The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-11-20
THE VERGE OF REVOLUTION,
Now aofk'e Condition n Few Days Ago
vivid Description OF Impending nan.
gers.
From the New York H,,oh,

From the NeW Fork Herald.
This morning the Herdid's assurance {,
the people Of this nation that "AlP
quiet along Manhattan Island" will carr,
tidings of equal significance 10 million
OF people interested to know the outcom,
In the metropolis of the United States.
But 1t hasn't been so long.
WHAT WAS NOT TOLD.
The Herald is newspaper, but it die
not on Thursday tell all it knew. TIL,
Herdtd goes not alone TO men upon tb,
street and to women and children in thei
homes. Its stories are read not alone b,
lawyers and bankers and thinkers auc
tailors,. but by ladies in their stores ant
shops, by passengers in the railway train,
and by walters in the depots, Had 4
told what it knew it would have said
we are on the eve of revolution Tho
official breast is disturbed; anticipation,
OF something more than idle talk and
gossip, ard PlIster on the streets have
caused our officials to lay in ammunition
10 call out the police and put every mar
on duty, either on the directs or in alta
t!onhouse reserve Such ideas once
started soon become pregnant, and il
their train come other ideas, multitude
o,usIy professional and dangerous to 8
degree.
Had the truth been told, not alone the
thousand roughs from Philadelphia anG
their we'll termed friends" from otbe,
cities, not alone the gambling f.aternit,
from Boston aud the bullies. who, strange
to say, make their nests along the rock
bound shores of the Hudson, but the riff
raft from Jersey City and BROOKLYN. tho
ruffians from Staten Island-sbsolutels
and literally the hordes of men who live
oy their User wits. would have CONS
tumbliug. pell NELL into the peaceable
streets of New York, wLsre, mingline
with the crowds already excited and
gathered in significant places, they would
have added fuel TO the pyre and furnished
the blazing torch besides. That would
have meant something besides "Hurrah
boys" The cries would cot have been
"Regards TO Mrs. Fisherl" Of s.Blaine
Blaine the thief from Maine /" But
Where ia the house of this rich man I!
Where the bank Where the we'll stored
magazine! :! Where the warehouse filled
with plunder The torch and axe and
Jimmy" would have taken the place al
the waving hats and shaking canes.
Could this story have been told!
Not precisely.
But it was true, all the same.
1t was, indeed. And nobody knew It
better than tie Governor of the State
and the mayor of the city, and the board
of police, and the United States marshal
and the chief supervisor of elections
aud the men whose hands are upon the
helm of affairs deciding which way the
craft should steer toward an honest de.
termination of the votes of the people,
or dishonest twist of what would then
be e farce-our popular election.
The wisdom of the Heralds courpe ia
universally conceded. Enough was told
to show to the people who control those
things-for strange as it may seem these
things are contr0lled-that the danger
they were threatingly welding over tEia
metropolis was fully understood and alb.
solutely appreciated. Nay, more, that
had it cume the responsibility Hnnld have
been laid mt the feet and placed upon the
heads of those who had it In their power
to control il in the first instance.
THE RESPONSIBLE PERSONS.
That they had it in their power to con>
troll it was from the outset prov .-first,
by the changed tone of certain llletins :
second, by the extraordinary agility with
which The mhiorities were sprung from
the c''imLs Shero .hey siidn's belpng ta
the places where they ought to 90;
third, by that extraordinary telegram
from Mr. Jay Gould to Governor Cleve.
land, impudently congratulating him
that the people of the State which had
once before honored him had again done
their part to swell the patriotic tide that
aoated him to the very pinnacle oi
American ambition.
The majesty of the people was never
more thoroughly exploited than by the
changed tone of certain monopolist
speculators and stock jobbers and their
organs on Friday morning. Yes; even
further back than Friday morning. On
Thursday night they began to realize the
tremendous proportions of the popular
Indignation. It ran riot in every vein.
It stirred th. inmost cookie of every
citizen's heart Republican and Demo-
cret alike, if honest, shored .his indigna-
ton. No one pretends that integrity,
honor. decent sentiment resides ia .ha
breasts of Cleveland men alone. Such
assumptions would be insane. Good,
true men exist In every party. Good
men voted for ST. John and for Butler and
for Blaine as we'll as for Cleveland.
Naturally enough every man deaired the
success Of the candidate whom he had
supported. Naturally enough they hop.
ed even agsinst hope, and thousands oil
them hung on to the tail of forlorn
hope long alter the animal had jumped
the fence Of doubt. But the consciepce &c
of the people vas aroused, and large
the success of Cleveland and Hendricks
the vast maiority-aaid Here. thir
thing has gone far enoughi No 1876 in
ed. TO him oball the certificate be Issued
and If the thirty. six votes Of New York
caps the climax of the already towering
column, 80 that victory shall perch upon
that banner, in tho maine Of all that 1,
jnst aud honorable let that be the verdict
and let the country return again to its
normal base OF trade, industry and. pros
perity." IS Il.
TURN OF THE TIDE.
Well, without making an nunnecsssarily
long story Of it-for dealing with geneT.
alities is the best course, even nowthe
end came.
Did phyelcal fear have anything to dc
with it7 I.
Physical fear had "a great deal to dc
with It. Physical fesr does not always
mean the dread 50f q smashed head, q
broken nose, q black eye or q well thrash,
ed anatomy alone. Sometimes tit takes
into considerations bnfni1g houses, ptllsg
ed 1stofes sfloOtished In the streets. terro,