The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-13
POLITICS IN THREE STATES.
Comments on Affairs in Georgia, Flor
ida and South Carolina.


it is of the utmost importance that Geor-
Eia should show no drift towards pOpu-
ism. a small, or even a moderate, demo-
cratic maority would be interpreted as
showing such a drift. and the confidence Of
the outside world in the future OF the
state shaken.
Athens Banner: Judge Hines knows
he can't carry the tail of his ticket
through, and his party are having tickets
printed with Hines for governor and the
democratic state house officers. Judge
Hines would be a great deal smarter if he
would come to the righteous conclusion
that he is no more in it than the balance
of his crowd.
Worth County Local: When A. o. Ba
con wanted to be United States senator in
1890, he wrote letter to the Atlanta Con-
stitution strongly indorsIng Ocalaism and
the sub-treasury. BY way of announcing
his candidacy last year, he made a speech
IN the state legislature strongly favoring
the populist measure of the silver coinage
at 10 to l. Henry G. Turner was the first
OF Georgia's statesmen to attack the fall
lacy and absurdity Of Ocalaism and the
sub-treasury, as he is now first in show
ing the difference between sound and
equable silver coinage, as demanded by
the state and national democratic plat
forms, and an inflated and panic-creating
coinage, as demanded by the populists.
Atlanta Journal: While there is i'm
portant work to be done by democrats all
through Georgia, yet by far the most i'm
portant is in the Tenth and Seventh dis
tricts. All Georgians want to see a solid
democratic delegation returned to Wash
ington, and while every body believes that
MIR. Maddox and Mai Black will be re-
f1 dy.s.h tlnaF mil
quire work on the part of the democrats.
The populists have been organizing those
two districts for long time. AS soon as
the state election is over, Mr.. Watson
will devote his entire time to the Tenth
district. DR.. FELTON, has already made
engagements to speak in every county in
the Seventh district. A united and de-
termined democracy will be able to rout
them, but it will require work.
FLORIDA
St. Augustine Press: If we had fewer
jurors in Florida with scruples against
capital punishment, we would have fewer
atrocious murders to shock the morality
of our people. Jacksonville has had two
of the most cold-blooded murders within
two months that the state has ever
known and they are to a great extent
attributable TO Duvals adherence of
hemp.
Florida Citizen: The Performers" tell
in glowing words of the wonderful posi-
bilities of railway commission, but they
are painfully silent as to the methods by
which that commission can be secured.
This is about as effective as telling a
benighted heather that the city of the
New Jerusalem is paved with pure gold,
that milk and honey bow there, and that
1t is an exceedingly good place to 90 to,
but leaving the poor wretch without a
suggestion as to the means Of getting
there.
Ocala New Capitol; The independent
and third party journals are gloating
over the supposed split in the demo, racy
of the state. The split consists in the
sloughing off Of the diseased excrescences
which have been growing on the body
polite for several years past. The party
is healthier when it gets rid of them.
The separation of the sheep and goats is
proceeding with gratifying progress.
True democrats, who stand firmly upon
the eternal principles upon which the
party was founded, Will be found at the
polls in October with clear, white tick
cts in their hands with the names of the
regular party nominees on them. This
talk about split in the party is all non
sense. Those who put self above and saw
no chance for their own promotion or ad-
vancement have left it, aud will doubtless
soon be following again the great demo
cratic procession afar off.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Carolina Spartan: The great majority
Of negroes in the up-country are under
the influence Of the reformers. The white
republicans stand in with them and the
colored voters will follow their white
friends. In a scramble for the negro
vote Tillman and his ring would capture
three where the conservatives would get
one
Greenville News So far as we can
learn, three-ffths and perhaps four-fifths
of the conservatives in this part of the
state are in for a fight because they do
not regard John Gary Evans as the choice
Of the majority Of the democrats of the
state and believe that the party has been
debauched, misrepresented and betrayed
by ring OF politicians.
Columbia journal; The distinctions be-
tween democracy and Tillmanism on ma
tional questions are to-day clearly drawn.
In any event the struggle for democracy
with or without nomination of a state
ticket, is to be persistent and determined
1t will last all through the years to come
until victory is won, but the fight should
not be pitched entirely on national issues.
Tillmanism in state affairs is in many re-
spects as thoroughly inconsistent with and
destructive to democracy as is populism
itself, although we have no hesitation in
conceding that it has done something for
the state-something relatively insignif-
cant as measured with the injury which
the people have incurred from crimes per-
petrated in the name Of reform.
News and Courier: Attorney General
Buchanan is reported from Washington
as saying in regard to the states case in
the W. l.. 1. injunction matter: I'VE be-
lieve that the governor has a right to dis
cipline the militia of the state whenever
he feels like it, and that the United
States has no right to interfere. We are
not trying to deprive this company of its
arms for all time, but are doing it simply
to teach them a lesson. Even if we did
want to disband the company and take
its arms away from it. what right has the
United States 10 say that we shall mott
The state supports its militia, and it has
the right to do with it as it pleases. D."
Who are "we?" Docs Mr.. Buchanan
really entertain the idea that he and Gov.
Tillman and the rest Of the ring are ''the
statel" or that Gov Tillman has the
right to discipline" the militia of the
state whenever he feels like it," The
charitable view Of the matter is that the
attorney general has not been accurately
reported, and did not, in fact, use the
foolish 1anguayo attributed IN him