The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-04-12
RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
iiill Arp ON Defense of Chsracters

characters. 1t might do for stranger or
new conner to rise and explain, when
was accused Of impropreties that han.
pened long time ago, but if was a
candidate for high office and somebodv
began to pick at me, would lust saw
you 60 to thunder" or words to thst
effect. The people of Georgia have
known Governor Boynton and Major
Bacon for twenty odd wears. and hava
ho9ored them and been proud of them
ana they can't be fooled about their
characters now. Character is not made
oy me day nor the year, but ten or
twenty years always settles down what a
man really is, especially if war comes
along, IN the meantime. Character is
rated by tue people just like merchants
are rated by TIE commercial agencies.
II IS not down in books with figures and
letters and the like, but it is down in
brain and heart and memory. The peo-
PIE weigh a public man just like thev
weigh nabor. They do it unconscious.
y and without method, and at no par
tIcuiar time, but they do it. In fact it
does itself. Some nabors make a big
show for awhile, and put their best foot
forward and captivate the settlement,
but by and by their true character comes
out and everybody knows it, Even The
niggers know it. Just 80 1t is with pub.
lie men. Roynton, end Bacon aud
hIcDaniel have been tried, and have got
their rating. Their characters are estab.
lished and the people are proud of them,
and 1T is too late, too late, to get up bili
OF indictment now.
Either OF them will make a good gov
ernor, and there is no use in their over
Jealous friends getting up an unseenlIy
wrangie. The people don't want it, and
they won't indorse it. They don't care
anything about the asking Bullock for
Office or taking fee in the Brunswick
railroad or any other nonsense. They
have their choice between the candi-
dates, but it don't come from the like
of that or anything just now pumped up
and trumped up and tumbled up for the
occasion, but it comes from ten or fifteen
or twenty years knowledge of their con.
duct, their reputation for truth, and can.
dor, and capacity, and unselfishness, and
patriotism. Man is not like a mule.
They say mule can behave himself for
ten years, and then suddenly kick your
daylights out without any proyocation,
but man won't do that. A man don't
learn new tricks after he is forty years
old and reckon our candidates are all
of that. There is nothing against any of
EN- that ever heard Of They all like
themselves pretty we'll, but that is just
human. They want their share of
what's going, but as John Brannon says
they always leave one tit for the calf. I
never heard but one thing against
Mcdaniel, and that was his soldiers said
he never could say "tall back" in time
when the Yankees were crowding 'em
and everybody else was relreating. He
could say forward, and charge and the
like of that very we'll; but retreat
and fall back seemed to stick in his
throat, and one time he had liked to
have jerked his head off before he could
tell 'en 70 gel away from there. That
would be mighty bad in the commander
in.chief of the army and navy if we had
| to nave another little war; but reckon
ne WON'T have it soon, and so We can risk
him. The State is safe and the people
| are all calm and serene, for if the con-
vention can't agree on either of these
horses that are booked for the race, there
are plenty of good nags tied out to the
swinging limbs. Pat Walsh, and Phil
Cook, and Smith, and Simmons, and
Crawford, and Jackson are not dead yet,
and hope they will take good care Of
themselves, for Georgia wants q good
reserve corps in the rear. Let 'em keep
out Of danger and never ride on the bull
CINE. You see l was waiting for the
train the other day to 60 up to joe
Browns ircz mine, and EheE :: caR1e
along Mr. Whitehead, the conductor,
and Dir. Cain, the engineer, very politely
invited Mr.. Callahan and myself to ride
on the engine and he give me the post of
honor which was the post of danger,
right next to the boiler, and Moffit, the
fireman opened the trap door and SHOW
eled in more coal, and as we moved Off,
I said, "now Dir. Whitehead, if this old
Beelzyhub blows up l will be the first
man killed." and shore enough had
hardly said it, when "bang" went the
old boiler like clap of thunder in q
clear eky, and the steam come bulging,
and me and Mr.. Callahan dident take
time to faint DOR holler, nor jump, but
ne just tumbled out head foremost down
a steep bank, and kept going on our all
fours aud Mr.. Callahan he weighs 250
pounds and fell all over me two or three
times and kept going, and we never
stopped until the fence stopped us, for
the steam was so thick we couldent see
anything, and after Mr.. Callahan broke
the fence down he galloped off on his
hind legs about fifty yards, and looking
back ne Strengthened up and exclaimed
"blood and murther, are we all kilt but
me?" looked around wildly for the
mangled corpses of our friends and fol
blood and bones and hair, when sudden.
ly they poked out their heads from the
basement window of Winford's mill
about hundred yards on the other side
They say they were blown there but g
Niger told me he saw em a running that
wey like the bad man was after en-
They had to cross the creek to get there
and noticed they were vet up, to then
knees, but may be the steam did that foI
it burnt me through my boots and
breeches aud ell.
Well it was just too alarming to be
funny and too funny to be alarming, bu'
there was nobody hurt but the fue ir
the boiler. Il blew the iron stopper
head out, and l reckon that is going
somewhere yet in the. ethereal fields o.
illimitable space, for nobody has been
able to find it. am properly thankful
for my. escape and Father Callahan ii
thankful too. l know, and we have
resolved jointly and severally, all and
singular one and inseparable now and
forever, never to ride in bullgine again
\ never thought much about it myself
hat a. friend told me contidentially ht
heard another man say the whole thing
WAS q put up job on the part Of the con
ductor and engineer 10 kill of one OF the