The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23
POLITICS IN THREE STATES.
Comments on Affairs in Georgia, Flor
ida and South Carolina.

ida and South Carolina.
GEORGIA.
Bulloch Times Hon. Henry G. Turner
is an honest-money-incom -low-tariff
democrat, and, Just like Grover Cleveland,
everybody knows where to put their fin
ger on II. G. Turner. There are few
other candidates for the United States
Senate that the public is not exactly able
to locate on some of these important ques-
tions Of the hour
Montezuma Record: The next time you
hear populists harping on retrenchment
in government expenditures ask them how
about the bill introduced in congress by a
populist member providing for enormous
increase in the pensions OF union soldiers,
OF which Georgia alone would have TO pay
81 500, 600.
Meriwether indicator: 1t is day of
third party backdowns. Tom Watson
backed down from meeting with Joe
James, who would have skinned Tom
alive. Hines backs down from meeting
with Atkinson, because he does not wish
to be run out of the race before election
DAY, and all the smaller fry very prudently
get out of the way Of joint debates also.
So 1t goes.
cambridge Democrat: After having
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In Alabama and denounced by democratic
| conventions in its own state, the Atlanta
Constitution has been recently engaged in
the anomalous undertaking TO read Hon.
| H. @. Turner out of the Democratic party
because of his position on the silver ques-
ton, Verify, for monumental cheek the
! Constitution has no rival.
Columbus Enqurer-Sun: The sena-
torial campaign is beginning to grow
lively in Chatham. The vote of this
county is important and the candidates
are after it. There is no local aspirant,
and the field is therefore open. The
| Chatham representatives, so far as
known, while they may have their pre-
| ferences. have not committed themselves
to any of the candidates. which seems to
! leave it missionary ground.
! FLORIDA.
! Jacksonville Metropolis: A railroad
| man in this city said yesterday. every
/ possible means are resorted TO by the enc
mics of railroads in this state tc misrep-
/ resent US and our intentions. Nothing is
I too sacred 10 be spared, not even private
/ correspondence and business affairs be-
| tween employer and employee is exempt.
Everything we do here in the line of
! Improvement is seized upon to make
! political capital out Of, and il is enough to
| disgust all fair-minded men with any
| political faction "
Monticello Constitutions After two
weeks notice, the populists Of jackson
county, the home of their candidate for
congress in the First district, met on
Monday and attempted TO organize A
committee TO select one member from
each of the fifteen precincts in the county
for an executive committee succeeded in
finding only seven who could be depended
upon, and the meeting adjourned after
calling a mass meeting for the following
| Friday.
Fernandina News A well-known citi-
! zen OF Alachua county declares that he
could duplicate the Florida Southern be-
/ tween Gainesville and Citra for $1,000 a
mile or $3.50, 900 ia all This section Of
the road receives at least Sl70.0O0 worth
Of freight every year from oranges and
vegetables alone, but is nevertheless re-
posing quietly in the hands Of a receiver
"a fact which points 10 the existence of
methods in railway management too far
removed from those which obtain In other
branches OF trade 10 commend themselves
70 the popular judgment
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia Journal The Tillmanite
machine called on the negro TO help in