The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-15

The black gum leaves are turning req
The sycamores are yellow,
Possums and simmons now are ripe
And may pops getting mellow.
The clouds are running at the nose
The winds begin to shiver,
By day we want more warmer clothes,
By night we want more kiYer.
like winter-not six long months OF
snow and ice and bowling winds but
about three months of decent cold
weather interspersed with Indian sum.
mer and spare ribs and home made sau.
sage and oysters and partridges. 1t is
Just cold enough here in North Georgia
to brace man up and make him step
around lively. We have got the climate
on our Northern brethren, and that is
something their money cannot buy. II
it would they would have had it all
before now and been peddling 1t around
like patent Observation-Disclosures would
have it bottled up and advertised, and
be selling it back to US adulterated for
kidney cure. Our climate is the best
harbinger of peace between the sections.
They have got to come down here to
enjoy it, and they will mix up with our
people and marry, and give us cross
that will harmonize things all round. I
had good, long letter yesterday from an
Ohio man, who says he bad to come
South few years ago on business, but
he found kind welcome and good
people, and before he knew it fell in love
with an Atlanta girl and married her.
His kindred and friends were hs much
Mortified as when Gentle marries o
Jew, but they soon got reconcied when
they made her acquaintance. BE says
be is q Republican because he was
born and raised that way, but he talks
up for the South, and there are good
many who would do the same thing if
their bread and butter was not on the
other side. "The newspapers wave the
bloody shirt and weep for The poor negro,
and that keeps up the bitterness, and it
looks like it will never stop. The
wealthy people are most all Republicans
and their workmen must vote that way
or be discharged. I'll lived down South l
would be Democrat, for the same rea.
son that am a Republican up North.
There is nothing at stake between the
two parties, except the Offices and the
spoils, and as have no expectation of
either, prefer the party whose people /
like best socially"
Now that man does not believe there
is any peril to the South in the election
of Harrison. He has inherited his poll.
tics just like be did his religion, and he
can't change it. The foaters and vaga!
bonds will change for little money, but
among respectable people it takes deep
thought and moral courage to make a
change. Beecher changed, and Conk-
ling, and the Harpera, but with all their
influence there were but handful who
changed and came over to Cleveland.
The press and the pulpit, and the society
are against it, and common man is not
going to butt against all these. From
all accounts it looks like CIeyeland's 3
luck was in peril and the South may be
set back where she was few years ago,
but there is no good sense in worrying
about what we cannot help. It is mighty
hard I know to take everything az it
. comes and be calm and serene. The
good book says, "Fret not tbyself
because of eyil.doers." That is good
PHILOSOPHY, but the man who wrote it
fretted good deal himself. Moses
fretted, and so did Solomon and Jere.
miah. Abraham said, "Few and evil
have been the days of the years of my
pilgrimage" expect he fretted good
deal. Preachers fret just like the other
people. Our preacher told us not long
ago of an ancient king who called upon
an old philosopher to give him maxim
or motto that would be a comfort in every
ahliction, and the old man wrote on q
slip Of paper; Even this shall pass
away"
And 80 I am going to quit worrying
about the election. OF course I want
MI. Cleveland elected, for he is an hon.
est and true man, but suppose he is not,
I reckon the work will just roll on and
80 will this great government. If Harri.
~son is elected it is nothing but a little
tester and I'm not going to squeeze it
before it is ripe. 1t will pass away of
itself maybe. There are enough g ,od
people North and South to keep The
train on the track. If the Republicans
get all the Offices I reckon they will be
satisfied. When they get in power and
get to plundering the treasury in the
good old way, they will be as sweet as
sugar, and re will hear no more of the
poor niger for several years. And We
will hear no more of the tariff nor of o
war with Johny Bull. What "ridicu.
lous muss" both parties have made Of
that tariff business. I thought that the
Democrats we're going to do something
wonderful in the way of reform, but
after the Mills bill was cut and trimmed
and pruned, the whole reduction was
only from Al down to 42 per cent. Only
FIVE per cent less than it was before a
great big little thing wasen't it? The
Democrats said to the farmers, "Oh we
are going to do something big for you.
We are going to cheaper everything that
you have to buy" I thought that Row.
land, who runs my farm, would get a
pair of two. dollar blankets for dollar
and quarter, and dollar for fifty cents,
and pair of trace chains for a quarter
and good wagon for fifty dollars, but
everything will be about the same,
whether the Mills bill passes or not.
The Democrats started out in Mr. Cleve.
lands line as bold as a lion, but they
took the back track, and now it is twee.
die dun and tweedle dee, and how that
surplus in the treasury is to be depleted
and kept down nobody knows. The Mills
bill won't do it. If they don't divide it
out among the States don't see how the
money will ever get back to the people
from whose pockets it was taken. | wish
they would divide it out among the
States every year. Then Georgia would
get about FIVE millions and We could bend
our children to school all the year round
and pension ever invalid soldier and sol
diera' widow in the State, and pay our
taxes besides. The South is all right
anyhow; she is coming to the front
again in her material prosperity. Her
towns and cities arc building up wher-
ever I go, and they can't build up with.
out the country does. was at Americus
and Dawson and I.umpkin last week and
was astonished at their progress. Within
the last two years Americus has built
waterworks and gRsworks and an ice fac.
tory and two com presses and an oil mill
and two railroads and nearly doubled
her population. Colonel Hawkins has
h,,;tt n roo1 10S ro;1o, Io,r ~ tbo old