The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-20
HOWELL vs. WATTERSON.
Atlanta Constitution Replies to TIL,
Editorial In tho Courier-Journnl.

Atlanta Constitution Replies to the
Editorial In tho Courier-Journnl.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Oct. 49, Editor
Henry Watterson, in the Courier Jour
nal, in two-column leader this morn
ing reads the riot act to those Southern
Senators who have INSTRUCTED the silver
repeal, and predicts disaster to the
Democratic party.
He says: The spectacle of the extra
session and more especially the scenes
Of the last four days and nights are
enough to call tho dead to life in de-.
tense Of the beleaguered interests and
departing glory from clique OF South
ern Senators obsequious, serving a
com bine of silver mine-owners; using
their 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 further: "Pehaps the immo-
latiun of Grover Cleveland may be re-
tribution upon the Democratic party for
nominating and electing him President,
and perhaps it may destroy tho party
outright. Perhaps it is even the will of
God for eviI to come to pass that good
may follow, but the guilty ones will not
escape. That one comfort amid the
desolation that has developed Demo
cratic opportunities, and l regret the
disgrace which has fallen upon the
Democratic party in having approvingly
to submit to the wise rebuke of Re.
publican statesman, and that statesman
Jonn Sherman"
REPLY OF THE CONSTITUTION.
ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. I0.-Replyinp to
tho nVtraNt from, Mr. No.
torial in the Courier-J Journal threaten
ing Southern Senators and predicting
party disaster because they held out
against the gold standard, the Constitu.
ton OF to- morrow morning will say:
1--WE can heartily sympathize with
our contemporaries with full protest
against delay and with his anxiety for
our beleaguered interests, but right here
our pathways diverge. We are not look
ing to John Sherman for counsel or wise
rebuke, nor can we regard the Southern
silver Senators as obstructionists when
every telegram that comes from
Washington tells the story Of their
earnest efforts to secure a compromise
and OF their eagerness to meet their
brother Democrats in caucus with q
view to adjusting their differences
while the anti-silver Senators are
secretly organizing the caucus and in
timating that If they go into It they
will not be bound by it.
This plainly shows who the real OBJ
structionists are, and the country will
hold the men responsible who refuse to
consider compromise and vigorously
oppose the time honored Democratic
method OF getting together and agree
ing upon common basis for the sake
OF party harmony"
NEWS AND coURIER's REPLY TO HOWELL
CHARLESTON, S. C, Oct. l0.-Com-
menting on the Atlanta Constitu ton
criticism on Watterson's view OF the
silver struggle in the Senate, the News
and Courier will say tomorrow: The
Atlanta Constitution is not looking ia
John Sherman for counsel or wise re.
buke. 1t prefers to train with PETER to
follow the path blazed out by the silver
Senators 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 ordeal OF free silver
We are not surprised that the Constitu
ton should choose such company. The
compromises OF which it speaks have
all been in this fight OF mine owners in
favor OF continuing in some form OF
other the vicious policy which has
brought the country on the verge Of
bankruptcy. The anti silver Senators
are pursuing the only patriotic and
honest course left open to them.
TUE WEATHER.
Forecast for Virginia: Partly cloud,