The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-06
COMFORT IN DEFEAT.
Bill Arp Wants to Import Northern Re.
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/ These northern Republicans; who are
meanderripS aroind,. talk very. hopefully
of the situation. They say tat General
Harrison is gentleman and Christian,
and has no prejudices against the south,
and though he may have friends to re
ward he has no enemies to punish.
They say that be has force Of character
and great 6rmneas, and will be president
and run ths machine. They say that
northern people will be more willing to
come south, and they will come, and by
their conduct and dealing will command
our respect end confidence, and break up
the solid south.
Well; we are Willing to have it broken
| up In that way. There is no issue in
politics that is half as big as q reconcilia.
ton between the north and south: a
northern man said to me, II am making
investments here, and expect to move
here and bring my family. am re-.
publican, and have been all my life. 1t
is the next thing to my religion. The
more republicans you get down here the
better it will be for you. They will be q
breakwater between you and any oppres-
sion you may feat from General Harri.
sons administration. They cannot harm
you without haridiDg us. 1t Is the best
solution of the negro problem. 1.-The is
put over you be- will be put over US. We
expect to have soii1iie influence with the
administration, and that influence will
be for the good of your whole people"
There is some comfort in that kind OF
talk. I don't mean any offense, but l
couldn't help thinking about that wicked
old felloss who dreamed he diedfand went
to the bad place and dav the old devil
and the Internal fires and the little devils
shoveliug in the sulphur, and he saw
hundreds of his old aequaintances, and
when he waked up he was all in sweat
of perspiratfon and was 80 thankful it
was dream. He told 1t to the boys and
one said; dwas the FIRE uncommon hot,
Uncle Jake" Powerful hot" said he,
"but then it wasn't 30 bad as it mout
have been, for every white man I saw
had nigger between him and the fire."
30 [ rIck6n ne had better begin to
import good lot Of odr northern breth.
rem and put them in front about next
April and tell the administration to fire
away. Our Southern republicans will do
pretty we'll, but there are not enough of
/ them to 70 around. Nsbor Freeman has
promised to stand in front of tne, but his
limited diameter would not protect the
tanks of my corporosity. Onr Carriers.
Vile republicans are generally thin in
flesh and it will take about two to cover
one Cleveland democrat. Governor Bull.
lock would suit me mighty well but !
understand that Governor Brown has had
him Engaged fol three months back. Old
Joe. is always ahead. My friend A. l..
Harris would make splendid bullwark
for whole family and | hope he will
remember me when tronble comes.
A Tallapoosa Yankee said to me, eve
are going to build another town right
away. We have got Tallapoosa establish.
ed and she is solid as bed rcck. Town
property has not shrunk dollar. Our
glass works have been rebuilta and ohr fur
mace is nearly completed and we have
lots of smaller industries and there will
be hundreds of Michiganders and other
ganders down there this winter. We
have added four hundred and ninety
thousand dollars to the taxable returns
of Haralson county intwo years. In two
years ne have built town of nearly
5000 inhabitants, and expect to double
it in two years more; and now We are
going to build another town at Bluffton,
ten miles below Cave Spring. Here is
the plan and elevation of the hotel, which
is to cost seven thousand dol ars. The
hotel is the nrst house that we build, and
ne get first class man to keep, it. The
stomach of rich man is the first thing
to work on. Get him satisfied with him
self-feed him well-and he will trade.
When northern man comes down here
with his pocket full of money and finds
poor, dirty hotel, and none of the com:
forts be left behind him, he gets disgusted
and wants to get away ss quick as posi-
Bile. If you Gainesville people had any
gumption, you would build twenty
thousand dollar hotel the first thing, aod
have hot and cold baths and gas light,
and you would paint up that front block,
and paint that old depot, and make the
town look attractive. We will have q
bigger town at Bluffton in two yeers than
YOU have got at CartersVille, and three.
fourths of the people will believe yankees
that mean business. You have got the
best country in Georgia-I have been all
over it and know all about it-and your
natural wealth is just immense. There
is nothing like it or equal to it that l
have seen in all my travels, but your
people are asleep; you don't advertise ;
the northern people don't know anything
about you you have spent three or four
hundred dollars on printers ink and think
you have done wonders. We spent
ssventy.fye thousand dollars in advertis-
ing the first year in Tallapoosa, seventy
FIVE thousand dollars in cash, and ne got
fi7e dollars back for everyone We put out.
Old Zack Chandler when he was COVER
nor of Michigan got the Legislature to
appropriate two hundred thousand dollars
for printers ink for advertising the state,
and the result was an increase Of four
hundred thousand in her population in
four years by immigration and eighteen
millions in the value of her property.
1t takes people to make town, and it
you don't call them they won't come. II
you can get half a dozen live yankees to
locate iu your town and hire them to 60
back and drum for you, and furnish theta
with balf million little pamphlets with
some pictures in them and plenty of in.
formation about your county, and then
see the principal railroad lines and ar
range for excursion rates to Csrtersville
and return your little old hotel couldn't
accommodate half the people who would
come"
"My friend" said 1, 'you alarm me.
Your picture is beautiful, very beautiful,
but "But what ?" said he. "Well, l
was thinking" said I, "that-that maybe
too many would come and crowd us out.
You see ne are raising right smart chill
dren ourselves and We want your clever
northern friends to come down and mix
up aud invest and all that, but ne don't
want freshet. Let's sorter divide this
thing about half and half. We haven't
got any seventy five thousand dollars but
| If we knew that thousand dollars or 30
spent in printers ink would double our
population and set a thousand little
wheels in motion and that your people
when they come would pay us back what
we spent in calling them to this paradise,
] T think ,uo onnld ro;ood tho nnnnv