The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-11-05
BILL ARP'S LETTER,
IN WHICH He WRITES 1B0UT PEI
BYTERI1NISM IND P0LITICS.
He Calls Upon tho Governor to ray HIS
Respects, but Finds a Large Crowd
Ahead of Him


were most Of the members Oh MS Se'N0',
President Cleveland is a Presbyterian anu
SO are most all of his cabinet. Ana no"
comes Governor Atkinson, another fres-
byterian, though his enemies say ne -
nothing but a Presbyterian sinner. Weh
l had rather be a Presbyterian sinner lnan
a populist saint. My wife is not as loyai
to the faith as / am, for she was ralseu
n Methodist and like Lots wife looks DacR
that way yet. She was grand daughter
of old Hines Holt, VINO was Methooist
and nothing but her loyalty to me ever got
her into my church. she believes IN IAN
ing from grace, but has never fallen.
don't believe in it, but am falling most all
the time ever and anon. She believes that
ANYBODY whose name is Hines or Holt Is a
| little better than anybody named smith OF
| Jones or Brown, and so when Judge Hines
| came out as a candidate for governor she
| was for him because of his name ana
| wanted me to write him letter and hnd
out the knship but ! dident. If he was to
call at our house now she would claim kin
and have two chickens killed and make
| him stay to dinner. Sine has one boy naIaed
| Hines and another named Holt. She claims
| kin with all the Hollis in the country ana
| the COIquitts and TarveIs and Ben Ill.,
! because they descended from the old Holt
| stock
Not long ago 1 told her that another one
| OF her eminent kinsmcn was dead. w no!
| said she very earnestly. Your great uncie
l..
! "\Nhy, don't ycu know Judge Joe Holt oil
Kentucky Mr.. Lincoln's attorney general
the great man who prosecuted poor MIS-.
Surratt and had her hung
That was mean in me, but try to get
even sometimes for there's nobody on my
side to brag of. She has a family tree
| which tells how her grandfather. Hines
Holt. descended from Sir Charles Holt, an
Old bach who left an estate of $l00,N9,O0
! TO be divided among his brothers children
or descendants, one OF whom she is
That was more than one hundred years
ago, and it has been in the bank Of England
| ever since, drawing interest and the BANK
is lust a waiting for the heirs to come over
| and get the money and my wife is just as
proud of it as if she had it. Her share is
about 500. and she would have to move 10
England to set it. ana pay a lawyer half OF
the legacy but still she is proud that a Hoit
could die and leave o $lCO000.OD.
This reminds me of my gold lot up in the
mountains. / have owned it for forty years.
and never got dollar out Of it. but 1t mas
got coolies Of gold away down in its bowels
| where the yankees cOuldent find II. IL IS
the only thing they dident find and carry
off II is a good thing for the family to
brag Of and say they have got n gold lot,
aud so 1 am just letting it stay there Tor
the next war.
But | was Illuminating about Governor
Atkinson-how he ever got elected, being as
| how he was Presbyterian. and there are
| only about 300 voters of that church in the
whole state. Joe Brown had GO,0OO Baptist
| voters TO help elect him and they uld IT,
| Governor Colquitt had $4,000 Methodist yot-
, | era to vote Tor tim and they ala H. out MT
. ! Atkinson had TO depend upon the sinners
! mainly and they STOOD ~ TO him. Inere
| were more of them than we though. Poor
! man-poor Victim-poor prisoner. / felt sor'
= / nv for him Yesterday. / started in to see
| him and pay my tieapy lel an IeSPectS' ~
1 found seventeen ahead of M
o,.,fa-
5 IN IN Ia" -, @ii1' In thcr'n." Some OF
Them had been waiting three days for their
{ turn But the rush OF this office seeking
business viii sooa pass away ana ne.
maybe he viii have time 10 receive friendly
ealis. 10 relieve his mind J th2Usnt /
= or twenty men who are ait aIt3r the g11ppSt
II office. Besides these personal interviews
j. he has to read scores of letters frcm their
, friends. Here are eight of our town law
! ycrs after the judgeship of our county court
, and they are all so clever and capabe and
i have so many friends that l wouldent know
what to do If | was governor. Think I
would make them draw straws, for then I
: Wouldent make seven of them my enemies
The governor is not hide-bound. RE hasn't
shown any sign yet that none bus original
| atkinson men need apply. / was glad that
he reappointed my life long friend Jim " ar
. | ren, who mas now been in the executive
, | office twenty-three years, The faithful eff
| iicient trusted secretary of twelve admin
istrations. Always gentleman, ALWAYS
| kind and considerate, always diligent in
| business, he grows old gracefully and his
| habits and manners are ever the same Tie
/
thing Tor Governor Atkinson 10 do to retain
| him. AS Mr.. Warren'S college mate and
lie long friend, l feel like thanking the
| gore:nor for IT, and viii % 80 in person
when get opportunity. That he will make
q good governor and show no bitter par
uSanshlp we need hav no fear. His past
record as q statesman is a guaranty for a
progressive adninistratlo ton. How proud he
felt 1T the presence Of those $50 girls VINO
! came so far to grace his inauguration They
knew who founded their industrial college
@ 5da come met. to sh9w their gratitude 1t was
scene never 10 be forgotten.
we see that some OF our big farmers and
4yaIIcuItural officials at Macon have
| oe"h resolving again about holding cotton
! Tor higher price. They resolved that
| same thing several years ago and fixed
the price at Il cents, but cotton kept on
! gong down all the same and nobody
| needed the resolve. If a man is able to
| hold and his judgment tells him to hold
| he win do 50 withoue the resoIution nm
| # he is poor and in debt for advances he
can't hold ana 50 the resolution is OF no
| %ood anywhere. Better resolve that the
! New York merchants be requested to in
dulSe the Atlanta merchants and the At
| lanta merchants indulge the Gainesville
merchants so that they can indulge the
farmers and enable them to hold their
cotton until next spring. We don't know
how it is elsewhere, bur the crop in Bar
tow is 90 per cent greater than it was last
town is lively and the farmers TTsn; re
for ten bales will make fifteen. and that
| helps out good deal. Then his other croDS
are so ABUNDANT ana Dring such a good
price that he is not discouraged about his
prospects. These Macon resolutions don't
| tit our people--we have all got to learn
! economy, especially those who are not
| farmers. Now producers having the
| hardest time. 1 am sorry to say I am one
! OF them. We are trying to put on the
| brakes at my house, but IL is M rd to teach
an old dog new tricks Sometimes I rip
| around and tell the cook she uses too much
butter and too much lard and too much
/ coffee, and my wife she hears me and
! smiles Aunt Ann generally tells my wife
/ when things are out and my wife tells me,
but Of late she makes Aunt Ann tell me
and the old woman don't like to do f., for
she says che look so surpriSed--look sorter
/ IKE his feelin's is hurt" / started to
town this morning and she came
slppin up TO the front door behind me.
Wants two or three nutmegs. sir, to fix
/ up de slice potato pie, sir. She say COM
! p'nY comm fer dinner, sir" "All right,
J Aunt Ann, I'll bring the nutmegs," and
l moved on a little. "And she say I must
| tell you de rice is out" Well I'll
! send up some rice" and I took another
step. forward. And I lh1ain't got nary TIA.
said l, and marry ais" she continued.
And, and" And what" said l. "Dare
is jes' enough coffee for supper but none
for breakfast, sir. She tole me tell you"
And ran back Iauobiuc how ha hao,,r