The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-20
SENATOR'S GIVEN A ROAST.
Editor WatteTSOn Scores the Southern
Contingent.

Their Advocacy of Silver and the
wrangles They Are Indulging in
IN the Floor Declared Suicidal for
the Party-The Atlanta Constitution
Makes a Feeble Attempt to Reply,
hut is Badly Knocked Out by the
Charleston News and Courier.
louisville, KY, Oct. 19.-Editor Henry
vaterson, of the Courier-Journal, in a
two column leader reads the riot act to
those southern senators who have OBJ
structed silver repeal, and predicts disas-
ter for the Democratic party. He says:
sThe spectacle of the extra session, and
more particularly the scenes of the last
few days and nights, are enough to call
the dead to life in defense of beleaguered
interests and departing glory from
CLIQUE Of southern senators obsequiously
serving a combine of silver mine owners,
using t. cir experience, and such wits as
are left them, to obstruct the will of
the people as it was never INSTRUCTED
before precisely as if their own dear lives
were at stake" He says: "Perhaps the
immolation of Grover Cleveland may be
retribution upon the Democratic party
for nominating and electing him Pres
ident, and perhaps it may destroy the
party outright. Perhaps it is even the
Will of God for evil to come to pass that
good may follow, but the guilty ones will
not escape That is the one comfort amid
the desOlatiOn that has enveloped dem
ocratic opportunities and the irretriev-
able disgrace which has fallen upon the
Democratic party in having approvingly
TO submit to the wise rebuke of a republi-
can statesman, and that statesman John
Sherman"
SILVER ORGAN REPLIES.
Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 19-Replying to the
extract from Mr.. WattersOn's editorial in
the Courier Journal, threatening southern
senators and predicting party disaster
because they held out against the gold
standard, the Constitution of tomorrow
will say: 1--WE can heartily sympathize
with our contemporaries wrathful protest
against delay, and with his anxiety for
our beleaguered interests, but right here
our pathways diverge. We are not looking
to John Sherman for counsel or wise re-
buke, nor can we regard the southern
silver senator's as obstructionists, when
every telegram that comes from Washing
ton tells the story of their earnest efforts
to secure a compromise and of their eager
ness to meet their brother democrats in a
caucus with a view of adjusting differ
ences, while the anti-silver senators are
secretly opposing the caucus and
they will not be bound by it.
This plainly shows who the real obstruc-
tiOnists are, and the country will hold the
men responsible who refuse to consider
compromise and vigorously oppose the
time hOnOred democratic method of get
ting together and agreeing upon common
basis for the sake of party harmony"
THE CONSTITUTION ANSWERED.
Charleston, S. c., Oct. 19.-Comment-
ing on the Atlanta Constitutions criti-
Cism of Henry Watterson's review Of the
silver struggle in the Senate, the News
and Courier will say tomorrow: THE
Atlanta Constitution is not looking to
John Sherman for counsel or wise rebuke!
1t prefers to train with PETER, to follow
the path blazed out by the
silver senator's, to stand in with
the miners who want to force
the government to buy what they have
to sell, at better price than they can get
for it in the open market, to tack the
south on to the tail of the free silver kite
We are not surprised that the Constitu-
ton should choose such company The
compromises, of which it speaks, have all
been in the interest of the silver mine
owners, and in favor of continuing, in
some form or other, the vicious
policy which has brought the coun-
try to the verge of bankrupt
cy. The anti-silver senator's are
pursuing the only patriotic and honest
course left open to them. They should
not go into any caucus in the interest of
cheap money. Party harmony at the
expense of party honesty would be
dearly bought The southern senator's
who are flibustering against the uncon-
ditional repeal of the Sherman law are
wrecking the Democratic party. The
rest of the country can stand it if the
south cam