The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-25
OATES ON THE OUTLOOK.
His Campaign to Be Run On Lines Of
Cancellation.

Caprs johnston Little Sore at the
Moment over His Defeat, But Col.
Oates Confident That He will Soon
Rally His Friends to His Support.
Ko1b Losing strength-Kolb a Clever
Fellow But Not statesman-The
Financial Plank in the Alabama
Platform.
Atlanta, Ca, May 24-Hon. w. c.
Oates, congressman and demscratic nom
inee for governor of Alabama, arrived in
Atlanta at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon
and left tonight at 8 o'clock, en- route to
Washington. Col. Oates was seen at the
kimball house by the MORNING News
correspondent, and, in an interview on the
Alabama campaign said: Il am
gong on to Washington to
remain some weeks to look after my
duties there. Chairman Tompkins, of the
state campaign committee, will follow me
to Washington and we will map out the
campaign together.s | will make a vigor-
Gus but conciliatory campaign, beginning
not later than June l and press it right
up to the election in August"
Referring to the condition of the party
in Alabama, both as to the feeling grow
ing out of his contest with Capt. Johnston
and the fight that will soon be on with
Kolb, he continued "Capt. Johnston is
just now sulking some, / am surprised to
see, though l never in any manner gave
him cause for personal grievance.
We were friends for more than
twenty years and never had a
! difference except as to matters of detail
| in democratic policy. Some of his fol-
| lowers are also inclined to hang back. but
mt fA anu nr,d I -
| fed that as soon as the present temporary
! excitement of the campaign subsidies
! Capt. Johnston and his friends will turn
/ in and give me their enthusiastic help in
my contest with the common enemy.
KoLB's FOLLOWERS.
"Capt. Kolb's followers have been very
| quiet recently, whether because they
| have fallen off from him or because they
want, like Brer Rabbit to lay low and
| say nuthin' until we have shown our full
! hand, is not exactly certain, but I have
no fear for the outcome of the election.
| Everywhere | spoke kOlb men have as
sured me of their return to the party, and
the best information is that they have
/ decreased in strength largely in every
county in the state.
OF Capt. Kolb personally, Col. Oates
said he was genial, clever, handshaking
sort of a fellow, but if he was a states
man he would like to know where he got
! his schooling.
His plan Of campaign, Col. Oates said,
would be to conciliate the Kolbites, and
/ by an honest, sincere discussion of princi-
/ pies, show the absurdity and ridiculous
ness of Capt. Kolb's platform.
/ Col. Oates takes the result in Alabama
as an unqualified Endorsement of the ad-
ministration. The platform he largely
dictated himself
THE FINANCIAL PLANK,
The financial plank he wrote and it re-
/ fleets his views, which accord precisely
with Mr.. Cleveland's Il have always
| been a friend to silver" said he, $50 is
! Mr. Cleveland. But when the question is
| studied and understood the demand
| that is. made by some for the free
| and unlimited coinage of silver on
the present ratio is bound to appear as a
/ policy dangerous and ruinous IN its conse-
! quences 1t would be protection of the
worst order. We do not want policy
| that would make the western miners so
! cents worth of silver worth u, when
! there is no law to make 80 ceats worth
| of cotton ior wheat worth a dollar The
! law of supply and demand should
/ govern and will govern in spite of the
/ edict of any nation. Silver can only be
/ esta blished by international agreement,
/ which is in fair way TO be had. Eng
! land is mOnOmetalllSI now, OUT with
/ the retirement of the Gladstone regime
! the bmetallists will have control, and
/ then the value of silver will be fixed"
CLEvELAND's VIEWS.
| Speaking of MIR Cleveland's financial
/ views, Col Oates said that he had told
| him that he was IN favor of the repeal of
the 10 per cent. tax on state banks and
would have urged it in his message, but
| for the fact that it would have involved
| the whole financial question. Secretary
| Carlisle, he said, pronounced the tax un-
constitutional Senator Morgan" said
/ Col. Oates, has the Oates people to thank
/ for the Endorsement he received by the
convention. They do not indorse his
/ financial views, and any resolution of that
! character would have been defeated, and
possibly the senator might not have had
! such smooth sailing had such resolutions
/ been insisted upon, but the Oates men
/ willingly indorsed him in the interest of
/ harmony in the party.n