The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-02-17
IEoUIsITIVE SALLY PARKS.
She Wants to Know who B. Il. Til
man is, and what Inc Wants...FIer
John Takes Down an Old Book
and knocks Tilman's Statistics In
to Pi.

Ecitor Press and Banner:
Please leL me ask you few questions my
dear MiSLer Editor for my poor head Is near.
ly turned from reading the piece called ''rhe
published Oh the 3rd of February, and which
has the name +. II Tilman under 1t.
My name is Sally Parks, who married John
Parks In the year that Sherman burnt COlun-
gets the chance to find out what's going OH by
reading the paper when he gets through with
II, and that's how l come 10 see that piece
which spoke about.
7 read it, and read about Moses and farm
ers won't stick together, they are such fools"
and 'misrute and robbery" and "banded with
sentalion," and "ridicule," the more ! got
mixed NY, and finally says I to John: John,
says !, who Is Is. X. Tilman
Now, Mister Editor, my John is what folks
call u quiet easy going Kind OF u man, till he
gets started. then he's a whole team. He
don't talk much, So, when I asked him that
question, he just said. congressman" Con.
Snn says ht says wy ySsne yoSn
crat p "Well, Sally" says he. sort o dry,
"he's a Democrat now. l reckon, but he
the politicians always say in speaking. If he
had wrote that piece then" "But john" says
1,"what does he want to be u Moses in tho
Sufnthss us r says says 'c19 Dan
no." says he. "And then, John," says I, "who
does he mean when he says, we can continue
our misrue and robbery ," II dulno," says
about somebody else. for, If lie is a Democrat,
he would not talk that way about the folks
now in office. Have we not elected our own
best men to Office for nearly ten years? II
people turn 'em out? Why don't he show
where the 'misrule and robbery comes in
Let him show them up, If he can, and the
While was talking John Just set there a
squirting at me. aud when l sorter stopped to
catch breath, sally" says lie. "what IN thnn-
der are yS TALKING about ~ About The
this @ here paper. Eet T me S' see it,, ' says he,
and there he sat and read and read, and the
more he read, the redder he got, Till thought
he'd bust, and never said a word, but only
wh'stled like to himself.
"Well John," says l." what Is it?" "Ohice,
Sally, Office. Moses way out OF The wilder
ness even can lead you out trustee i am
u candidate,' the ring which dominates our
u stump speech. You know stump speeches
are made by candidates. He says measures
and not men, but say men arc necessary to
carry out meas , ureS,, and as The fellows can
raj consequence is, they viii vote for the next
best man, not as trustee Of q real farmers
College, because there Is no such Office, but
for the man who led them out Of the pretend
ised land OF office everything Is possible to
the man who works and waits, even the far
mer' 'Governor,' United States Senate 1
tell you, Sally, that's capital stump speech
to be spoke but l would not like to write 1t
down. That about the $4,000 white voters
who make a liri ng at farming, and who pay
! three fourths of the taxes won't bear Scruti-
SSa." SS; just wait a minute Sally anu III s"0"
Then John he goes to the SHELF and takes
down Il book, which he got in Columbia
"Now you see, Sally, this book shows that all
the lands and houses in the State are not
worth more than eighty-seven million dol
| lars together. IL shows that the people who
own property in the towns and citiesp pay tax.
es on nearly thirty millions Of that, and 1t
shows that the railroad people alone pay tax
eS on over forty-seven millions Of property,
nearly as much as the farmers on their lands,
so how can the farmers pay 'three-fourths OF
the taxes AS to the 60 0U0 white voters who
make living 1T farming, I can't see where
haven't There is scarcely one million OF men
women and children in the State, and If you
take the doctors, and preachers, and lawyers,
and merchants, and all the other people who
in the cities and towns. and add to them the
negro vote, where will the $4,000 white voters
who make q living at farming be? And all
that stuff about the ring that dominates our
State and niSrule' and robbery is just as
thin as the 'lhrce-fourth Of the Taxes, busi-
ness, and the farmers won't bite, even If the
they are such foos.."
So John lit his pipe and went about his bus.
ness, but was not satisfied in my own mind
because I can't believe Mister Editor that
What that piece says is meant for our own
home folks that we have elected to hold office
so thought would write you this letter, and
ask you if that piece means our own home
folks. for know that You know all about 1t,
and will let me know all about it, and set my
poor heart at rest, and by SO doing you will do
"SALLT PARKS"