The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1890-10-08
Arp on Politics.
He Says Everything is ina Bad Mess.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
Was there ever such a political
muss in Georgia? Gordon and Nor
wood and Livingstone and Peek all
fussing, and Ex-Governor Smith and
Judge Hines in the bushes with their
coats off. Gordon says Norwood is
a demagogue, and uses language on
Livingston. Of course they had to
bring poor Tom Lyon into it as a
side show. But Tom can stand 1t.
Norwood says he does not like the
word demagogue, and he challenges
Gordon for a talk. They all seem to
be. friends to the farmer, and are al
most ready to die for him. This
sudden and extraordinary love for
the farmer is veryteuching and pa
thetic, and I wish there were four or
five Senators to elect. Such deyo-
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ton deserves to be rewarded. To a
man up in a tree the whole thing
looks peculiar, and somehow reminds
us Of the soldier who got scared
early and wanted to go home. So,
while the minnie balls were singing
and whistlng all around him, he wac
found behind a tree with his arms
outstretched, and was waving them
up and down vigorously. "Nhst
are you doing, JaEe?" said acomrade.
Il want to go home" said he, "and I
am waving for a Through" He
wanted to get shot in the hand.
There is many an office seeker, many
a political soldier waving for a fur
Tough now.
What is all this racket about any
how? Who started it? Who told
the farmers that they were oppressed
and mistreated and imposed upon by
| all the rest of mankind? Gen. Cor
don says he has been sympathizing
with them for seventeen years, and
MIR. Norwood has been troubled all
his life about them. Governor Smith
is awfully sorry for them. Living
ston has wept in great anguish for
them.
Well, it must be a bad, sad case,
but to save! my life I can't cry a bit.
I wish that could. When I seefolks
weeping all around me, and I can't
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heart. I'm afraid I've got ca7Y
loused in my old age. I farmed as
| hard as 7 could for eleven years, and
never found out that I was oppressed.
I worked in the field with my boys.
We planted and plowed and hoed
and moved grass and raised horses
and cattle, and sold our produce for
a good price.
Our corr always brought SO cents
a bushel at the crib and our hay 500
a ton, and nobody ever came and
| told me that I was imposed upon,
and I was such a fool l never found
it out yet. Joe. Bradley has been
farming right close by for twenty
years and he hasn't found it out yet.
| He must be an awful fool. Joe used
to bring his cotton to my gin before
I got up and l asked him n day
how he managed to make so much
cotton and corr and wheat and oats,
and raise so many fat hogs, End send
his daughter to town to school, and
buy e piano and all that. Joe smiled
and said: wei you must know that
if I do not see the sun rise in the
morning I have q headache ell day,
and as my house is down in hollow.
I have got to go to the corn field Or
cotton patch to see the sun rise" I'll
bet so that Joe don't belong to the
Alliance. He hasn't got time. When
a rainy day comes you will find him
in his workshop making pillow stock,
or mending his harness, Or cleaning
out his stable. He saves every spade
full of barnyard manure and puts it
on his land. I had one tenant WHO
worked hard and prospered. I had
two others who were always behind.
They had a power of business at the
mill or at town or at some meeting
house, and when the creek was
muddy they were just obliged to
go seining. Their crops were always
in the grass, and they arein the grass
yet I reckon. They belonged to the
Alliance, and are waiting for some-
thing to turn up. This is plain talk,
but it is true talk. The greatest
enemy the farmer has got is his W
Incidence. No man succeeds at any
thing who does not work diligently.
If a mar would work as hard on his
farm as Reub Satterfeld does in his
store, he would prosper. Mr.. Satter-
field is a good merchant. He. is at
his store before I get up. His din
ner is set to him On busy days After
supper he goes back to his store and
works on his books. He isnever idle
and is making money. It is the same
way with all trades and professions.
It is very nice and pleasant to set
about and talk and read the news,