Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-10-06
FAM NON THE HUSIllGS.
A NEW METEoRHAs Fash
ED IN THE POLITIClL8 !.
Skies and Scores the ThirdP Party
With a Fuud of Illustrative
and Characteristic Il
~ Anecdotes. a
ATLANTA Constitution,

gla mas ofougn 1orWaTd <aclasi
of men and rough and tumbleight
ing which Georgia has not kpWn
since the days of the old whigsand
democrats. sb,
Since the war, political consM
in Georgia have been betyeH
white republicans,-sealawagsaSd
carpetbaggers, backed by the iRsg.
roes,-and the democrats, oomps.
ing the patriotism, cultursa I'D
refinement of: the South. lily
have. been practically no confess
Democratic campaigns have ben
easy going. The older and ,mfe
prominent men have been nom-
mated for the Offices. They sam!
tered about easily, spoke sony
when they cared to and enjoyed
q leisurely political picnic. Te
candidates for congress wodd
make a series of appointmentsl :
week apart and speak TO their a.
miring constituents. They hbd
things all their own way.
But now the democratic party
has been confronted by new cor.
dition Of affairs. Il "A.
Thus confronted the democrscy
is fighting for life with all that
implies-white supremacy, the
control of the state and the politi
cal salvation Of the people. rs
The two sides are arrayed ane
glaring at each other and botf
fighting for all in it. &
These conditions have resulted
in bringing to the surface a set 3:
young bright campaigners who art
making fun and fight throughda
the state. -.
Hams Descent. Is
Down from the mountains ha
come a young fellow, who hereto
fore has been unknown throughou
the state only in his own bailiwicl
as a country editor. He had bees
q member Of the legislature IN !.
quits, poasae15 osa55 I'd ii tnsFl
was nothing to be done to .attrac
attention. Alighting in a county
in the tenth congressional district
where the brash and breezy cam
paign between Black and; Watson
had attracted his attention hi
proceeded to make a speech fol
democracy that has caused al
Georgia to look upon him as tn
wonder from the mountains.
II. w. J. Ham If a tall, strap
ping, smooth-faced fellow with th
air of a comedian.
His arguments are almost entire
ly in stories. !. !.
"The conditions in Georgia now,
he will begin, are significant be
cause all the old elements whicl
have always fought democracy ,th'
FOUNDERS. snolly gosters, shoulder
hitters and sons OF guns, the dis
elements, every atom. %
which is . storm cehter ofpolit itica7
disintegration are mus tered qnde
this piebald banner of so-calle'
reform. They remind me of
little story"
An Opening Story.
"Johnny WAS, reading in hi
third reader and he came on th
story ofthe three Hebrew children
Their names staggered him. The
teacher explained to him the.
wore pronounced shadrach, Mes
hack and Abednego, charging hin
to remember this as he would pro
badly encounter the names again
A day OF two after he did and b.
felt over them again. The teache
explained for a second time an
warned Johnny that the next tim
he failed to. pronounce them b
would lick him. A day or tw
after while reading along, Johnn
suddenly stopped, raised hi 5 fist
to his eyes and commenced t
blubber."
"What's the matter?" the teache
asked.
"Them same three burned fel
lows. Boo-hoo.'"
Light on the Platforms.
In discussing the platform of fth
new party he tells of how the.
started out with the st. Loui
platform, then the Ocala platform
the Federa. ton of Trades at Wash
ington and finally the Omaha plat
form. The Omaha platform doe
not represent any idea of the Ocal
platform which is the pride of th
farmers.
"Omaha platform" says hs