The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-06-21
Bin Arp's Opinion Of 1ilden.


Well, nobody has been to see me yet
about this Presidential business, and
I'm suffering for tatfy, but you can tel
elgraph to the New York Herald that
Bill Arp is for Tilden and that he will
say in Sundays Constitution that he
wants him nominated by reclamation
and elected by the Nation for its own
salvation. For the truth is, If patriots
don't unite on reform in the Govern
ment, the great American Nation will
go to the dogs. I'm for Mr.. Tilden be-
cause he has got reform on the brain.
He cleaned opt the augean stables in
New York, and knows how to do 1t.
He fought corruption single handed and
whipped the fight.
He never talks about the tariff or the
MorrisoDs, or Bismarck. or the heather
Chinese, but he talks about iniquity in
high places, and corruption, and thieves
and plunderers. He is the man they
swindled out of the Presidency because
they were afraid of him. And it he is
nominated again they will spend mill
ions to defeat him for the same reason.
Mr.. Tilden said when he ran before
that the Federal Government could be
administered safely and we'll for one
half it was then costing, and he would
pledge himself to do it if sustained by
Congress. That is what the people
want. They want reform. Why, ac-
cording to the committees report, the
whole blessed Yankee Nation is on the
pension list, and the pensioners have
quit dying and are just living on and on
forever. In fact they get more thicker,
more denser every year.
/ travelled with man the other day
and as he looked out of the car window
at merchant mill on a river, he said:
Why don't you people put in for an
appropriation for falls like those. and
build up a big manufacturing town.
/ Then he explained how the people OF
Minneapolis got their member of Con-
gress to put their river on the pension
roll for hundred thousand dollars to
clean it out and make it navigable, and
as it was impossible to do that they
spent the money in making it more
unnavigable, for they built a dam with
it at st. Anthony's Falls and weather.
boarded the river at an angle of forty
| five degrees, and then built up their big
Touring mills alongside, and ever since
they got the river ON the roll they have
been drawing fifty thousand dollars a
year to open it up to navigation, and the
money is spent in working on the dam
and fixing up for more big mills. and
now they have got more mills than any
city in the world and turn out thirty
thousand barrels of -four every day, ex-
cept Sunday, and are going to do it Sun
day when Bob Ingersoll gets elected
President. That is the way they do
things up North, said he. and YOU folks
down South are behind the age.
But the like of that is nothing. It
only shows the common idea, and that
is plumber, and now when our folks
want little pension money for the
Mexican veterans they raise helabalOo
all over the North and say: Lookout,
| them fellers down South are trying to
get their paws in the Treasury"
want Mr.. Tilden because he don't
banker after the Office and wont make
any bargains to get it. Most all our
statesmen nowadays are intriguers, and
they form their syndicates for Office just
like railroad men do for systems and
lines that are to break down other
lines, and it is all on the idea that you
can't accomplish anything by an open,
| square straight up and down policy.
When Uncle Sammy gets in I'll bet he
makes his own Cabinet, and nobody
else will have hand in it. want him
because he will give dignity 10 the Of
flee and to the American Nation and
the Government. He wouldn't approve
any such fool resolution as Tom Ochil-
tree got through on the sly about Lask-
er. I'm on Bismarck's side about that
and think he did exactly right.
want Mr.. Tilden because he is en-
| titled to it by courtesy, and l would
give it to him if / thought he would
die in two weeks after he was inaugu-
rated. expect he will die before his
term is out, and / want 6rst-class
man put on the ticket with him. None
of your academies like we have had.
In fact, the Vice-Presi1ent's Office is
looming up, for the Presidents most all
die nowadays, or get killed. Since l
can remember four have died soon aft
er they got in, and another never got in
at all. When the convention meets,
they ought to look into the V. P.'s
Office mighty close and give us the best
man in the party if they know him.
1t won't do to boiler for Tilden all the
time. Il won't do to act like he was
the only man that was fitten,. for we
have got several and are proud of 'em.
We have got faith in 'en, and faith is a
good thing. When James X. Polk
was nominated, my friend, Omberg,
met me on the street in crowd and
heard the news, and he threw up his
hat and said, "he is the very man
the very best man. Hurrah for - I"
and then he stopped and said: "What
did you say his name WASP" and when
told him he shouted: 'sHurrah for
Yames Kaypuck--he is der man"
This is the kind of faith to have, and
if every Democrat had it, we could
elect Mr.. Tildcn like daisy, and keep
him alive in the bargain. His time is
most out according to nature, but then
they say he is from q long lived
family, and that he still notices pretty
women with alacrity, and brightens up