The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-28
Awake to the Danger.

The reports received at the headquarters
Of the democratic national committee In
New York show that the democrats are
awake TO the importance Of making a
vigorous campaign. No fears are enter
tanned that any one of the southern states
will be lost to the democracy. The south
ern people fully appreciate the danger that
threatens the south from the force bill, and
thousands of voters who have paid very
little attention to politics In recent years
are now actively at work for the national
democratic ticket.
Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia, said
q day or two ago that many republicans in
that state would vote with the democrats
because they object to negro domino
ten, which would follow the enactment of
tie force bill Indeed. the force bill issue
is having the effect of making the more
thoughtful Of the third party people think
they are endangering their dearest interests
by supporting that party. Fl is clear that
the more intelligent members of the third
party are beginning TO realize that by sup>
porting that party they are virtually ems
courAging the Republican party. aud one OF
the main purposes of that party, as every
one knows, is TO pass the force bill, which
would bring about a clash of the races In
the south.
The northern papers that take an interest
in the south view the force bill with even
more alarm than it is Viewed by many
southern papers. They see, even at that
distance, the unhappy condition of affairs
that would exist in the south II that bill
were TO become a law. The Philadelphia
Record, for instance, in a recent issue,
speaking of the indifference OF the third
party to the force bill issue, said: "Before
the dawn OF November every farmer will
comprehend that votes against Cleveland
and democratic congressman will couet as
votes in favor of the Lodge force bill, and
the third party in the southern states will
be reduced to a skeleton. Any man iD any
southern state who should know
ingly lend his support, directly
or indirectly, to the Lodge force hill
would not dare to look an honest woman
in the face, and honest men would regard
him with scorn. 1t is in the very nature
of things that such should be the case.
From an experience in some of the states
more terrible than that OF the war, and
from traditions which curdle the blood of
rising generations, nothing imaginable
could be so dreadful to the white men and
women OF the south as negro domination.
There is not even an honest negro in the
south who has acquired an interest in the
soil and has a family to look after who
would not dread it."
The stump speakers and papers OF the
third party may try to belistle the force
bill issue, but they will not be successful
1t is an issue that will grow in Importance
as the campaign proceeds, and every day
those democrats who have been led away
from the Democratic party by demagogicAl
arguments, and glittering promises that
cannot be fulfilled will have the question
forced upon them whether they can afford
to take the risk of pursuing course
that makes the force bill possible. The
most of them will decide they cannot take
the risk, and will get back into the Demo-
cratic party before November.
Tit is possible for Gen. Weaver to take
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