The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-21
DOWN ON THURMAN.
Bill Arp Doesn't like the Tail of the
Ticket.

Bill Arp Doesn't like the Tail OF the
Ticket.
Hurrah for Cleveland I will say that
every time. But am like Pope Barrow
about Thurman. don't care anything
about him, and for the best reason in the
world-he don't care anything about me.
He hurt my feelings with malice afore-
thought. He made Hong Kong goose
of himself about Henry r. Jack'on's
speech in Macon and our tribute to Mr..
Davis, and when it was all explained, he
didn't have the manliness to make
decent apology. He is a little too uppity
and biggity for us common folks. He
thinks he is Jupiter and We are nothing
but a moon. What was said or done at
Macon was none of his business. BE was
hunting around and snufing the air for
treason and thought he had found it, and
so be fred of ani alarm gun and paved
dirt and throwed mid and-and SO I've
lost about 80 per cent of my respect for
him and the other ten for his red ian.
dana. When ne elect Mr.. Cleveland l
want his life insured for four years for
I'm afraid of Thurman. Mrs. Arp has
said all the time that the northern demo.
Gratis we're no better at heart than the
northern republicans and she sticks to it.
1t is not mans politics that makes him
q gentleman. In fact the republicans of
the north represent the wealth and re.
fnement of their people. They consti.
tute their best society. The democratic
party of the north has got rs per cent of
all the ragtag and bobtail element in it
all the acurf of immigration that lands at
the battery. It is pity that Ben Hill
could not have carried out his wishes as
expressed in the Crittenden letter and
made DIP new party composed of the
better class of northern republicans and
southern democrats. Such party would
have smothered the anarchists at their
birth and established our institutions
and made our liberties more secure. I
like these northern republicans who are
coming down here to mingle with us.
They are shrewd and practical, and they
are gentlemen. I have met dozen or
30 lately who are looking round for in.
vestments, and like them. I dined
with couple yesterday, and Eat right
between them, and got as much dinner
as I wanted.
Now, we all admire Mr.. Cleveland, not
so much for his democracy as for his
pluck and fearless honesty. He is a
leader, and not follower. He runs the
machine, and so far has run it rretty
we'll. He does not try to carry water
on both shoulders and please everybody,
for he knows he can't. But every card
he plays is trump. Every veto he
signs is right. In fact, he is about the
only watchdog the treasury has got. The
members of congress are all log-rolling.
They are playing the game of you tickle
me, and I'll tickle you; you vote for my
bill and I'll vote for yours; you build
me 100000 postof6ce, and I'll build
you one," when the truth is neither of
them ought to be built, Now, if Caters.
vile was in the pot maybe I could see
different, but she is not, and so we are
opposed to the big fish swallowing up the
little ones and cutting the treasury just
because there is surplus there. That is
the way all these fraudulent pension bills
are passed. Nobody watches them but
Mr.. Cleveland. They are to watch, for
every member has go. some pet bills OF.
his own and he wants votes. Once in
while they will rare up and cavort and
abuse one another terrific, and send their
big speeches to their constituents, and
that night they will get together and hob
mob and plot and scheme to put their
bills through. They are like the lawyers
in courthouse who get awful mad and
abuse each others clients ten dollars
worth and then compromise and both
sides take hundred out of the pile.
And so the American people are now
looking to Mr.. Cleveland for protection
against congressional rascality. His
message about that surplus and reducing
the tariff is right, but he is not for free
trade. Of course he is not-nobody is,
but everybody is for reduction-a re.
duction on everything that he is not
making himself. We are obliged to have
tariff for revenue, for We can't run the
machine without it. But if the whis.
ky revenue is to be collected after the
old fashion we won't need much of a
tariff on other things. It rolls about 100
millions into the treasury now and is
rapidly increasing. France runs her gov
ernment mainly on tobacco. She buys
all that is made or imported and sells it
again for two or three times its cost and
pours the profit into the treasury, but ne
run ours on whisky, and the devil says it
is. good way, but I think the money
ought to be set apart to build orphan
asylums in every town or city. The laws
ofsparta required that all the spoils taken
from their enemies in battle should be
appropriated to the support of the fam
lilies of those who fell in the fight, and
that was right and just and encouraged
patriotism. Just so, all the revenue from
whisky should be set apart as sacred
fund with which to repair as far as posi-
BILE the ruin it does under national pro.
lection. If Atlanta gets fifty thousand
dollars year from licenses, that money
ought to go to buy food and clothing and
fuel for the wives and children of the
poor men who spent it at the barrooms.
Put r. ripht hack where it came from