The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-29
BILL NYE ON BEN TILLMAN.
A New Era of Good Feeling Begun The
Effect of a Few Bottles of Appel.
linaris on a Mixed Company.


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A Porter on the Train Talks About
Human Nature and the Worlds Fair.
copyright, 1893, by Edgar W. Nye.l
SPoTTswoOD CENTER, S. O., Aug. Is.
The new law regarding the sale of
liquor, by which Governor Tillman as
sumes the duties of bartender, State
comptroller of jags and purifier of Gus
pidors, has driven a great many town
people to the country, where the laws
are less severely executed and where
detectives are expected to watch a
whole county apiece.
Already the Governor has been re-
quired to use a cash register, and even
his friends regard this as an indication
that the State Treasurer will have to
sit up nights when business is good and
watch the Governor.
Ten cases Of apollinaris were re
ceived here yesterday and it was
noticed that when opened they did not
pop. There has been an era Of good
feeling ever since. Northern and
Southern guests have shaken hands
and ever Rugged each other in some
instances while talking over the late
war.
Some said they were glad of it. One
South Carolinian said it turned out
just rs he knew it would from the
start. "Oh, no." said a man from
Massachusetts, trying to sit on the
mantelpiece, ''the north could have
been whipped forty times in so many
weeks if the South had read the papers,
and I am sorry it was not done, for we
never had such fun before the war as
we are having now"
1--WE were wrong from the start"
said the Southern man. I'VE should
have taken the niggers back to where
we got them and paid Africa $50 per
month for their time. I saw that
all the while. Then there would have
been an era of good feeling. l like an
era of good feeling, don't you2"
Yes" said the Massachusetts, man,
land we might have had it forty years
ago if I could have had my way. My
theory was for the abolitionists to buy
out the slaves and take them north,
where we would treat them so we'll
that they would gradually die off of
govt. But, no; nothing would do but
fight, fight, fight. 1 hate to fight, and
l hate to see people fight just because
the politicians need the excitement.
Don't you9 You fought because the
brass mounted orators with alligator
lungs told you there was a principle
involved, and so did we, when in fact
there wasn't a blamed principle in the
whole business. 1t was just suffer and
die and make the papers spicy for four
years and then take all the next fifty
years to pay for it."
'"That's my idea. You e how few
r of good feeling we have had in the
last IS years3 Well, my idea would
be to have one every night. No North,
no South, no East, no West; just have
eras of good feeling on Thursdays and
Fridays anyhow, and oftener if pos
sible. Who was benefited by the ware
Why, nobody but people who escaped
the draft and spoke pieces at home.
I'm a man So years old, and I can
safely say that, though I was a soldier
and slept in my clothes as long as they
lasted and ate field corn most of the
time, there was not a moment when I
would not have gladly gone to some
quiet place with a Northern man like
and opened an era of good feeling with
him"
'"That's it exactly. The war is over,
and who's got the nigger9 You have.
He entities you to a whole lot of Con
gressmen and let's you pick out the
Congressman. How much are we
ahead on the war7 We have thirty
nine middle aged single women to one
man, where we ought to have homes
and taxpayers. You've got the mig
gers to feed, clOthe and execute, and
we have most of our best men buried
in your cotton fields. That's the result
of the war. Who brought on the ware
Show me the men, and I'll show you a
man who did not enlist. He remained
at home and cussed bee 2use the papers
in the lists of dead did not print the
name of his wife's relatives correctly.
Here's to TiIlman. In this pure element
we pledge fidelity to u era of good
fnnIin0 TIL het a dollar Til1man BROUGHT
on the war, if we could get at the
facts"
"Yes, Tillman would bring on a war
if he could get it out of the freight
office when it arrived, but he couldn't.
He is the kind of a man to bring on a