The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-11

can ticket in national politics, but when
il comes to local or state politics more Of
them viii vote with their employers and
friends in the Democratic party than can
be led of by the class of men who repre-
sent the third party in this part of the
moral vineyard. DOugherty county is
negro county, There are five negroes to
every white person in the county. And
yet the county will 60 democratic by a
safe ma GRITTY in the October election.
For nickel, the Herald would guaran-
tee it,
Columbus Enquirer-Sun Mr.. Atkin-
sons Greenville speech puts to confusion
those who have tried to place him on the
crank silVerite platform. He is not sill
yer crank, but platform democrat, be
heying in the coinage of gold and silver
on equal terms always insisting, how
ever, that the parity must be maintained
between the gold and silver dollars. He
only differs from President Cleveland in
that Mr. Cleveland believes the result can
better be accomplished by an international
agreement. while Mr.. Atkinson believes
that the United States is able to under
take the free coinage of silver and man
age her owz finances without waiting on
an agreement with foreign governments.
But if the United States undertakes it
alone and single handed, Mr.. Atkinson
. insists that provision must be made to
maintain the parity of the gold and silver
dollar. That is the democratic, hot the
pOpulist platform on silver.
FLORIDA.
Times-Uhion Oneof the leading argu-
uents advanced by the corporation crowd
against a railroad commission is that it
was once in Florida, and did not benefit
the people. How tende.iy solicitous they
have suddenly become for the welfare of
the people that they should work heroic
ally and spend unlimited money TO save
the dearly beloved citizens of this state
from the effects of a measure which they
think > would be inqi uitous. However.
the people prefer to be their own doctor
and will administer their own remedy for
the malady which is sappiug the very
vitals Of Floridas chief industri es.
F'ernandina Mirror: II is a well known
fact that the railroads to-day employ more
nome labor than all the other industries
combined throughout the state, and that
they give better wages and salaries than
any other local enterprise. IL is also true
I that all the transportation companies in
/ the state are interested in the develop
ment of the territory through which they
| pass, as they know that upon the thrift
4 OF LiAtst btEllDlb ntDtnQ bntlI earnings
I The reform" crowd. however, in order
/ to get ohcial positions would prejudice
/ the people against their benefactOrs They
| cannot oder logical argument but resort
/ to abuse and every device known to dema
tgogues to bolster up their campaign.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
| GreenYiue News: John Gary Evans
Will not be the nominee Of majority Of
I the democrats or Of the "reformers" o.
! this state. He has never dared to pur
/ himself where the majority of them could
vote on his claims and pretensions.
+ Columbia Register: All summer But
Ter boneyed around the Tillmanites anC
made Low to them so hard as to sicker
and disgust his anti-friends. When thu
/ Tjllmanites refused TO be blinded by his
blarncy he commences applying hare
names to them and goes back 70 his frs
Z love Such tactics will I'll please straight
I forward manly South Carolinians.
Columbia State. Our defeat this year
( would not mean paralysis" or "extermi
I nation" as our contemporary fears.
we should 90 into the fight with the re
! solve 10 hold 20 our organization, the cam
paign however 10 night result, would
sOlidifg us. for we would have drawn thl
line between democracy and populisn
and we would have perfected our OrRani
J zatiOn and gained permanent recruits.