The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-04-18
BILL APPS LETTER.
Bill Talks About Politics.
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Atlanta Constitaltton.
Old DR.. Alternately, or some other
doctor, said that he was the best ply.
sician who amused the patient until
nature restored him. Our law makers
at Washington have been practicing
on she people that way for about a
year, and verify believe the patient
is getting we'll. They have fooled
US with bread pills and sweetened
water and fed US on hope and promises
until the reaction has come, and now
we don't care darn whether they do
anything or not. As Cobe says, Its
all optionary with me" Business is
resuming its natural channels. The
wheels Of industry are turning. Re-
trenchment and reform at home have
effected more than silver bills or tariff
legislation. Adversely has taught US
all a lesson, and now another good
crop will set the country all right.
The people have been fooled with the
idea that Congress could give relief.
The average American citizen is a
simple minded, credulous creature.
He knows no more about this silver
question than I do, and I don't know
whether 1 know anything or not.
How should know, when my teachers
all differ so widely, and one man tells
me one thing and another says it s not
so ? 1t is amusing to read the inter
views with representative men in
Atlanta. Some Of them went to
school with my boys-some Of them
don't know what seigniorage means,
but all of them are like Jack Bunsby
they sthave an opinion as is an
opinion" Some say Cleveland is
great statesman and some say he is
fool and some say he is q knave, and
has sold out to the goldbugs and will
make enough by this veto to retire as
a millionaire. I was up at Sanford
the other day and man told me con-
fdentially that another man told him
that he had just come from Washing
ton and it was norated there that
Grover went a-fshing at Egg harbor
and got on bender and throw'd some
of the eggs at his friends. l don't
believe that-do you? But about poll
tics-my opinion is that the people
attach too much Importance to them.
There are men around Clear Water
talking politics while their wives are
at home sewing for a living and sup
porting the family. That is the way
everywhere. The lazy, discontented
men are lying around waiting for relief
while the pale-faced wife is doing all
the work. The love of Office seems to
be passion with large class of peo-
pie. They brood over it and scheme
for it and banker after it. It does
look like great man who is worthy of
high office would naturally be retiring
and modest, and not be everlastingly
setting up his claims-his claims-his
services to the party. The wild rush
for the succession before Senator Col
quit was buried was disgraceful. 1t
was like some of them Atlanta lawyers
who hear Of a railroad wreck and rush
wildly there and imporrune the injured
man for the case while the surgeon is
setting his broken limb, or they offer
their services to the bereaved widow
before her husband is buried. These
are not fancies-they are facts, and it
is sign of falling from grace when
the people allow such things to be
done without rebuke-without scorn
and contempt.
There are men in every State who,
like old Bob Lee in the army, are
above The spirit of detraction. Such
man I thought was General Evans,
and that is why I wanted him for
Governor, and I am sorry that he ever
agreed to take the stump and be hawk
ed at by the politicians. There was
no necessity for it. Every little jack
a-nape who is sidewiping around to
get the photography Of little Office
will jump up and down and say I'm
for this, or I'm for that, when if he
would go to work he could earn more
honest money than he will ever get
waiting for Office.
But the issue Is upon the country.
The old parties will be torn asunder
and new alignments made, and maybe
that will break up the solid South and
the almost solid North, and bring
about new era like there was in the
parties when Wings and Democrats
divided the people. There are thous-
ands of good Democrats down South
who favor protective tariff, and they
will turn to party that will give it:
There is bound to be a new deal OF
the cards. new move on the check
board. The old issues have been
brushed up and worked over until they
are threadbare. Mr.. Cleveland may
be right, but he is not with the party
certainly not with the party in
Georgia, for our people say they want
more silver and an income tax and the
removal of the 10 per cent. tax on
State banks.
But, after all, the man who will
work diligently and attend to his own
business will get ali the free silver he
needs, tax or no tax, tariff or no
tariff, and he won't have TO borrow
money from State banks or any other
banks. The Almighty Father may
aflict him, but nobody else. 1t makes
me sad to think how He has afflicted
thousands by the late wintry blasts
that have destroyed the fruit and the
crops, but we can't help that by legis-
lation. BILL ARP.