The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-02
nFMoCRACY'S R0USING RALLY.
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-r1endid riders, men who can ride two
s,rsas a [ one time. 1t has some splendid
h'...tsts and the biggest man in it is the
latest acrobat 1t also has menagerie
ssrJ+be greatest curiosity in it is a. p A.
End democrats all in one.
The cry of organized democrats, Mr..
-. said is one often made use of to
o.sorplish a purpose. Genuine democ-
Gov IS not always to be found in such
allowing Mr.. Way also alluded to the
Ceorgia Cracker. M. duBignons claim
" he a Cracker, he said, was news to
IN, He was one, and he would inform
5-i}iaron that the Georgia Crackers
IF not be fooled as easily as he
tborrht they could. The idea of Mr..
s'piqron and Mr.. Osborne defending the
Cra,,Ier and he and Tom Morgan Oppos-
irc them was too ridiculous to be con-
saierea. said Mr.. Way. He asserted that
10 crackers had been attracted here by
,,ron1jses of work, in order to get their
o,os but the political trlcksters would
And hey are not so easily fooled.
Mr. way said the storm was a God
.o,d m the Citizens Club. If it were not
for the storm so that large force of
NON could be put to work, he said there
+rouldn't have been enough left of the
c,ib after election day to tell the tale.
Mr. W G. Charlton was the last speaker
10 was received with wild applause. He
discussed the question of party regularity
as advocated by the Citizens Club and
showed that while it had laid so much
stress on party regularity and claimed to
he the only democratic organization here,
f. had failed to endorse the Chicago plat
forp and candidates, which 1t should do
IN order to be consistent in its claim of
raql1Iarity Further than that, the head
nj us legislative ticket, Mr. l. B. Tiede-
man had deliberately bolted the action of
the PARTY convention and had attended
convention which had condemned the
chicago convention and candidates
and placed an opposition ticket in the
field. Yet this regular democratic party
had failed to condemn him for it. He
was not criticising Mr.. Tiedeman, he said.
He considered that he had acted in dig
nifed manner and respected him for It,
The crowd applauded this view.
The Inconsistency of the so-called reg
MARS was further dwelt on by Mr.. Charl-
ton. The democratic party had decided
10 abandon the mass meetings for the pri-
mary system, he said, and yet without
anv action by the executive committee
or the party, so far as had been published,
the self-constituted regulars had returned
70 the mass meetings, and for the first
time in twenty-four years, party nominal
Mr. Charlton defended the course of
the Liberal Club democrats in breaking
away from the domination of a committee
controlled by the Citizens Club. 1t was
only when they were refused a fair show
ing that they declined to enter a primary.
II was said that the regularity of their
opponents had been asserted by three
forums. This was the action of packed
juries he said. The congressional con-
1,l1I
without giving them the oppor-
tunity of presenting a single witness or
Of making a word of argument. When
they went to the Macon convention they
were told that every presumption would
be against them; that they would pre-
sumo that the Citizens Club delegation,
having the certificate of the chairman.
was the official delegation, and the bur-
den of proof would be upon them to prove
the contrary.
Mr.. Charlton told how indignant he was
at such unfair treatment, and how he
expressed himself to the committee
Rhese were the sort of forums which had
pronounced against their regularity, he
said. Having been thrown bodily out of
the party he felt that they were at least
deserving of credit for the manner in
which they had sustained their democ-
racy. They were true to the principles
clined to be dictated to by a political
clique That they were true to the tradi-
IONS OF the party no one who knew the
men composing the organization could
deny.
we who stand here for the principles
OF a mans right to his conscience for the
triumph of political principle, the differ
ent interests of Savannah. the dignity
and traditions of our old town." said Mr.
Tor these things, cannot be whipped
1t IS not in the economy of nature that
night and truth should ever permanently
be in subsection"
Mr. Charlton was frequently applauded
throughout his address. 1t was then 1925
o'clock and DIR. Duncandeclared the meet
ing adjourned.
The enthusiasm of the crowd continued
aiter the meeting. The Fourth District
Cluo headed by its band, did Coroner
,Goette the honor to escort him to his
nome on Broughton street. after which
dispersed