The Van Buren press., 1872-11-26
NO. 80
Bill Arp on the Collapse.
From the Rom. Commercial. Ssv. 81

As the poet sed, "the agony is over. T"
Them cards in the sleeve would hav beat
any honest hand. Ses- i-dss, ~ Thomp.
Allan would say, We played badly.
Baltimore convention, and Conner and
Alex Stevens, and limited supply Of
votes, has beat us Well, we slill live.
I'm not going to bed about 1t Old
Greeley amt no kin to me Grant usith-
er, and that's whats the matter ! talked
for Greeley, and writ for him, and voted
for him, but l never did banker after
him. II made such an everlasting fuss
in my family had like TO run away.
You sec, Mrs. Arp wasent reconsiled.
She were strait and when she amt rec
onsiled, things amt as placid as silv
lake around my house. ! don't
that times are hot or desperate, -
say the least oft, they are pskulia..
man likes to hav his bed and board g.
rcen. Don't he /? 80 you see az my wife
was a strait il dident become me to be
very crooked And / want--at home.
Shes q good oman and she'll endure az. :
thing and never grunt or groaa, bntssa6
wont compromise worth q cent told
her had no pertickler use for Greeley.
and that he was darnsd old infatyated
humbng, but that our paper belonged to
the great untcrryfide, unsatiside, trans-
morgrifide Democratic party and must
keep into line She sed some remarks
about papers lyin by the day and by the
week, and about self respect aud inds-
pendence and the like, and | grew meek
like Moses in a few minutes The fact
is, | am meek man. I've laid awake OF
nights q ruminatin how meek was.
Mrs Arp thinks the paper ought to
take " truth for motto and live up TO
it. told her 1t would be a dangerous
experiment. but she says il has never
been tried yet If wasent afeerd the
little Arps would perish to death durin
the experiment, would try it. Old
Shank says we cant be worsted for he
has tride lyin for 20 years and IL Won't
pay. lie says II would 10 an episode in
tho press, q kuriesity, something like
elephant or..au eklpse or John Robby-
sons circus. He says sometimes . pa.
per suksceds by lyin, like the New Yerk
Herald and the Tribune and Forney'a
paper, but it has to be well backed. The
Herald has got 80 now 1t can qrit party
and set back in cheer and feel the truth
in its old age; like an old spekulator
who has made fortune by cheatin and
lyin and then puts his money in stocks
and rstircs. lie says that political pa
pcrs lie from 90 per cent. down to 10 and
that Forney is the only editor who ever
went full up TO a hundred and kept II
there.
Well, now that Grant has got in, ]
don't see any necessity OF runnin the
Commercial at high pressure. II all
the lyin Issues aint dcd, they are past
doctorin. Now 10 good time to go to
davelopin the country. We can raise
children and chickens by the 1000 in 4
years. Some Of our folks is tellin
around how the country could
have been saved, and all that. Old
Shank thinks he knows, but be don't. He
is good fellow, old Shank is. He don't
gas around, but jest tells INC private.
", and asks me to says nothing about it,
which don't. But heard one feller
gon it, and lie said. Gentlemen, IL tho
people Of the South had have taken my
auNIVc, tuis haihhitty Wouoc"e ""vS ""f
pened talked to elm, and preached to
em, but you might as well have tried to
stop Cawtamallcr hurricane with .
thmbleful Of snlphurettcd hydrogen
gas.
Well, I don't like his sort, nor
his gas II don't do any good. Tha
thing has happened-the dog is dcd
Grant aint agoin to take away or bred.
nor corn, nor fodder. Az for few lit
tic postoillces and tax collccktors,
dident care anything about ON. Then,
what's got EN-, needs EN- ] rekoR' and it
took power of low down hard work to
get en-
We've got all the state officers from
Gov. Smith down to the bottom, and ] m
satisfied Hurrah for old Georgia!
Bill ARR.
PSI remarked TO day In a crowd:
ave are nation OF thieves, " and an OF.
llsholdcr slipped up to me and whisper
ed "Call no names. Bill. call no
names. f" There's something wrong about
that man. B. A.