The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-24
Bill Arp Tells the Secret OF Sue
cess in Political life:--a Man
Must Know how TO Play
Oemagogue.

A man who was born rich and never
knew the want OF a dollar, may under
stand the theory OF 4 government, aud
e ever 50 good AMI kind. bQt he can I
Understand the necessities Of the mase>
xno have To sweat aud toll for their
laiiy bread. The best preachers are
n ,-e who run around with the boys 10
their youth. The best teachers are those
mo we're Wild and devilish at school. aud
he most useful aud earnest r1embers Of
{ hgres, began lite III the midst OF hard
h..- aud had to work 10 the shop or in
The field Tor living. Henry Clay va
he idu 10. a great party. aud they d.
rghted "a speak OF hun a. the Mil Boy
Il The S.ashes." Ben Franklin never
could have written Poor Richard II he
mad not been Poor Ben when a boy.
The secret Of Andy Johneons success
from a tailor TO a President was IN.
knowledge Of the ~pe0p'e-what they
liked aud disiIked. Joe Brown has had a
narvesous history OF thirty years. His
youth was spent IN poverty. He cut
wood and hauled it TO town with a steer,
and supported hi. mother and the Chi
dren. Somebody told Bob loombs
about Joe Brown : early history when
Joe was first nominated for Governor.
Toombs hated him because he was a
Democrat wool hat Democrat, VIII
wore copperas brooches and homemade
shoes. and had no manners. They told
Toomb> that Joe Brown plowed a bull.
''Piowed a bull, did he z -aid Toombs.
y e, they say it is a fact that he was 80
pu r he piosed a bull TO make his crop
Well said Toonbs, "tnat i a credit
70 him. dldn'tknow he had plowed a
rull. IL Is a compliment to hun. sir
,c., II j. a compliment TO him, aud | give
- r it, but il : no compliment
to the bull
joe hruwnr run with the poor boys and
o a little schooling in a log house, and
hen he taught a school aud kept ahead
ut his scholars By studying hard at
III bit. He didn't nave a brilliant first
class mind and hasent got it yet. but he
Ss everlastingly studying. Then he
stu led law and the boys elected him
Judge Judge of 4 Circuit. He beat
a ir,t-ciaSs man, an arl-tvcratlc man, a
Dlooded->tock man, a college bred man
aud 1t astonished everybody. for Judge
irV in -as on the bench and had the in
Idle track. The common people We're
Ton Joe because he come from them. and
hc'e more common people than uncom
on people. Next he wa. nominated
governor aud made poor speeches
Al d lots Of ~blunders, and talked through
iii nose, but the bull and the steer were
on his SIDE, aud he was elected. Well.
he has been Governor four times and
judge of the Supreme Court and United
States Senator, and he leased the State
road, and he has succeeded in everything,
for he went SLOW and cautious and never
was what you call a brilliant man. He
can swap horses and ride 'em all. He
rurned Radical when the Radical was on
top, and he turned back again when the
Democracy held the trumps. When his
enemies attack him for his lodging
around. he goes for EN- in long epistles,
mi gives 'em hail Columbia" for their
own sins and the people shout "hurrah
TOR old Joe aud elect him again. But
I've got too rich and the people began to
shy off, and so he gave so thousand dbl
lars to the Baptist church. and that set
him straight again with that denOmina
ton. Somebody told Bob Tocmbs about
that and he didn't believe it at first. but
when they assured him that it was a
i fact, he said, ''he may give it and be
damned nevertheless. Ii he thinks thai
taking 80 thousand dollars worth Of stock
in = water company in this world will 10.
sure him against hell fire IN the next
he is mistaken and that all of it."