The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-23
PoLITICs IN THREE srArEs.
Notes and Comments on Affairs &
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina.
CFORCTA


Brunswick Times-Advertiser: 1t is said
that Judge Hines is making very tame
canvas. Perhaps the Judge has not yet
become thoroughly converted. 1t takes
more than six weeks to produce a ranting
populist.
Augusta Herald: The democrats have
nothing to fear in the Tenth district.
Their candidate goes before the people
with clean record. His stewardship
| has been an honest, able and straight
forward one. 1t is one which the people
can and will indorse.
Butler Herald Hon. R. L. Nc
! Whorter, the father of Judge Hamp Nc
| Whorter, who lately opposed Hon. T. q.
| Lawson for congress in the Eighth dis
| trict, has joined the democrats. Nc
| Whorter has been populist, but having
seen the error of his way, he has re
pented and returned to the ri ght way.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The South
east Georgian has heard a silly rumor that
Solicitor General w. G. Brantley of
| Brunswick was thinking of becoming a
| populist. You may scratch all the men
who have joined the popuhsts and you
will fail to find a man like Brautley. His
kind are not hoppers. but will always be
| found fighting under the old flag.
Middle Georgia Progress: In his
| speech at Sandersville last Saturday Mr..
| Watson made strong repeated appeals
! for the cOlored vote. Not long since he
was Conforming President Cleveland for
| appointing negro to office. The popuA
! lists seem TO think that the vote of the
negro is rightfully theirs, but they
never want them to be appointed or
| elected to the most insignificant Office.
Statesboro Star: Democracy extends a
hearty welcome to Mr. James S. New
| some, who renOunces the gang who slip
around under cover of the dark shades Of
night and promise to give the colored peo-
| pie social equality in order to get their
votes TO land back into Office on. There
are hundreds of honest men all over the
county who, like Mr. Newsome, won t
swallow such tactics as have been en-
gagged in by the third party leaders
around Statesboro.
LAGRANGE Graphic: The Graphic is
for Troup county first, last and all the
time, and we throw our whole heart in
our support of any Troup county man for
any Office TO which he aspires and for
| which he is capacitated. Hon. Jim Pit
man is as well qualified for speaker as
| any man in Georgia. He is Just, fair,
brilliant, well posted and well skilled in
! parliamentary law, and Troup presents
| him as her candidate with Just feeling
of pride and self congratulatiou.
Augusta Chronicle: MIR Watson is a
| brilliant campaigner, and he will make
| the fight of his life We recognize that
| ii will not be walkoyer for democrats,
| but Congressman Black will be ready for
holly contested campaign, and will be
| quite able TO hold up his end of the string.
! IF the nNmOrT-afC of tho district DO fhpiYs
duty as loyalty in the present contest as
| they did two years ago there will be great
| rejoicing in the Tenth district and in
Georgia, when the ides of November tell
Of democratic triumph all along the line.
FLORIDA.
Jacksonville Metropolis: Florida was
but little more than a bowling wilderness
before the era of railroad building which
we believe was inaugurated during Gov
| BlOXhams administration. The rapid
and almost marvellous development of the
state, especially South Florida, we think
no one will dispute, is due more to the rail
roads than to all other agencies combined
Green Cove Spring: A railroad com
mission, If properly formulated and giver
the right sort of a foundation, in the shape
of a welI-framed law to stand upon, viii
do the state and the people a great dea
object but TO force the transportation
companies to do business at ruinously low
| rates, the commission will be nothing
more than farce. The history of the
last commission is such as will not aid
materially the work of a new one. In
tact, it will be hinderance to it.
Tampa Times: Senator Call is going tc
stump good portion of the state, put no,
for the success of the Democratic party
! He has not been invited to do so by the
executive committee, out has made his
! own appointments upon his own invita-
| ton. Not one of his constituents has
sent so much as a postal card request that
| he plunge into the contest to save the
country. He comes of his own motion To
encourage faction and support boilers
| He undertakes to overthrow the author
ity ana defeat the candidates of the party
anywhere and everywhere he can.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia State: An extra session OF
the supreme court will probably be called
to pass on the dispensary law of 1898
The administration, we believe, has been
somewhat disturbed by the decision OF
| Judge AldrlCh, and the governor doubt
less desires the supreme court to pass on
| il. The governor is certain that the de
csion of majority of the court will be in
IdNOE VI VIC law IL 10 DdItiy Il DOSSlDll
ity that the opinions of Judge may have
changed
Columbia Register: Last Saturday at
Aiken Judge Aldrich declared the dispen-
sary act of 1898 unconstitutional. His de-
cision was made in a test case y y
Judge Aldrich could make no other deci-
sion, since as a circuit judge his decision
must conform to decisions laid down by
the higher legal tribunal, the supreme
court Until the state supreme
court reverses its decision upon the prin-
ciples of the act of 1892 or until the deci-
sion is set aside by the United States SUI
preme court, we are unable to see how
any circuit Judge, whatever his own iudg-
ment as TO the constitutionahty of the
dispensary law may be, can do otherwise
than Judge Aldricn did. The case
will probably be appealed to the state su.
preme court, which will give that court
an opportunity TO reverse it's former deci-
sion, if it thinks that decision was wrong.
News and Courier: The dispensary con-
stables have made very bad start in re-
newing their raids in Barnwel, accord
ing to.a report which we have received
from that place. The story is in brief
that a lady in the town was very ill, and
the physician in attendance ordered that
she should be bathed with alcohol
strongly charged with camphor Not be-
ing able to get the drugs in Blaekville.