The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-12
More rrouble for Conere.smen.

A washington paper makes the broad
charge that a syndicate, which includes
! senators and representatives, is trying to
! get control of all the street car lines of
Washington. 1t asserts that Senator
| Quay is the principal man in the con-
| gressional part of the syndicate. The
plain is to depress the stock of the street
car lines by oppressive legislation and
buy it up, and then get bill through con-
gress authorizing the use of the trolley
I system in all parts of the city.
The citizens are opposed to the trolley
! system, and are doing their utmost to in
! duce congress not to authorize its use
| There is an electric system in use on
| short line in the city that is not a trolley,
but it is very costly. The syndicate is
| bent upon having the trolley system,
and if Senator Quay is engineering bill
for that system through congress, it may
| get what it wants.
But it ought to be thoroughly under
stood whether or not there are congress-
men interested in the syndicate 1t is
| just as bad for a congressman to be inter-
ested in street railroad legislature as In
sugar trust certificates. 1t would be a
| pretty state of affairs if it should be
| shown that congressman are trying to
bunco the owners of the street railroads
of Washington out of their property
with the view of filling their own
| pockets.
Perhaps if the editor of the Washing
ton paper who makes the charge against
congressman were put on the witness
stand he would tell all he
knows in support of the charge he makes.
He ought to be willing to do so in order
that if any congressman are interested in
such-a scheme they could be dealt with
as they deserve.
Ii Senator Quay is member of the
| syndicate it will not be an easy matter to
show he is. He is too shrewd not to
conceal his connection with it. 1t is GER
tain that steps should be taken to find
out whether the charge the Washington
paper makes has any foundation.
The democratic state campaign opens
in South Carolina next week. So far the
| ''straightout" democrats have been play
| ing "Br'er Rabbit" lying low and saying
! nothing about running candidates of their
own, even if they have any idea of doing
so. TIE "reformers,' on the other hand,
! have four of their men up for the govern
| orship They are DR.. Sampson Pope, sec
( Rotary of the Senate; j. r. Tindall. sec
Rotary Of state; John Gary Evans, state
| senator, and w H. Ellerbee, comptroller
| general. 1t will be noted that they are
all officers under the Tillman regime.
! Each has had schooling in the kind of
democracy that is dominant over there,
! and either would be competent to continue
disagreement on the plan Gov Tillman
mas inaugurated. 1t must be said, by the
| way, that the four candidates are about
| the brainiest men, outside of Tillman
| himself, TO be found in the faction Tin
! dali is probably the broadcast minded man
of the quartette; Pope is the narrowest
minded and most vigorous; Ellerbeei is the
most Independent, and John Gary Evans
/ is Tillman's favorite. In a political sense,
/ the straightout democrats have. little to
/ hope for in the success Of either candi-
] date; but they may have concluded that
/ the best thing to do for the states inter
ests would be TO do nothing at all in poll
tics this year.
/ Lord Roseberry. the English premier,
was happy when his horse, Ladus, won
| the Derby the other day. Now he is not
so sure that the victory of his horse is
/ not giving him more annoyance than it
/ gave him pleasure. All the non-cOnform-
! lists in England are crying out against "a
! racing premier" Even the newspapers
/ have taken up the cry against the pre-
| mier and there is talk OF IA national con-
vention' TO protest against the shame
fnl degradation Of English statesman
/ ship.' Lord Roseberry is, Of course,
/ amazed, and has even threatened 10 re-
] tire from public life in disgust.