The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-05

means-a means to get everything on the
right road"
A wave of populistlc damphoolishness
struck this town to-day, says the New
York Suns Chicago special OF July 2 1t
rolled and tossed and shvered. IL per-
meated the very air. 1t took possession
of the corridors of the Palmer and OF
other hotels. IL swept back and forth. II
was so strong that 1t even for the time
swept away the free silver idiOcy. II was
in the hands OF men who wore the whis-
kers OF the typical populist, long aspara-
gus whiskers. Strangely enough, the
bearers OF the wave got a hearing. The
crowd in the hotels seemed 10 welcome
them. and they talked TO their hearts
content. The burden OF their talk was
that free silver was Just as wrong as gold.
They wanted neither. They wanted gov
eminent warehouses. They wanted 20 I'LL
these warehouses with wheat and corn,
with rye and oats, with potatoes ana spin
ach, and then the government was 10 is
sue certificates to the people who did the
filling. The certificates were 10 pass cur
rent anywhere in the United States and
for anything that the holders wanted to
purchase with them.
Gold and silver" these men said, had
no real value at all. They are simply
convenient tokens. They are OF real val
ne simply for ornamental purposes. Then
why have anything to do with them at
all? Discard them and return to the
things of real value, like corn and wheat
and rye and oats"
The crowd listened to these sentiments
and applauded them. The popullstic
crowd did great work all the afternoon
and in the early evening. Then II disap-
peared. Where 1t went was as big a mys-
terry as was where Ii came from. The
members OF 1t said they would be back In
the morning and that before they get
through they would sweep both silver and
gold from the face of the earth as money
metals. The crowd at the hotels applau-
ded that sentiment, too.
In addition to the populistic damphool-
ishness that was abroad here to-day, the
"somthing- is-the-matter man" was in ev-
idence. He had sewing machines and
nails on the brain. Just what free silver
has to do with sewing machines and nails
II may DO hard for an ordinary mortal
to see. But these free silver mortals, II
would seem, are no ordinary mOrtals
The thing that bothered the something
is-the-matter man was that sewing ma
chimes and nails that are made in this
country are sold on the other side Of the
ocean cheaper than they are sold here
He wouldn't have it that the tariff was
responsible
ITS gold" he said, that's all the
trouble; it's gold. Now, If we can get
free silver we will be ali right and then
we will be able to buy these same ma
chimes for the price that the people on
the other side Of the water pay for them. /"
He wound up every assertion with this
declaration:
II tell you, fellow citizens, there's some
thing the matter, that's what there is,
and it's free silver that will remedy II.
We want free silver"
Almost invariably the crowd yelled
That's what's what"
Senator David B. Hill has a national
reputation as a man with a heart inYul-
nerable to the shafts of Cupid, says the
Chicago Times Herald He hates women
and sentiment. A rose once came near
defeating some legislation in which he
was interested. 1t happened in this way:
The senator from New York attended
dinner party and was called upon TO re-
spond to the toast, "Our Ladies'" When
he recovered his equipoise, he branched off
into a discourse on law and politics, COM
pleting with a high tribute to the god
dess of liberty, Columbia the queen of
the world and the goddess of law.
Those are the only ladies to whom
can refer knowingly" said the senator
with a twinkle in his eve, as he SUCCESS
fully stood the whitening glances OF re-
buke from matchmaking mammals and
manageable daughters. One of the fair
women at the table pinned a big red rose
on his coat He wore ii as far as his
carriage and then tossed it contempt
uously in the gutter. Senator Wolcott of
Colorado saw the act. He recalled the in
cident at the dinner table, and some
days later, when Hill was rustling votes
on a pet measure, Wolcotts vote was
pledged on condition that Hill, the hater
of sentiment, should send Miss a
bunch of red roses to atone for the act
Senator HILL early In life. achieved a pref
udice against society when he was the
Original news agent" on a New York
Central railway train.
"Pitchfork" Tlllman, who got in from
South Carolina last night, strutted around
the corridor Of the Auditorium this MORN
ing looking bigger than Altgeld himself
The New York Suns Chicago reporter APP
preached him and. bowling low, asked him
what he was here for Tillman stralghten-
ed up and looked at the reporter a mo
ment before ne answered Then he said:
MY son, we are going to comb out the
tangled hair of the mossbac of Wall
street They have been running things in
this country altogether too long. and now
the people are going to take a hand, and
a good hand at them. You know that for
some years / have been an orphan in poll
tics, but now that the democratic party