The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-04

ing except that the Chicago Of the South
ought to be represented in Congress by
more brains than the Hon. Lon Livingston
can bring to bear I'm that behalf
But the Hon. Lon is a farmer and has
always lived on a farm. The Fifth Geor-
gia contains The counties of Campbell.
Clayton, DeKab, Douglas, Newton. Roch-
dale and Walton, as well as Fulton. ana
all of them are fun of farmers and the
Hon. Lon, a bucolc Claverhouse, gave
the literary felers" a bucolic "Uu with
the bonnets of Bonnie Dundee" and he
swept them off the face of the earth at
the primaries. He had been in both
branches of the state legislature and
chairman of the committee on agriculture.
and he never lost an opportunity to tin
ker with the farming interests. He was
vice president of the State Agricultural
Society eleven years and president of it
four years. He was president of the
Farmers Alliance for three years 1t is a
poor cook that can't lick his own fingers,
and out of all this and these the Hon.
Lon gets ten years i'm Congress and His
Honorabieness, Senator Bacon, spends =
good deal of his time calculating Just how
few votes he can get along with and beat
the Hon. Lon In the next senatorial eau
Gus of the Georgia Legislature. Meanwhile
Henry c. Turner, the foremost man in the
Gulf states, is Ia retirement down In
Brooks county.
Nobody who heard him that day will
ever forget the Hon. Ions debut on the
floor Of the House. He had been heralded
as the spokesman of the Southern farmer
There had been a political shake-up In
Georgia. OF the Georgia delegation in the
Fifty-second Congress six of the ten were
just out of the shop The terrible Watson
was one of them, and the Voiceful Moses
was another. The Hon. Lon had mes
sage to deliver 10 the assembled sons of
Belial, who for thirty long and doeful and
lean years had been solOnizing against the
interest of the farmer. He was lachry-
NOSE he was not pathetic. He was loqua-
cious; he was not eloquent And what do
you reckon his message was? Why, It was
that II would take as many bales of cot
ton and as many bushels of wheat 10
pay the national debt In 1891 as IL would
have taken in 1865, though the debt had
been reduced one half. That message had
been delivered in that presence before, and
1t has been heard there since Eliminat-
ing the wheat part of IT, we shall hear Of
II in the future. It Is one OF the stock
jackassites of the agrarian layout. II as
sumes that the farmer is a seller, but not
a buyer; that he is a producer, but not a
consumer Old Bland has got so he can
deliver that message with a force and
vigor that recalls Old Arnold Biederman
before Charles the Bold; the Hon. Ham
Lewis speaks It as a Sir Pireie Shaftan
would have delivered it.
Livingston is an ignorant man; but he is
no fool. lie IS eaten up with ambition for
preferment, and his grip on an office is
like the miser's on his hoard. Crisp need
ed his influence In Georgia, and 50 Crisp
made MIN o member OF the committee on
appropriations, a position of great weight
and responsibility, but altogether beyond
his abilities. He is one Of the dozen or so
10. i
the delight of Hepburn TO engage him in
debate, get him in deep water, souse him
under, and see him hOut and founder
Though near seventy years Of age, he is
as vigorous as the average man Of forty
He is a man Of herCulean frame, and Just
such a man physically as old Father Stew
art on the Senate side. The Hon Lon Will
be about the capital many years yet The
only way Atlanta can get rid Of him is 10
Eerrymander HIM into another district; but
that would not keep him out Of the Sen
ate.
That was remarkable speech Ben Till
man delivered on South Carolina when
he addressed the Senate in eulogy Of his
laate colleague Judge Earle. II vas a
glance at the past. at the time when South
Carolina was ruled by a few powerful
families They we're Of the old South, and
OF them Horace Greeley said after the
war: "TheY would not steal themselves,
nor let anybody else steal" II was an
ollgarchy. but it was virtuous and honest.
II gave South Carolina d cheap and pure
government; but il was a government Of
The few and the powerful. Here are some
of the men South Carolina Gent to the
Continental Congress: Bee, Butler, Gads-
den, lard, Laurens, Motto, Pinckpey, Ed
Rutledge, John Rutledge. And here are
the names Of some OF Ben Tipman's pre-
decessors in the United States Senate
Pierce Butler, Ralph lizard, Charles Pinck-
ney, Thomas Sumter, John Gallard, Rob
ert Y Hayne, John c. Calhoun, William
@. Preston, George McDufie Andrew r.
Butler, Robert w. Barnwell, Arthur j.
Butler, r. Barnwel Rhett. James Chest
mutt, James H. Hammond, NJ. G. Butler
and Wade Hampton. For 100 years these