The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-08-08
BILL APPS LETTER.;
Arp Is DIsgusted.
Atlanta Consttttltton.


Atlanta Constitution.
"Great sensation German has
made a speech. He scored the Presi-
dent. Unparalleled historic scene in
| the Senate-tremendous applause F.
What is that to us Whether MIR.
Cleveland deceived German or wheth-
er he should have written that letter
to Mr.. Wilson or not is of no conse-
quence to this long.suffering country.
Pass the bill. If you can't tpass it with
| out German, then kill it and 60 home
and let the Republicans run the gov
ernment according to their liking.
The people of the South are fast
losing confidence in the Democratic
party. Go where you will, in towns
and cities, in hotels and on railroads,
and nine men out of ten, except the
oficeholders and ofice-seekers, have
lost their affection and their respect
for modern democracy. If there was
any other decent party to go to they
would go. We hear intelligent, con-
servative, patriotic citizens talking
that way every day. Intensified dis
gust is the universal feeling. Day
after day, week after week, month
after month the people have been
promised relief. Just look back over
the newspaper files and see the record
of broken promises. Every little
while some sanguine editor says that
the country is just on the eve of pc
riod of unparalleled prosperity, that
the tariff bill will be passed in a few
days and the stagnant capital of the
country will be turned loose and old
wheels will be put in motion and new
ones built, and the country will awake
from its long sleep. l found a paper
yesterday that was six months old and
it talked that way. Gorman-who
cares whether his infantile feelings
have been lacerated or not, his indi-
Yiduality is lost in the distress Of the
millions. Pass the bill and doctor the
feelings later.
The fact is, I wish there was an
other party-a party after Ben. Hills
kind that he foreshadowed in his
Chittenden letter-a party composed
of conservative Republicans and in
telligent Democrats-N orth and South.
There was a time when Jeffersonian
democracy was something to boast Of,
but not the spurious kind we have
now. The old Whig party would be q
godsend in these lawless times. l
wish that we had it right now. wish
that Webster and Clay and Calhoun
were in the United States Senate to-
day. Then how small would German
appear. But there was comfort in
David B. Hills reply. He rose above
his own resentments. He exhibited
noble patriotism and a high order Of
Craftsmanship. Is it possible that
there are not two or three Republican
Senators who will elevate the country
above their party? Is it possible
that Republican is obliged to be a
protectionist or nothing g? Is States
manship altogether partisan ? Are
there no middle memo peace-mak-
ers, no mugwumps in Congress Are
there no great men there great and
good like there used to be in the days
Of Berrien and Forsyth and Howell
Cobb and Calhoun and John Bell and
Gentry and Nathaniel Macon and Da-
Wis and Prentiss and Clay and Critten-
ten and Webster and Pearce and Polk
and Wise and host Of others who led
their parties for their country good ?
Did they ever in times Of great peril
leave their seats and go home to mend
their fences and canvass for returning
votes I? Were they ever accused of
secret speculation in tariff bills or
trusts or subsidies ?
The standard is lowered. The flag
is at half-mast. Craftsmanship is at
discount and the highest considera-
tion of the average member of Con-
gress is to have a returning board.
But our hope and consolation is that
there are some good men there. We
have some from Georgia and Alabama
and the other Southern States-good
and true men, but not many. Maybe
the good Lord will save our country
for their sake. If He would have
saved Sodom for the sake Of ten,
maybe He will save us. His mercy
and long suffering are wonderful and
our good people everywhere can take
comfort in it. Sodom and Gomorrah
were infinitely worse than our worst
cities and we have thousands of good
people where they could not find ten.
I know good people all around me,
both in town and in country-good,
kind hearted, charitable, law.abiding
people-and [ love to think about
them. They make no noise in the
world, but pursue the even tenor Of
their way. They minister to the
wants of their sick or suffering nabors
and bury the dead and heave sigh at
their funerals. I know some who are
Republicans and some Democrats and
some Populists who would have saved
Sodom. I know good people Of all re.
ligious denominations. The good and
the bad are fearfully mixed in this
world, and our darky, Bob. who has
served out his sentence, says: There
are some as bad people in de peniten-
tiary as dare is outen dar.' | got a
batch Of papers to-day, the organ Of the
American Protective Association
another party that some political
schemers have gotten up to put down
the Roman Catholics. 1 don't want
any more. Sectarian prejudice
makes me sick. New England fanati-
cism was no worse than the intoler-
ance that possesses some of the mem
bers Of Christian Churches. l know
Protestants who make themselves
miserable for fear the Roman Catho-
lies will take the country, and some OF
them are nearly as bitter against every
other Church, and would compass sea
and land to make prosclyte. Con