Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-30
From he Rome CommerefaI.
BiII Arp on the CoIIap.e.

As the poet said ''the agony is
over" Them cards in the sleeve
would haV beat any honest hand.
Besides, old ThOmp. Allan would
say we PLAYED badly. Baltimore
| Convention, and O'ConOr and Alex
Stevens Il limited supply OF votes
beat us. Well, we still live. Pm
not goin TO bed about it. Old Gree
lev am I no Ain TO me. Grant amt
neither, and that's whats the matter.
talked for Greely and writ for him
ana voted for him, but never did
banker after him. It made such ey-
erlaGtin fuss in my family / had like
! TO run away. You see Mrs Arm was
ent rekGnsiled. She were 8 strait.
and when she aint Iekonsiled things
slRt as plassid as silver lake around
my house. / don't aean that times
are hot or desperate, but to saw the
least OF it they are pskuliar. a mar
likes to hRv his bed and his board
screen. Don't he? SO YOU see as nv
/ vile was q strait il dident become
me 10 DC very crooked. And /
Want-at home. Shes 4 good oman
and shell endure Ieverything and
never grunt nor groan, but she
| wont compermise worth a cent. /
told her L had no pertikler use for
| Greeley and that ne was 4 darned
old infatyated humbug, butt that
oHr paper belonged 10 the great up-
terryhed, unsatisfied, trsnsmorrri-
noe Democratic party and must
Keep into line. She sed sum re-
marks about papers lyin by the day
and by the week and SELF respect
and Independence and the like. and
| grew meek like Moses in few
minutes. The fact is, I'm a meek
man. I've laid awake OF Nights a
ruminatin how meek | was.
Mira. Arp thinks the paper ought
to take TRUTH" for a motto and
work up to it. / told her it WouId
be dangerous experiment. but she
says 1t has never been tried vet. If
l Wasent Altered the little Arms
would perish to deth durin the ex-
pertinent l would try it. Old Shank
says we can't be worsted, for he
has tride lying for 20 years and il
wont pay. lie says il would be
an episode in the press, a kurositv.
somethlng like a elephant or an e.
klpse or John Robyson,s circus.
He Gays somtimes a paper sukseeds
by lyin, like the New York Herald
and the Tribune and Fornev's Da-
pers, but 1t has TO be well backed
The Herald has got so now II can
quit party and set back in a cheer
| and tell the truth in its old aTe
IKE An old speculater who has
ma9e a1ortuns by eheatin and lyin
ana then puts his money in stocks
ana retireE. he says political pa
pers lle from 80 per cent. down to
~ ana that orney is the only edi-
Lor VINO ever went up TO a 100 and
Wen, now that Grant has got in. 1
don't see an necessity for runnin
the Commercial at high pressure.
II all the lyin issues amt ded, theV
are past dOctrin Now is a good
time to go to developin the country.
We can raise children and chickens
by the 1000 in 4 wears. Some OF
our folks IS tellin around how the
| country could have been saved. and
all that. Old Shank thinks he knows
but he don't. He's q good fellow
old Shank is. He don't Gas around
put jest tells me privately, and asks
me to say nothing about it. which i
don't. But heard one felier a goin
it, and he said, Gentlemen. if the
people of the South had have taken
my advice, this kalamity wouldn't
have happened. talked to EN-, and
preached to EN-, but you might as
well have triedito stop a Gawtamal-
Ter hurricane with a thimble full of
Sulphuretted hydrogen gas"
Well, don't like his sort nor his
gas. 1t don't do any good. The
thing has happened-the dog is ded.
Grant amt agoin to take away our
bred corn nor tObaker. As fer a
few little post Offices and tax eollek-
tors, dident care ANYTHING about
Them whats got EN- needs, l reken,
and its took a power of low down
hard work to get en-.
| We've got all the State officers,
from Gov. Smith down 10 the bot
tom, and Pm satisfied. Hurrah for
old Georsy!
BILL ARP.
I p ST rsnnsrlsod to-day in a
crowd: I'VE are a nation oi
thieves" andian offs holder slipped
up to me and whispered, - all no
names, Bill, call no names" TharI
something wrong about that man.
b. A.