The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-05-19
I,OwD1esvil1e Ifen,g.

What was it that nccessitatcd tho long
silence Of 4. c. Latimer on the question
as to the part lie took in the st. Louis
mass meeting? Was it because certain
observations, made prior to his exit for
| st. Louis, wore another aspect when he
reached homer Mr. Latimer has always
been conspicuOusly forward in expressing
| his views, as was shown in the case of
Mr.. Dargan, and this abrupt silence of his
political bedlams is strikingly strange.
That immortal statesman, Henry Gra-
dy, when asked to allow the use of his
name as a candidate for Congress by a
| large number offriends, made use of this
| remark in the course of his reply: "The
man who uses his journal to subserve his
political am bition, or writes with sinis-
| ter or personal purpose, soon loses his
power, and had best abandon O profession
ho has betrayed" Bob Hemphill, who
processes to ape after great men, lost
sight of this truth. He has been living
| on public money almost all the days of
| his majority, and yet has attempted to
run journal besides.
"Willie Christie" and dost thou not
know that thou art liken unto that eu-
phomious species oftbe sap sucker, whose
approach to infinite wisdom has led him
to ever seek the sunny side Of the limb?
The change of position might be we'll, if
fraught with the same good judgment and
misfortune las benighted you, and your
face appears on the stage at the close of
the scene, how different!
That piece of "driftwood," known and
read by all men as T. A. Graham, asserted
in one of his effusions of uncommon wis.
dom, that the whiskey element of Abbe-
vile County. found its strength in the
anti-Tillman faction. We do not know
the statistics from which T. A. Graham
could gather such an erroneous state
ment, but are fully satisfied with the
groundlessness of his authority. The
sublime scenes of total abstinence that
characterized the Tillman faction at Abb
beville on the second of May, could not
have impressed the gentleman in question
with such vague conclusion.
A large number of our citizens attend
ed the stockholders meeting in. Augusta.
The crops are suffering for rain, and
the oat crop will be a complete failure
without change this week.
The town council held their first meet
ing on last Friday. They will doubtless
take steps looking to the permanent pro-
lection of the town from tramps, va
grants and all other pestilents. Will they
please give US constable who can arrest
Edward Riley?
Mr.. J. E. Carter complains of the hot
weather, the hard times, and the enlarge
ment of the heart. Quite complication
of combined diseases, Jim.
Our esteemed friend and townsman, D.
L. Barnes, is trying his luck fishing.
Success to you.
Mr.. 8. F. Epps, Mr.. G. L. Baker, and
Miss Hattie Black were elected as dele
gates to the Sunday School Convention,
which convenes at Ninety-Six on the 25th
inst
"The Ring in this County will have a
number of men for the Legislature who
will try to convince the farmers that they
believe in the Farmers Movement.
DON tsbe deceived" This Is one of the
innumerable wise predictions that fill
each issue of the Abbeville Medium. The
one above appears in one of little Bob's
editorials on the Sheep ticket. Why,
certainly there will be free ticket in the
field, and Bob. Hemphill, the most per-
sistent, tenacious office-seeker, will head
that very ticket. He is now said to be the
boss of the Abbeville County Ring-the
pretended friend of the farmer, but mere
ly an organization by and through which
just such stuff as Bob Hemphill can Sc
cure Office. Yet he warns the "dear peo-
ple' not to "te deceived" Wonder If
there is single man in the State, who,
perchance, takes no paper except the Ne
dunn If there is person so unfortun-
ate, we have no doubt but that he really
believes that all Of the brains and wisdom
in the universe is wrapped up in Bob
Hemphill's cranium. That same man, il
he has taken the Medium long, knows
more about Andrew Jackson and Bob
Hemphill-two characters ve7y much
alike, of course, than he does any other
persons, either dead or alive For, truly,
If there Is a single person, of whom we
hav, any knowledge, and who is 'struck
on himself" it is Bob Hemphill. He is
the born poet, the cultured and refined
statesman, the brave, intrepid soldier, the
champion of "Equal rights to all, special
privileges to none," the best Representa-
tive Abbeyi]le- has ever had, the most
glorious of all her Senators, and the
States best director. This is about what
that poor fellow who takes no other paper
except the Medium is compelled to swal.
low, if the veracity of the Boss Organ in
this County is not questioned. And 4at,
what has Bob Hemphill done in any40tf-
flee except to draw with eracti'lg regular
ity his pay? Who is Bob Hemphill, that
he should be blowing about oflce-aeekers'
He is one of your political "mote-hunt
ers," finding fault with everything and
everybody in the country, and yet has
beam in his own eye as large as fence
rail. OLD EYES.