Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-11-27
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""I4et not him boast who pntteth
his armor on like him who taketh 1t
off "Let those laugh who win"
she laughs best who laughs last
and other maxims to that effect. We
have had a little episode 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.
It is right hard on q Teller to lose
his man and his money, too. If a
man will bet o an election, I have
always thought he ought to bet
against his desires, and then if he
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 a swing
around here and all, along the rail
road for 1870 miles. just think of d
Congressional District 1870 miles
long, and a great railroad splitting 1t
in two, and sixteen towns along the
line, and the city of Rome red hod
besides, and almost everybody hol-
lering for FELTON,. "He is bound to
win," said his friends, "the devil
can't beat him." and so they staked
their p~ocketbooks until they were
empty, and they are empty still.
But these farmers--"these ALI
ancemen"-they made no noise, they
kicked up no dust, they waited until
they could see the whites of the enc
mics eyes, and then they fired all
along the line. The woods were full
of them. Where did they all come
from? 1t r. minded me of the old
times when DE-. Miller used to run
against Lumk'n in this same District.
They stumped it together, and had
big b%arbecues, and the sovereigns
came out by the thousand and eat
the meat and drank the eloquence,
for DIR. Miller had rs much reputa-
ton then as DIR. FELTON, has got now,
and he vas called the Demosthenese
of the mountains. Lumkin was a
big, beofy, thick-tongued man and
couldn't elocute very much, but he
was a Democrat, while DR.. Miller
was a Wing. He made Lumkin sick
on every stump-so sick that some
times when he had the conclusion he
woulden't take it, and the boys all
shouted for Miller, and toted him
around like the old Virginians used
to tote Patrick Henry. Good gra-
cious, what q 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 everlastingly showed
the doctor under. I hadn't forgot.
ton those memorable campaigns, and
hence l didn't bank my faith in a
sanguinary manner upon DR.. Felton's
success. I kept 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
were just obliged to have DR.. FELTON,
in Congress to fight the impending
battle, and lead the forces and cleo
trify the Democracy, and swing his
Damascus blade and put i'll his hal
leluia ticks and save the nation, but
the news OF our victories has come
over Is like the sounds of many
waters, and hope has revived and
freedom has quit sbrieking, and now
maybe we can get along without the
doctor. Maybe we can. I expect
the old man Eloquent has fought
his last fight, and he fought it nobly.
He fought to save the Rare Demo-
cracy, but maybe it is not 70 be
saved. | see that MI. German, n
of the 4slliance leaders, says that
Democracy is oead and Republican
ism is dead and the peoples party
is going to u tho machine. Col.
Polk said that long ago, and so did
Livingstone, but it was all smothered
until after the elections. It will
come out now, and it ought to.
There are as many Republicans in the
Alliance up North and Northwest as
there are Democrats, and they are
obliged to have a new namo. Mr..
German is right, and if the new
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