Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-07-07
AN ABLE ARGUMENT
From an Esteemed Contributor.
Showing UP the Hypocrisy
and Pecutiarilies Of the
"Antis."

Showing UP the Hypocrisy
and Pecutiarilies of the
"Antis."
Mr.. EDITOR: Wonder why the
Observation-Disclosures editors and
part of the anti-snpporters in
South Carolina were created i'm
maculate?
Judging from their utterances
and acts, they certainly believe
that they are more than mortal.
They vainly imagine that what
they don't know it would be folly
for others to try to learn.
These editors must surely think
that they have head as large as
half-bushel. and if these heads
don't quit expanding, we will soon
have circus, consisting of a bat
talon of enlarged noodles" wear
ing cheese boxes for hats,
"beavers'' all too small.
Tested by any means it will be
clearly shown that all people are
made of the same ''mud," all are
equal by nature. Then is it as they
imagine, that they have monopoly
of brains and intelligence?
If an editor espouses the cause
of the farmer he is accused of
growing wealthy by actiny click
spittle" for them. The leaders of
the farmers are demagogues, mug
wumps, etc. Yes, South Carolina
is demagogue ridden State, they
say. Right here, is an editor any
better than other people? Is the
editor of the county, paper any
more brilliant than the man of
ordinary intelligence? Some of
them evidently think SO. Some
imagine that because they are the
editors of anti papers they are in
fallible.
They are not TO be consistent at
all; because they belong to the anti
phalanx they say, and do anything
simply to carry their point politl-
cally.. They may call others liars,
demagogues, and undemocratjc, in
fact the ordinary country editor
may accuse whole delegation of
good and true men sent to a
national convention of being un-
democratic, and of being iguo-
ramuses, etc., and all his readers
musJ hereafter consider them as
such, because this wise and in
fallible anti has placed their
brains in one side of the balances
and aptly put his in the other side,
and his statement is, his out
weighed 'em all.
Let a reformer return the COM
1 |.pliment-and they at once find q
man so small he can't be seen un-
I. der the microscope.
Some have found human beings
4 thatare smaller than animalculis.
iEsome of the purest men in the
State are hypocrites, simply be-
cause they are Tillmanites.
They are ever watchful, looking
for moters in the eyes of the reform
ers, but apparently tco busily en-
gagged are they to see the beams in
their own eyes. What is an offense
in a reformer is commendable in
an anti, according to their logic.
For instance it has gone the rounds
of the press and is starting on q
second trip, that Senator Irby and
| ATTORNEY General McLaurin car
ried concealed weapons. Yetyou
have never heard q word from
them about Col. Youmans's pistol
at Kingstree, except that papers
and men a hundred miles from
Col. Youmans, can, without hear
ing from him, denonnce the report
as false; and so you must treat it,
because some of the Immaculate
conservatives command you to. If
the town marshals were to examine
the hip-pockets of these same ed.
itors when they "step down the
street," perhaps these officials
would find something to report tc
) the town councils about "little
pistols"
t They may hold secret caucuses
| yet it is very undemocratic for th'
reformers to do the very sam'
! thing.
Every means is being used tt
prejudice the farmers and thei
! friends against the present admin
istration. The papers have beer
: full of lengthy editorials abou
; Tillman's profanity, yet some o
these editors don't even go insid
of a church once in three months