The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-11
WEAVER A SOUTH Halter
NO DANGER CT HIM CARRYING A
SINGLE SOUTHERN STATE.

Representative O'Fsrran Talks of the
Situation in the South-Weaver's
Record sure TO Cut the PEOPLES
Party Out of Any Chance TO Poll a
Large Vote.
WASHINGTON, July 1o.-Representative
O'Ferrall of Virginia, chairman of the
committee on elections and one Of the best
equipped members sent here from the south,
is certain that there is not the slightest
danger Of the electoral vote Of any southern
state being lost to Mr.. Cleveland. He says:
president Harrison is the weakest candi-
date the republicans could have nominated
SO far as the southern states are concerned.
In those states he is weak in his own party,
except among his office holders. Mr..
Blaine would have been much stronger.
Gen. Weaver can do less
harm than almost any can
didate the third party could
have put In the field He is known to be q
wild and erratic man; everything by turns,
and nothing long-6rst a contributing,
south-damning republican. then a green
hacker, then a Knight OF Labor, then a dem
ocrat, then an aliiancemsn. and now a third
partyite. He has exhausted the vocabulary
in his denunciation of the southern people
and declared that those who vera not shot
or hanged are again conspiring to get posses
sion Of the government He has denounced
them as "a hungry, rebellious, man hating,
woman selling gang and as late as July 10,
1855, declared on the floor Of the House OF
Representatives that he had nothing to
take back
soUTHERNERs CAN'T SUPPORT HIM.
"Do you think" said Col O'Ferrall,
"that self-respecting southern men eau now
vote for such a manl Do you believe that
they are willing to throw their votes away
upon such candidate and endanger demo-
cratic success and promote the chances of
the passage of force bill, which means
riot and disorder and probably bloo1shed
and destruction of the peace, welfare and
mutual interest of the south! AS south
eru man, with southern feelings and with
southern interests at heart, 1 do not believe
it. There are many other things which
will be presented during the canvass which
will make the name OF Gen. Weaver odious
in the south and his support there will not
be felt any more, in my judgment, than a
fly on an ox's horn"
CLEVELAND SURE TO WIN.
Then you think the democratic ticket
will carry every southern state and win the
fghtr
II look forward to grand national VIC
tory for Cleveland and Stevenson. The
people have faith in Mr.. Cleveland. They
know, as some one expressed 1t recently,
that he's right in almost everything and
honest in all things The causes which
brought the great victory of 1890 still exist.
and they will be felt even more in the re-
suit in the coming election. The people
want lower taxes, relief from financial de-
preston, from strikes and labor troubles,
from reckless appropriations and from the
menace OF bayonet rule, and they intend
to have Ii.
"what should be the issues Of the cam
paign."
1.-THE tariff and the force bill, not losing
sight of course, OF the important question
of placing silver upon a parity with gold
and arranging a safe limited currency.
Relief from federal taxation, except for the
necessary support OF the government, is a
cardinal doctrine OF democracy. The right
of the people TO select theft. own rulers and
lawgivers aud to conduct their own cleo
tions unawed by federal bayonets, unap-
paled 10y federal power, constitutes the
very bedrock principle of this republic, and
democracy will defend it wherever its
standard is erected, north or south"
OUR TARIFF PLANE.
"Will the tariff for revenue only plank
have the effect of throwing into the repub-
hcan column a state that is developing pro-
tected industriesw
$50 far as my own state is concerned l
can answer emphatically no. The protec-
ton sentiment has been decreasing every
year, and the congressional district in which
the protected indu Stries are principally To-
GATED are more safely democratic than some
districts that are strictly agricultural. The
miners and skilled workmen, as well as the
ordinary laborers, find no advantage to
them 10 protection. They realize that
the benefits of protection all flow
into the pockets OF the owners
OF the plants and not into their pockets;
that the dividends of the mine owner and
the manufacturer are increased, while there
is no increase In their wages; that while the
product of the mine and factory through
protection brings more to the Carnegies,
through protection more is drawn from
them TO secure the necessaries of life"