The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-31
POLITICS IN THREE STATES.
Comments on Affairs in Georgia, Flor
ida and South Carolina.

,1hanr Herald. Col. Bill Clifton has


GEORGIA.
Albany Herald: Col Bill Clifton has
evidently made up his mind to ''keep a
rupnin' " until he gets an Office.
Atlanta Journal: The race for the
--asfdencv of the Senate will be an in
terssting one. There are four rock-ribbed
democrats in the race, any one of whom
will make a first class presiding officer
The avowed candidates are Hon. w. A.
Rroughton of Madison, Hon. Walter
Beeks of Griffin, Col. c. Il. Brand of
IawrenceviIe, and Hon. W. II. Venable
Of Atlanta
Dawson News: During the long depres-
sion that has affected every class and
every interest throughout the coun-
try. the Georgia farmer has come through
ifwith flying cOlors. He has, of course.
felt the effects of it, but his new system
of thought, and his new system of living,
have better equipped him for such adver-
sites and have made him well nigh indie
PENDENT. With perseverance on the same
line the future is full of sunshine and
prosperity for the Georgia farmer
Southeast Georgian Hope for money
to grow on gall-berry bushes hope for the
ants around your field to grow into meat
hogs hope for the butterflies to turn to
November turkeys; hope for the flies to
quit flying, and the babies to quit crying:
hope for any other impossibility which
your Imagination can con lure up, but
don't let the delusive hope that Hin es will
be elected ever enter your mind
FLORIDA.
Pensacola Times: The Australian bal
lot system is a necessity. There is no
state in the Union cursed with such an
infamous election law as the state of
Florida 1t is hot bed in which the
seeds of fraud, corruption, bribery false
swearing, false counts and false returns.
germnate and flourish. Ring and rail
road politicians want 1t continued: it
serves their purposes. The people want
and need the Australian system OF voting
now used in nearly every state in the
Union.
Florida Citizen The friends of Mr..
George w. Wilson, who embrace practi-
caIy every democrat in Florida, and also
many persons who are not democrats,
will Join the Citizen in rejoicing because
of his prompt appointment as collector of
internal revenue for Florida. The ap-
pointment was one of the very first acts
of the President after the adjournment
Of congress.
Pensacola News: 1t is popularity sup
posed that the 'reformers" have confs-
Gated all the adiectives in the English
language for use against the hated cor
pOratiOIS.' This Is a mistake. A South
Florida Journal begins discussion of the
reform movement after this fashion:
The piraJiCal assault made upon all
classes of corporate Investment in Florida
by coterie Of silhouette demagogues, 3"
etc.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Aiken Times Candidate John Gary
Evans paper: That the reform party is
stronger to-day than it has ever been is
beyond question Men who advocated
the conservative party two years ago, are
to-day as enthusiastically advocating the
reformers. In one precinct alone the re-
formers can poll nearly 100 more voters
than they did two years ago. The dis
pensary law has made large numbers of
converts to the reform party. They have
begun TO realize that it is the best and only
solution of the liquor problem.
Columbia State: OF 100000 white
voters probably not 10000 have taken
part in the election of delegates to a con-
Ventlon which has had it's work pre-
scrlbed for 1t in secret combinations in
Gov. lllIman's office, and whose nomina-
tons are even now inscribed on every
notebook or the cabal. The 81 per cent.
Of the white voters of South Carolina
which Mr.. John Gary Evans so boast
fully announced that he held in his 1.-the
clutching fingers turn out TO be less than
30 per cent. The census of ringsters has
been taken. II reveals interesting but
not surprising facts.
Columbia Register; Another thing is
settled-Gov. Tillman will be trans
formed into Senator Tillman. The returns
show that a majority of the democratic
nominees for the general assembly are
IN favor of electing Iillman as q successor
to Butler. These nominees, like Evans,
will be elected, no matter how many IN
dependent candidates Butter may induce
to run against them. DR.. Zimmerman
will, of course, go in with Evans. Who
will fill out the balance of the ticket can
not be told until the democratic conven-
ton meets this month, but it can be
stated now that the full ticket, whoever
may be on it, will surely win in the No
vember election. A few hot-heads will
go into an Independent movement, but
the great majority of the white men are