The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14
POLITICS IN THE STATE.
Candidates in the Field and News
paper Talk on Party Policy.

Candidates in the Field and News
paper Talk on Party Policy.
Hon. Henry H. Perry Of Gainesville,
who has been making the race for con-
gress in the Ninth district, has retired
from the field.
Walter Brown. a civil service employee
in the Rome postoffice. and one of the
most prominent young republicans in
Floyd county, Will enter the race for the
legislature in that county.
Hon. B. T. Rawlings of sandersviue
will have opposition in his race for the
o1hce OF solicitor general or the middle
judicial circuit. Among the prominent
candidates is Hon. V. b. Robinson of
Wrightsville, and there are six others.
Atlanta Journal: Now that the smoke Of
the recent contest in this state has clear
ed away and possibly passion and preju-
dice have subsidized, IL is well enough to
say to the people who voted for free sill
yer that not one of them will ever live to
see the object OF their desire attained.
We stated previous to the primary that
we doubted very much II the leaders on
the free silver side really believed that
free silver was Obtainable. We are con-
hdent they do not, and il will not be
many months before the people who voted
for this policy will realize that they have
been the victims OF an impracucable
scheme. This country Will never see the
free, unlimited and independent coinage
of silver. The civilized world-those ma
tons which have advanced furthest in
civilization and enlightenment, have rec
ognized the inevitable, that silver cannot
be used a standard of measure; that
its place is subsidiary and viii always be
so. We do not reopen the argument, but
we simply wish to put the people on no.
tice that they voted for something which
will never come to them; that they Will
never see the day when in the United
States there will be free and unlimited
coinage of silver Independent of the other
great commercial nations of the world.
An Inevitable Consequence.
From the New York Sun.
The organization of an association Of
Roman Catholics for self-protection
against the proscrptive A. =. A is
natural and inevitable consequence of the
mischieVous activity of that reViVer of
KnoW-Nothingism. 1t is deplorable that
that there should be the one without the
either should exist; but IL was impossible
that there should be the one without the
formation of the other to counteract All
Offset it. The introduction of the issue
of religion into politics is always full of
danger; but perhaps the establishment of
the new societyJwill have the desirable re-
suit of arOusing the peS--+o an under
standing of the perniciOus character of the
original movement, and thus remove the
reason for the existence Of the consequent
Roman Catholic order. They may neu-
tralize each other.
The purpose of the new order, so far a
| concerns candidates for office, is explain
| ed by one of the officers to be to require
of each public officer a pledge to carry out
his oath to support the constitution, which
| guarantees religious freedom and equal
| ity." That ought to be an unnecessary
recruitment. 1t is a surplusage, which
| implies that the officer is capable Of Violat-
| ing his oath; but the explanation made
| by the Roman Catholic society that the
| A. p A. is industrious in seeking TO OBJ
| tain the adhesion of political candidates
| to its policy and principles of prescription
| affords an excuse for such a policy. If the
| one side obtains the ear of the candidate,
| he ought to pay attention to the other
4sVfr
| should obey his oath in the letter and the
| spirit THE A. +. A." according to the
| illustration of this Roman Catholic, goes
! to Mai. Mckinley, for Instance and asks
| him to support il in is persecution Of Ro-
man Catholics" and AN we shall ask
| him is whether or not he has given assur-
ances to the A. =. A. that he will support
| its policy That, assuredly, is q fair
| question, and Mr.. Mckinley ought in rel
| son to give 1t square answer. Every
] candidate for office ought to be willing
| and anxious to announce that he is free
/ from obligations or sympathies which
| would prevent him from rendering fun
! obedience to an official oath.
Consequently, let up hope, this organiz-
/ ed opposition to the A. =. A. Will tend to
| deter all candidates for office and all par
| ties and politicians from any course which
| looks like liberation of that un-American
movement, so mischievous and so dan
| gerous in its purposes. The new order
| among its membership to go further in
| political direction. So far, 1t will stand
upon sound ground, but beyond there is
peril.
BILE, that the A. L. A. movement should
| be permanent. The old Know-Nothing
/ fanaticism seemed at one time to be as
/ Stunning proportions dangerous to the re-
public; but it suddenly went to pieces at
| a time when proportionately the number
/ Of Roman Catholics was much less than
| ii is now, and there was a provincial ig-
| norance of the disposition of foreigners
! which does not exist at all at this period
Now the Roman Catholics constitute
about one-third of the religious commu-
| as many as the com bned strength OF the
| two principal Protestant sdenominations
| the Baptists and the Methodists. Except
/ in the south. they are numerous and are
! increasing in every state and every con-
siderable community. New England IL
| self, once the great stronghold of Protes-
| tantism, is steadily becoming more and
more Roman Catholic. AS they are null
| uplying, too, the old prejudice against
/ them, such as it was, Is passing away
There IS now more religious tolerance
| than at any previous period since the
/ birth Of Christianity. There is no wide
| spread or considerable public dislike or
| distrust Of them. That sentiment So pow
/ erful apparently, in the know-nofbing
/ days, is obviously weak now. Roman
Catholics are American citizens. divided
| between the two great political parties.
/ and such prescription as the A. p A in
/ culcates is opposed to the interests Of
| both.
Hence the new order is really unecessa-
/ ~ for the self-prOtection Of our Roman
/ Catholic countrymen. They are In no
/ danger from A. Z. A. bigotry But. as We
have said, IL was natural and it was me