The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-11-21
Bill Arp on the Collapse.

As the poet sed "the agony is over.
Them eardsi in the sleeve would hAv beat
any honest hand Bes-i-dts, rs 1hOmp.
Allan would say,.we playd badly. Bel
limole Convention, and OICOnor and
Alex Stevens and limited supply Of
votes has heat us. Well, we still live.
I'm not goin 10 bed aboutit. Old Gree
ley amt no KIN to me. Grant amt
neither, and that's what's the matter. /
talked for Greeley and writ for him md
voted for him, but l never did banker
after him. 1t mnde such an everlastin
Iuss in my family HAD ike torun away.
You see Mrs. Arp wasent rekonsiled.
She were a strait, and whtn she amt REX
Ousiled things nint us plassid as silver
lake around my house. don't mean that
times is bot or desperate, but TO say the
least OF it they are pekuiar. A man likes
to hav his bed and his board screen
Don't Ee? So you see as my wife was
strait it didtnt become me to be very
crooked. And l want-at home. Shes
II good oman and shell endure everything
and never grunt nor groan, but she wont
compromise worth q cent. / told her /
had no peitikler use for Greeley and
that lie was darnd old infatyated hum
bug, but that our paper helongd to the
great unter1yfde, unsatis6de, trnsmor-
srifde Democratic party ahd must keep
into line. She sed sum remarks about
papers lying ly the day and by the
week and about self respect and indie
pendence and the like, aud / grew rs
meek like Moses in II few minutes. The
fact is M meek man. I've laid awake
Of nights ruminatn how meek was.
Mrs. Arp thinks the paper ought to
take truth" for motto and work up
to it. l told her i. wouldhe danger
GUS cxperimt mt, bui she says it has never
been tried yet. II wnsent afeerd the
little Arps would perish to deth durin
the experiment would try it. Old
Shank says we cant lie worsted for he
has tride lyin for 20 years and it wont
pay. He says it would he an episode in
the press, kurosity, something like Il
elephant or an tkliIse or John Roby-
sons circus. He says sometimes a pa
per sukst eds hy ly'n, like the New York
Herald and the Tribune and Forncy's
paper, but it has to be well backed. The
Herald has got so now it can quit party
and set back i'll q cheer and tell tLetruth
in its old age; like an old spekulator who
has made fortune by cheatin and lyin
and then puts his money in stocks and
letires. He says that political papers
lie from 80 pei cent. down 10 10 and
that Forney is the only man who ever
went full up to 100 and kept it there.
Well, now that Grant has got in, l
don't see any necessity for runnin the
COMMERCIAL at high pressure. Ii ull
the lyin issues ait ded, they are past
doctrn. Now is good time TO 60 10
developin tile country We Can laise
children and chickens by the LOCO III 4
years. Some OF our folks is tcllin
around how the county could have been
saved, and i'll that. Old Skunk thinks
he knows. but be don't. He's n good
fellow, old Shank is. He don't gas
around, but jest tells me privately, and
asks me to sny nolhin about it, which l
don't. But l heard one feller goin it,
and he said, "Gentlemen, if the people
of the South had bav taken my advice,
this kalanl ty wouldent have happened.
I talked 10 EN-, and preached to TN, but
you might as well hay tried to stop
Cuwtanaller hurricane with tbimble
full of sulphuretled hydrogen gas"
Well, | don't like his sort, nor his gas
1t don't do any good. The thing has
happ' ned-the dog is ded. Grant aint
agoin to take away our bred corn nor to-
buker. AS for few little post offices
and tax collectors, 1 dident care any
thing about en-. Them what's got EN-
needs em, l reken, and lis took power Of
low down Lard work to get elm,
We've got all the State officers from
Gov Smith down to the bottom, and I'm
satisfied Hurruh ior old Georey
.rnH D.. ..... .af fr BILL ARP.
> P. ST. remarked to-day in crowd:
I'VE are nation of thieves" and an
Office holder slipped up to me aud whis-
pered, "Calll no names, Bill, call no
nHmes." Thars something wrong about
that man. .. B. A.