The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-06
LIVINGSTON IN A HURRY.
HE WANTED THE JONES INTER-
VIEW DENIED QUICKLY.


He Gives the Washington Folk an
Interesting Talk on Southern Pol
itics and the Alabama Election.
A Lie Serves MIR. Hanna's Men Bet
ter Than the Truth and They
Mean to Use It-They VIII Play "A
Desperate Game This FaIi-Other
Political News.
Washington, Aug. 5.-Representative
Lon" Livingston of Georgia dashed into
the democratic headquarters to-day. and
in an excited manner begged Senator
Faulkner to telegraph at once to Atlanta
Senator Marion Buffers repudiation of
the alleged interview with Chairman
Jones, In which the latter denounced the
southern populists. Col. Livingston stated
chat he had just returned from Alabama,
where he had bean on the stump for the
democratic ticket, and en- route he read
what purported to be a statement from
Senator Jones. which ''riled" some of the
southern populsts.
Senator Faulkner informed the Georgia
congressman that Senator Jones had de-
MED the alleged interview, or the OBJ
jectionable statements in It, and Senators
Butler and Pfeffer, two Of the leading
populists of the south and west. had ex-
onerated Senator Jones fully. The state
ments of Senator Jones and Senator But
Ter were sent to Atlanta to meet the
gathering of populists, who are to hold
a convention there tomorrow. This as
surance was entirely satisfactory to Col.
Livingston, and he at once proceeded to
entertain Senators Faulkner, German,
and the other visitors at headquarters
with his recent experiences In the Ala
bama canvass. He prefaced his state
ment by the announcement that Georgia
will give Bryan and Sewall a majority
| of 10000, although the state chairman.
Col Clay, only claims 5000. He says
Tom Watson has made the mistake OF
his life in assuming a position hostile
| to the Bryan and Sewan ticket.
Col. Livingston says so per cent. of the
populsts of Georgia will leave Watson
/ and vote the Bryan ticket and he Will
| be left high and dry on the political
| rocks. Col. Livingston says Watson
| might have been elected to congress from
/ the Tenth district this fall If he had
| declined to accept the vice presidential
| nomination and come out squarely for
| the democratic ticket. Now he will get
/ nothing but a little cheap notoriety.
| In connection with the position taken
| by Secretary Hoke Smith, in support of
! Bryan, Col. Livingston is disposed to be
! magnanimous. He says that he has been
| arraigned more severely by Hoke Smiths
| paper, because of his free silver views,
than in all Of the other papers in the
| United States, but he will forgive Hoke
/ in consideration of his display OF loyalty
to the democratic ticket at this time.
In commenting upon the campaign in
| Alabama, Col Livingston says there is
| no room for the charge of fraud by the
| populists and republicans this year, be-
! cause all of the big gains were made
| in the white counties while the vote in
| the "black belt" is substantially the same
as it was two years ago. He created a
/ laugh when he stated that most of the
| populists in Alabama were formerly DEM
| ocrats and they are as familiar with
/ the political tricks around a ballot box
as any other party. They had their help
| ers and their markers In all of the pre-
cincts, and the chances are that they took
| advantage of the illiterates as often as
| the democrats did.
The result in Alabama, says Col Living
ston, was due entirely to the silver issue
/ That was the only question discussed dur
| ing the campaign, and on election day
| thousands Of popuksts and republicans in
| the white counties voted for johnson and
| Bryan.
At republican headquarters the arraign-
ment Of the populists by National Chair
man Jones will be played as a strong card
| for all it is worth in North Carolina, Geor-
! gia, and in other states where the populs-
! tic sentiment is supposed to be strong.
| In North Carolina, Representative Rich
mond Pearson who represents the Ashe-
| willie district, has ordered several thousand
| copies of the interview as originally pub
! lished, with Chairman Jones, for the pur-
/ pose of distributing among the popuists
| in that state. 1t is claimed that It will have
| an irritating effect among the pops not
withstanding the signed statement of SEN
| ator Marion Butler, exonerating Sena-
| tor Jones.
At the republican headquarters the man.
/ a gers are not losing sight of the congress
| sional end of the contest. In most of the
| southern states the republicans have been
! instructed to place candidates for congress
in the field and make the fight, with a
| view to contesting the claims for seats in
! the House when the Fifty-fifth congress
! assemblies
In view of the success which attended
! the efforts of so many southern repub-
| lican contestants in the present congress.
| they are encouraged to make the race
| again. The present clerk of the House
will have the making up of the roll for
| the next congress, and that gives the re-
| publicans quite an advantage in the pre-
| liminary organization of the next House
| In other words the republicans propose
to make as much capital as possible out
/ of the indiscreet utterances of Chairman
| Jones among the southern populists, and
! fusion with the republicans will be re-
/ sorted to wherever there is a prospect
| of depriving a democrat of a seat in the
| Fifty-fifth congress.
II