The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-16
BILL ARP In ARKANSAS.
THE GEORGIA PHILOSOPHERS CLOSE
OBSERVATIONS.
What He Thinks OF the Wheel organi-
zation-The Charming and Progress
i've Towns He struck-Little Rock-A
Red-Hot Gubernatorial Fight.
BIZ Arp, in the Atlanta Constitution.


not got quite as much scandal as we had in
our last Governors election, but they have
plenty and some to spare. There are five
candidates for Governor, and they are taxi
ing the grand rounds together in canvass
ing the State. They go from town to town,
and all speak to the same crowd from the
same platform. An intelligent consersa-
tive gentleman told me they were all good
men and the State in no peril, but found
many people excited over the convict bus
mess. A convict was found dead and COW |
cred up in pile Of rubbish in the Coal
Hill mines, and the horror OF II has spread |
all over the State. Some hold Gov.
Hughes responsible, and denounce him as
unfit for his Office. With others this abuse
has created reaction in his favor, and
even his ukewarm friends say he has been
so unjustly slandered that they intend
to support him. Then, again, they
have found out that he travels on
a free pass from railroad monop-
oily that is unpopular, and his enemies are
seeking to make capital OF that. One OF
the candidates breaches the pass and the
convict, wherever he goes. Nevertheless, !
believe that Gov. Hughes will be nomi-
mated. Then there is the Wheel element
that has to be conciliated. The Wheel Is
right big thing just now in Arkansas, and
has its organization and its organ in every
county. 1t is something like the old
Georgia grange, or may be like the farm
ers' alliance, and, OF course, is running
| ...s. Thnra x,aa M aoanaio.
ton OF farmers that was not broken up by
political aspirants. The average farmer Is
easily fooled, and is so unsuspecting he is
drawn into the political net before he
knows il. An old solid Wheeler, who
thought he saw deliverance near at hand,
asked me how the Wheel was doing in
Georgia. "Ah, my FRIEND" said /, Eve
have had that disease and got well OF 1t.
, We did not call IL the Wheel, but II was
the same thing under another name. The
farmers have TO have three epidemics,
lust like children have TO have the
, measels or whooping cough, but they
soon will be well OF il. Ii never kills
, ANYBODY. Your people here in Arkansas
are a little behind, but the Wheel will
, soon roll away and leave you about as well
of rs it found you. In some portions OF
your State notice that the Wheelers are
already coalescing The skin is peeling
|, of and the scales falling from their eyes.
There is the Grange and the Alliance and
q the Wheel that, like the old know-nothing
> party, all die OF the same thing. This re-
minds me OF the inscription on tomb
r, stone at Helena. The doctors would not
q. admit that the yellow fever was there in
!, 1878, but said that il was pretty "the
I same thing" and so when an old eccentric
man was taken down, and knew his time
n had come, he told the doctor 10 sec him
q decently buried, and 10 have inscribed
! upon his tombstone: "Died OF the same
!. thing" and IL is there.
Strawberries Strawberries, was the cry
all along the platform at Beebe. The boy,
held up their baskets OF the beautiful
fruit to the car window and wanted fifteen
cents quart. | stopped at Beebe and
made recognizance OF the strawben,
business. There are only 300 acres o
strawberries in the vicinity OF that pleas
ant village. They were shipping abou
500 crates a day 10 st. Louis and kansa
City. A crate contains twenty-four quarts
and up TO that date the net returns from
crates had averaged three dollars a crate
Just think OF IL children Just imagine
400 bushels Of beautiful strawberries in on
pile and another pile Just rs large TO go 10
4
are this year, and there seems 10 be some
thing in the climate or in the soil OF Beeb
that grows them better than elsewhere
When left there n friend placed on III
seat beside me a double basket OF the fines
ever saw. At the next station humbl
woman with a tired face and two it'll
children came aboard, and so the berrie
were very handy TO keep the mother cheel
ful and tho kids in good humor Tor tint
We passed station called Bald Knob, an
N a northern lady looked out and saw III
he awful name, and gave a startled look .
"A she shrank up 10 her husband and SAT-
"IIere is where the robbers live" Bt
~ she was mistaken, for the real Bald Knoll
y, bers haunted another state.
~ Batesville Is q splendid old town
,'e about 5000 people, and Is thirty mill
hho away from the main trunk railroad lin
~ IL has a little railroad Of Us own, and h,
~, people don't care a cent II II docs tai
WI three hours TO make the trip. They "a
that time u not 10 scarce" there M II IA
. other placcs-that the days are longer an
% more Of them, and tho birds sing sweete
and the girls arc lovelier and eyerybod
happier than anywhere else In the wic
world. As we journcyed 10 the town
RI gallant and susceptible drummer kiss
~. his hand 10 pretty girl who was standir
y" In q cottage door, and said, Good NOR
nal ing, honey darling, you look nigh
iris sweet with your Mother Hubbard on
! Somebody will get that ardent youth wi
en- a shotgun u he don't mind, but he says
ier always salutes them when they have {
~. Mother Hubbard and the cars are mo
ed; ing up lively.
The Batcsville Ia rock.built town. The
'erl IL salmon colored stone near by III
quarrics rs smooth and as rectangular
brick. They split II into blocks about 8
inches thick and that occupy the space
.,a. about twelve bricks and the masons bui
the stone houses quicker and cheaper th
$40 they can build n brick one. These roc
nm Ir,a, built walls give the town n straw colon
'N"' shade that can be found nowhere eli
,urr The town Is situated on White river, ii
riv. II nayigable, and ! saw two respectful
.s 10y steamboats, nj the wharf. The surroun
We, ing ridges are crowned with cedar n
whole train loads and boat loads are me
q . ing every day. Iron and magan,
,, os abound and the railroad has been {
iect tended 20 the mines. The farms on /
DOL river and In tho valleys TEEN with RI
ma. products Of grain and cotton. and
enc whole country reminds me Of our o.
! OF beautiful north Georgia.
iot Scarcy II another town that Is oil
=" main limo Of the Iron Mountain railro'
inch A four mile rido ON street car brings y