The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-03
THE CONVENTION QUESTION.
An Appeal TO the Governor to De
Made to settle IL.

Mu0e 10 SetAle
Atlanta, Ca, Feb. 2.-The one conven-
ton scheme, which originated in Wash
ington, where it was Matched for the
two-fold purpose of defeating the will of
the democratic party on the financial is
sue and in the interest of Judge Crsp's
senatorial aspirations, has reached point
where its manipulators, in the despera-
ton of chagrin, have determined to stake
their all on a single card. This card will
be turned tomorrow 1t is in the hands
of Gov Atkinson, and, strange as it may
seem, the Constitution and its following,
which made such a bitter fight on the
governor, a fight that was so low and
undignified that it acted as a boomerang
and probably did more to cause his sue
ardent friends, now expect him to come
TO the rescue of the one convention scheme
and turn the card in their favor.
Yesterday afternoon and far into the
night last night there was a mighty
conference of the one convention boomers
held in this city. Just where it was held
cannot be stated with certainty, but that
it was held and that the result of it
was the determination to either win or
lose on an appeal to Gov Atkinson, is
a fact Well-knOwn politicians from va
rious parts of the state were here and
at the Kimball house belated arrival
was heard to ask the clerk where the
conference" was being held. This gen
tleman who is an ardent advocate of
the free coinage of silver, and believed to
be in a combination in which a seat in
congress is involved, made a quick trip
TO the elevator and then left the hotel,
which would indicate that the conference
was hard to locate. Last night the gen.
tlemen, who had evidently come TO the
city to take part in the discussion of
the situation, were all questioned, but they
denied that their presence had any sig
nificance. However, when the Constitu-
ton appeared this morning with a two
column editorial proposing to leave the
question as to whether there shall be
one or two conventions, last nights con-
ference was explained. According to the
proposition of the Constitution, that pa
per and those who are abetting II in the
one convention scheme agrees to abandon
il entirely if he believes two conventions
are in the interest of the party. In MAX
ing this proposition, nothing is said og
the spontaneous demand OF the people
for one convention, however, but II the
governor shall say the word, the ConStitu-
ton agrees to join in and help to throt-
tie this unanimous demand OF the
lending it's most industrious support for
the past three weeks. But the question
is, will Gov. Atkinson take the one con-
vention side and help his political enc
mics out of a hole because he happens
to favor the free coinage of silver? 1t
is said at the capitol that all sorts of
pressure has been brought to bear upon
the governor since the one convention idea
was sprung to get him to indorse it, but
that up to date he has steadily declined
to involve himself in it. While he is
friend to silver coinage, 1t is well known
that he has held this issue to be irrele-
want to state politics, and his closest
friends do not believe that he will allow
himself to be made a party to the pres
ent scheme and thereby widen the breach
that already exists in the democratic
ranks on the financial issue. 1t may he
possible, however that the one convention
promoters have had some assurance of
his cooperation, and made the proposition
of to-day on the strength of it. To-mor-
row will doubtless tell.
An effort to interview Gov. Atkinson on
the subject to-day failed. He said to the
Morning News correspondent that he made
it a rule never to discuss such matters
on Sunday, but would probably have some
thing to say tomorrow. There are many
many here who are not possessed of the
governors scruples as to the Sabbath. The
matter has been widely discussed about
the hotels. One view of it is that there
is a hidden purpose back of the PROPOSE
ton which is to take advantage of the
governor, by placing all the responsible
ity of the one convention scheme upon
him, making his supposed senatorial as
pirations suffer regardless of what his
answer may be.