The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-03-30
A VOICE FROM CORONACA.
Representative Graham Reviews the
Political Situation and illustrates
What he Has to Say From What
he Has Learned OH the Farm.

Modesty aud truthfuiness are ccmmeudaSle
SO is sileuce. usually. grew mp modest alit
truthful farmer lad. Wheu 60 to Town low
never "hitch" any one III political arguments.
have desired 10 keep out of political wranscs
But find cAuuot do 1t Without having rny
character besmeared by ignorant or designing
PERSONS. Some of your correspondents have
thrown u good deal vi mud ut the Abberl.le
county delegation to tho Legislature and throw
lug at them. threw 1t mo. | have kept silent
uutil silence has ceased to be commendable
: But am thankful that as farmer lad have
had full Opportunity of studying the nature ano
ways OF dogs. think that if were 10 try
could write dog story nearly as well as Joe
Chandler Harris. But let that be AZ 1t may,
have always noticed that the first dug to Lark
| Is the lille chiDIuey cUrper flee. Next Ill order
comes the nongrel, half flee and half bonLd,
then The old loud mouth hound. Upon ap-
| urusching d farm yard well supplies with dogs
YOU first near yelp, then cultural h0arse
bark, and then the full chorus Of long cared
hounds. Now the first yelp we have heard, We
believe, was made by the little dog that jump
ed out OF dish pan ut Greenwood. The next
bsrking was done by the editor Of the Press and
Banner aud then Came the full chorus from the
anti -Tillman meeting held ut the Court House
the olher day. Didn't they make racket
They bari cd at peArly every body, Whlned
arou,d The farmers and then scented PRIMARY
and startcd toward Columbia Oh 4 hot trail.
thuur Int surely they would tree II primary Oh
the banks OF the Congaree. But will come to
that again.
l. az Que Of the delegation, am charged by
Mr.. McGowan in that meeting with practclng
deceit aud deception in making the levy for
taxes for I890-gl. Gov Tillnlan Is arged
with the same Now don't suppose Mr MIC
Gowan knows it, but any one who knows any
thing OF the rules OF the Legislature knows that
the levy is made for each county by It's own del
cyatiun. Onr delegation alone IL responsible
for our levy and GOV. Tilman bad nothing to
do with It, unless MIR MCGOWAN wishes to lnti-
mate that We were influenced by Gov. TiIlmsn
Well impure minds suggest impure motives. A
man who practices tricks is always suspectlng
tricks Tie charge Of "deceit and deception
has no foundation unless it be in ignorance or
malice. The County Commissioners have the
county levy before them. They know how much
money that levy will raise. Then it they spend
more than the evy it is not Gov Tillman's fault
nor the fault Of the Legislature. In the econ
omy OF our government the Legislature and the
Boards OF O. unity Commissioners act as checks
upon each other. But for this our counties
could be run hopelessly in debt. Now because
We dared exercise our right and the County
Commissioners chose t. spend more than the
lew, we practice deceit and deception"
There's about a. much sense and honesty in
that charge aS there is in the Que that Gov I'LL
man is responsible for the low price OF cotton.
Mr. MCGOWAN is ignorant about the whole
matter. The reduction which has been made il
not iu the county but in the Stale levy. The
economy of the situation is that the counties
are now enabled 10 Increase their taxes and
baye better roads and bridges and yet not in,
crease the tax rs Whole Of the citizen levy
sufficient 10 pay the present Indebtedness would
not make the state aid county levy as large as
it was under the old leglme. DR. Maxwell said
that when be was Senator the appropriation for
tine South Carolina College was sixteen or sew
euteeu thousand dollars Now 1t Is thirty tnous
aid Certainly. The anti's always professed great
friend, hip for that school aud yet they didn't
have the courage to give it decent support.
They were afraid Of the people We ere not
afraid to do what we think is right. Further
more they didn't know or didn't want 10 know
how to economiZe. We have given the college
liberal support without increasing the taxes.
The Iunatic Asylum is now run decent style
and the mouey which the old regime srept in
buving whiskey and other extravagapces for 1t
is now given 10 educate our boys. The old re.
gime crawtisLed i the matter Of South Caro-
,iua college az they did IN various other things.
Oh, yes We may be ''nisguided, deIuded," etc,
tut We have the manhood 10 follow tue dictates
of conscience DR. Maxwell uujusty attacked
Messrs Pope and Gray. They were not mem.
bers Of the General Assembly.
Now gentlemen of the anti Tillman meeting.
you have openly and without cause attacked my
character. Even Prof. Hood who was the fair
est man in the meeting and who was fresh from
the walls of y christian college, endorsed the
attack. Now il you think it is right to do that
you mustsdnlit that it is right for me to reply in
like manner.
The anti Tillman party or faction Of the par
ty are bred and born crawishers. They craw-
ished in the matter Of South Caroiua col ege
they crawtished IN the matter OF convicts whom
they mention in their platform, baviug bitterly
fought, in the recent Legislature the bill that
sought to work convcts on the public roads,
II ey have crawtished in the case of MIR. Shep-
pard whom they have nominated for Governor
They defeated him once hecauee they thought
be was for reform. new they've picked him up
because they say he is for reform. They craw
i>bed in the matter ef the Farmers Movement
They used to tight it, now they want to hug all
the farmers. And now last but not lea5; that
dear primary. How was it, Mr. McGuwan?
think you know something about that. Come
now tell Us. Didn't old Loud, just before the
pack got to tine tree. see a ghost ? Come now
did Old Loud craw6.h or did he zee ghost?
Tut, tut And they were so rear the tree t2o !!
thought I'd get Joel Chandler Harris to come
over and write up the chase but, alas, the tun's
up. But Old Loud, didt he run though till he
got nearly to thetree But We must so on.
THERE'S one factor i'll the political calculation
which the aLtis never seem 10 Use. They don't
heed the fact that the anti Tilman faction ID
the liquI Ir wing of the Democratic party in this
State. They are not only against prohibition,
but are for whiskey, prohibition or no prohibi
tion Their representatives in the last General
Assembly argued that il it were possible to
have prohibition III truth. it would bring great
harm upon the State. They are for liquor aud
they seem to practice what they preach The
conduct Of some OF those who Undertook in
the Senate to defeat the railroad billwas repre-
sentative OF heathendOm, and there was bot
tie OF liquor in IT,. Oh yes we may te "dupes"
but dOu't think we have ever yet doctored up
one of our leaders ont OF Z long drunk, aud
then encourage him while be (three sheets in
the wind) abused sober anti Tillman people
Oh, my Prof Hood, come out OF Sodom.
But We must hasten. The dogwood is bud
ding. The revival season is upon US. We
throw wide open the door Of the party.
Come, crawtishers, poor and needy meek and
wounded, sick and sore
The hymn is familiar. Fed Nance raise the
tune. Ike McCala will talk tG the nourncrs.
Come Old time siiff upper lip Democracy
Come ye crawfishere come, come. drink freely
Of the luvigoratino waters If manhood and lem
perauce. Come, haste ye away 10 the land Of
the happy hunting grounds where ghosts spoil
net the chase
You may expect preaching again first Mon-
day iu May.
T. A. GRAHAM.