The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-06
STANDS FOR MAJORITY RULE.
GROVENsTEIN SAYS HE IS FOR
LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT.

Mean That He VIII Assist Chat
hams Representatives in Enact
! ing Any Local Legislation They
/ Consider AdvisabIe-Letter to
Chairman Duncan Accepting the
Nomination for Senator From the
First District.
DR.. William Duncan, chairman OF the
committee appointed at the recent Demo-
cratic senatorial convention to notify Mr..
Angus y. Grovenstein of Emngham of his
nomination for state senator, received yes
terday his letter of acknowledgement and
acceptance of the nomination.
Mr. Grovenstein, it viii be noticed,
makes no allusion directly to the position
he viii assume as regards proposed local
legislation on which the people of Chat
ham may be divided. He does not mention
commissions or intimate in any way what
his course will be If elected. Neither does
he mention the new judicial circuit or 9TH
er prospective matters of interest to the
district. The only statement that may be
literally construed as referring indirectly
TO such matters is Mr. Grovensteln's ex-
preston of sincere belief in The great prin-
government" There is no reason, though,
to doubt that he win assist Chatham's
representatives, in any local legislation
they may desire to enact with reference to
the commissions or other political mat
ters that affect the people of this county
His letter is as follows
Guyton- Ca, Aug. 4, 1s9S-Hon. VIM
Duncan, Chairman Committee of Notifica-
ton: Dear Sir-In accepting the nomina-
tion for senator, First district unanimous
ly rendered me by the Democracy, through
your distinguished body, I feel the fun
weight of the responsibility which the hon.
or brings. Within this district many able
and experienced statesmen reside, upon
whose shoulders would rest easily the toga
of state, and when / reflect that an hum
bic and retiring citizen, of no political rep
utation, is the recipient of this honor, l
must believe that mighty principle is the
motive power which impels you to this
action
It is the principle of equal and just rep
resentauon, that not the lawyer and ex-
perlenced politician only, but that the la
borer and the clerk, the mechanic and the
farmer, the merchant and the carrier, the
country and the city, and all branches of
industry shall have a voice in the affairs
of state. This is true Democracy, this is
a government of the people, by the people
and for the people; where class legislation
cannot exist and where monopoly must die.
Believing in the great principles of our
party, as expressed in the texts, majority
rule, local elf-government, tariff for rev.
enue only, sound business laws and con-
stitutional government, and having
grounded in my whole nature a love of JUS
tice and liberty l feel that l cannot get
far from the line. The path is Old and well
beaten, for Democratic principles are as
old as the everlasting hills, mountains of
justice are its cOrner-stOnes and every in
stitution of liberty is a blaze upon the line
The great founders of our republic, In TIE
inspired lines of constitutional law, have
hedged us in upon safe and tenable
grounds. and if we do not break down
these walls of defense, we are safe. IT, in
this day OF many parties, We become lost
in labyrinth of opinions, we should sit
calmly and dspassionately down, spread
out before us the chart of Democratic
prncip es, place the compass of truth upon
il and mark out the lines which we are
TO follow. Let the standard bearers fol-
low the bla2es, their feet guided by the
lamp of experience and all will be we'll
with u.s.
In thanking you for this honor. will
say: To the people of bingham, who
know me and have marked me as the
man, your good opinion is more 10 me
than any Office within the gift of the
people, and l shall work and pray to
merit such confidence. To the people of
Bryan, to whom we ever Nook for support,
We feel the strength of thy helping hand
You have been our prop in the past and
we honor you for your fidelity. We CON
graduate ourselves that we are linked
with one ever true TO the trust. To Chat
ham we are welded by blood and by a
common interest. Since the days of the
noble Ogletho"pe, who was father TO our
a hax 10
us and under the shadow of thy wing have
We found protection and help. When we
gaze upon the proud city by the sea,
spell the names upon your places of bust
ness, read the eptaphs of your dead and
of your slam, we recognize our kinship;
when we study your history and think of
the great struggles of the past, how
through pestilence and war you have ever
been faithful and patriotic, in business
honest and enduring, We behold a monu-
ment erected to yourselves higher than
the mountain tops, and upon it in flaming
letters of light the nations read of your
sound banks, SOLD business houses and of
the patriotism of your citizens. The peo-
pie of this district have one common in
teTest with you in trade and commerce.
ana are linked with you in your glorious
history. The blood of our living and the
dust of our dead are mingled with yours
in the field and in the city, in the grave
yard and cemetery and in the long
trenches upon the field of battle. Your
people are our people and your God is our
God, and your politics our politics. Fight
ing under the banner of Democracy in
phalanX formation we know not defeat.
and TO us victory is assured if we, in
proper order, viii march TO the ballot box
and vote when the time comes
Thanking the convention for its harm
ony, for the respect it has shown Effing-
ham and your humble servant, and con-
graduating the Democracy of the First
district for its wisdom in the choice of
delegates to the convention held, / CRATE
fully accept the nomination, asking vour
continued support. Your obedient serv-
ant, Angus n. Grovansteip
DROPPED SINCE LETTERS RULE.