The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-26

From the New YORK Herald.

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Herald Bureau, No. 734 Fifteenth
Street, N. W. Washington, D. c., Aug.
23.-"To the mass of the people," writes
that well known Southerner Colonel j.
H. Estin, of Savannah "Brynism is
dead, buried and fenced in, and the
average politician is afraid to glance at
the monument for fear the news is too
good to be true"
This epigrammatic summary of the
political situation in that part of the
country is contained in a letter re-
ceived in this city a few days since by
a well known Democrat.
Colonel Estill is a man of prominence
and influence in the councils of the
Democratic party, as is attested by his
services in State Conventions and as
a member of the Democratic National
Committee for several years. He is
a newspaper man who has never failed
to stand up for the right.
His late remarkable campaign for
the Democratic nomination for Cover
nor of Georgia is still the talk of people
outside of as well as in his State. 1t
has set ring politicians to thinking of
what might have become of them if
Colonel Estill had entered the cam
paign a little sooner.
His race was literally made single
handed against the combined influence
of nearly every local committeeman,
politician and office holder in the state.
The opinion in Georgia is that with
two or three weeks more time, the
syndicate that has been dlsposing of
Democratic emoluments and offices for
years past would have had to go into
bankruptcy.
Would Indorse "SOund Money"
what continues Col. Estill in his
letter, the Democratic masses want
and should insist upon is a platform
indorsing sound money, anti-trusts,
monopolistic doctrines, fairer and
freer, not free, trade or a reasonable
tariff, and a fight to a finish in the
Philippines"
The author of this brief platform is
not dreamer nor a theorist. He is a
substantial business man.
He served in the Civil War in the
Confederate army, but when the war
was over set about repairing his fl
iances. He succeeded to the extent
that he is to-day considered one of
the most prosperous business men in
mis- section of the country. 1t is a
source of pride to him that in the
Spanish War two of his sons saw ac-
tive service in the army of the United
States and fought under the very ban
ner which their father had fought
against q generation back.
He ic w q CT x1rffl na
and deeply alive to the responsibility
which his party must face in the APP
preaching campaign. He has studied
the situation, not only in his own state,
but elsewhere, and his opinion is en-
braced in the epigram which is the
text of this article.
Furthermore, he is convinced that
it is time to quit looking backward
and to step forward more lively in the
busting times and conditions of the
present a doctrine which he is endea-
voring to inculcate not only among his
own people, but others through the
medium of his newspaper, the Morning
News.
Would Throttle Organism.
1t is his opinion, based upon actual
contact with men and leaders of men
during his late gubernatorial campaign
in which it is said he made house
to house canvass" that the time has
arrived to take Organism by the throat
and forever cast aside it's baleful inc
f1uence.
Let us take Col. Bryan at his word"
said Col. Estill, for maybe he recog-
nizes the handwriting on the wall,
which has put up the bars against his
ambition to become President of the
United States. So far as the rank and
file of the party are concerned, they
are convinced that it is useless trying
to revive Organism, and if anybody is
being fooled into such belief it is the
politicians, and not the people.
1--WE of the South want no more of
Organism, but we do want to see our
lands titled, mineral deposits develop
ed and cities become such marts of
trade as they deserve to be. These
desirable results cannot be accomplish
ed by raking in the ashes of the past.
We must inaugurate a new era such
as the necessities of the situation de-
mand. We can do it and still be true
to every duty as citizens and South
erners.
"Our young men," continues Col. Es-