The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-03
ARP ON POLITICS,
He Thinks tho Nation is Safe Either Way.
Atlanta Constitution.


and it looks Ike most everybody Is In !
good humor about 1t. I am, so arc my
nabors. There hasn't been q time since
the war that the people felt so 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 no,
much Of principle or policy to divide
them, The country is prosperous. We
are all doing pretty we'll, better than any
other nation of people on the globe
There is good, humble, old. fashioned
preacher not far away who always prays
I'VE thank thee, oh, Lord that We live
in land of freedom, where the gospel is
dispensed with. We thank Thee tha,
we have a plat and grant and o clear
chain of titles to field in the promised
land" Well, we know what the old man
means, and it is oil right. 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 a blessed country fol
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 wonde :hev keen
coming over here, and they aid choose
the South instead Of tue Mort 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 W g
had pamphlets printed telling all abou.
our Climate and productions aud 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 tho foreigners
believe but that it was all so and they
wouldn't come. Those Northern rascals
have been swindling US for O. 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 President plunderng 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 10 Southern men In those
schemes.
But what surprises me now is to soc a
big lot of them fellows up there splitting
off from the party and saying they won't
support Blaine because he piundered the
treasury. When did Mr.. Beechcr and
Mr. Adams and the Harpers and Judge
Tourgee and the other editors take this
new departure2 When did they reform ?
They have supported the whole Republi.
can shebapg for twenty years and lust
now begin TO preach political morality.
There is something peculiar about this.
The truth 10 Arthur had slate and
these fellows were on it. They were all
interested in some way in that ring, aud
now they negip to ioiier wolf iYhy.
Mr.. Blaine is about the best man thoy
have. got. He is the best statesman
and has got the biggest brain, and the
grandest way of doing things. Why,
even W hen he steals there is nothing little
about it, and he divides liberally and
tells on nobody. I never expected any
respectable Republican to find fault with
him for plnndering the government. They
have all been doing 1t 80 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 ia
no little trickster. He wouldn't stoop 10
put darkey in as chairman of the great
Republican convention that was 10 nomi.
nate O President-not him. heard a
Blaine man say the other day that he
had letter from him since his nominn.
ton and if he was elected he would
make clean sweep Of every dsrkey tha.
was In Office.
But Mr.. Cleveland Is q .eformer sure
enough. He comes from that kind OF
stock. He has got Southern name and
q Southern pedigree. His ancestors came
from Carolina. Cleveland is Carolina
name. They we're the old cavaliers and
wouldn't stoop to do mean thing. The
Clevelands 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 no things gen.
orally. He is following in Mr.. Tilden'o
lead and will wear his mantle when the
old man Is gone. I'm free to say that I
believe Mr.. Blaine is the smartest man,
the grandest man, but Cleveland IL tho
safest and most reliable. When Ben Hill
whipped out Blaine in tho AudersonyilIe
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. j
like that. 1t did me good. And when
we wanted to build monument to Mr.
Hill he was among the first to send down
o liberal contribution. But he has gotten
o man tied on to him that wouldn't have
done that. -
Logan is dead weight. He is q hall
Indisn-that is, he has got an Indiana
hatred without his love. He has Been
waving the bloody shirt ever since the
war. He will do some dirty work If be
gets in power. I have q contempt 70,
him. He shouldn't como in nv house
He shouldn't stop In the big road and
COY ooWoy' Ao uAS uobot SAlu Ou6 hluO
word about the South and would put u,
all in chains and bondage II he could
He Is turbulent disturber OF the public
tranquility. He is no gentleman, and
I'll bet ten dollars Nr. Piaine feeli
handicapped BY having him pn his ticket
But such Is, politics. That was the way
with Garfield. They tied Arthur on t
him. he was nothing Jut a ward politi
clan bumming around among the broth.
els Of New York. History is stili repeat.
ed. The great men Of the nation whc
won't atoop TO meanness can't be made