Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-08-22
CORRESPONDENCE
For the ADVERTISER.
cyan Star" Imagines Himself
Speaking to the Disappointed
Candidates After the Pri-
mary is Over


mary is Over :.
Ladies and fellow disappointed
candidates:
That feeling of sympathy which
stirs every human heart at the sight
of sad disappointment burns in
my bosom at present. Being some-
what subject to disappointment Of
late years myself, I know better
how to extend you my. entire SYM
pathy, and, if possible, speak a
word that might soothe your bleed
ing hearts.
Oh, how often have I wished that
Time herself could retrace her in
evitable footsteps, and once more
land me safely upon the happy
shore of innocent childhood, where
1 could for a little while put away
the sad realities of disappointed
anticipations, and revel in that
happy fruition which alone visits
the human heart at that age.
Would that I could command Ian
guage so pleasant, SO calm, and SO
balsamic in it's nature that ere the
setting of the sun, JOY, not sadness,
would fill your souls!
I thank God that I was born in
an age when I can be some conso-
lation to you who wear the fetters
of disappointment. But cheer up,
fellow citizens; the poet who wrote
the immortal lines, "There is no
place like home," was surely the
mouth-piece of the human race.
That poet represented the whole
world, while those, your more for
tunate brethren, can only represent
small portion thereof.
I tell you, my dear, sad friends,
it is not the man who fills the high
est position in life that always does
the most good for his country. If
your intentions were good, and you
aspired to Office for the purpose of
heneftrlng your depressed fellow
countrymen, you will certainly not
cease to be hero at home. I tell
you, fellow citizens, 1 have been
thinking about politics for some
weeks and if Itell you the truth,
Gan honest confession is good for
the soul, I humbly confess that I
have had a .'huge'' war with my
conscience. My conscience brought
up the question stated somewhat
like this: "Resolved, That all can
didates do not run for the purpose
of helping their fellow men, but
aim at Ego pure and simple"
But you know men generally
conquer their conscience; SO I can
say in roundabout kind of way
that I have conquered mine.
But I am deviating somewhat
from my subject. I came here to-
day to console you, and it seems,
from the means I am using, l shall
fall short of the desired end. I am
aware at this moment, when dis
appointment alone weighs upon
your minds, an appeal to your rea-
son is poor alternative for SYM
pathy.
I tell you, gentlemen, there is
such a host Of you that my reason
suggests that I advise you to re-
sort to the gentle love and SYM
pathy of your consorts in this the
day of tribulation. Oh, the wis
dom of Divine Providencel He
knew there would be days in a
mans life when dependency
would almost drive him to despair,
and so He made woman, the I'M
personation of all that is tender,
affectionate, lovely, sympathetic.
Go to her, my dear friends, who is
ever ready to strew your path with
flowers, the fragrance of which
shall reach the skies on high. And,
you, gentlemen, who have no wives
IN this your day of trial, where is
your hope? I can offer you moth
ing, save remind you of the folly
of having entered this campaign
without one.
Again, it should be source of
great consolation to you, when you
think of the fearful responsibility
resting upon the elect, to know that
your fellow citizens have been SO
kind as to relieve you of such re-
sponsibility. Do you not know
thai there Will come divers diff
culties and temptations so as to