The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-12-06
4 BacksIided Brother.
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Well, we'll, we'll. Alas! Alas! Here
is another mighty man fallen, another
high in the forces of refawm smitten
under the fifth rib. 1t is Brother
Macune. Nearly everybody who has
sloshed around in the amusing mires
of refawm politics remembers Brother
Macune. He was, we believe, Pres.
ident Of the whole alliance. Anyhow,
he was a very, very big gun and it was
Brother Macune this, and Brother
Macune that, and he was quoted and
bowed down to and held up as a pattern
and type of all that was admirable
in politics, adorable in character and
advanced and elevated in statesman
ship. We think-are nearly sure, in fact
that be was a hightoned chrischun
gen'lman at that time and was so voted
by various sub-alliances and declared
by sundry refawm organs. When
the Greenville News and other way
ward, heather aud old pluttercrat or
gans expressed in general, special and
emphatic terms the belief that Brother
Macuue was a fraud and in their pagan
and gold bug way gave facts to support
their theory, cry went up. A dia-
bolicat conspiracy had been formed, we
were told, to strike down Brother Ma
cune because he was a flower of reform
and one of the most fearless and in
corruptible leaders of Our Noble Order
and the people.
Somehow or another somebody or
something appears to have knocked
Brother Mscune on his noble, high
toned, fearless, incorruptible, unds-
filed, chrischun and gentlslnanl;ke
head the last year or two. We have
heard nothing of him in that time, but
supposed that he, of course, continued
10 be a hightoned chrischun gen'lman.
It appears that in that we were mis-
taken. We do not know what he has
doue. Our impression is that since he
let go of the National Economist, or
whatever it was he was running for
the alliance, he has been conducting
Democratic newspaper and that may
have been the manner of his offending.
However that may be, we find the
Cotton PIant-that fine and seething
purveyor of political deliriuna trenaens
declaring that Brother Macune is
trying to create discord in refawm
ranks, is abusing people ne doesn't
like, has not maintained spotless rep
utation amid the temptations Of the
capitol. There is also dark insinna-
ton that Brother Macune is financially
prosperous.
This last may explain the brothers
ignominious retirement from the ranks
CT Our Noble Order and refawm. We
have noted with sorrow decided and
painful tendency among brethren to
pull out of the game when they had
made their jacks and pulled in all that
was in sight in the way of pecuniary
e1noluments and substantial honors;
and have never sized up Brother Ma
cune as the kind of man to do any
thing purely for fun or strictly for
philanthropy, despite the hysterical as
surances of sub-alliances and organs to
the contrary. He has appeared to the
unregenerate vision Of the Greenville
News to have been standing as firmly
as a rock on that popular plank of the
refawm platform which declares that
the laborer is worthy Of his hire.
Now, the mighty and the pure and
the beautirul-Macune prince OF re-
fawmers-has fallen like lucifer
match from amid stars. His candle
stick has been extinguished. His
chunk has been put out. His name is
Mud. He has become financially sue
cessful. He hath gathered shekels. He
has successfully worked our Noble
Order for what there was in it and
among the brothers who have failed to
connect or whose realiZations are yet
in futures there is woe and wrath and
modification and grief. Let the heathen
rejoice. Let the Philistines and the
Amalakites and Jcbuzites and Perry
sites and Hittites and Raskellites and
Amorites and Caananites warble their
little familiar triumphal pagan song
II told you so"-for a mighty man
among the blatherskites has become
solvent and been cast out and down
because thereof.