The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-09
Gov. Tillman's Threats.

Gov. 11llman, OF South Carolina, is not
yet satisfied that he cannot make his dis
pensary law success. Those who are
opposing it are likely to find that he will
make the situation very unpleasant for
them before he exhausts his resources. In
our dispatches theother day it was stated
that the governor has announced his pur-
pose to have the legislature at its next
session pass a law policing Charleston,
Sumter, Spartanburg, Greenville and
Columbia with metropolitan police APP
pointed by authority of the legislature.
In other words, the governor proposes to
have authority given himself to appoint
the police of the cities named.
VIII the cities submit to such a condi-
tion of affairsl They will have to, or
openly resist, and they would hardly do
that. The governor thinks the police of
those cities are not in sympathy with his
| efforts to enforce the dispensary law, and
that, instead of assisting to enforce it,
they practically obstruct the enforce
ment of it. 1t is natural that if public
sentiment in the cities is against the law
the police should not be very active in
enforcing it.
The dispensary law is giving Gov. Till
man good deal of trouble. His efforts
to keep whisky out of the state, except
what he lets in through his dispensaries,
have not been wholly successful thus far,
and are not likely to be. The federal
courts are apparently against him, and
also very large part of the people. In
deed, it is question whether ma jority of
the people are not opposed to the law A
majority of those in the cities certainly
are.
If the governor carries out his purpose
of having the legislature give him the
power of appointing police for the cities
he will arouse a very bitter feeling
against himself, and bring on a greater
struggle for his political overthrow than
any that has yet been made. The gov
ernor, however, seems to like political
fights, and as he generally comes out on
top he will hardly be deferred from his
purpose to have metropolitan police APP
pointed by hostile demonstration in the
cities. There is danger, however, of his
losing his influence in the country dis
tricts by making too great an exhibition
of his power and of his intention to have
his way at any cost.
1t begins to look as if the fatlittle black
man, Charles II, J. Taylor, nominated to
the Bolivian mission, would suffer a
serious disappointment. The Washing
ton Post has a report to the effect that
the Bolivian legation in Washington has
conveyed to the Senate committee having
the nomination in charge a strong intima-
ton that the government of Bolivia does
not desire to receive him. Taylor SAYS
that he was not candidate for Bolivia,
and that the President himself selected
the place for him. He asked for a mis-
sion, but did not specify to which country
he desired to go. Friends of the Presi-
dent say that when Mr.. Cleveland ex-
amined the papers he found letters from
hundreds of the most prominent demo-
Gratis, north, east, and south, indorsing
Taylor for mission in terms so strong
that he could not resist the conviction
that there really existed desire in the
Democratic party to see this representa-
tive of the colored race given high posi-
ton in the foreign service, and upon this
conviction selected the Bolivian mission
y
and man of considerable ability.
Notwithstanding the vigorous protests
that the preachers and a part of the
press of New York and Brooklyn are
making against prize fighting at Coney
Island. in defiance of the laws of the
state, the preliminaries for the Corbett-
Mitchell fight continue to be perfected
and less important fights are being
pulled OFF, with regularity and profit to
the gamblers who run the events" A
fight between Leeds and Ernst, two COM
paratively unknown bruisers, is sched-
uled to occur tonight, and there is every
prospect that it will take place according
to the card. And the probabilities are
that a mill between Jim" Hall and
Bob" Fitzsimmons win be arranged to
occur shortly after Corbett and Mitchell
shall have concluded their pounding
match. 1t is alleged that the political
ring in Kings county is responsible for
these repeated and brutal violations Of the