The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-09

Some days ago the Atlanta Constitution
criticised some statements made by Mr..
S. @. McLendon, of Thomasville, IN an
interview which appeared in the Chicago
Record, relative TO the silver question
Mr.. McLendon replied in a letter to the
Constitution. which is not only vigorous
and to the point, but states clearly and
strongly why ne favors sound money. In
the issue of the Cons Tuition in which TIE
letter appears there is an attempt to re-
ply to the letter. Those who have
read both know how far short it is Of
being a reply. The truth is, Mr. Ne
Lendon's letter cannot be successfully an
swered. The Constitutions attempt to
do so is much like all ITS efforts IN benalf
Of silver, and it Is quite generally under
stood what they are. II we are not mis-
taken, it IS the only paper IN the country
that attributed the recent rise N the price
Of cotton to the rise in the price Of sill
yer. We do not remember that It sub
mitted any reasons for taking that posi-
ton In its cheerful innocence It does
not seem to think that reasons or argu-
ments cut any figure in the silver ques-
ton.
In his letter, Mr.. McLenaon, referring
W AiN aNbtANt ttuAAbt Atlittih1 IGidllNG 10
his political relations, says: From
the reading CT your editorial do not ex-
actly understand where you leave me-"
Mr.. McLendon ought not to be surprised
at his inability to discover just what the
Constitution meant. Has he been able to
say, after reading one of the Corstitu-
tion's articles on silver, just what the
paper meant to say on that subject? We
a..
show a little more enterprise, and get to-
gether few clear cut arguments IN be-
half of the white metal 1t VIII have to
do so Il it hopes to make anything like a
creditabe showing when it engages in
that promised joint debate with Mr.. Nc
Lendon on the currency question. Mr..
McLendon is well equipped, and to meet
HIM successfully there will be need for
something more than assertions.
The District of Columbia had better
send Senator Henry Cabot Lodge a peace
offering right away. There may be an
extra session of congress, and it is pretty
certain that Senator Lodge will give the
district hail Columbia" as soon as the
Senate is in session again. Senator Lodge
has a grievance, and it is this: He is
the owner of two skye terriers with blood
almost as blue and pedigree almost as
long as his own. Recently certain OFF,
.cials-in mental positions to be sure, but
officials neverthelecs-of the district cap
tured Senator Lodges dogs Senatorial
courtesy certainly dictated that the dogs
should be returned to the senator in
carriage. But senatorial courtesy was
ignored, and the senator's aristocratic
dogs were put into a common dog wagon,
along with a lot of ours and plugs, and
taken to the pound. 1t is alleged that
the dogs cried as If their hearts would
break all the way to the pound, so acute
was their modification and chagrin.
Those district officials had evidently for
gotten that congress governs the dis
trict, that the Senate governs congress,
and that Lodge and his friends will soon
govern the Senate. The district will be
lucky If detachment of troops is not
ordered against 1t, unless Senator Lodges
anger should be appeased in the mean
time.