constitution informed the people at
pYad purE hot
would be an alliance man, and il he were an al
alliance man he would stand on the full alliance
platform. Now let Mr.. Hemphill inform US
through his paper what party he would belong
to-"
The editors and managers Of the Constitution
all attended the big alliance rally in this city
last week as honored guests. Not a word Of
criticism has since been directed against Simp-
son, Weaver ct al. in the columns of that
paper, but columns Of abuse have been heaped
upon Watson. Why? Because Weaver and
Simpson represent republican states, and
mated, while the formation Of one in Georgia
will defeat tho Hill delegation scheme and pos
sibly result in the loss of the states electoral
vote to the democratic candidate, whoever he
may be-
THIRD PARTY PROSPECTS,.
So the Constitution and the Hill men gen.
orally are beginning to realize that in boosting
up the alliance leaders they 'bit off more than
they can chew" There is no doubt that third
party electoral ticket will DO put in tho field In
this state and in North and South Carolina, and
perhaps other southern states
But Georgia has big democratic majority to
fall back on, and the third party will have to
poll at least Il, 600 votes In order to elect tho
republican ticket. The republicans ore in bad
shape, with no organization to speak OF, but if
they see chance to eleot their electoral ticket
they will probably gather together their forces
and make an active fight,