The Atlanta constitution., 1894-05-14

The expected rebellion will be justified
by the circumstances. When England
closed the mints of India against silver
she drove the masses deeper in the mre
of poverty and left them face to face
with starvation. The victims are not
bound by any law of God or man to sub
NIT to such wholesale spoliation. 1t is
to be hoped that the uprising will come.
If England loses India she will realize
that the gold standard has ruined her at
the very time when she was trying to
wreck other nations.
Mr.. Harrison says he doesn't want to be
president again. The death of old man
McGarrahan probably hurt his feelings.
'sNIen Who Control'' and Their Methods.
Mr.. AtkinSon's boast that 1.-The men
who control are pulling the strings for
him will cause the people to watch their
methods very closely.
The action of the executive committee
of Telfair county, the other day, shows
what may be expected from 1.-The men
who CONTROL In that county the COM
mittee called Il mass meeting to be held
at Il little town some sixteen or eighteen
miles from McRae, the county seat. The
place selected is off the railroad, is in
convenient of access, and is in one OF
the few precincts in the county where
the Atkinson men are supposed to be
strong.
This trick is all the more unfair be-
cause the friends of General Evans asked
for Il primary, and the general has been
invited to speak at McRae on the 10Th.
"The men who control in Telfalr are
evidently afraid to trust the people. Ihey
are not willing to hold a primary at the
county seat, where the people are in the
habit of meeting for such purposes, ana
q mass meeting is called in am out-oft the
way militia district in advance OF Gen
eral EyanS's visit, so that delegates to
the gubernatorial convention may be
elected by a small clique of men against
the wishes of the ma jOrity of the demo-
cratic voters who will not find it conven-
lent to 90 sixteen miles into the coun-
try. Ii
This trick has never been tried before
in Georgia and it is not likely that it
will ever be resorted to again. 1t has
excited the Indignation of fair-minded
democrats all over the state, and at their
coming primaries and mass meetings 1t
is safe to say that they will properly
rebulze this desperate dodge of 'the men
who CONTROL
Suppose the executive committee OF
Fulton county should call gubernato-
rial primary at Buckhead? Nine-tenths
of our voters would be practically shut
out on account of the Inconvenience OF
attending it. Yet it would not be as I'M
fair to hold our county primary at
Buckhead, as it is in Telfair to hold the
county mass meeting nearly twenty
miles away from the courthouse in re-
mote precinct off the railroad.
1t is fortunate that this incident has
occurred so early in the campaign. The
people will now understand just what is
to be expected from "the men who con-
troll" if we may again use Mr. Atkin-
sons ill-cOnsidered phrase. The people
will understand the situation and they
will be prompt to act. They are not
willing to surrender the absolute con
troll of their political affairs to one or
two men in each county who pose as
bosses, and undertake to make and un-
make candidates, at the same time par
ceiling out the offices within the gift of
the executive and the legislature. The
people have fought too hard for the right
to control their affairs to give it up now
to a few men who are trying to turn
| their counties into rotten boroughs to be
| carried in their vest pockets.
Before this campaign proceeds much
| farther Mr.. Atkinson will discover that
his men who control are not in it, and
| that the people control 1t is a ridiculous
| thing to claim that one or two men in
q county control it, rule it, reign over it,
dictate its politics, own it's offices and
| lpdu OF uEINc llc ullSSCS ike SO Uluuy
| sheep to vote for certain men and meas
ures There is no such control or dicta-
| torship in Georgia. Our people, would
| not stand it. They are not built that way.
| The Telfair trick will recOil upon those
who are responsible for it, and if the
! firm of Dnkns & Atkinson desire to
push their campaign against Atlanta by
| such methods they are welcome 10 all
! they can make. General Evans can get
| along without such devices, and as the
| fight progresses the charge that he is not
a professional politician is winning him
| legions of friends and votes.
For the first time in our history the
| point has been made that only a profess
| sional politician is eligible to the gov
ernorship, and Mr.. Atkinson proudly
claims that he fills the bill AS a rule,
candidates for office are very unwilling
to be regarded in this light. They gen.