Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-21
From the Rome Commercial.
BILL ARP ON THE COLLAPSE,

As the poet sed, "the agony is over" Them
cards in the sleeve would haven any honest
hand. Besides, as Thomp. Allen would say,
we played badly. Baltimore Convention and
O'Conor and Alex Stephens and a limited
supply ofvotes has beat us. Well, we still
live. I'm not going to bed about it. Ole
Greeley amt no kin to me. Grant amt,
neither, and that's whats the matter. | talked
for Greeley and writ for him and voted for
him, but 1 never did banker after him. 1t
made sich an everlasting fuss in my family I
had like to run away. You see Mrs. Arp was
not rekonsiled She were straight, and when
she aint rekonsiled things amt as placid as q
silver lake around my house. don't mean
that times is hot or desperate, but to say the
least of it, they are pekuliar.
A man likes to hav his bed and board
screen. Don't he? So you see, as my wife
was strait, it dident become me to be very
crooked. And 7 want-at home. She's a
good oman, and shell endure everything and
never grunt nor groan, but she won't comper-
mise worth cent. I told her had no per-
tikler use for Greeley, and that he was a darned
old infatyated humbug, but that our paper
belonged to the great unterry6de, unsatis6de,
transmorgri6de Democratic party, and must
keep into line She sed sum remarks about
papers lyin by the day and by the week, and
about selfrespect and independence and the
like, and I grew meek like Moses in few
minutes. The fact is, I'm meek man. I've
laid awake of nights ruminatin how meek l
was.
Mrs. Arp thinks the paper ought to take
"truth" for motto and work up to it. / told
her it would be dangerous experiment, but
she says it has meyer yet been tried. IT L
wasn't Altered the little Arps would perish to
deth durin the experiment [ would try it.
Old Shank says we cant be worsted for he has
tried lying for 20 years and it wont pay. He
says it would be an episode in the press, Gu
riosity, somethin like elephant or an eklipse
or John Robyson's circus. He says some
time paper sukseeds by lying, like the New
York Herald and Tribune and Forney's paper,
but it has to be well backed. The Herald
has got so now it can quit any party and set
back in its cheer and tell the truth in its old
age, like an old speculator who has made
fortune by cheatin and lyin and then puts his
money in stocks and retires. He says that
political papers lie from 80 per cent down to
10, and that Forney is the only editor who
ever went full up to 100 and kept it there.
Well, now that Grant has got in, don't
see any necessity of running the Commercial
at hig pressure. If all the lyin issues aint
ded, they are past doctorin. Now is a good
time to 20 to developin 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 he
don't. He's a good fellow, old Shank is. He
don't gas around, but jest tells me privately,
and asks me to say nothin about it, and he
said, "Gentlemen, if the people of the South
had hav taken my advice this kalimity
wouldent have happened. 1 talked to EN-,
and preached to EN-, but you might, as we'll
hav tried to stop a Gawtamaller hurricane
with a thimble full of sulphuretted hydroden
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 for a
few little posofices and tax collectors, didn't
care anything about EN-. Them whats got
EN- needs EN-, 1 reken, and its took power of
low down hard work to get EN-.
We've got all the State officers from Gov
ernor Smith down to the bottom, and I'm sat-
isfide. Hurrah for old Georgy!
BILL ARP.
PSI remarked to-day in crowd:
awe are nation of thieves" and an offs
holder slipped up to me and whispered, "Call
no names, Bill, call no names" Thars some
thing wrong about that man. B. A.
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