The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-04

Of the national convention The boiling
/ democrats who are now making the most
| noise about the Chicago platform were
I the Ioudest IN their commentator of the
action OF the minority. when, in 1892, it
yielded its intense opposition to Mr..
J cleveland and gave him the votes which
| elected him President
The minority did its duty as democrats
Z then' and for them to have adopted any
! other course after the action of the con-
Vention would have been to put them
selves in the attitude of party wreckers.
| In accepting the action Of the convention
IN 1895 democrats who disagreed with
! the action then taken on the financial
! question are doing just what the Consti-
| tuition and other democratic newspapers
and leaders who opposed the nomination
| OF Mr.. Cleveland in 1892 did, when after
ms nomination, they rallied to his support.
AS keenly as their defeat might have
been felt, there were no heart burnings
| then ana no over-sensitiVe political
! stomachs. Every democrat did his duty
and the result was the election of the
democratic ticket The opposition of
| many democrats to the nomination of Mr.
! cleveland then was just as intense as was
! the protest of large element of the party
| against free coinage declaration in 1895,
| and the anu-Cleveland element of the par
" would have had the same justification
for boiling the action of the convention
! then as the boilers of to-day have in set
ting up a party of their own because
things did not come their way at the last
national convention.
The very foundation of democracy is the
| Willingness of the minority to yield to the
voice of the majority; and whenever the
| principle is established that, i'm the settle
ment of any point al issue, the minority
has the right to walk out because it differs
| from the action of the majority, then party
! organization will become a farce. Sup
hot ava -
| nave taken place In Georgia since the war,
the minority, on leading issues before each
state convention, mad done what the ma
uona4 boilers are doing to-day-there
would be no democratic party in Georgia,
and the aggregate of the various minori-
| ties so protesting would have been greater
! than the strength of the regular organiza-
ton. If the minority in one convention
has the right to bolt that of any other
can do the same thing, and this carried
| to its logical conclusion means the disrup-
| ton of party organization"
OF the necessity of the maintenance of
party organization and the good results
| accomplished from it in Georgia, Mr.. du-
| Bignon said
Il would be the last man in Georgia to
| contribute to the disruption of democratic
| organization, for 1 have been too closely
identified with the party and know TOO
| well what has been accomplished by or
| ganization to underestimate the import
ance of the recognition of the principle
| that the minority must yield to the ma
! jority. 1t seems to me that, of all times,
| this is the most inopportune, of demo-
| Gratis to question this vital principal of
! democracy our people are now beginning
| to realize that the fruits of a republican
| administration are not to their liking OF
| course democrats could have expected
| nothing better than the republicans are
! giving them, for the record of the repub-
| lican party since the war justifles the
| course Ii is pursuing. When demo-
| Gratis take into consideration the fact that
| this IS attributable to the work of those
| who should have done their duty as
| democrats in the last campaign, their i'm
! patience at such disloyalty is emphasized
| by their disgust at the condition which
makes such things possible. Fortunately,
there were but few boiling democrats in
Georgia last year; and l believe that most
of them are now prepared to admit their
error and to return to the regular organi-
cation"
What, in your opinion will be the
strength of the boiling organization in the
| congressional campaigns of next year?'
Il believe that It will not be as strong
next year as now. and l am confident that
| II Is not as strong as IL was a year ago
The truth of the matter Is that, since the
| establishment of the republic, there has
| been room In this country for but two
| sues and ephemeral organizations formed
| out of temporary divisions; but, in the
end they invariably drift back to two
great channels of political thought. The
| republican and the democratic parties are
| now-as they have been for a long time
and as they Will be for many years to
! come-the two great lines of political opin-
| ion of the people of the country Side is
sues will be raised and new organizations
will be formed. but they will share the
fate of the free soil and the anu-Masonic
| movements, and other such skeletons as
are now found on the political desert.
The populist party has had its day, and
IL Is now undergoing the process Of disin-
tegration.
As Mr.. Watson says, the elements
| which composed II are drifting back into
| their original channels; though 1 think
there Is no doubt that, with the breaking
up OF the populst party, the democrats
| VIII receive by far the larger proportion
Of those who constituted H. II would be
| a long step that would be required 70 car
! ~ a populist into the republican camp;
! WHILE on general lines, the democratic
party offers 20 every populst the assur-
auce Of consistent opposition 20 encroach-
| ments from class legislation, and advo-
cacy OF the simple form Of government
| established with the organization Of the
| republic-the cardinal principle OF which
| Us that no one man, or class of men
should receive from the government any
| special favorltism or protection which Is
| not extended alike 20 all others This Is
the theory OF democratic government and
! the reverse Is true OF ropubncanism.
| With two roads OF such divergence. IL is
| not hard 60 prophosy which will be taken
by the populists when the breakup comes.
| I believe the democratic party should Of
| fer them every reasonable inducement to
return. There should be no further dlvis-
ION among the white men OF Georgia and
OF the SOUTH and there is no better com
mon ground on which they can all unite
than the democratic platform.
Macon's bicycle Parade.