The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-12
a Straight Democratic Talk.

The Montgomery Advertiser, the pro-
prictor of which is the newly appointed
postmaster of Montgomery, INDUCES in
some singular comments on The COnSti-
tution's recent editorial on William l..
Yancey.
Because we Indirectly paid Il tribute
to the great southern leader. after cor
recting The Boston Iicrald's statement
that he was in congress Immediately
before the war, The Advertiser proceeds
to say:
Upon reading al this If VIII occur to every
one TO ask why The Constitution after so
lauding Mr.. Yancey leader does not fol-
low his methods? If it believes what lit
says of the corrupt and republican DONNA
ton of the democratic party it is clear that
the party is not worthy of its support. Should
it not follow its model, and throw aside the
trammcs of party allegiance? In such an
attitude would it not be more successful i'll
shaping southern sentiment?
1t is unnecessary to say that The Con-
stitution has never spoken of the cor
rupt ana republican domination of the
democratic party" All that is in the
Imagination of our contemporary. We
have protested against the democratic
majority in congress following the lead
crShip Of John Sherman and Tom Reed,
and we have called attention to the sig
nificant concentration of federal patron
age in certain quarters where there have
been notable recent conversions to the
sold standard. That is the sum and sub
stance of the basis Of The Advertisers
comment.
With the great majority Of the demo-
cratic party in hearty accord with our
views, and with an overwhelming ma
iority of southern democrats in congress
sharing our convictions as to the honesty
involved in redceming the pledges Of the
party, it would puzzle even The Adver-
tiser to tell why we should throw off
our party allegiance We will mover do
it so long as we have bucking postmas-
ters to hold into line, and 50 long as the
democratic party has Il great unfinished
work to perform
Standing with the great body of the
democratic party squarely on the Chicago
platform, and demanding the redemption
of its pledges, we shall stick to our mis-
sion regardless Of the filings and insn-
party whose constancy to principle
waivers ut the sight Of a postofice or
something more, or even less, alluring
in the shape of patronage.
Federal patronage may have its at
fractions for those who consider only
temporary personal advantages, but the
masses of the party see their political
salvation in straight democracy.
The CONSTITUTIONS work in the cam
paigns of last year. when internal dissen-
sions menaced the party in Georgia and
other southern states, is thus appreciated
by The Advertiser. and no doubt by the
Atlanta evening paper which published
yesterday afternoon The AdvcItiScr's
editorial scrccd. which says, after the ex-
tract noted above:
But when Georgia refused to endorse The
CONSTITUTIONS estimate of Mr. Cleveland and
when the democracy of all the land put him
to the front, how did The Constitution do
monstrate its courage? BY boiling the NOM
nation of so unworthy Il leader, as ala it's
model Yancey IN 1913, and by taking up It's
pen to dcnounce the tool Of northern Wall
street, as did tho consistent Weayerite? Oh
no; its bravery Wtts not unseish Ii
dared not risk It's existence
II The Constitution had conducted Tho
same kind of campaign in Georgia that
The Advertiser did in Alabama, and
which, by the way, was closely pat
termed after by some Georgia papers, in
stead of glorying in Il democratic ma
jority Of seventy thousand in this
state it is probable that the result
would have been Ika that in Alabama