The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-09-14
BILL ARP'S TALK.
Bill Secs no Necessity for n Third Party
Organization.
Constitution.

There is politics around here, and it is
getting hot. In fact, it is almost I'M
possible for man to keep calm and
serene. He is just obliged to think hard
of somebody. As David Bennett Hill
said, II am a Democrat" and when ]
see my old friends and nabors running
of after a jack O. lantern, and getting up
another party, 1 don't understand it
They look shy at me like I had done
something to them; but l haven't
neither in deed nor in thought. l usad
to be Democrat because roy father was,
but, since the war, I've been one because
it represents the South that must stand
or fall together. Platforms don't amount
to much. Of course there is something
in the tariff, but there is more in the
men we put in Office. Mr. Cleveland is
a good man, and 80 is Governor Northen.
Their integrity is bigger thing than the
platforms. 1 wouldent care if they
dident have any platforms. The other
day we nominated Mr.. Veach and Judge
Neal for the Legislature, and there are
not two purer, better men in the County.
Their whole lie Is their platform, and it
is without straio. Why dident the
peoples party accept them? But there
is something good coming out of that
party. It has forced the Democrats to
put out their best men all over the State,
and, if they elect them, We will have the
ablest aud purest body of men that we
have had since the last white mans
Legislature of 1SS6-the last one that did
not have negro or a scalawag-nor a
demsgogue in it. The Third Party has
scared us up, and that is good thing.
For many years the rings and the pro-
fessionals have run the machine and
fsttened off the Offices. Modest men,
who would not stop to scheme and play
the hypocrite aud throw mud, have been
left out in the cold. Mr. Black, of
Augusta, has been brought to the front
at last-the retiring, gifted, eloquent,
Christian gentleman. Isee that Judge
John I. Hall, of Griffin, has consented to
serve his people, and everywhere the
candidates put forward are of higher
grade. If the peoples party would put
up as good men, I wouldent worry about
the election, for am not afraid of a
good man of any party. I can pick out
Republicans in this town whom | am
willing to trust with all my political in
terests. Why not? Shall I mingle with
them socially and in the church and in
business and find them clever and kind
and reliable in all the relations of life,
and yet denounce them for their politics ?
No. They wouldent injure me for any
thing, and, even if they would, they
couldent do it without ipjuring them
selves. We are all in the same boat.
Now, I would rick Mr.. Veach or Judge
Neal with my estate after l am dead;
my widow and children would be safe in
their hands. 1 don't know two better
men in all the relations of life, and yet
the peoples party wouldent accept them.
I wish they would put out as good men,
and maybe they would ifthey had bad
them. 1 reckon they did the best they
could, but it is sad to contemplate. Our
law makers ought to be men of education
and intelligence-men capable of max
ing laws-men who have kept up with
the progress of the age-men who reflect
credit upon the County, and of whom
we will not be ashamed when they rise
to express their views upon public meas
ures But, more than all, we want men
of good morafs-men who have made
good citizens, and stand we'll in the com.
munity and in the church, and have set
good example to the rising generation.
If a community elects one of the worst
men in it as it's representative, it is time
for the men of families to move away,
and they will move. Example is more
powerful than precept, and if a party
nominates a man for his availability
with negroes and whisky and debauchery
and the worst elements of society, it
becomes every good man to rise up and
rebuke it. These things will settle
themselves il time, for good is more
powerful than evil, and the ching that is
right will come to pass.
But there are some folks in every COM
munity who don't like to work in bar
ness. There are some boys who won't
obey The rules of the school, not because
they are disagreeable, but because they
are rules. Seab Wright and DR.. FELTON,
belong to this class. Alex Stephens did,
too. He was just getting ready 10 run
for Governor, as an independent, when
the Democracy offered him the nomina-
ton if be would run as Democrat, aud
they caught him with that bait Judge
Wright was always an independent, both
in politics and religion, and Seab is q
chip off the old block. Dr. FELTON, had
rather run as an independent than as the
nominee 1 think Sam Jones would, if
he was politician, and he is drifting
that wsy. They say that DR.. Felton and
Sam are both going to stump the district
for Seab. Let 'em stump. The boys
will have lots of fun, and John Maddox
will get there all the same. / think be
will. He is some punkins oa the stump
himself, and has consistency to back him.
A few weeks more and the agony will
be over, and then We can look back and
see what fools we made of ourselves, and
we will swear of from politics, and keep
the oath until the next election got
hold Of political newspaper that is just
four years old, and it was good fun TO