The Greenville times., 1894-10-27
AFTER THE STORM.
Arp Soliloquizes on the Result Of the
Elections.
NE Chats Aboat the Popullsts-MAny Of
Them Are His Ssighbors. and They Used
to Be Demoerafs-Bjli's kxpls snstion
Of the Reduced Majority.

What delightful calm after the storm.
How quickly does politics simmer down
after the election Il really proVokes a
smile TO look back few weeks and won
der what all this fuss was about After
ali there's nobody hurt and nobody has
anything TO brag aboat Ii was barren
victory all round Like the victory over
Breckinridge in Kentucky. it was q sort
OF dogfall. as we boys used to call a wres-
tie when neither fell on top. The truth
IA we don't know which whipped. silver
or gold. and what Is still worse. we don't
know which ought 10 whip. When such
statesmen As Turner and Crisp differ on
the silver question how can common
man make up his mind? Until recently
I didn't have but one politics, and that
Vas defending the South against the
North. but these populars, as Uncle Sam
calls them, have rsiseds uch rumpus in
our own ranks that am obliged to take
sides. We used to have a solid South,
but the Offices gave out and the hungry
outsiders called for a new deal, so
they fixed up a platform that would give
everybody something and baited the
trap with it, and caught right smart OF
the sovereigns. A few OF the leaders
got into Office and then kicked the plat
form over; some went back to the Demo
cratic fold and some smelt the old bait
and found 1t rotten and concluded to get
new bait and change their name and set
the trap again, so they hollered free sill
yer and free school books, and no more
Scent cotton. and have caught right
smart birds. In the meantime the Dem
oerats got into family quarrel and had
. row over their own platform and their
followers got disgusted and lots OF them
kicked out OF tho breeching and wouldn't
pull pound, and good many pulled
Just little under the whip and so 1t has
been a hard fight to keep tho team in
the middle OF the road. by scratching
aud pushing and hurrahing they have
got the old Democratic wagon up 10 the
Top Of the hill again. but they will have
70 do better next time or quit Got to
stop this ring business and tote fair. No
more by-bidders at this auction. The peo-
pie want fair deal. Lots of good Dem
ocrats wouldn't vote at all. whats
the use,' thoy said, ''wben the ring has
done fixed it?" Lots OF good men voted
against the supreme court amendment
because it was said the ring had already
chosen the judges Look at Cobb and
Cherokee and Forsyth with over a.OOO
majority against It'll What does that
mean? Maybe we will know by waiting.
Now, II these fifty Populist members
are treated like white folks in the legis-
{ature the people will have fair show
Ing. II there is ring the Populist
members will smash IL. Let us have no
.caucuses.
The Populists are Democrats after all.
Their platform amounts to nothing and
they know it. II was intended to ge'
An the train on-that's all. II all the
counties that have elected Populists
have chosen as good men as Barlow,
nobody need be afraid OF them. They
won't buy any railroads nor build any
subtreasury barns nor vote away any
free schoolbooks. Let them have a fail
showing in the election for judges and
United States Senator. voted fair and
square for our men, but the people In
Barlow chose other men and they are
good men and we don't want them ruled
out. 1t is little business to take 70
venge on our home folks. We have
enough enemies abroad to keep oui
snimosity busy for some years to come
We have squelched tho Ida Wells bust
ness over in England. but 1t is still no
up North in Republican circles. The,
are still nursing their wrath to keep /
warm. verify believe our Northern
enemies want us to keep on lynchin,
negroes so as 10 have an excuse to abus
us. 1t looks like they will never get owe
our slavery sins. They feed on them an
fatten. thought that there was on
religious paper up there that was dis
posed to treat us kindly, and that wa
The New York Evangelist, edited b
Dr. Henry Fields. lie was Henr
Grady's friend and had travelled owe
the South and wrote pleasant letter
about US, and so subs ribed for It,
ts capital paper, but every now an
then 1t makes fling at us and hurt
my feelings and keeps Mrs. Arp frol
being calm and serene Only two week
ago 1t had wild hyena screech from
man by the name Of Putnam, who hs
recently discovered that his uncle ra
an underground railroad in 1s47 an
later abducted lots OF slaves from vi
ginia into Ohio and let them sleep
his best beds, and once while be W,
over in Parkersburg, Va, on that bus
ness the people found 1t out and pu
sucd him and he escaped by jumpir
into the river and how one man sue
him in the United States Court 4
-e5,O00 and Salmon 2. Chase defend,
him and wore the case out by co
tinuances. and Chase didn't charge al
fee, ETC., and he copies the summon
and it is signed by that great jurist al
patriot, Roger b. Taney. This co
temptible South hater Putnam seer
proud Of his uncle and goes out of b
way to say that his uncle sometim