The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-10
THREATENS TO CAUSE A ROW.
STATE POLITICS MAY BE AFFECT
ED BY DU BIGNON's REMARKS.

No Surprise Here Among Posted Pcl-
itIcinns at the Anger of Some At
Iantians Over the Chairman's Al
ments of the Pnrty-What Is
Thought to Have Brought About
the Sarcastic References and the
Rumpus Which Seems to BE Brew
ing.
The dispatch from Atlanta in yesterdays
Morning News, stating that considerable
excitement had been aroused in political
circles in that city over the interview with
Hon. F. G.. duBignon, in which he made a
sarcastic allusion to the king of the ra-
zorbacks and his satellites and certain re-
firing functionaries' did not arouse much
surprise among politicians here. who are
acquainted with conditions in Atlanta, and
what has occurred during the recent cam
paign and since then. They would have
been more surprised if the slap admins
tered TO some one by Mr.. duBignon in this
sentence had not brought forth some
sharp replies. Indeed, there are some in
clined 10 believe that Mr.. duBignon in
tended it to do this, and would not be at
all adverse to entering into a discussion
with the parties involved at the other end
of the line.
There was no hesitation felt by politi-
clans in interpreting the remark about
retiring functionaries" as being intended
for Gov Atkinson, especially. During the
last stages of the campaign, it will be re-
membered, the Governor somewhat sharp
ly criticised the management of the cam,
paign in reference to the constitutional
amendments, and added that 1t seemed to
him that there was more desire on the
part of some connected with the campaign
to glorify themselves than to pass the
amendments
Owing to the political rivalry between
the Governor and Chairman duBignon in
the not remote past, and the general be-
lief that both men have senatorial asptra-
mons this was construed as a direct hit at
Mr.. duBignon and brought out a pronpt
reply from him
The Governor it is said, was also some
what aggrieved because his services were
not called for during the campaign on
the stump and his friends are said to nave
cultivated the idea that he was purDoeely
being ignored to keep MIN from getting
10 be too prominent a figure in the cam
paign. 1t was evident that no one could
go very far astray in deciding that the
chairman of the party had the Governor in
mind in his reference to the dissatisfac-
ton with the results on the part of re
firing functionariesf
EX-Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith
is picked out in Atlanta, it appears from
the dispatches to the Morning News, as
having been distinctly in Mr.. duBignon's
mind when he mentioned the king of the
razor backs and his satellites" While
there may have been an accumulation of
causes for this reference on Mr.. duBig-
mons part there are some who ascribe
its most immediate and direct cause as
an editorial IN the Atlanta Journal of last
Thursday in which the statement was
made that there had been no management
to the state campaign and that things
had worked themselves out as they did
because the people willed Il that way and
from no other reason. This was about the
tenor of the article and Mr. duBignon's
friends are inclined to regard 1t as an IN
territorial disparagement of Mr.. duBlg-
mons work as chairman of the Democratic
state executive committee.
Out of two or three lines of the Inter-
view with Mr.. duBignon on his depart
ure far New York may come some highly
interesting developments in Georgia poll
tics The effect of the reference to "the
king of the razor backs" and retiring
functionaries" is likely to be seen In state