The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-21

routed the free silver Omaha platform
snQuters iu the executive committee meet
one on The committee, and voted 20 lei
none participate IN the primaries but demo-
Gratis who would pledge themselves 20 vote
Tor an democratic nominees. state and ma
tioual In counties where snap prima-
ries had been called for June 9, inviting
the populists 20 participate. the commit
Tee ordered them on, 50 far as congression-
al nominations were concerned. and direct
cd that all congressional primaries be call
ca Tor July t. and that none but demo-
Gratis De allowed 10 vote In those prima-
ries.
The Fulton county democratic executive
committee has ordered vote for congress
man and state senator on June 6. The
candidate receiving the highest number
Of votes VIII select his own delegates 10
me district congressional and district
senatorial conventions. At present. the
candidates 20 be voted for for congress
man are. Col Livingston. who now fills
the office, and Hon. C.. I. Brannan Of
fulton county, who hopes TO NIL it the
QeXt time. There are two entries for the
senatorial prize from the Thirty-hfth dis
trict, both from JonesbOro, this being
clayton county's time to name the senator
under the rotation plan. They are Hon.
a. j. MorrOW and Q. A. Blalock. Clayton
county viii not express her choice between
them until some time after June 6.
A day or two ago the Griffin News and
Sun printed the following: when a farm
er can get nothing for his produce some
thing must be radically wrong. This
wrong is the gold standard" Here is the
way the Macon News answers the foolish
assertion: This is Characteristic free sill
yer argument. II is about as fun and as
logical as any OF them. II is the dema-
gogic plea which Is used TO persuade the
masses to clamOr for free silver-the ready
relief for all ills. 1t Is easy to make such
farmers and others with Il. But when the
facts are applied its absurdity stands out
in bold relief. few years ago when the
farmers Overstocked the northern cities
with their watermelons and the fruit was
SOLD, very often, TO pay the freight or
else given away and the grower made
about the effects of the single gold
standard, which, we are told, has been
In operation since the "crime Of 73' was
perpetrated. Everybody understood that
the market was regulated by the laws of
supply and demand. But II to-day farm
er ships the same product to an over
crowded market and gets nothing IN re-
turn, or II he brings wagon load OF pro-
duce to market where II Is not needed
and is unable TO sell at a fair price, he will
be told that il Is all because congress re-
fuses to enact free coinage laws. But 1t is
interesting to apply market quotations TO
such an absurd argument as the above.
AnJ lotlVMlIs hsuLcst WhICu az eiESn
without further comment, prove that the
statement is utterly without foundation.
year ago middling cotton was quoted
in New York al 5i4 cents; yesterday it
was quoted at SO cents, an advance OF
50 per cent In Chicago a year ago wheat
was quoted at so cents; yesterday It was
quoted at GO cents, an advance of over
% per cent. 1t is hardly necessary to
state that the single gold standard is not
responsible for the advances noted above.
All men of sound mind agree that the
price Of cotton, wheat and all other agri-
cultural products Is regulated by the laws
Of supply and demand. The only percepu-
BILE effect that the enactment Of free coin
age laws would have on the price OF these
products would be to force the farmer to
accept payment for them in a debased
money-or in other words, silver, which
under the most favorable conditions
would be worth not more than 70 or 70
cents on the dollar"