The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-28

tail in the door and put kink in 1t. That
kills US square in the middle of the road.
when We're dead, whatn we DO then2
The old Whig party died when 1t got
so weak il only carried four states; We
won't carry one with Grover. Wen be
lucky to be alive personally II we run
him. And yet some of these fellows are
heading up that way.
ITO be sure. the Democratic party has
got the nine lives Of a tom cat; that's
what your Uncle Isaac does business on
nOw-thats where he pastures his hopes
It's a hard outfit to Kill: the democracy
is In the COS 1t stood up and shot at IL
self Tor four years; but it's alive ana
kicking yet. The only thing that shakes
me is the fear that maybe somehow Gro
ver's worse than the civil war.
ohio? on the level ! hhave hopes Jim
| Campbell will carry the state. He's tho
most popular democrat we've ever had.
And John Sherman and the abolition
crowd have got possession Of the Republic
can party out there this trip; that helps
us.
'Campbelrs not only a good man. bur
he's on a good platform. II straddles
about just right and ought to suit most
people. We've recognized the better ele-
ment and conceded all II could reasonably
ask, and as ! look IL over / don't see where
anybody's right to kick comes in.
on, yes ITS a good platform. Brice
took care Of that.
I've always had a haymow full OF re-
spect for Brice. but since the Springfield
convention l venerate him. Brice came
there in his private car and went over
lnat convention IKE you q curry horse.
Never missed lick with brush or curry
comb from ears to fetlock. When he got
through the party shone like a bottle. Ir
he didn't curry the speed out of 1t were
o. X.
did he have any trouble getting it to
declare for gold and the administration
Not bit my son; not bit
Talk about tactics. tool The tactics OF
the gold bugs at the Springfield conven-
ton We're simply out OF sight You
couldn't reach EN- with the strongest
glass.
ITO begin with they, picked out a hall
that had silver faded from the 20. II
was one Of these slim halls; narrow as a
bowling alley and long as a rope walk
There were only 7G0 seats, gallery and all
| In the hall. and here were sos delegates.
They went over the list in advance and
assigned all the gold delegates TO seats in
front. They put all OF us coniakers in the
rear and up in the gallery.
! What does coniaker mean? Why, Il
/ means a fellow who makes counterfeit
money. OF course, / don't use il that
| way: ! simply picked the word up I'm a
| hurry and used IL instead of silver men,
/ I'll apologize II any one objects.
"As ! say, they put the gold bugs in
| front and us coniakers to the rear There
we were We couldn't hear word they
said we couldn't make the chairman hear
us. / was in the Licking county deIega-
ton and where they'd stuck us YOU
couldn't see the chairman unless you
squatted down. If you stood up the gal
lery came down so low 1t shut out the
view.
1T was a beautiful arrangement so far
as the gold bugs were concerned; 1t did
EN- great honor / just took one look at
the ground plan of their game and bowed
TO the ground, as / always do In the pres
ence Of superior genius. made a salaam
with both hands, like that: touched the
dust with my forehead. and said:
Excuse me for living
Il knew they'd got us right there. And
then when after I'd listener to a few OF
the speeches ! saw the silver fig was up
m sure Brice VIII succeed himself
We can carry the legislature like hang
ing out washing. The heft of the fight
viii be In Hamilton county. II we get
the fourteen votes of Hamilton we've got
EN- out on limb. All we've got to do
are our meat. We break even with 'em
out in the country districts, and with
Hamilton county's fourteen it's a cincn.
That's Forakers stamping ground
Hamilton county is and that will call
for leetle extra exertion on our parts.
rs Foraker a hard man to beat2 Well,
l should observe he was. He's a STEM
winder.
Il knew that as far back as when
Hoadly ran against him for governor.
Hoadly wired me up in old Licking TO
told me he wanted me to take a bundle
of the long green and head off Foraker.
The scheme was this:
"Hoadly wanted to drive Foraker into
challenging him to a joint debate. He
told me to get to the towns ahead of
Foraker where he was going to speak
ganize him, so he'd get up in meetin' and
ask Foraker a list Of questions calcu-
lated to drive him into challenging Hoad-
~. l had my route all laid out for me.
/ was to go first to Norwalk, then San
dusky, then over to the Black Swamp,
and then hellwards out through the Big
Elm woods. l was to keep going and
planting my Republicans with this LIST
of questions until Foraker challenged
Hoadly. Then they'd wire me to come
In.
ct nae Willing N GO. hut douhtad tho
sagacity of the deal.
" George said | to Hoadly, I wouldn't
fool with the sucker minute. He'll
kill you as sure as you do. This For
aker's buzz-saw, and y you run ag'inst
him he'll leave you on both sides of the
saw-mill. He'll cut you into fence boards,
George, as sure as you monkey with
"But Hoadly wouldn't listen. So l
jumped for Norwalk and fetched him the
first crack out of the box. These questions
were as wicked as a pair Of those drop
socket gaffs they use in chicken fights,
and when my republican got up and set
'em into Foraker he challenged Hoadly
to debate before ever he sat down.
And 1t ended just as I'd foreseen. He
went round Hoadly like a cooper round
a barrel. He forced Hoadly's hand on the
whisky question, and chased him around
until he made Hoadly the same as say that
a community, in order to be prosperous
and happy, had to be dead drunk, or
And that did It; he threw us down
right there, and threw us hard 1t let
Hoadly into the soup by 5000 majority.
But, as / stated. / think we win with
Campbell this time. This duck Bushnell
Is simply stoughton bottle-nothing to
him personally-and Campbell ought go
over him like cat over a shed roof.
''Brice ought to come back to the Sem
ate, too. The country needs him in its bus
mess; and he needs the country in his;
so it's a standoff- as far as interest goes.
Then again, don't believe John Sher-
man wants Foraker or any other republi-
can from Ohio dividing the pot with him
in the Senate He's never had one there,
and l don't guess he wants one. Another
thing, Forakers the man who charged
John Sherman with eiecsion frauds and
ii couldn't be he'd want Foraker anyway.
e1oS;ds Sc searcbine f6r a snsrlr of wbjte
lightning, FOrakers the only one left to
90 He's the last chicken on the roost the
last egg in the nest; the last shirt on the
line.