The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-18
SOMETHING is WRONG
and APP IS BOTHERED ABOUT 1T
UNTIL HE GETS THE BLUES,
And Tries Work in the Garden-He Talks
About Politics and Wonder Whether
Are We Drifting.


feels discouraged. Then is the time to get
up and go in the garden and work awhile.
| 1t is said that when King Ahasuerus got
so awful mad with Haman he walked out
In the garden to let his choler down. 1
reckon he took hoe and slashed down the
weeds and felt better. I've been stalking
| up my tomato vines this evening and got
| all in a sweat of perspiration and feel pet
| ter. There is nobody at home, for my
wife has gone to the missionary and the
girls are flying around trying to get up a
| Presbyterian festival to make some money
| to pay for the vocation and l was charged
| to look after the grandchild. That is all
right. l had rather look after her than do
| anything; but soon after my family de-
| parted lot of nice little girls came here
visiting and 1 had five to look after and
help to amuse. They played base and hide
| ana seek and set a little table and play1l
DINNER and asked the blessing and nursed
the dolls and swung each other and then
| played church and had baptiZing, and
they amused me more than J. did them.
| Then some nice ladies called and dident
| leave their cards and go off, like most
| ladies do, but they stayed and made me a
visit and SO. altogether. L had a pretty
! good time and forgot all about the political
| troubles and the strikes that now agtate
| the country. Happy children and charming
| ladies and work in the garden beats COCO
| cola any other medicine
| But still one can't help being concerned
|
| going on. / was dining the other day at
| Durand's and talking whom dident
| know ventilated his thoughts in an audible
manner. He said: I've got nothing against
| General Evans. of course-nobody has, but
| l tell you that the war has been over
| for thirty years and this old soldiers rack
! ct has got to stop and we Atkinson boys
| are going to stop It, We who were not old
| enough to go into the war have been Kept
in the background long enough. Let the
| old brigadiers have a rest and let the
| young men have a chance. We haven't had
| a governor nor a United States senator nor
| Il statehouse officer hardly member
| of congress since the war except he was a
general or colonel in the war. Even the
county offices filled with old soldiers
| and it is time to call halt
Well, | never said anything, of course, but
| it was a revelation to to hear man
talk that way in public. l know that some
| army officers have occasionally got IN the
way of other men, who were better quail
hed. but not often often AS genera ger
brigadier or a colonel in the army
was a man of force or character.
He was fit to command ana was fit to
hold office, and it was right to reward him.
But l don't believe that they have had
much preference over civilians in this state.
Ben Hill and Alec Stephens and Jenkins
and Johnson and Joe Brown and old Father
Barnett and Thompson Allan and host
of other civilians have held high office since
the war DR. FELTON, defeated a one-arned
| colonel in this district. If the count should
be made the army boys have 10. played
the ''old soldier racket to extremes, neil
Their in national nor state offices. L think
| they have been very modest in their de-
mands. But still if the boys have made up
their minds to run the machine / think the
Old soldiers will stand aside, for they
now few and far between and getting
| Most In st
battle. whether civil or military. Let them
depart in peace. That young man yes not
know ant never can know what these old
soldiers endured. for he said that his father
not in the war; but [ trust reVer-
ence for them will be perpetuated in their
children from generation to generation.
There seems to be a feeling of unrest per-
vading the country. L lear men who are
conservative and intelligent expressing
| their encouragement every day. They are
weared with the long inaction of congress
and say boldly that they have lost conll-
| dence and lost respect for the governing
mower A few machine politicians may
| lump up i'll the courthouse and whiteWaSh
| the administration, but If 1t was falrIy
tested nine-tenths of the people would say
mo" Outside of ofticehQHcrs ard oillce-
seekers 1 venture to say that not nun
dred men can found III any
county who will say mar tnt'
endorse the administration. Whether
# he right or wrong, the people
hold the administration responsible for the
naralvzed condition of the country. They
| don't stop to inquire into this mans record
in congress or that man but they hoId All
responsible, for they know that the de-
mocracy is in power. 1t is going to be a
hard matter to return any member OF the
| present congress, for the people are tired
It looks to them if member VINO was
getting IS, 600 or $4,000 salary had forgotten
! the troubles of the people and was only
concerned about getting back to the publlc
crib. If congress does not act soon on the
tariff bill and settle it the democratic party
will lose it's prestige and its votarles anu
thousands will become pOpullSts or nothlhS.
This feeling of unrest is growing. Among
the laborng classes who are not farmers
it is intensifying and drifting into strikes
and lawlessness. A few years ago strikes
were almost unknown in southern mines or
on southern roads. but now they are COM
mon and the states have to guard the iron
works and the coal mines and the fallroad
bridges with state troops. Idle, restless
men are wandering over the country ana
ii looks like history is repeating ltseII from
away back, for the scriptures tell US tlat
when David fled from Saul and took refuge
| in the cave of AduIlum all who were In
| distress and all who We're in debt and all
| who were discontinued came to him. That
| is where CoXey got his army. DeBaroeI-
| aben, the wealthy iron man of Alabama
| gave So 600 to the state to have his property
| w 49,
| the troops the First regiment raised $500
| and gave it to the miners, and the Second
regiment raised $500 for them. What does
| that mean? And yet all OF this
| trouble might have been avoided II the dem
| ocratic administration had stood square to
| the Chicago platform. So far as the republ-
| cans are concerned l verify believe they
| would wreck the country in or
| der to wreck the democratic party and get
| in mower again, and it does seem that 1t
| would have been infinitely better to have let
| She Mckinley bill alone than to have tam
pered this long with a bill that if it Is
ever passed will be neither hawk nor buzz
gard But congress had better do some
thing and do it quickly. l heard several
gentlemen say the other day that If a
| Georgia member dared to come home to
mend his fences before the tariff bill was
passed he would never set back again. SO
mote it be.
But if / keep on this line of thought
will have to go in the garden again and let
my choler down. Wish l woman
awhil. and was running the missionary or
getting up money for the vacation. The
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