The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-11-13
BkOADbRIT'S NEW FORK LETTER.

DrOtneE DeecDer may say WuaG ne
likes, everything is not lovely in Ply
mouth Church. Whatever else he
may do. he is bound in the present
election not to hide his light under
bushel. and it is safe to say in no
campaign for twenty years has he
Shown more energy than in the pres
ent one
The Reverend gentleman has gone
IN to win and if Governor Cleveland
does not reach the White House it
will not be the fault of Henry Ward
Bcccher. In the meantime. however.
!e is not reclining Oh bed Of roses;
he receives letters by the bushel from
all sorts Of people, begging him to
reconsider his determination to sup
port Governor Cleveland. As we'll
might they try to :urn Nirgara with
4 pitci'tnrk or dam the great lakes
VIII! haystacks, as to turn Henry
: Ward Bcecher aside when he has
laa.ie up his mind, He comes of u
remarkably headstrong family. His
father before him was constantly
doing extraordinary things, and no
sooner had his friends recovered
from one shock than be gave them
another, the second generally being
much worse than the first. Mr.. Bee
cher in his Friday night discourse ap-
peared to think that the difference of
opinion i the congregation was
Very slight affair and he gave his
auditors to understand that in the
thirty-eigEt years they had been as
sociated together that he had always
had his own way and he intended to
have it to the last, or in other words
he said to the people who are paying
him $4,000 for thirty.eight or forty
weeks work, if you don't like my
way you may lump it, for I will have
il whether you like it or no. 1t was
omirous to look about the room, how
ever, for faces were missing from last
Friday nights meeting which have
not been absent for years, not small
men but those who have peen re-
garded as the pillars of the church,
vino have been foremost in it's coun-
ellis and whose aid financially has
never been withheld. Their places
were vacant, and though several of
them turned up to prevent open
scandal, yet the Friday night meet
ing-is the social weekly event of Ply
mouth church, and from that they
were conspicuously absent. During
the week three of the pillars of the
church have given the Plymouth pas
tor a public excoriation. When men
like S. '. White. Gen. Stewart Wood
ford and a W. Tenny speak out in
meeting, it means something, and
we will be better able TO tell after
election whether the detection is fa-
tai and permanent. Still Mr.. Bee
cher does not quail and at an 1nde-
pendent meeting last week be struck
back at his foes with trenehant
power that caused g tremendous rat
ting among the dry bones. This
election will be celebrated for years
to come for the severing Of party
ties and the sundering Of old time
friendships, to an extent never be.
fore experienced in our history.
Some Of the men who stood by the
cradle of the Republican party are
now the most ardent friends Of the
Democratic candidate; and life e-long
Democrats whose fealtY to the party
was never suspected, are following
the forlorn fortunes of Butler or are
openly working for Blaine. A prog
nostic as to results will be much
safer on the fifth of November than
on the third. It is the desire of
every one that the whole affair was
over. Whichever party wins, the
election will have left a demoralizing
effect behind, from which it will take
US months to recover. One Of the
worst features of the campaign being
the manner in which the most dis
reputable elements come to the sur
face and assume an Importance
which is destructive Of order and Of
law, Known criminals are publicly
eourted by the opposing candidates,
and magistrates tremble in the pres
ence of the thieves who are brought
before them. The Judge on the
bench and the rascal whom he sen.
tences are altogether too closely re.
lated. I don't know whether it would
be any better TO elect the judges for
life or during good behaviour; one
thing is very certain, and that is that
nothing can be much worse than the
present state Of affairs.
This is indeed city Of sharp con.
trasts.
/ This week Baron and Baroness
have been discovered, the Baron
working as common laborer for a
dollar day and the Baroness add
ing to the family wealth by picking
rags. These two were none Of your
bogus frauds either, but real simon
pure, genuine old stock. The lady
born in a castle and in her girlhood
waited on by an army of servants.
The Baron too had his castle and re.
tainers, but be offended the Emperor
by his marriage and he was banished
from Court. Burning with revenge
at his disgrace he joined a party Of
revoLutionists, and on the defeat Of
his party was forced to fly the coun-
try. He reached the United States
having little after paying his pas
sage but his Wife's jewels. They
parted with these precious souvenirs
one by one, till at last all were gone.
| Noithor of thouo he6 heop h7ourht III,