The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-04-26
BILL AHIP'S LETTER.
Rill Talks About Politics.
Atlanta Constitution.

~ "ooCoA3 OWN VtluO ll0 WuS CIl0
best physician who amused tho
patient until nature restored him.
Our law makers at Washington
have been practicing on the people
that way for about q your, and I
verify boliovo tho patient is getting
wcll. Thcy havo fooled lis with
bread pills and swoetened water
and fod us on hope and promises
until the reaction has como, and
now wo don't caro- darn whether
thcy do anything or not. AS Cobe
says, cts all optionary with mo-"
Business IS resuming it's natural
channels. Tho whools of industry
arc turning. Retronchment and
reform at homo have effected moro
than silvor bills or tariff legisla
ton. Advorsity has taught us aIl
a losson, and now another good
crop will set the country all right.
Tho people have boon fooled with
the idea that Congress could give
roliof. The average American clti-
zen is simple minded, credulous
creature. Ho knows no moro
about this silver question than l
do, and I don't know whcthor
know anything or not. How
should / know, when my teachers
all dif1or so widely, and ono man
tolls mo ono thing and another
says it's not SO? 1t is amusing to
road tho interviews with reprcsen-
tativo mon in Atlanta. Somo of
thcm wont to school with my boys
-somo Of thom don't know what
seigniorago means, but all Of thom
arc liko Jack Bunsby-thcy "havo
an opinion as is an opinion.' Somo
says Cleveland is a great states
man and some says he is fool and
somo say he is q knavc, and has
sold out to the goldbugs and will
mako enough by this veto to retire
as a millionaire. | was up at San
ford tho other day and man told
me conlidentially that another MAJ
told him that no had Just come
from Washington and it was nora
tod there that Grover wont a-fisll
, ing at Egg harbor and got on
. bender and throw'd some Of tn
? eggs at his friends. don't believ
that--do you? But about polite
-my opinion is that tho peepl
) attach too much Importance t,
them. Thcre are men arounc
| Clear Water talking politics Will,
thoir wives arc at homo sowing fo
a living and supporting tho fami
ly. That is the way ovorywhore
| The lazy discontonted mon arc w
ing around waiting for relief while
tho pale-faced wife is doing all thu
work. The love of cfiice seems tt
be a passion with a largo class o
pooplo. They brood ovor 1T ant
schemo for it and banker after it
1t does look like great man who
is worthy Of high officers would
naturally bo retiring and modest,
and not bo everlasting setting up
his claims-his claims-hls sorvi-
cos to the party. Tho wild rush for
tho succession before Senator COL
quit was buried was disgraccful.
1t was like some Of thom Atlanta
lawyers who hear Of railroad
wreck and rush wildly thcro and
importuno tho injured man for tho
case while the surgeon is setting
his broken limb, or they offer
their services to the boreavod Wild
ow before her husband is buriod
Thcso arc not fancios--thoy are
facts, and it is n sign of falling
from grace when tho people allow
such things to bo done without re-
buke-without scorn and con-
tompt.
Thoro aro mon in ovory State
who, hko old Bob Leo in tho army,
arc above tho spirit Of dotraction.
Such a man ! thought was Gcncr-
al Evans, and that is why l wanted
hlm for Governor, and am sorry
that no ever agreed to tako the
stump and DO hawkcd at by tho
politicians. There was no necessity
for it. Every little jack-a-nape
who is sidowiping around to got
the photography of littlo Office
| will jump up q, down and say Pm