The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05

error ana applaud you for your services 10
| the cause Of true democracy.
You see now why I consider your posi-
| ton unique. You stand alone in your op-
position to the traditions of the party. 1t
VIII not do for you 10 say that your col
leagues of the Senate sustained you in
your views. You know they did not. You
know they voted with you because you
appealed to them to stand by you on the
pea Of senatorial courtesy In pass
| ing. IL may be noted that senatorial cour-
tesy' covers a multitude of political sins.
| You used il as a cloak TO conceal the weak
ness OF your position; with It you stltled
the voice of reason. and choked, tempo
rarily. the cause Of right and justice. You
welded it as a weapon to beat your own
constituents with. And yet. senator, you
unblushingly proclaim yourself demo-
| GRAFT
You allowed improper and infiammatory
argument to be employed against the Vot-
ers TO whom you once announced graft
tude. You let il be said that the Liberal
Club was composed of negroes ana lrlsh-
Catholics. You sat silent, and by your 81
lence gave approval to the appeal TO ra-
cial hate and religious fanatlcism. You
knew. or are presumed 70 have known,
that the democratic party teaches reliS-
ious liberty and tolerance, and yet you
never raised your voice in protest against
this cowardly assault upon the principles
of democracy. And yet you call yourseH
a democrat!
You allowed arguments against the reg
ularitv of the voters Of Chatham to be
! used and you never opened your lips TO
tell that the loyalty of these people 10
democratic faith elected you. You your
self impugned the democracy OF the very
men whom you previously admitted were
democrats Democrats elected you' DEM
ocrats, you sacrificed. And yet you can
yourself a democrat.
1 know that you had the able assistance
Of Georgia's distinguished and learned jul
Nor senator in the United States congress-
and also received the services of the re-
Gently investigated judge Of the Marietta
circuit. You can't plead the action OF
these men in extenuatiOn of your own con-
duct. Two wrongs have never made
right. The undemocratic use OF their IN
fuence by these undemocratic officials can
not render your own act less obnoxious TO
the teachings of democracy. BY the way,
senator what think you of tbs junior
United States senator and this superior
court judge. How dignihed, IN what good
taste their interference in the local affairs
of Savannah! Think of the long roll of
statemen who have sat in the United
States Senate from Georgia and the num-
Der of able jurists who have presided in
the states superior courts, and put these
gentlemen in contrast with their predeces-
sors Do you wonder, senator, that the
people OF lliS state utIIldiu the AiCSlAl "
elect their judges and solicitors, and you
understand, don't you, why the sentiment
against elections of United States senator's
by the legislature is so strong?
Think of your actions when you retire
to private life as you soon must and for
the sake of the reverence in which the
democratic party is held in this district
never style yourself a democrat. Call
yourself populist, a republican, green
hacker knoW-nothing A. p. A, anything
YOU will but never seek to hold the dem
ocratic party responsible for your conduct.
1t has troubles enough of its own; 1t is
torn with dissension; it needs friends and
allies; spare it. therefore, from the infiic-
ton of your political shortcomings and
sins.
Don't you desire a vindication of your
course, senator? If So suggest that you
run for congress on your record. doubt
not there are thousands of voters in this
county and in your own county on Bryan,
who wish for nothing politically but an OPP
portunity to record the expression of their
views at the ballot box on the subject of
your course. Come. out, my dear senator,
and stand for a vindication. No man
needs it more than you. The people are
hungering for chance to give it to you.
Come out senator by all means; raise
your voice in the first district, and, in
pleadings for vindication pour out your
eloquence from where the Savannah s
golden stream bears it's wealth of COM
merce to where the silent Altamaha
! greets the Atlantic. The pines whisper of
| your greatness; the wire grass waves in
| ripping homage of your grand perform
| ances The mocking-bird sings joyously
because you are; the c cket chirps a note
of gladness because you have been and the
voters yearns for you.
| Regretting, my dear senator, that have
bored you again. 1 take my leave of YOU
| for the last time, promising you in ad-
vance, that will with great pleasure vote
| for you should you stand for election as
constable in the Ninth district, G. M Chat
ham county 1 remain, with awe at the
! greatness of him with whom have had
| the honor of communicating. Your obe-
| dent servant, Home Rule.
p. S. In order that you may not doubt
| the sincerity of my promise to vote for
you, 1 beg to state that there are only
| eight militia districts in Chatham county.
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