The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-11-20
BILL ARP'S CHAT.
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atlanta Constitution.
"Let not him boast who putteth his
armor on like him who taketh it off,"
"Let those laugh who win, "He laughs
best who laughs last" and other maxims
to that effect. We have had little cpl.
code up here in the mountains, and the
way it has turned out it looks like some
Of US laughed at the wrong time. But it
is all over now, and we can all laugh,
except those sanguine individuals who
staked their greenbacks and lost. They
are not yet calm and serene. 1t is right
hard on feller to lose his man and his
money, too. If q man will bet on an
election, I have always thought he ought
to bet against his desires, and then if be
wins he has got his money, and if he
loses he has got his man, and so comes
down easy.
Well, it did look like the old doctor
had everything in swing around here
and all along the railroad for 130 miles.
Just think of a congressional district 130
miles long, and great railroad splitting
it in two, and sixteen towns along the
line, and the city of Rome red hot be.
sides, and almost everybody holleripg for
FELTON,. "He is bound 10 win," said his
friends, "the devil can't beat him." and
so they staked their pocketbooks until
they were empty, and they are empty
still.
But these farmers "these Alliance.
men"-they made no noise, they kicked
up no dust, they waited until they could
see the whites Of the enemies eyes, and
then they fired all along the line. The
woods were full of them. Where did
they all come from? It reminded me of
the old times when DR.. Miller used to
run against Lumpkin in this same dis
trict. They stumped it together, End
had big barbecues, and the sovereign
came out by the thousand aud eat the
meat and drank'the eloquence, for DR..
Miller had as much reputation then as
DR.. FELTON, has got now, and he was call
ed the Demosthenese Of the mountains
Lumpkin was a big, beefy, thick. tongued
man and couldn't elocute very much, but
he was democrat, while DR.. Miller was
whig. He made Lumpkin sick on
cfeIJ QUILL AP-So oiSh .uot aoW0tAACo
when he had the conclusion he wouldent
take it, and the boys all shouted for Mil
Ter, and toted him around like the old
Virginians used to tote Patrick Henry.
Good gracious, what racket they made,
but when election day came the wool
hats came slipping out from their log
cabins and hollow logs, and from under
the clay roots and other hiding places,
and just eyerlastingly showed the doctor.
I hadent forgotten those memorable cam.
paigns, and hence I dident bank my faith
in sanguinary manner upon DR.. Eel
toms success. kept one ear open to
hear something drop, and it dropped.
But we can all laugh and rejoice now,
for there are bigger things than the
seventh district. The nation is safe, and
that is victory enough to satisfy anybody.
We did think that we we're just obliged
to have DR.. FELTON, in congress to fight
the impending battle, and lead the forces
and electrify the democracy, and swing
his Damascus blade and put in his halle.
lula licks and save the nation, but the
news of our victories have come over US
like the sounds of many waters, and hope
has revived and freedom has quit shrek.
ing, and now maybe we can get along
without the doctor. Maybe we can. l
expect the old man Eloquent has fought
his last fight, and he fought it nobly.
He fought to save the pure democracy,
but maybe it is not to be saved. see
that Mr.. German, one of the Alliance
leaders, says that democracy is dead and
Republicanism is dead and the peoples
party are going to run the machine.
Colonel Polk said that long ago, and SO
did Livingston, but it was all smothered
until after the elections. 1t will come
out now, and it ought to. There are as
many republicans in the Alliance up
north and northwest as there are democ-
rats, and they are obliged to have new
name. Mr.. German is right, and if the
new party will do right that is all we
want. But right now, when the demo-
cracy has won these signal victories, we
think the southern Alliance ought to fall
into line and let the good old dog wag
his tail little while longer.
But reckon ne will all stand aside
and let the farmers have their own way.
Fighting them don't seem to do any
good.
1t is like Colonel Patterson, of North
Alabama, who, at his first battle with the
yankees, was ordered to take his sregiment
and charge battery that was away over
on hill and was throwing an occasional
shell down in the valley. "Boys," said
he, "you must shoot a chargin', and
charge o shootin', and we'll get 'em."
And they did, but when they got within
about a quarter of mile the battery
suddenly turned loose terrific yolly Of
grape and canister upon them, which
demoralized the colonel and he waived
his sword and shouted: "Boys quit
shootin' at 'erl-quit shooting I say, for
it Just makes 'em madden"
We will just quit shooting at the far
mers, and if they can get the subtreasury
and run it, let them do it. Ifthey can't,
then let them get something better. Let
us all wait and see. If the good old
democratic party has got to die, let them
kill it. Our Georgia farmers are not in
any desperate condition and will do
nothing rash or unreasonable. They
are better off than they were year ago.
The tax returns and the canceled mort.
cages prove that. The fathers of Barlow
were never in so prosperous condition.
Just contrast them with the farmers of
Kansas, where, out of 10000 farms,
$4,000 are under mortgage. Just think
of that And 10000 Of these mortgages
have been foreclosed, and the farmers
who once owned them are tenants ct will,
liable to be turned out at any day. What
is the matter there? If the laws are op.
pressive, why don't the same laws bring
ruin here, too? There is not but
one farm in twenty four that has mort
gage upon it in Barlow County. What
is the cause of this great and alarming
difference between the farming interests
of the North and the South? Why is it
that Maine and New Hampshire and
Vermont have been partially abandoned
by the farmers? Why is it that so many
of the farms in New York and Illinois,
Kansas and Missouri are under mort
gage? wish that we did know. Ifit
is the laws, please let us know what laws.
And this reminds me of what have
just read in the Andover Revieac for No:
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