The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-20
SAM JONES PRAISES CLEVELAND.
He Declares That the Whole Gang
is Down on the President.

He Declares That the Whole Gang
Is Down on the President.
The following is an extract from Rev
Sam Jones sermon at Emory Grove camp
meeting, Maryland, reported in the Bal
timore Sun:
Lots Of people are sitting down now in
this country and waiting for something to
turn up. Law me- how this country is
drifting! We've well nigh lost all indi-
cations of character, manhood and dill
gence in business.
Everybody is just waiting to see what
God and the government are going to do
for them. 800 There's S14e, 10000 and more
goes out every year in pensions to help
support a lot of people, and everybody else
who is old enough is looking carefully to
see if he can't be supported by a pension,
too.
There's another crowd crying for free
silver. The next thing they'll want will be
stores. Hear me, brother; you expect the
government to take care of you and put
dollars in your pocket. and you say that
you're doing just as much as you can. But
the people of the whole country, 1 tell
you, have lost their independence.
From one end of the country 20 the
other there's an everlasting growl. In the
last four weeks have Travelled from my
home in Georgia to Louisiana. from there
to Texas, Missouri and Nebraska and then
across the country to Boston, and every
where 1 get that growl.
But l say it's a crying shame. We're
not half as bad as the politicians make
us out to be. We've got wheat in our gran
aries pigs in our pens, hay in our barns,
and We ought to be asking for benedictions
instead of growing.
ne nit
from one end to the other, her people liv-
ing, fighting, dying in the dreadful
swamps. Think of India, with its starving
millions, and its hungry crowds living on
oats and dogs. Why on earth don't you
stop that everlasting growl? Gods after
you rascals; that's what the trouble is,
and some morning you'll wake up with
your mouths shut.
This country amt going to the devil
in spite of the gold bug, the silver bug and
the straddle bug. Don't you worry broth
er. God lives and He'll look after you. All
you've got to do is to do right. And 1 tell
you that whatever dangers and mishaps
we have to-day have been brought on by
the sins of the people and the nation.
Blessed is the nation that has faith in
God.
They tell you that Mckinley is local
preacher in the Methodist church and that
Bryan is praying. exhorting member of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church. But
there's a mighty lot of brewers and dis
tillers in this country, and Mckinley ana
Bryan Amt going to open their mouths
on the liquor subject any more than they
are going to take wings and fly around
the earth.
Some of these fellows are gold bugs
and some are silver bugs, while Tom
Reed says Mckinley is a straddle bug
l think they're all humbugs
Where are your brave men in public
life to-day? They're mighty scarce.
There's only one, as far as 1 know /
don't say this as a democrat, because I'm
not a democrat. But old Grover Cleveland
is as courageous as they make them. He
stands around, sits down. gets up, walks
about whenever he pleases, he says just
what he means and sticks to what he
says. But he's by himself. His whole
gang is down on him. We know that
I'm no coward, and l intend to have
people understand what propose to do.
I never asked any one to indorse me- If
God Almighty will indorse me and give
me the consciences of the people Of this
country. don't care about their tongues.
"Grits what you've got to have A
fellow who hasn't got it is going to get