The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-27

federal government could be administer
ed safely and we'll for one half it was
costing, and be would pledge himself
to do it if sustained by Congress. That
is what the people want. They want re-
form. Why, according to the commit
tees report, the whole blessed yankee
nation is on the pension list, and the
pensioners have quit dying and are just
living on aud on forever. In fact they
get more thicker, more denser every year.
I travelled with a man the other day
and rs he looked out of the car window
at merchant mill on river, he said !:
Why don't you people put in for an ap-
preparation for falls like those, and build
up big manufacturing town? Then
be explained how the people of Nine
apolis got their member Of Congress to
put their river on the pension roll for q
hundred thousand dollars TO clean it out
and make it navigable, and as it was inn
possible to do that they spent The money
in making it more perpetually unnayiga'
Bile, for they builta dam with it at St.
Anthony's Falls and weather boarded
the river at an angle of As 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 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, except Sunday, and are
going to do it Sunday when Bob Inger-
soil gets elected President. That is the
way they do things up North, said he,
and you fools down South are behind the
age.
But the like of that is nothing. 1t
only shows the common idea, and that is
plunder. and now when our folks want a
little pension money for tho Mexican
veterans they raise a helabaloo all over
the North and say, Lookout, them fel.
lers 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 ,yndicates 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. I want him because
he will give dignity to the office and to
the American nation and the government.
He wouldent approve any such fool res
olution as Tom Ochiltree got through on
the sly about Lasker. I'm on Bismarck's
side about that and think he did exactly
right.
l want Mr.. Tilden because he is en-
titled to it by courtesy, and would give
it to him if I thought he would die in
two weeks after he was inaugerated.
expect he will die before his term is
out, and want 6rstclass man put on
the ticket with him. None of your ac-
cidencys like we have had. In fact, the
Vice-President's Office is looming up, for
the Presidents most all die nowadays, or
get killed. Since 1 can remember four
have died soon after 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 wont do to holler for
Tildcn all the time. 1t wont do to act
like he was the only man that was ftten,
for we have got several and are proud Of
EN-. We have got faith in 'em, aud
faith is good thing. When James K.
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 -" and
then he stopped and said, "what did you
say his name was?" and when I told him
he shouted, "hurrah for Yames Kaypuck
-he is der man."
That is the ki ID of faith to have, and
if every Democrat had it we could elect
Mr.. Tilden like daisy, and keep him
alive in the bargain. His time is most
out according to nature, but then they
say he is from a long lived family, and
that he still notices pretty women with
alacrity and brightens up smartly when
they come about. That's good sign.
At least it is a sign that he is willing to
live.