The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-04-18
THE PASSING IHRONG.

| THE PASSlNG IHTOANb.
"a great many timid people" said one of
the ablest of Georgia's public men, last even
! Ing at the Kimball. "think that the wall
| street gold gang is really honest in predicting
| all manner Of panic and disaster If congress
| should enact free silver and repeal the ~
| per cent tax that makes he national banks
| the currency monOpOliStS of the country. IL
! is all the veriest and slliest nonsense. Not
| prediction Of the sort ever made by them AS
| to the results of popular financial legislation
| has ever come to pass with such legislation
| enacted. They remind me of TINT time In the
! Valley of Virginia when Jeb Stuart scared
! the whole yankee army by trotting gang of
| mules, with brush tied to their tails up and
| down dusty road. From the dust they
raised the yankees thought the whole southern
| cOnfederacy was coming down upon them
| The goldbugs now dragging brush and
blowing dust into the peoples eyes Why, L
| remember back to Governor Joe BorWn'S
| famous fight with the state banks In 1879.
They had suspended specie payments and he
declared that their doing so was Illegal and
! he would take steps to forfeit their charters.
| They gathele ed all the money powers of the
| state at Milledgeville and whipped through
| bill to legaze their suspension. Governor
| Brown reSOlutely vetoed 1t as unconstitutional
| The general assembly overrode his veto and
| In the next campaign he appealed to the
| people and they overwhelmingly sustained him.
| Every prediction of the banks was proven
| false. They only one side Of the issues
| they rase-the people see both sides and Judge
| safest In every conflict. Let the democratic
| party go ahead and redeem its financial pledge
and the Wall street gang will be careful not
| to start n panic. Nobody but lot of born
idiots will try to fire off dynamite by sitting
| down hard upon IT,
| Colonel Emmett Womack, of Covngton
! was III the city last evening He in the
last campaign, as in those of former political
| combats, of the most active and popular
advocates on the stump of sound democratic
! principles. There are few men in Georgia so
| alphabetically In touch with The plain, honest
yeomanry of the country districts as is
Emmet Womack. He understands them and
they have perfect confidence in ,lls earnest
and honest affection for them and their dearest
interests Speaking of affairs, he said: The
Constitution is on the right line. 1t is y0icing
the sentiments of the great mass of Georgia
democrats in demanding strict compliance
with the promises Of the Chicago platform
1t was upon that platform that we won the
people to us in the campaign and we cannot
afford TO go back on the cXpectation we
taught the people to have. We must have
tariff reform of true and substantial charac-
ter, equal coinage Of gold and silver the re-
peal of the 10 per cent tax and Il thorough re-
lief from trusts and mOnopolleS. Without
these will 60 before the people next year
naked and defenseess
Hon. II. II. Lunsden. the popular represent
/
alive from Tolbot county, has been in rh< city
s"Fle days Wun ms good wife. who n&a i"}2l
sadly afflicted by the partial loss Of ne Ie-
SIGHT She has been under treatment ~ s"ioa
OF our skilled specialists and with such good
effect that she will return home in o. few
days able to see almost well before ber
trouble.
by the way" said Colonel Lumsden, yes
+ terday II want to congratulate The Consti-
tuition upon the fight it has been making for
omit -, ~
in the matter Of the distribution of the fed
eral offices. 1t is perfectly just demand,
ana there ought to be no criticism of il, for
we are asking only what the de nOcratc party
has been promising for the last twenty
five years-that is a fair participation In the
conduct Of the government that we are called
upon to obey and support. We did not go
into the fight last year for the purpose
OF elecung simply few big officers and leav-
ing the whole rank and file of the otiCiary,
with its millions Of salary and privileges, in
the hands of the radicals who have had q mo-
nopOly Of them for the last thirty years We
want q genuine democratic government from
top to bottom, or else all our talk about the
need for reforming republican methods
Il sham and u deIuSiOn. Turn the republicans
out quick and put democrats III according TO
the pro rata due to each state and then only
will begin to feel that the country IL tru-
ly democratic country"
How do the people down your way feel
about the financial isSue!'
"They are practically solid for the free
coinage of silver aud are not willing to hear
talk of anything short of that. They believe
that il they can get that it will result III ot-
Yer going ut once to par with gold, for the
gold will not be able to maintain its present
fictitious value, which is purely a legislative
value and dependent upon the ability OF the
money power to keep gold the sole measure
of money values. The democratic people out
In the country believe that the Chicago plat
form demanded the free coinage OF silver.
That is the way they read it and that Is the
put it to them last year--and if they do not
get free coinage of silver they will be pretty
apt 10 feel that they have been deceived and
ask some hard questions in the next cam
pagn. We want the democratic platform car
RED out in the spirit that the people received
and supported ii. If leaders keep faith
with the people in these matters all will be
well with us here in Georgia. With that
| platform last year we had comparatively lit
| tle trouble in keeping the third party down in
| Talbot county, but if the platform is not re-
relief before we have to go into another fight
we will have trouble and ii heap of it,
Colonel Lumsden does not think there will
be an overplanting Of cotton in his section of
the state for the reason that most of the cot
ton seed sold before the price jumped M
and that the people will not be able to get
the seed FOR an extra large crop