The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-04
ITS DEATH CRY is AT HAND.
COL. GAMBLER BELIEVES POPULIsM
Is ON ITS LAST LEGS.

Tomorrow That II Can Nevef Be
Resurrected-The Candidate for
Governor Enthusiastically Re
ceived-ChaIrmand uBIsnOn Refers
to the Present Absence of DiscOrd
and Bitterness in Chatham and
Hopes 1t VIII Continue-Other
Speakers at Inst Nights Rally.
Masonic Hall was well filled at
the Gambler rally last night. The
! band was not necessary to draw
crowd, but did something toward enter
tanning it until the speakers arrived at $3.50
O'Clock. In addition to the guests, there
were on the stage DR.. William Duncan,
Or. W. w. Owens, Hon. Pope Barrow.
Judge Thomas M Norwood, Col. NJ. w.
| Dixon, Col G. T. Cam, Congressman Ru-
| rus E. Lester, Mai. G. NJ. Ryals, Capt.
John R. Dillon and Messrs. T. II. McMil-
Ian, w. B. Stillwell, r. NJ. Hull, John
Power, J. c. Myers, W. P. Bailey and 9TH
Crs.
When Col. Gambler and party entered
the hall they were received with applause
DIR. Duncan presided and introduced Hon.
Pope Barrow, who, in turn, introduced
Col. Gambler, after some allusion to tho
patriotic service rendered the country by
the candidates father and grandfather.
Col Gambler was heartily received. He
began his remarks by complimenting
Chatham on its long and unwavering ale
glance to the Democratic party. Other
counties have been mustered under the
flag of the enemy, but never old Chatham
while it has been in control of its own af-
fairs. When he first came to Savannah,
in 1865, as a private soldier of the Confed-
eracy Col Gambler said, he had no more
idea of ever becoming a politician than he
had of being translated into an archangel
just now. He told how, after the war, his
home county had fallen under the domina-
ton of the radicals, how he had been cali
ed on by his people to run for the legisla-
ture and had been elected how he had
served them as best he could in the state
legislature and had then been sent by
them TO Congress for number of years
He had drifted into political life simply be-
cause he had never refused to answer the
call of duty. After leaving Congress he
had intended never to again enter the
whirlpool of politics.
But l find myself before you tonight"
he continued "a candidate for the office
hand on my heart and assure you that l
have not sought the honor my party has
put upon me. | became q candidate as l
became a soldier thirty-flve years ago,
because l thought it my duty to do So
L come teaching no new doctrines, offer
ing no fresh penaceas for ills, posing a. no
reformer with new-fangled ideas. but as
good old-fash.oned Democrat and as a
Georgian who loves everything that is
Georgian even when it is in the wrong.
Il love the Georgia Democrat" said
he, because he is the best man on EARTH
love the Georgia Populst, not because
he is a Populist, God forbid, but because
despite his errors he is still a Georgian
and love the Georgia negro, not because
he is a negro, but because he, too, is a
Georgian. l am a Democrat who believes
in the doctrines expounded by Jefferson
and Jackson, by The fathers of Democracy
in our own state, in the Democracy
preached by Chathams distinguished sons
from James Jackson down to those of the
present hour. That party whose exponent
lam has given to this state and to this
country all of the prosperity and hap
piness it has ever enjoyed. It is truly
the only peoples party that has ever ex-
listed or ever Will exist"
After referring to the work done by the
party in restoring Georgia to the control
of virtue and intelligence, Col. Gambler
the Farmers Alliance. The original doc
trines espoused by the alliance said he,
were Democratic principles, and as such
could be supported by Democrats who
were not alliancemen. The alliance was
given control of the Democratic party, of
its primaries and conventions and elected
a Governor and a great majority of the
legislature who, while alliancemen, were
still Democrats. But the influx of the non
descripC demagogues, or the long haired
men and short-haired women, came. They
led the alliancemen to believe that no
faith was to be put in either the Demo-
cratic or the Republican party They led
them in secession from the Democratic
party, the only organization which offer
ed the slightest hope for the redress of
their grievances.
All the laws of oppression against which
they rallied had been opposed by the Demo-
cratic party. But these new self-consti-
tuted leaders. aliens and otherwise. sue
ceeded in grossly prostitiuting the alliance.
an organization calculated and intended
to promote the best interests of the agrl-
culturists and perverted it into a machine
for the qualification of their own selfish
personal ambitions. They knew that the
manhood, intelligence and worth of the
Democratic party would speedily rebel
against them if they remained in it and
endeavored 10 control, so they went aside
and started little hell of their own"
Col. Gambler said that he had had the
honor of being the first man to sneak
against this third party movement, to eau
ton as 10 whittier it would lead, and to
point out the grievous error that the ALI
ancemen and others were committing in
quitting the Democratic party which had
proved their salvation in the past and was
their sole hope in the future. Experience
had sustained his note of warning at that
time. Georgia had escaped the lessons so
bitterly learned in North Carolina and
other states of what Populism in control
means, but The danger here is not entire
~ over. Col. Gambler referred to the fu-
sion combination in the Eleventh congress
ional district against Congressman Brant-
ley.
There" said he, "can be seen the utter
lack of principle which leads to a coalition
OF Populsts and Republicans who have
not principle in common except 1t be the
lust for Office. This unholy alliance he
expected to see defeated.
Commenting on the methods of the Pom
uEsts Col. Gambler reviewed the methods
pursued by the Democratic party in Sc
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