The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-03-15

no big thing. The communities OF Line
Vile and Ashland are as well to do as
can be found in any farming country.
There are no dilapidated homesteads to
be seen. No rotten fences or perished
out stock. They raise their own corn
and meat. They sell more than they
buy, and have accumulated enough to
build academies and churches of good
style and capacity. The schools are
prospecting and nothing seems lacking to
their happiness save railroad. They
average about thirty miles from rail-
road market, and have to cross noun.
tains that are trial and trouble, and |
was told that it cost those people about
fifty thousand dollars year to wagon
their commerce to market and back.
They raise eight thousand bales of cot.
ton, and it costs two dollars and half
bale to get it 10 railroad. Well, they
have fine land, and they have iron and
tin and copper and gold, but they want q
railroad. don't think that railroad
will increase their happiness, but it looks
like their time has come for q railroad.
There are grown.up children over there
who never saw a circus, nor monkey
show, nor the negro minstrels, nor slight
of hand. The book agents get over there,
and just harvest. Now shall we give
those good, kind hearted, hospitable'
Christian people chance to gee some of
these things, or not. That county has
sent out lots of good men, and great
men, from Senator Morgan down. They
are all for Morgan over there. Well, it
is strange that mounting range should
make such a difference in people. All
for protection on one side and all against
it on the other. I'm afraid that our peo.
pie are not going to harmonic on this
great question. Politics is a hard road
to travel. Tt is science and has to be
studied just like mathematics or any
other science. If man succeeds he is
success whether he is right or wrong. 1
remember that long time ago Alfred
Holt ran against Charley Davis for the
Legislature in Walton county. Holt
was whig and Davis was a Democrat,
and they were both awful ugly, and
favored each other so much you couldn't
hardly tell them apart except by their
clothes. The race was getting pretty hot
and it was about nip and tuck between
them. Davis had flea bitten gray horse
that he always rode. So one Saturday
morning Holt borrowed another flea
bitten gray and started over to Vinegar
Hill districts, and just before he got there
he met fellow who howdy'd with him
and called him Squire Davis. Holt
never let on, but he asked the fellow how
the boys were going to vote and he saw
sLat most of 'em were for Davis, and
that it was narrated around that Holt
was proud, stuck up fellow and wore a
ruf1ed shirt and a breast.pin.
Holt said that he didn't reckon that
was so, and that Holt wouldnen't get
any votes, but from poor folks who
diden't own foot of land-and said he:
"I don't want them sort. I don't want
any poor man to vote for me. If I cart
get the rich folks to vote for me, l don't
want to be elected. I don't want any
many to vote for me who amt worth q
thousand dollars and owns the land he
lives on. Do you.tell your nabors that I
amt hunting for poor mems votes. I
don't want en-" And he left him and
went. back home. Well the fellow
thought it was Davis, and be was mighty
mad, for he was poor man himself, and
so he spread the news and it got all over
the county, and when Davis denied it
the fellow made an affidavit and swore to
it, and described the man and the horse,
and as the election came off before Davis
could straighten it out be got badly
beaten. But it got out before the next
election and Davis got in aud then he
got out to be Judge of the circuit and got
uglier and uglier IS long as he lived.
But he was a good man and good law
yer and made good Judge. There are
tricks in all trades, but more tricks in
politics than any other. We are going
to have fun in our districts this year, for
the boys are hungry for Office and there
are not enough to go round and they say
that rotation is sound Democratic doc.
trine and I. reckon it is. I thought we
were badly hurt when Nat Hammond
was beaten for Congress, but ! believe
that Judge Stewart is making 6rst.rate
member. I thought it was an outrage
when Judge Branham was beaten, but
Judge Mattox is making splendid Judge