The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-18
HOKE SMITH ON SOUND MONEY.
HIS COMING SPEECH-aIAKING TOUR
VERY SIGNIFICANT.

7, Means That an Aggressive Cam
yaisn Against the Free Coinage
Fallacy Is 10 Begin at Once-The
complexion of the Georgia DeIegn-
zion TO the Next National COnven-
lion at Stake-smfth as a Senato-
rial Possibility.
Washington, July 1.-THE proposed
campaign tour of Secretary Hoke Smith
through Georgia." said one of his nearest
friends to- day. lis full of significance.
1t MEANS" he continued that the
friends Of sound money intend to take
the offensive in the fight against silver
in that state, and it Indicates also more
than a lighting chance in favor of the
sound money side of the question. There
is more at stake, too, than the mere mat
ter Of a financial policy. If the silver
men win, as they are making vigorous
efforts to do, the state convention which
viii elect delegates at large TO the ma
tional convention and will adopt a plat
form upon which those delegates and the
district delegates will stand, will be a
silver gathering. In addition to this there
is a senator to be elected soon in Geor-
gia. and upon the complexion of the leg
islature the fate of a good many candi-
dates will depend. For Instance. if the
legislature has a majority of silver men,
ex-Speaker Crisp stands a fair show
OF being elected senator; If, on the con-
trary, the sound money men gain control
il is not at all impossible that Secretary
ms -
II is easy enough to understand, there
fore why the campaign in Georgia, even
in this off year. is of unusual import
ance.
up to the present time the silver peo-
pie have forced the fighting. 1t is at
their suggestion that a silver conven-
tion is to be held tomorrow at Grif-
I'm, with delegates from nearly all the
counties in the state and with Senator
Morgan of Alabama to make the prin-
cipal address. 1t is this aggressive
ness on the part of the advocates of free
silver coinage that awakened the sound
money men to a sense of the situation.
Secretary Smith has been appealed to
at the rate of a dozen or more letters a
day, to come into the state and endeavor
10 counteract the wave of silver senti-
ment. Encouraged by the success of his
colleague in the cabinet, Mr.. Carlisle, in
kentucky, he has consented to deliver
three speeches-the first at Gainesville,
on July %; the second at Columbus, on
July q, and the third at Cordele. on July
20. The last named place is in ex-Speaker
Crisp's district and special trains will be
run from Americus, the home of the ex-
srralrer.
Upon the result of the convention at
Griffin much Will depend. If it proves to
be q representative gathering. with many
Of the leaders in attendance, the sound
n nd hat "a II fOEf
which they have before them is not one
10 be despised. The convention, however,
Is handicapped in its beginning by the
fact that the populists are to be present.
If II had been confined to democrats pure
and simple the attendance would have
been greater and the interest more gen.
eral. Between the populists and the dem
ocrats in Georgia there has never been
any sympathy whatever. They have al
ways fought each other bitterly, but in
this new bed of devotion to silver they
all seem to be lying together.
The congressional delegation in the
state, which was once solid for free sill
Yer, is now split. Judge Turner and
Messrs. Cabaniss and Lawson are for
sound money, and so is Senator Gordon.
Senator Bacon has gone to Europe, after
leaving a letter advocating free coinage If
1t can be maintained at a parity, while
Representatives, Livingston, Moses, Les
teI ana MaQQOX are Tor silver, althOugh
the latter was not in favor of
the convention. Representative Tate
Is lowering and Mr.. Russell has not diff
nitely declared himself. Judge Crisp is
for free coinage, although a letter which
he wrote to a recent county convention
was not read, for some reason unexplained.
He, too, is going to Europe. He was cleo
ted delegate to the convention which
meets tomorrow and if he does not at
tend, there viii be reason to believe that
he is wavering. AT least that is the as
sertion made by the sound money men
who are counting noses previous to going
INTO one of the liveliest fights that has
been seen in Georgia for many a day.
The prominence which the Georgia pa
pers are giving to the contest of sound
money against silver is enough, in itself,
10 stir the state, even if there were not so
much at stake besides. The tour of Sec
retary Smith will be made the occasion of
great ovations in the places where he is
scheduled to make addresses. Special ex-
cursion train, barbecues, bands and other
attractions are to be provided, in order
mat his sound money doctrines may reach
all the people of the state.'
WOMAN GUILTY OF MURDER.