The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-08-10


Russelps "Politics run Mad' are very
plausible productions to those Of your
readers ignorant of the facts. A martyr
-.be bis cause what it may-is always an
object of sympathetic pity, and the con-
damnation of all well-mearing men Is
the lust due to him who fans to flame the
fagots. - IL
while you pose, however, mid the CIR
cling wreaths of smoke, and while Mr..
r. til. r. re-inters the political bones OF
'82 allow me to disabuse your mind Oh
the impression that selected the marble
and hewed the pedestal upon which you
now so gracefully attitudinlze.
Who fired those fagots? Not j, and II
the shot took effect below the belt, don't
censure me after your taunting challenge
to fire at will. Your old sore was opened
at your own invitation. Your mir 3 az
the antics is responsible for 1t. a month
ago I reported the Cleveland meeting
at Williamson. Commenting upon II,
you inject fling at the antics, whereas
there was not syllable of State politics
in either the meeting or the report. The
LOGICAL inference from your attempt to
be1ittle 8 Cleveland demonstration was
that the policy of yoL paper was hostile
70 the Democratic Presidential nominee.
Until then had never questioned your
democracy. but inquiry, instituted by
your fling, elected the fact that your
columns were open to the notorious
scalawag who presides in the Anderson
P. O." Hence the opening of one side
Of the old sore.
The other side was opened by your con-
temptuous quotation points around my
report of MI. Princes speech. But for
chat your fathers political ashes would
have been left untouched. They were
disinterred to testify in the case of quo
tation points ps. "chaste eloquence,"
yourself preferring the Indictment.
AS touching your father, I have due
respect for his advanced age, but for his
poiitics and his 'politics run mad"
have none. The latter Is sham. For
instance, in its conclusion he says he
would not ''reply in the same strain,"
&C., yet in his opening paragraph he
oharacterizes me as q hyena, an asn-
raker, State disgracer, ct ceterG ad nau-
scum. His second paragraph Is undemo.
cratic, and appears with little grace IN
your so-called Democratic paper. 1t Is
nn out and out aYowal that the "reyolu-
tion"- Tillmanism, infer-is the direct
product of Greenbackisn, which, If at
all, is but one step removed from the
rottenest Republicanism.
His fourth paragraph is false to the
core. He leaves the Adpocate's readers
to infer that my report said that "resort
was had to personal abuse and vitupera-
tion." and that the '82 campaign was
"diluted with personal Spleen" The re-
mort stands-ft speaks for itself, and
bran E A that as false. His third para
eraph. about "moral right to be let alone"
and reinforced seclusion'' Is the refine
ment of hypooracy. Everybody knows
his "seclusfon" is enforced" by Harri-
son's failure to give him the Greenville
p o. Yet he has the gall to call himself
a "true, old-fashioned Jeffersonian DEM
ocratP' Come down from off your Pc
destal, Mr.. T. 81. r. The martyr busi-
ness has its disadvantages. particularly
during these warm dog days.
AS TOR yourself: was aware thatyour
card came out after your defeat. l am
Also aware that 1t was the neatest stroke
of policy You ever made, putting upon
record, as it did, your chiefest claim for
votes before your defeat. I am free to
re-assert that the remuneration was made
under Campaign PRESSURE"
You claim to be Democrat and pose
as a political martyr. Per contra You
hold your columns open to "Shanks."
God-defying Republican, and TO VIM.
Hess, who Is no Democrat, measured even
In your own half bushel. You do not
deny that your brother, w. w. r., CON-
tributes to your sheet. I have not known
you to deny that you allowed that broth
or and crowd OF negro Republicans TO
use your Commissioner Office as anight-
time rendezvous, nor that you furthered
the gratuitous distribution of the Reform
Signal. You give space to the exu!tant
assertion that Tillmanism is the direct
and logical outcome Of Greenbackism.
Yet yours is honest Democracy. God
save the mark Who tired those fagots !?
Whose "f1ne Italian hand" traced those
delicate lines Of anguish upon the mag:
tvr's resigned brow Holy smoke !!
Where is Uriah Heap
But enough of the "shot" and the mad
politics." In this rejoinder no attempt
has been made to beg the question nor 70
play upon words. Unadorned English
has been used without appeal to "apt
ailiteration's artful aid" What has been
said is prompted by desire to see the
politics. of Anderson County placed upon
The plane Of ehigalry, independence,
common decency and HeWs9cracy, as oop-
posed to hypocracy, compromise aRd d1-
olicity-prompted by an abiding con-
tempt for the littleness and disingenu-
BUSINESS displayed in your wilfni perver-
sion of an event in National politics into
capital to be. used against the Conserva-
tive cause.
Who fired those fagots :?