The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-10-25
SIG EDITORS HAVE 4 SAY.

Editor Henry NatterSon, III Che w"
rier-J ournal, in two column leader,
reads the riot act to the southern SEN
ators who have INSTRUCTED silver repeal,
and predicts disaster for the democratic
party. He says:
"The spectacle of the extra session and
more particularly the scenes of the last
few days and nights are enough to cali
the dead to life in defense of beleaugered
interests and departing glory from the
clluue of southern senators, obsequlously
serving the combine of silver mine own
ers: using their experience, and such
wits as are left them, to obstruct the
will of the people as it was never OBJ
structed before, precisely as If their own
dear lives were at stake"
He further says:
''Perhaps the immolation OF Grover
cleveland may be retribution upon the
democratic party for nominating ana
electing him president, and perhaps IL
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 one
comfort amid the desolation that has en-
vel ped democratic opportunities ana
the irretrievable disgrace which has
fallen upon the democratic party in hav-
ing approvingly to submit to the wise
rebuke of republican statesman, and
that states John Sherman"
Replying to this extract from the Cou-
rier Journal the Atlanta Constitution
comments as folio VS.:
eve can heartily sympathize with our
contemporary wrathful protest against
DELAY and with his anxiety for our be-
| leaguered 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 senators as obstructiOnists, when
every telegram that comes from Wash
ington tells the story of their earnest
efforts to secure a compromise, and OF
their eagerness to meet their brother
| democrats in a caucus, with view to
adjusting their differences, while the
anti-silver senator's are secretly opposing
the caucus and intlmating that it they
90 into it they will not be bound by 1T.
| This plainly shows who the real obstruc-
tionists are, and the country will hold
them responsible who refuse to cOnsld-
er a compromise and vigorously oppose
the time honored democratic method OF
getting together and agreeing upon a
common basis for the sake Of party har-
mony."
| The Charleston News ana Courier COM
ments on the Constitutions criticism Of
Henry Wattersop's review on the silver
struggle, and in the course of its remarks
says:
| "The Constitution is mot looking to
| John Sherman for counsel or wise re-
/ buke;' it prefers to train with PETER, to
follow the path blazed out by silver SEN
ators, 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 1t in the open mar
| ket, to tack the south on the tail of the
free silver kite. We are not surprised
| that the Constitution should choose such
company.
| stThe compromises Of which its speaks
nave all been in the interest of the silver
mine owners and in favor of continuing
| in some form or other the vicious poll
cy which has brought the country to the
verge of bankruptcy. The anti-silveI
senators are pursuing the only patriotic
and honest course left open to them.
They should not go into any caucus in
the interest of the cheap money. Party
harmony at the expense of party honesty
would be dearly bought. The southern
senators who are filibustering against the
unconditional repeal of the Sherman law
are wrecking the democratic party. The
rest of the country can stand it if the
south can"