The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-28
ON BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.
-yE EXTREMIST WILL HAVE NO
VOICE IN THE NATIONAL
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

The siIverites Not Happy Over the
ootIook-sibIey Has Closed His
rheeL Book and Don Cameron's
silver Dollars Not so Plentiful.
senator Lindsay's Interesting
Talk.
washington. July 27.-self-constituted
,-ssiIsntial slate-makers are running
.,zir factories day and night, just now.
h,- there is nothing TO indicate that there
IS been any material increase of wages
:, that rather improbable industry.
senator Lindsay of Kentucky, who is one
II the ablest of the new men who recently
zane into the Senate. in discussing the
nolitical situation with your correspondent,
ernressed the opinion that the coming
,ontest for the control of the government
will be fought out on business principles,
and that extremists and theorists will
have no voice in outlining the campaign
in the democratic convention Said he:
~Our government is a great business in
sttution and it must be conducted by
,-,cticaI business men, He says It is
100 early to indulge in speculation as to
who will be the standard-bearer of the
democracy next year but it is apparent that
the position is much more tempting now
-ban it was a few months ago.
The presidential possibilities in both par
ties are adopting every known method
10 avoid the smoking out" process now
being employed by inquisitive friends and
designing foes, and like the irrepressib BILE
kodak fiend, the innocent-looking inter-
viewer is at large and on the trail of
every man who is suspected of harboring
q presidential thought.
There is one thing certain, the free silver
men in this vicinity. including Senators
Stewart, Blackburn, Dubois and their i'm
mediate followers, are looking very blue
since it is apparent that the southern
states, with few exceptions, are throw
ing off the scales of free silverism from
their eyes. 1t begins to dawn upon the
average southern man that a mere dec
laration in favor of free silver, without
any practical plan of operation behind it,
is of no benefit to them. The professional
silver agitators, like ex-Congressman J.
A. j. Warner, William Jennings Bryan
and the squad of camp followers, have
been drawing down" the bulk of the
contributions to the cause put up by Sem
atOr Don Cameron and ex-Congressman
sbley while the rank and file of the free
silver converts who permit themselves to
be drafted into the ranks during a lit
of temporary excitement or desperation,
are beginning to see that they were de-
ceived, and they are not as enthusiastic
in their demand for a ratio of 16 to l as
they We're a few months ago. 1t is also
noticeable and at the same time Distress
ing to the professional free silver agi-
tators." that Mr.. Sibley has locked up his
check-book, which a few months ago was
at the disposal of the promoters of his
presidential BOOM"
1t is also said that Don Cameron's lit
erary bureau is only running on half
time now. Don is a thrifty business man,
and he is not disposed to give his silver
dollars" unless he sees some substantial
return for them. In this connection it is
said that in all of his recent dealings with
the promoters of his presidential pros
poets in the west and south he used bright
new silver dollars drawn from the United
States treasury. Not many freight cars
were necessary to transport Don's cam
paign fund.
While the President and a majority Of
the members of the cabinet are out of
the city, the bureau officers I'm the vari-
GUS departments are engaged in preparing
the official data for the forthcoming an
nual reports. 1t is understood that the re-
sumo of the governments business affairs
will be much better than some of the part
isan critics anticipate. In the meantime
the treasury receipts are slowly but sure
" improving, in spite of all that is written
10 the contrary.