The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-11-05

| that than cusSln auu Slealil aie qoeo
tions of politics. The Democratic party
may roll all the demijohns and barrels Of
whiskey in the party into one OF theil
conventions and say to me, LOOK out
if you will bring whiskey into the can
yass you will ruin the party" My God
they've done got it all in there now. As
LONG as YOU Keep men out of this issue
it can't be brought into politics, and as
long as you make the fight against bar
rels and demijohns and dram drinking
and drunkenness, there is no politics in
this issue. I am as far from mixing
with politics as any man you ever saw
I don't mix with politics, because if one
lies down with dogs he will get up with
Aeas. On that principle l keep out o.
politics.
If ever friend or several friends Of
mine propose to nominate me for office
I will say: "What do you want to dam,
ace my good name for? What have ]
ever done to you to excite in you such
inveterate hate toward me as to wish te
entice me into making run for Office r.
Here is a fellow (pointing to himself.
that can say what he pleases. He has
no ak to grind. If q man offers himself
for any Office or expects ever to ottel
himself for any Office, he had better look
out how he talks on this question. If
fellow never expects Office he can talk
about as he pleases.
I pick up newspaper, and, however
reliable or unreliable it may be on other
things, it will always tell the truth in
politics. You can never doubt the
newspaper on that theme. Laughter.
I quote from this newspaper:
'The Democratic party is, as it always
has been, opposed to sumptuary legisla-
ton and unequal taxation in any form
1t has ever advocated the liberty of pri-
vate conduct adjusted with the public
welfare; and the right, further, of regu'
lating the liquor traffic and providing
against the evils resulting therefrom by
a just and properly graded license sys'
tenn"
I read that, for I want to think about
| it. I will touch it later along the line
We have but two parties of any consid
cradle Importance in this country. One
we call the Republican party and the
other is called the Democratic party
There is no difference in their platforms
except the difference on the tariff.
The only side upon which they may
claim to differ is that the Republicans
have shouldered the niger and the Dem
ocrats have straddled barrel of whiskey.
There they are-the two parties Here
ia the Democrat astride his barrel oi
whiskey, and here's your Republican
with the nigger on his shoulder. Party
afiliation says you must swallow one OF
the other, or we will walk you out and
consider you traitor to the party. Let
us look at.the two little bit. You ask
me which I will take. will say, I was
born, raised and have been Democrat
all my life, but if I have got to swallow
\ a barrel of whiskey in the Democratic
party, or desert that party and swallow a
nigger-I have lived all my life among
millions of niggers in the South, and !
say that all the niggers in the South
Phave never done me as much hurt as one
gallon of whiskey did once. If have
got good hard sense, if am going te
exercise my good hard sense, then
meet YOU as an honest man that wants tc
do his duty, and I ask you, "Will you
become one if choose the brother in
black and gulp him DOWN." "Ob," say
you, "you will divide the party-it will
20 down." I believe before God that
the Democratic party has espoused the
liquor interest and come out on the side
of the whiskey seller, and [ want her to
90 down, down and I have text that
will make her writhe in hell. We have
been hallowiDg, "Turn the rascals out .
You let "a Republican be elected Presl'
dent four years hence, and you will hear
the same cry. The only difference be-
tween parties is that one is in and the
other is out. It is fight for spoils be-
tween the ins and outs-thats all.
want to say to you all this much: lowe
my loyalty to God and the right, so ial
as am Individually concerned; as tai
as my wife and children are concerned
If God Almighty can be King of Amer.
lea don't care who is president or gov.
ernor. Once enthrone the worst influ'
ence that God ever allowed to perpetuate
itself on this earth, and then defy you
ever to reform this country.
Now, as 1 said moment ago, the
three parties in interest, on the whiskey
side, are the whiskey makers, the whis
key sellers and the whiskey drinkers. ]
feel very kindly toward the men. II
you will separate them from their traffic
they are just as clever as you or ], OF
anybody else. IF seek equity l must
do equity. l would be willing to be
taxed so per cent. additional to the reg
ular tax of any State and county to pay
these men every dollar they have inves
ted in this business, and then l want to
see bonfire about 9 O'Clock at night OF
all tue whiskey in the country, and then
proclamation made that there is not 9
still.house in the United States Of
America. These whiskey men have
built their still.houses and invested theil
money in that thing, and it would be
species of theft to con6scate and destroy
their property without some sort of com
pensation. I am the last man in the
world that would take legilimately
gained dollar out of any mans pocket
[ am not like some of those Northern
fellows that sold the niger down here
to us and put the money into theil
pockets and then began cursing us be:
cause we had the niger. Laughter
That WAS just about as mean as wanting
to destroy these still-houses after taking
money for their license. Let US be hon.
est while we propose to be moral.
] want to tell you another thing
There is not q still.house in Americi
that wouldn't sell out to you cheap right
now. These little wildcat fellows
around here in the mountains wouldn'
do it, because it is fruit time now but il
you will wait little while, they'll sci
cheap, too. There's not a government
distillery in the United States that yor
couldn't buy at fifty cents on the dollar
| When it comes to the liquor-sellers,
want to say word or two about them
Do you know what makes man sci
liquor? Is it for the good he is doing
humanity? For the kindness he is do
ing the race? Does he sell at los;
because he is doing the community
good? Did you ever hear man in the
liquor business claim to be benefactol
of his race? When man proposed tc
swear that he was ready to relinguish hi;
claim on heaven for $500, it was the
money-the S500-he wanted, for which
he was willing to 60 to hell. That's The