The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-10-24
SARGE PLUNKETT.
The Old Man Discourses Upon the Late
Election for Governor.
atlanta Constitution.

Election for Governor.
atlanta Constitution.
The election is overt had to be
lawyer any way it went, so let all
parties be happy and remember that
the clark clouds never gather so thick
nor the day so dreary but what the
same bright sun still shines" j"
I like to console with the defeated.
Anybody most is willing to rejoice
with the victors. Lee was defeated
general and the gray jacket boys were
defeated soldiers-the whole south
was defeated section, but she stands
today the grandest of them all and the
pride of the greatest nation on earth.
At last, governors and presidents are
not the most important things. Our
justices of the peace, bailiffs, sheriffs,
ordinaries, county officers and muni-
cipal officers are the nearest to the
common people. I have been throw
ing up my hat for governors and presi-
dents for many years and pever yet
had chance to shake the hand Of one
I don't suppose [ ever will, and
great majority are in the same posit-
ion. These great big officers who only
have to speak in general terms and
say, "God bless the people" don't
feel near so close to me as one OF our
county officers who says, "Howdy,
Plunkett, how is your folks?' ''The
people" don't touch very tender
chord, it is cold and general and the
"defeated' can live under anything
that the victors can.
II you don't do we'll today live on
what you did yesterday and hope
this is principle that applies we'll to
every walk of life and the "defeated'
can apply it at this time in their own
case. This matter Of hope is a
great thing. From our earliest re-
Collections, c if you will look back, this
thing of "hope" has played big part
in all our lives. We began to chase
rainbows mighty early in life, and
were it not for the hope that keeps
with US like our shadows we would
soon fall by the way. Often when
the rainbow we have chased vanishes
we collapse, but "hope" soon sets US
on our feet again and other sbows'
as bright as the last dance about us
and challenge us for another race.
Subsequent events prove to us that
some Of our failures were for the best;
some of our successes prove not the
good thing we thought, and so it goes
from the cradle to the grave. You
hear that whatever is, is right, but l
say unto you that the most Of things
we do we wish we had not done.
"Every household has its skeleton
I have heard, and every man has his
disappointments; these disappoint-
ments are varied, but they are all
large to the disappointment. l have
my troubles and Brown has his
Brown thinks his lot in life is very
hard because such numerous offspring
has kept his nose to the grindstone.
Me and my folks are troubled because
we have no heirs to leave our abun-
dance Of accumulated wealth to when
we depart these shores. Brown thinks
that he would be the happiest man in
the world if he had my wealth, and |
think that would be happy if | had
his children. So it goes, till | have
about decided that whatever is, is
wrong.
Brown and I gathered our families
round the hearthstone last night, lit
our pipes and just let then spread
themselves on whatever topic they
chose without a word from us-we
were listeners for once. Of course
the political situation had to be ex-
hausted first. One Of Browns girls
said she didn't like Atkinson's NOUS
tache-it was too heavy and stiff and
made him look savage. Another one
thought that this showed strength of
character-bold and strong, lion like.
From that it started and some of them
made Atkinson the ugliest fellow in
Georgia and Hines the handsomest
fellow in the State and vice versa, till
1 thought once or twice Brown and !
would have to interfere, but an old
lady neighbor, who happened to be
present, settled the business by re-
marking upon the prominence Of Mr..
Hines front teeth and wound up by
saying that she had no use for these
men who come round with their oily
tongues. chawing on their front teeth
like a blasted old billy goat. This
struck the fresidc as being so rough
that silence prevailed for moment
and then they lit off on some dollar
bundles for sale in Atlanta. Me and
Brown learned more about the dry
goods merchants Of Atlanta in fifteen
minutes than we ever thought OF and
thought it strange that our folks, who
20 to the city seldom more than once
a year, knew more than us who 60
there three or four times week. We
found that they derive their knowl-
edge and form their likes and dislikes
from reading the advertisements in
The Constitution and Brown and l
wunk at each other.
After they had ransacked every dry
goods store of which they read, filled
the counters with goods, spread them
out, priced them and then disposed OF
each salesman about as they disposed
of the two governors, the converse,
tion turned on the good people ana
happy people within our scope. VI
course they lit right into Atlanta
they go to Atlanta for everything.
The King Daughters, Christian lem
perance Union, this society and that
society, and those quiet sisters IN
black who move around, not letting
their left hand know what their right
hand doeth, were all discussed in full,
but the majority around the freside
being at that age when dress and show
have the most delights, the search for