The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-25
CAR0LINIANS MYSTIFIED.
Politicians Who Do Not Know Where
They Are AT"

cant Move, Which May Change the
Face of Affairs Entirely.-Dr. Sampson
Pope's Withdrawal-Hot Talk by
Reformed "Reformer" Newspaper.
Let the Deluge Come"
Charleston, S c., Aug. 4-There was
a long conference Of the democratic ex-
ecutiye committee here to-day to discuss
the question Of the advisability or mad
visibility Of conservatives casting their
vote in the coming primary for delegates
to the state nominating convention. In
other words, whether they should so far
commit themselves to vote in the general
election for the nominees for governor,
etc, OF that convention
The party ties which used to bind so
religtOusly have become so strained and
weakened by the various shocks they
have recently sustained from the various
experiences and incidents Of Ocala doc
triues, and open and avowed coquetery
with the populistic party on one hand,
and Haskellism on the other, that the
| mystitied democrats don't seem TO know
where they are at
This seems to have been the doubt
which occasioned the gathering and dis
cussion at Hiberniau hall. Much talk
was INDUCED in, but no conclusion
reached, and the meeting adjourned with
| question without solution and where IL
was before that is, for each individual
voter to solve for himself and TO act ac-
| cordingy.
The retirement of DIR. Sampson Pope
| from the gubernatorial race has left the
| party here without candidate to vote
| for. Twenty-nine delegates TO the stats
convention have been nominated, three Of
whom are Tillmanites, but only eighteen
are to be elected, IL is more than prob
able that the delegates will be scratched
at the coming primary, The race be-
tween Col. William Elliot and Col ID. A.
j. sullivan for congress will be very close,
PRosTITUTED AND THEN SMASHED
Columbia, s. c., Aug. 4.-More than
ever it begins to appear that political
storm Is about to burst over the state
! The following editorial from the Green
| vile News of to-day, the leading daily Of
the pp=country section, under the caption
| Free 80 illustrates the general confusion
and chaotic condition of the democracy:
! DIR, Sampson Pope has withdrawn his
| pledge from the democratic executive
| committee, and is now outside with the
| rest of US, kicking up his heels in an at
| all right doctor. We people who are re-
| formers In deed and in truth will be all
| together directly. We have been kicked
! out and ruled out. The party organiza-
tion in the state has been first prosti-
tuted and then smashed and Tillman has
| led in the race to see who could get away
from IL FIRST. Everything Is wide open
now, and every man Is free 10 20,
| and do, and talk and vote as he
likes. They may call us independents, or
radicals, or mugwumps, or anything they
like. We arc free men and real demo-
Gratis and real reformers We want white
| unity and white supremacy. We have
| haaf yIU tubifn HfUiaiOu and the
supremacy Of a small minority. We will
fight il out sooner or later, and see who
gets sick first. Hoist high the standard
of revolt, since il has been raised for us
| Since the foundations have been broken
up, despite the efforts Of those
who love their party and peo-
pie to maintain them, let us
have general split and reformation and
change all around The floodgates have
been thrown wide open. Let the deluge
come Men who are selfish and who look
ahead of them will see the signs of the
times and mount the crest Of the waves"
DIR. PoPE's SUCCESSOR.
Charleston, S. c., Aug 24-A special
! to the News and Courier from Newoerry
says: Because DR.. Sampson Pope has
| withdrawn from the race for governor Is
no reason why Newberry Is not TO furnish
a man for that position. Mr., Frank
Moon, sturdy farmer OF this county, and
a man who has never sought nor held Of
! ice, made public this afternoon that he
had made up his mind TO enter
! the race for governor He had
not decided until he saw that
! DR.. Pope had Withdrawn. Though
| he does not propose To enter the primary,
he is going to make his fight at the gen
| eral election in November He, too, was
at one time a reformer, but proposes To
make this fight as n protest against ring
rule and bossism He Is in dead earnest,
and will issue his manifesto early next
! week, and will stay to the finish II he
! only gets one vote. He says he is built OF
sticking stuff " He was a graduate Of the
South Carolina College before the war.
BUTLER's BOLD MOVE
Augusta Aug. 24.-There comes a story
from South Carolina to-day that is inn
portant il true. IL is 70 the effect that
Senator Butler has requested all his leg
! isl0tive candidates not 10 present them
selves for the suffrage of the people at
| the approaching primary, but 10 offer
| themselves for election in the ballot
ing az the general election. This
news was told on the streets
Of Augusta to-day. A great deal
Of Significance is attached 10 il, Such
action would put a different phase on the
situation in South Carolina. The re-
formers, or Tillman party, are in control
of the machinery of the Democratic party
to such an extent that they can control
the primaries, but there are many de-
serters In the ranks who will vote with
the Butler party in the general election.