The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-03
Pertinent Questions.

ncr asks the editor who is Mr.. B. R.
Tillman and whether his piece in the
News and Courier charging the
State officers with being robbers and
as conspiring to continue to rob is
meant for our own home folks that
we have elected.
EDITOR PRESS AND BANNER:
Please let me ask you few ques-
tions, my dear Mister Editor, for my
poor head is nearly turned from
reading the piece called The Far
mers' Fight" in your paper, which
you published on the 2rd of February,
and which has the name, B. R. Till
man, under it.
My name is Sally Parks, who mar
ried John Parks in the year that
Sherman burnt Columbia, and. as my
old man reads your paper, l gets the
chance to find out what's going on by
reading the paper when he gets
through with it, and that's how I
come to see that piece which I spoke
| about.
Tread that piece, and Tread it, and
the more I read it, and read about
Moses and farmers won't stick to-
gether, they are such fools,' and
''misrule and robbery" and ''banded
with our enemies" and "cajo!ery and
misrepresentation" and "ridicule," :"
the more l got mixed up, and finally
says I to John: John, says I, who is
B. R. Tillman
Now, Mister Editor, my John is
what folks call quiet, easy going
kind Of a man, till lie gets started,
then he's q whole team. lie don't
talk much, so, when I asked him that
question, he just said. Congress-
man." Congressman, John,' says
1, "where from o. "Edgefeld,'' says
he. "Why John,' says I, "if he's from
Edgefeld, he must be a Democrat?'
''Well Sally" says he, sort Of dry,
''he's Democrat now, l reckon. but be
wouldn't a been in the dark days of
'76,' as the politicians always say in
speaking, if he had. wrote that piece
then" "But john" says /, "what
does he want to be Moses in the
bulrushes for % GA what % says
John, squirting at me, "a Moses
says I. Dunno" says he. "And
then, John,'' says I, "who does he
mean when he says, we can con-
tinue our misrule and robbery?'" i
dunno" says John. "Well," says I,
she must be a talking about some
body else, for, if be is a Democrat,
he would not talk that way about the
folks now in Office. Have we rot
elected our own best men to Office for
nearly ten years? If there is mis-
rule and robbery why don't the peo'
pie turn 'em out Why don't lie
show where the 'nisrule and rob
berry comes in? Let him show them
up, if he can, and the judges are all
Democrats, and good men,"
While I was a talking John just
set there a squirting at me, and
when 1 sorter stopped to catch
breath, Sally" says he. "what in
thunder are ye talking about?''
about The Farmers Fight ;" says
l, whats printed in this here pa
per- '.Let me see it, says he, and
there he sat and read and read, and
the more he read, the redder he got
till l thought he'd bust, and never
said word, but only whistled like to
himself.
"Well, John,'' says I, "what is it,
"Ofice, Sally, office. Moses way
out Of the wilderness,' even I can
lead you out 'trustee,' 1 am can'
didate,' the ring which dominates
our State All them things, Sally
60 to make up a stump speech. You
know stump speeches are made by
candidates. He says measures and
not men, but I say men are ncces
sary to carry out measures, and as
the fellows cannot vote for old Nick
himself, why the natural conse
quence is, they will vote for the next
best man, not as trustee Of a real
farmers college, because there is nc
such Office, but for the man who led
them out Of the pretended wilder
ness Agricultural Moses prom.
ised land of Office everything is
possible to the man who works and
waits, even the farmer Governor,
United States Senate l tell you,
Sally. that's a capital stump speech
to be spoke, but l would not like tc
write it down. That about the $4,000
white voters who make q living al
farming, and who pay three, ,fourths
of the taxes won't bear scrutiny
Just wait minute, Sally, and II
chow ,-o,'