The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-01


| Mr.. Bryan break right through 1t, but II
catches minnows by the bushel at every
haul.
The mention of Mr. Clevelands name
and his policy ELECTED great applause
! from the crowd. The declaration that
1 there was not better populist in Amer
| lea than Mr. Bryan also elected applause
| and laughter Mr.. Wright quoted Mr..
! Bryan's letter, in which he stated that
! he would not follow the democratic party
\ to a gold standard.
! Gentlemen, / think you ought to cheer
| that sentiment" said the speaker. This
! put the laugh on the crowd. The Genu-
ments OF the letter were also applauded.
! No man, he declared, could slap him in
the mouth for his independentism with
out shaping Mr.. Cleveland in the mouth
on one side and Mr.. Bryan on the other.
The antics Of Georgia politicians, he said,
are very amusing. You people down
here don't know much about IT," he said.
II don't mean to say that you are not
pretty expert in some things, but the boys
up around Atlanta might teach you few
tricks yet"
The hunRriest animal on Gods earth,
Mr. Wright declared, is the average DEM
ocratc politician. He can't be filled up.
tie discussed the antics of the politicians
in connection with the Farmers Alliance
and poked a good deal of fun at them,
which the crowd seemed to enjoy. The
their convictions led them, he said, had
gone straight ahead with the populist
party he declared, but the politicians who
merely wanted Office, with that sweet
Atlanta morsel, Lon Livingston, at the
head" went straight the other way. The
democrats had been keeping lot OF trait
ors in office, he said. The farmers may
have had some foolish ideas, he said, but
they are honest and there is justice in
their cause Now the politicians have
seen that things are going the other way,
they have turned around and taken up the
populst platform. They have gone
to Chicago, he said, gone in the
hole with the populist party. pulled the
democratic party in and then came back
to Georgia to pull the hole in after them.
Mr.. Wright declared that he is a better
democrat than all these politicians put
together and the 5000 Georgia farmers
at his back are the best democrats in
Georgia, The business men will need
these a. mers some day, he said, whom
the force, of good and evil in this coun-
try are airayed against each other.
THE gang of politicians running the
democratic machine are a beautiful ser
of animals to be preaching honesty to the
people," he declared.
THE men who at Chicago took the
democratic party into the populist hole
would have taken it into the republican
party if il had been necessary to do II
to save their Offices"
The humbuggery of the average demo-
cratic newspaper is amazing" he declar-
ed and this seemed to amuse the crowd
greatly. Mr.. Wright declared that Bryan
was always elected by the populist vote in
his district.
He told of Mr.. Bryans congratulating
the people who lived at Gen. Weaver
home in Iowa, from the train, saying that
he was pioneer of the doctrine OF 16 to !,
~ -
now Weaver is a democratic hero. Gen
tlemen you've got EN- all, he said. There's
Livingston and Weaver, and Sister Lease
and the good populist you have nominated
for President, and yet you call me a pop
ulist l am a better democrat than all of
them put together"
Mr. Wright warmed up still more to his
subject and roasted the democratic party
mercilessly. He told the democrats that
they had no party, that it is in control of
lot of political shysters who control 1t
for their own purposes. THE best thing
you democrats can do for your party" he
declared, rs to help me whip it."
There isn't a democratic county in
Georgia in which there isn't little Tam
many hall that is sapping the life blood
out of the business community"
Mr.. Wright attacked Gov. Atkinson for
the manner in which he euchred Gen.
Evans out of the nomination for governor
two years ago. Atkinson, he said. knew
a good deal more about the machinery
than Steve Clay, who stepped aside for
Gen Evans. The latter thought he could
whip the machine. The democrats will
never whip the machine inside the party,
he declared. The only way to whip it is
to fight Il from the outside. He instanced
the defeat of Tammany Hall in New York.
IF ! whip in this fight, mark me-" said
he, tive years hence the best men in
Georgia Will be nominated for the offices.
The best thing that can happen to a
party is a good whipping occasionally"
He declared that there were over 10000
votes thrown out at the last election, on
little legal technicalities. The populist
managers are asking the democrats to-
day to help them guarantee a fair cleo
ton, he said, and the democratic man.
ayers are trying to evade II. He charged
Gov. Atkinson with getting down on his
knees to the negro vote and pleading that
he had pardoned some of their race out of
the penitentiary. III 1 were to
do thing of this kind" he
said, IT would be Kissed off the
governor ought to have pardoned them
and kept his mouth shut"
Mr.. Wright declared that If it were nee
essary for him TO get negro votes with
mean liquor or dollar he would never
get one IT this thing goes on youll
have the Georgia penitentiary turned
loose on YOU" he declared. II tell you II
he licks me in this fight he
will need the Georgia penitentiary."
He poked fun at the Atlanta Constitu-
ton for it's manner of catering to the
negro politicians. He said that Gov. At
kinson had not only pardoned a number
of convicts, but he had restored the right
of citizenship to ex-convicts all over the
state. He also attacked the governor for
his position on the convict lease ques-
ton and his course in the convict investi-
CATION. The lessees were never punished
he said Notwithstanding the terrible dis
closures Of the investigation. The lessees
were fined just enough TO pay the law
yers fees. If these charges were true.
he said, the men who were guilty of these
atrocities should have been put in stripes.
Politics and the judiciary. Mr. Wright
declared are too closely mixed. "A little
bailiff who is a pretty good heeler Is pro.
NOTED to be a justice Of the peace, and
II he is sharp he gets to be a county Of
hcer Then maybe he gets to be men,
Der OF the legislature, where. II he IS
a pretty good trader, he gets to be solic-
itor general, II he convicts all the populists