The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-20
PENDLEToN vs.. vENABLE.
The Editor Gives the President some
thing TO Think About.

|The Editor tElNes the ifesluent some
thing TO Think About.
vsldosta. Ga. April 19-The issue of the
|Times which appeared this evening con
.tains a vigorous reply to the President OF
The state Senate Venable. In the last
issue Of thu vines. Editor Pendleton print
Ii letter from Mr.. Venable and comment
s ed on il. Venable replied in an interview
&pubnshed in last Sundays Constitution, to
the effect that Mr.. Pendleton was post
master Of Valdosta, and consequently ia
vored the policies Of the administration,
intimaung that the editors convictions
@were bartered for an insignificant position.
which probably costs him as much as the
SALARY amounts to.
The reply in the Times is racy reading
directed not only at the president of the
Senate, but to all of those so-called demo-
Gratis who impugn the motives of the
Followers of democracy, as it is interpreted
#by the present administration.
The most salient points of Mr.. Pendle-
#ton S rejoinder are as follows:
The reckless assumption that all office
holders under a democratic administra-
#uon are craven puppets, devoid of char
#acter and conscience, can be harbored
Honly in the minds of small men. Abuse IS
the rejOnder of the fellow already whip
4ped-the cOmman dodge of the unmaskel
#demagOgue.
Prick a sorehead with the point of an
j al uiltuL ana ne goes INTO a rage. Rub
against one of those fellows who, sought
nut did not find a government plum, and
VINO IS mad about 1t, and he denounces
Everybody from President Cleveland down
. 10 the country postmasters.
II the Constitution and its Nenables
VIII come out in an open field and offer
fair fight it will afford the Times great
pleasure 10 give them battle. If they are
me champions of great and good cause.
a. they claim, they can afford it; and thcy
need not be afraid to make the issue
2 nd
70 give the reasons for their departure
from true democratic faith.
Aspersions and opprobrium> tinctured
with sophistry, and plastered over with
|demagogy, will not satisfy thinking
men. The people are not all fools, and
those politicians who are now playing a
desperate game of bluff are going TO be
called down. The efforts within the party
TO discredit the democratic administration
and impeach the character and impugn
the motives of every friend it has among
the people may bring temporary reverses
% the party, but as sure as the sun shines
. Il will also bring dismay and humiliation
4 10 the politicians who bring 1t about. The
measuring-rod, bride and yoke of an
Iavenging Nemesis Will find them out, it
matters not whether they sit upon edi-
torial tripods. or in cushioned seats of
4 brief authority, or whether they belong
TO the big-lunged class who beat the bush
upon the hustings, and beat the people,
II FOR a livelihood.
Mr.. Venables avs if he only had a small
country postoffice to sustain his sinking
fotunes-perhaps to ill q corner in the
garrett of his ten-story granite hotel, or
a pigeOn-hole in the kitchen closet-he
too might become a reconvert to a sound
and stable currency; which Is tantamount
4 to confessing that if he had captured
the Kansas City plum (Which he sought,
hut did not find) he would have been
Ready to sing Clevelands praises-at least
as long as the plum lasted. Mr.. Venable
illustrates the common but unsafe rule
Of judging others by ones own weak
l. tt. L. I.
own petard.
To say the very least, it seems quite
. queer that man who is trying to hold
Flown two Offices at once in Georgia should
|Eant to impeach another because he
Folds one. Mr.. Venable covers two, it
.seems, and some of the Atlanta folks are
frying now to smoke him out of one of
/ them. The situation seems to be getting
quite warm for him.