The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-03
ANDERSON Sc THURSDAY MORNING, JULY g. 1884
ARP ON POLITICS.
Flo Thinks tho Nation Is Safe Either Way.

ARP ON POLITICS.
Flo Thinks tho Nation Is Safe Either Way.
Atlanta Consultation.
Politics is on boom. Fifty millions
of people are going to choose President,
and it looks like most everybody is in a
good humor about it. am, go are my
nabors. There hasn't been time since
the war that the people feltso easy about
an election as they do now. The nation
is safe. Both of the great parties will
put up their best men and there is not
much of principle or policy to divide
them. The country is prosperous. We
are all doing pretty well, better than any
other nation of people on the globe.
There is good, humble, old.fashioned
preacher not far away who always prays,
"We thank thee, oh, Lord that we live
in land of freedom, where the gospel is
dispensed with. We thank Thee that
we have e plat and grant and clear
chain of titles to field in the promised
land" Well, we know what the old man
means, and it is all right. I wish we all
could read our titles clear to mansions in
the skies. Land is cheap enough down
here on the top side of this green earth,
but I'm afraid we will find it very dear
up yonder. This is blessed country for
the poor. We can't realize how blessed
until we read about the old world and
talk to people who have travelled there.
Just think of land renting for $50 an
acre in England and $40 in Germany
Just think of the average laborer work.
ing twelve hours for forty cents and
boarding himself. No wonder they keep
coming over here, and they would choose
the South instead of the North and West
if they were not fooled by those agents
who are paid to work for the railroads
and get settlers for their lands. The
South has got no agents. We tried to
establish agencies of immigration and we
had pamphlets printed telling all about
our climate and productions and the first
thing we knew them fellows up North
had great big maps printed and stuck up
everywhere showing the Dismal swamp
to extend from Virginia to Texas. Nearly
all of Georgia is covered with it. Well,
our folks couldn't make the foreigners
believe but that it was all so and they
wouldn't come. Those Northern rascals
have been swindling us for hundred
years by all sorts of tricks and devices.
But we will get even with them after
awhile-see if we don't. The time was
when we had statesmen of principle for
our Presidents and Cabinets. Who ever
heard of q President plundering the gov
ernment or being mixed up in any
moneyed scheme before the war? The
war seems to have corrupted the whole
yankee nation and made stealing respect
able. How came all these charges
against Grant and Garfield and Hayes
and Arthur, and all those chaps connect.
ed with the Credit-Mobilier, the railroad
subsidies and the star route transactions?
There were no Southern men in those
schemes.
But what surprises me now is to see
big lot of them fellows up there splitting
off from the party and saying they won't
support Blaine because he plundered the
treasury. When did Mr.. Beecher and
Mr.. Adams and the Harpers and Judge
Tourgee and the other editors take this
new departure? When did they reform?
They have supported the whole Republi-
can shebaDg for twenty years and just
now begin to preach political morality.
There is something peculiar about this.
The truth is Arthur had slate and
these fellows were on it. They were all
interested in some way in that ring, aud
now they begin to holler wolf. Why,
Mr.. Blaine is about the best man they
have got He is the best statesman,
and has got the biggest brain, and the
grandest way of doing things. Why,
even when be steals there is nothing little
about it, and be divides literally and
tells on nobody. I never expected any
respectable Republican to find fault with
him for plundering the government. They
have all been doing it so long that we
thought it was plank in their platform.
If we have got to take Republican for
President we want Mr.. Blaine. He has
got enough and won't want any more and
he will put stop to the business. He is
no little trickster. He wouldn't stoop to
put darkey in as chairman of the great
Republican convention that was to nomi-
nate President-not him. heard
Blaine man say the other day that he
had letter from him since his nomina-
ton and if he was elected he would
make clean sweep Of every darkey that
was in Office.
But Mr.. Cleveland is reformer sure
enough. He comes from that kind of
stock. He has got Southern name and
Southern pedigree. His ancestors came
from Carolina. Cleveland is Carolina
name. They were the old cavaliers and
wouldn't stoop to do a mean thing. The
Cleveands are all about in Carolina now,
and are still the same proud and noble
stock. When Grover Cleveland gets to
be President he will clean up things gen.
orally. he is following in Mr.. Tilden's
lead and will wear bis mantle when the
old man is gone. I'm free to say that l
believe Mr.. Blaine is the smartest man,
the grandest man, but Cleveland is the
safest and most reliable. When Ben Hill
whipped out Blaine in the Andersonville
matter, Blaine didn't 60 off and pout and
plot revenge but he gave it up nobly and
went over and congratulated Mr.. Hill
and they became warm personal friends
and could be seen together arm in arm
walking on Pennsylvania avenue. 1
like that. 1t did me good. And when
we wanted to build a monument to Mr..
Hill he was among the first to send down
q liberal contribution. But he has gotten
a man tied on to him that wouldn't have
done that.
Logan is dead weight. he is half
Indian-that is, he has got an Indians
hatred without his love. He hus been
...a ..;ro. tho hlondu nl,irt auor since the