The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-04

w ell. SalQ ne, ne Was IOI DOy uloii
last night, but--l hear that be is for
Pope this morning." Judge Boynton
heard of the change and concluded to
wait later and take the last shot at him
just before voting time. This he did
and it got him. Well. you see there was
no principle involved and they were
both good men and what is poor
fellow to do but promise them both?
That's the way I do. When these cleo
tions are all over these farmers will feel
relieved and so will the country. 1t is
just awful to be dogged and be deviled
by all these candidates and all their
saterlites. hadn't been in the capitol
ten minutes before a fellow took me
out and asked me who I was for United
States senator. "Why, for myself"
said I. "If everybody is runnin,' why
not me too. I've driven steers to a
carrylog and dug 'taters. I picked cot
ton whole half day, and split several
rails and rode the mail and been stung
by a racksaddle. Why not-what's
the matter with me?n "What about the
sub-treasury," said he. "I'm for some
thing better, ~ said I. II stand on the
platform of Governor Northern's inau-
gural address, and a better one was
never delivered. He is true man, a
Just man, and l honor him for his caD-
did, conservative position. Georgians
have reason to be proud Of their COVER
nor" How modestiy he conducted his
candidacy, and when chosen, how
nodestly he assumed the dignity of his
Office! With him there has been no
strain, no strategy, no boosting, no
posing as martyr. And Paul said
unto Timothy: my son, magnify thine
office" but nowadays the precept is, to
magnify the candidate. This whole
business of campaigning for office has
been strained beyond its merits. wish
they would take Cobe's advice, who
didn't believe in straining anything.
He wouldn't shoot at a squirrel in the
top of high pine for fear of straining
his gun. He had little mouse-colored
mule, and he wouldn't plow deep for
fear of straining her. One day I noticed
him scratching my land, and I said:
"Cobe, why don't you get a longer
scooter, and why don't you bear down,
or get a big rock and weight down your
plow deeper: You will never make
anything scratching along this way"
Cobe stopped, and rolled his tobacco
around in his jaw, and said: "Well,
major, Is'pose I must do that, and plow
deeper, but this here land is sorter
thin, YOU know, and didn't want to
strain It." But national politics is the
biggest thing in the country now. 1t
is still a mystery what caused the
great .upheaving. I have perused all
the explanations and am not satisfied.
What made the change in Pennsylva-
MIA where the protective tariff has
always been so popular? My friends in
town have given me their various
opinions, but when I asked Albert
Strickland, the grocer, he looked as
wise as an owl and said that condensed
milk had more to do with it than any
thing else. Mckinley raised the tariff
on condensed milk cents can so that
Switzerland and Germany couldn't
compete and the American dairy
popped up the price and it made all the
yankees and Western people mad, for
they use it by the million-they raise
their babies on it just like the peo-
pie of Florida their calves on it. We
sell a sight Of it down here and our
last purchase cost US so cents a dozen
more than we ever paid before. And
50 " hen a woman wants some and
kicks about the price the merchant
tells her right straight that Mckinley
done it and she tells her husband, and
that makes him mad with Mckinley
and the whole protection concern. I'll
bet that the sudden rise on condensed
milk changed more votes in the North
and West than anything else, for it is
thing in universal use and as much
necessity as sugar or coffee, and the
rise came just in the nick Of time. I
sold six cans yesterday to Mrs. jenkins,
who is a yankee woman, you know,
and she was mad about the rise. She
said she had rallied all her babies on it.
The fact is it's getting unpopular to
raise even any other way. And then
again, Mckinley, like blasted fool,
raised the tariff on the tin plate that
the cans are made of. My suspicion is
that he oas got some stock in the con-
densed milk business
This put me to thinking. This may
be the milk that's in the cocoanut.
BILL ARP.
a Wall Street Wall.