The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-31
GEORGIA REPUBLICANS.
Democrats Watch the Maneuvers
From Elevated Stations.


/ Atlanta. Ga. Aug. 30.-The action taken
/ by the republican state convention in re-
/ fusing to put out a ticket and commenting
the populist party, has been widely dis
/ cussed in political circles to-day Daring
the proceedings Of the convention there
were mum per OF prominent democratic
leaders lnEhe gallery watching all the
maneQE ers on the floor below.
While the populist party was not
named in the resolutions nor was Judge
Hines or Tom Watson singled out, the
whole tenure of the proceedings showed
strong leaning toward the scheme
OF coalition which was being engineered
bv the republican leaders. The written
record Of the convention is q crafty, but
at the same time unmistakable indOrse-
ment Of the populists and a plain recon-
concentration 10 the republicans of the
state TO side with that party in the APP
preaching election.
The democratic leaders who witnessed
the convention from the gallery were i'm
pressed with the adroituess with which
the fusion scheme was managed.
Your correspondent has it from no less
a source than the Office of Tom Watson's
paper that the convention did precisely
as the popblists wanted il TO do; that is,
the fusion scheme was carried out
as per programme agreed upon. From
this same source IL comes that the popu-
lists would not have had the convention
give a specific Endorsement of Hines and
his state ticket This would have tended
TO rally the democratic forces more SOL
idly against them on account Of the open
compact between them and the negro
voters. What the populists bargained
with the republicans for was the defeat
of the purpose for which the
convention was called which was
cd
the executive committee "tO nominate
candidates for governor and state house
officers After this was accomplished
the populists wanted the democratic
party divided in a way that would excite
the natural negro prejudice to an unusual
pitch. That this was done, the speeches
made and the resolutions on lawlessness
and lynchings are ample evidence. Then
when the proposition to put out a state
ticket had been defeated, and the demo-
cratic party denounced sufficiently, with
incidental condemnation OF any republi-
can who should take the stump for the
democrats the pOpulist party was lauded
to the skies. A resolution condemning
republicans for helping the populists was
defeated. The whole scheme is EN- bodied
in the resolution sent in by the commit
tee and adopted as part of its report.
THAT we congratulate ourselves that a
party in Georgia has declared in favor OF
a free ballot and a fair count, and that
the republicans of the state will view
with suspicion any and all republicans
who shall canvass, vote for or in any
other way aid the democratic nominees
in the October election" On account of
the report of the convention published
this morning there has been some con
fusion over the result. This report CLAIMS
that the republicans could not deliver the
goods, although nobody could fail to see
that there was a trade in progress.
Whether the goods we're delivered or not
the populists are serene, and say they
had things their own way The repu6-
licans have no candidates to vote for, but
the populist party is commended TO them
as the only hope of relief, while the name
of democrat was mentioned as a stencil in
their nostrils.
DIR. FELToN's CARD.
DIR. w, H. FELTON, to-day published a
card denying the report that he had re-
tired from the congressional race in the
Seventh district as the populist candi-
date. He says he intends to stay in until
the last ballot is counted despite the pre-
cariouS condition of his health.