The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-20
BILL AND THE GRIP.
Th, "PreraiiinG'' Attacks the Philosopher
Says He Would Like to Get Grip
OH Speaker Reed.

Says He Would Like to Get Grip
OH Speaker Reed.
La grippe, Ia influenza, la catarrh,
ia epiZoot, a nose and mouth and throat
and chest-la ten handkerchiefs a day
and one under the pillow at night
IA blow and sneeZe aud cough and eX-
pectorate, and nobody wants your COM
! pany and you want nobody's company.
: When will this thing stop? The rag
ged edge is worse than the beginning;
! the tail is worse than the comet. Take
! quinine! Done taken it, and it makes
me sick at the stomach. Put some tur-
pentine or kerosene oil on a strip OF
flannel and apply it to your throat and
breast. Done done it until I am burnt
raw and smell like drug store. Maybe
YOU had better take Dover's powder
and 60 to sleep, which [ did, and
dreamed of fighting black snake that
was trying to make me swallow it, and
wouldent, and finally I got choked
with the Shiny thing, and woke up and
cleared my throat in the foot tub. But
am convalescing now, sorter, and
! cross enough to spank a grand-child If
the mother wasent about. | think |
would enjoy small fight with some
body. Iwould like to try Tom Reed
if he was in reach and wasent too big.
reckon its all right to fight Tom Reed
and to abuse him and denounce him,
and raise as big rumpus as possible,
but for the life of me, can't see what
good it does. Tom Reed is only the
mouthpiece of his party. His tyrani-
cal rulings have already been agreed
upon. They have got the power, and
where there is a will there is a way.
Why not give them rope and let them
run the machine for three years longer.
We don't care about the offices, nohoW,
but what does trouble me, is that the
administration is manifestly against
the South, and does not want peace.
Mr.. Harrison has disappointed US. We
had hoped for him as a Christian gen
tleman. He had an opportunity-a
glorious opportunity-to make peace
and harmonic the sections. We
thought that he wasent a politician,
but a pure man and statesman, but
he seems to be small and selfish and
vindictive. He wants the Southern
Republican vote in the next nominat-
ing convention. That means the vote
of the negroes, and so he must throw
them a bone or two to pick. Buck
tells him that Matt Davis must have
the postoffice at Athens or else Matt
will kick and Matt is high kicker.
There are score of clever white Re-
publicans in Athens who would like
the office and are fit for it but Buck
says they cant control the negro vote
and so Athens-classic refined Athens
must be insulted. A negro is to have
the postof1ice-an office that brings
him in daily, hourly contact with six
thousand white people. Ah, my coun-
try-somebody hand me the cologne
my head aches and my eyes are run
ming water.
Now General Harrison knows that
the surest way to make race trouble
at the South is to appoint negroes to
such offices. Our people will not stand
it. We have enough to bear without
being insulted. 1t is enough that we
pay our part every year ofone hundred
millions of pension money to Northern
pensioners. That we pay OUR part of
the public debt that grew out of the
war. It is enough that our land was
swept with fire and desolation and our
negroes set free without compensation.
And now we are taxing ourselves to
to educate these very negroes and their
children, and we tax ourselves to pen
sion our own invalid and manned SOL
diers. But the time will come when
our people will rise up as one man and
say: thus far shalt thou go, and no far
ther. Please hand me the camphor
bottle, somebody, oh! my long-suffer-
ing nose.
Yes, boycott him. Let every South
ern merchant boycott John Wana-
maker. He has proved himself an un-
principled, unrelenting enemy. He
has been entreated and importuned to
give Athens white man, and will not
even give respectful answer. Now,
if Buck is moving him, then let the
people of Atlanta boycott Buck. Don't
speak to him. Ostracise him. Rule
him out Of all respectable society. Let
him feel what it is to insult our people
with his appointments. This is not
party question-why even in Missouri
Judge Field has just nonsuited negro
who sued for damages because he was
not allowed to sit in the dress circle
with the white folks. All honor to
Judge Field. Yes, boycott him-I
wouldn't buy a hat or a cravat from a
merchant who would trade with Wan
amaker. Let the South stand firm on
the color line. The North does not
understand US on this question and
never will until they come down and
stay long enough to see it just as it is.
General Grant knew all about it, and
hence he declared that he was not fight
ing for the negroes. There are thou
sands of Northern people who don't
know that General Grant was slave
owner when the war began. was
talking to Boston man the other day
and he smiled smile Of utter incredu-