The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-25
WHATS THE MATTER WITH ELI:
He Talks abou: Coosaw &Ed the fricc OF
Cotton-"The S:,l,ie" Should be The
Mrs, Sallie Tillman''-A Diagnosis
OF the Political Epidemic.

!'Or 7ni1ht HUCG OCciL' SCHOOL, LIE
Greenvilie Daily News, that this was
an era of 'rushing into print with petty,
private grievances" and | am inclined
10 pat that editor on the back and
whisper, "tell it again." when look
over the editorial columns Of the ma
jority of the papers in the State. Why
don't you all agree to allow the world
TO 90 on whirling around the sun in
its accustomed orbit, and history to be
true to the law enforcing its periodical
reDetition of itself? Why kick so stub
bornly against the pricks? Why de-
stroy the anatomical excellence OF your
cet-ups by dashing wild-eyed and
tress-disshevelled against the rocks OF
can't t-heIp-youselGsm? Why not submit
TO the ills YOU have rather than fly to
others YOU know of? Why can't you
give an account of a dOg-tight without
bringing in "Coosd!O"? what part dld
Coosaw play iD the'Newberry arch h"anu
! the "advertising circulars ? What's
Coosaw got to do with the price Of cot.
ton? And lastly, what in the name OF
the most gorgeous electrical display.
has Coosaw got to do with a pack OF
thieving negroes? II you will pardon
me, l will endeavor to diagnose the
| political epidemic, which, is 50 success
fully defying the drugs and nostrums
of the used-to-be pill Singing practlc-
iouers, (viz): 4 CONGESTION OF the due
| tile nerves with consequent stinenlng
| of the backbone superinduclng hlgn
tension Of the vascular system With
alarming activity of The corpus Gallo
sum. In plain terms, the masses have
stopped being led by Generals and
| Coionels, &C: their blood up, and gone
to using their senses and they don't
care a copper colored continental how
| MANY thousands of dollars the State
| authorities sink in the murky silt OF
Coosaw river, so long as they retain
| confidence in the honesty of purpose
| and capacity of brain of those whom
they have constituted their agents for
| the hunting down Of the OctopII that
have fastened themselves upon the
| vitals of the hard worked yeomanry OF
! the State.
No one blames the Editor of the
State (misnamed the State) for fuSslng
| and Tuning and singing puny-colored
mud at everybody in general and b. h.
| Tillman in particular, for every one
! knows by whom and for what pur-
pose it was started, and only feels sor-
row that he did rot get "a better 3d."
but we do expect better OF some whose
duties are not quite 50 prescribed. get
sSown Oft the fence aud quit toollnS>
VITA. edged tools, your friends don't
want re&see your pants tora or your
fingers cut><. The possibilities OF 1--we,
healthy, welrIegulated Journalist, at
day in the no distant future, are little
too passable for me in this twilight OF
the REFORMATION to paint IN colors
that would do justice to even the 1alnt
glimmering of the morning star that
heralds its coming. Did | understand
you to say-"tend 10 your own ousl-
ness? Well, I'd like to know, # the
one inalienable right to advise an edl-
tor how to run his paper is to be thus
ruthlessly illuminated from the uuWrit-
ten law of the land. And so, most OF
YOU boys had to have covert fling at
the administration for naming their
Coosuov patroll- "The Satlie." What
better woman could you have named
her after? I shall see Governor I'LL
man and request him in the name OF
the clod-hopping, hammer landing,
spindle-working constituency that e!e-
waited him to the Gubernatorlal CHAIR,
20 change the name of that ship to The
Mrs. SaIlie Tillman", and also to have
his photograph nailed to the mast on
board placed underneath WIN In Inis
Legend: Gnxassasr- s;Aeasi 4:a11a4lz-
knan-bys the grace Of G 1 and the
sutfGge }ot the people Governor OF
South Carolina for four years from
1890 to 1884, if you all don't keep
quiet. Pm not in the vein to allow any
of my friends imposed on, and I'll lay
odds that when Y. J. Pope and q. S.
Mower place their No. ll's side by side
on that Coosaw eXcrescence, that you
will see a bigger cloud come out of it
| than you ever saw come out OF Inc Dig
eest devils snuff box on record. | am
| not acquainted with Bro. Smith but
| Judging from some of the tracks he has
made in the legal field l would re
dicate, that at the proper place and
| time be will super-impose an eXpanse
| of s'aUhole stocl;" COW leather upon that
| same protuberance, truly alarming.
Now, tnat have had my say, am will
ing to leave the management of the case
with the proper authorities provided,
that there is no gating done in the
near, or remote future. see some
wiseacre has at this early date placed
South Carolina in the line of Third
| Party" States. Verify the old policy of
| indicating a line of action to be followed
| by the Rusticusscs is a hard disease to
| recuperate from. Would it not be better
| for those flights" of journalism to con-
! fine themselves strictly to the legltl-
mate provinces of their profession, and
not be eternally invading the realms OF
| the prophets, soothsayers and second
light apostles OF past ages? And so
there are thousands who are waiting
with bated breath the action OF the
alliance in this matter" are they? Well,
lust let 'em wait. | don't tn.ck that
there is either a constitutional clause or
bylaw which authorizes the calling to-
gethe. Of the National Alliance for the
express purpose of gratifying their
curiosity, in regard to any of its future
actions and especially such as ION ac-
count of its conglomerate character? 1t
is not very apt to discuss las q 0ody).
I do not feel myself called on to antic-
ipate its action, consequently lpalnful
as it isl I shall have to help to ''let EN-
,UaHn There is one thing though that
can say without embarrassing the ac-
ton of any organic body that know
I know of Ii. e.: The Charleston News
and Courier rendered possible the over
whelming majority rolled up for Ben
Tillman last fall. Its true that it had
lot of subsidiary aid, but it was the
"chiefest of Sinners" viewed from an
"anti' standpoint. The newspapers
relegated Wade Hampton to private
life, and it seems to me that it is time
somebody was profiting by adverse ex-
periences. Don't understand me to say
that editors are responsible for all of the
trials, troubles and vicissitudes of the |
political flesh, for am not disposed to
charge them with more than nine
tenths of them, and you will find that
a respectfully large majority most ear
nestly thank them for the above ref1ec-
tions.
I would not be surprised, if the
truth rere known that voice the SEN