The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-21
IN THE "CYCLONE'S" PATH
THE MEETING AT GRIFFIN SOME
THING LIKE A CIRCUS.

DE Perrled Cleverly Some Questions
and Dodged Others.
GRIFFIN, Ga, Sept 2O.-"Cyolonen Davis
came. blew his spell-bindinR breath aud left
for Woodbury. tonight, where he speaks to-
morrow. He was accompanied by @. s,
Powers of Terre Haute, Ind, the sub-treas-
urer of the combination, who sells medals
Of Weaver and Field, by a monopolistio
manufaotory. to pay the expenses OF the
campaign. Except for the tim attendance
Of the colored contingent Of the third party
ties, it was more like circus day than any,
thing Griffin has seen for long time.
There were faces seen on the streets
that are seen only on circus days,
though we would be glad to
see them ofteuer. The Weaver crowd in
Spalding is so small that all the surround
ing counties had to be called upon to fur
nish the audience for the imported speaker.
Spalding did furnish the chairman, iu the
the person, of course, Of Col. I. w. Flynt,
but it was Tom Barrett OF Pike who
called Byrd Garland Of Upson to be Sc
cretary, and he was seconded by a man
from Monroe. r. w. Mays, the political
agitator OF Butts, sat in the front seat by
John Chambers. the Fayette aspirans for
the Senate from this district.
CALLED IN FROM ALL THE COUNTIES.
There were less distinguished gentlemen
from all these counties as well as from the
most remote districts from Henry and Clay
ton. Scattered among these in the main
body OF the court house were the honest
democratic voters of Spalding county, To-
gether with some perhaps not quite 80 honest
in their political expressions. Next TO the
clerks inclosure sat the "boysH and the local
lin 81 AL.
the press representatives, including the Sa-
vannah NEWS, Atlanta Constitution and
the Pomona Picdyune.
Certainly, Mr.. Davis had a good audi
enoe, and before the show was over they all
got the worth Of their money, though il
did start little tamsly at first.
THE 'CYCLoNE" INTRODUCED.
j. II, Davis. introduced by Col T. w.
Flynt as the next attorney general Of Texas,
commenced by stating that he was not a
colonel. but a plain American citizen,
who had come TO talk TO other citizens He
Is very tall and thin, with rather long hair
and thin beard. His manner was
calm and reasoning, though rather didactic
than argumentative. For some time he
talked evenly and rather prosily along,
quoting Blackstone, Ricardo, John Stuart
Mill, Thomas Jefferson and the constitution
Of the United States on the prinolples OF
S4uhl RCNeTuuuSuJ, tlks style was more
that of the professor of political economy
than politician, and his teachings sounded
well. though the primary principles
would bear the test OF analysis. He divided
all economic questions into those concerning
land, transportation and finance, and
argued that the government should give
every man q piece Of land provide him
with the cheapest transportation possible
and supply him with all the money he
needs.
MUST SEIZE THE LAND.
The government must, therefore, first
take possession of the land. which has been
seized by and granted to monopolies. Il
must Guy and run railroads and must coin
all the money that the people need. The
last struck chord apparently In the hearts
Of many, and was greeted with the first ap-
plause. The tricklIng perspiration showed
that the speaker was warming up to
his subject, and he said that
the reason why the populsts
all the people may get money without ex-
tortion or monopoly. The bankers, instead
Of looking out for the people, look out for
themselves and their posterity, and this
must be changed. Manufacturing and
traffic associations dictate prices by CONTROL
ling labor and fixing freight rates, which
was also wrong. GYellS.l
NObAtbCAOo hAbb 20 kOlh AEOtL bhb uduus
Of monopoly. He explained that he was
appointed Indian agent by Cleveland, but
before he took the position the Indians had
taken the warpath and burned up the
agency.
ASKED ABOUT PENSIONS.
Col. Frank Flynt asked the speaker to ex-
plain about his spension.plsnk, and the crowd
attempted TO drown Mr.. Fiynt out with
storm of cries and yells. but Mr.. Davis
Quieted them, and said he was there to
answer questions and would come TO that
directly. He proceeded to argue that no
corporations should own more land than
necessary for their business, upon Which |
Mr.. Flynt read him the democratic plank
on the subject
Mr. Davis acknowledged that tt was a
good one, but did not go far enough. Some
body having called out something about
Gen. Weaver, Mr.. Davis retorted by quot
ing things Horace Greeley had said about
the south, but was rather taken aback when
the democrats called out that it must have
been Weaver who said that, as nobody else
could have been mean enough. Consider
able confusion ensuing She chairman de-
ciared it was a plan to break up the meet
ing, but Mr. Davis said it couldn't be done.
He kept his temper and answered all ques-
tions.
THE LAND LOAN.
The precious land loan theory was then
expounded. The government would buy up
all the many mortgages which incumber
the land and charge per cent. interest IN
stead Of the present high rate. II the mort
gage was not paid then the land would re-
vert 20 the government and become part of
the public domain. Asked IL the owner
could not then take IL up again under the
land laws and thus have both land
aud money, the speaker grew
eloquent and said: ''Are you not
willing TO let this poor, friend
less man, even IL he has defrauded the
government once or twice, have a homer
"Boo-oo-oo.n This sounds like an extract
from q burlesque opera, the Pirates Of
Penzance," /" for instance, and was richly on
joyed by all thinking persons present, but
It was seriously taken as sublime pathos
and unanswerable argument as " "Boo-oo-oon
and all by the speakers crowd and ap-
plauded accordingly.
He charged democrats and republicans
alike for all the evils he found existing, de-
scrIbed in eloquent terms how money Is FL
tered into the hands Of the people and
squeezed out again and declared that tho
Omaha platform proposed TO abolish all
tariffs although the tariff Is not mentioned.
THE TARIFF no CONSEQUENCE.
Anyhow the tariff is Of no consequence
being a joint republican and democratic
bugaboo, like one party skinning the bark