The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-07
The Nerala and Uelrs.
JERUSALEM STREET LETTER.

JERUSALEM STREET LETTER.
Tho herald and News Again tho Recipient
Of Communication from .'H.'
When s. fellow is a natural born
prophet, and can't help it, he is not to
blame for dropping a few slight inti-
nations as to the probabilities that are
crystalizing into facts, is he? If your
memory serves you we'll, you will re-
member that I advised ali aspirants
for places at the disposition Of Br'er
Grover to oil their pin feathers and
hold themselves in dutiful readiness
for a quiet little splash in the waters
Of Buzzard oay. What has time re-
vealed?
am Of those who deprecate the
want OF either good advice or sound
judgment on the part Of the Grand
and Potent Seignior who has such -
feet control of the motions of the pap"
ladle, and yet cannot help extending
my congratulations to the disappointed
aspirants for their luck in escaping tee
humiliation incident upon official posi-
ton under the mongrel administration
holding sway at Washington in the
name Of Democracy. ....
A one-time aspiraat for the Repub-
lieau nomination to the Presidency,
maseuerading as Democrat, in the
Secretary of States Office, and pretty
little MacVeagh, the exponent Of high
caste Radical Plutocracy, quahing soft
italian wines in the city of the Grachii,
while life long Democrats, men of
transeendent ability and culture, are
left to cool their heels upon the snow
mantled streets of tie capital city and
ponder upon the iuestimable privilege
Of being Cleveland Democrats. O tenn.
pora! OMores!
Let US take q resume of the situa-
ton: A frst-wster Mugwump, Presi-.
dent; a white man, Vice-President; q
Republican Judge, Secretary Of State;
an invertebrate contortionist, Secretary
Of the Treasury; railroad corporation
attorney, Attorney-General; a monde
script "Bristle," Postmaster General;
hoke3-pokey and Herbert, and over
two hundred thousand Repu blican ap-
pointees, who. by the grace OF Grover,
hold over for fear that Plutocracy may
be offended. Where are the rank and
file that rolled the Democratic wave
from the Atlantic to the Pacific two
years ago? Revealing in the plenty
and ease that was to follow the repeal
Of the purchasing clause Of the Sher-
man Act? No! Disguise the fact as
you may, they are draining the dregs
Of financial afdiction, with only the
right (?) to s'stand and delivern at the
mandate of insolence and greed.
Nero fiddled while Rome was burn.
ing. Cleveland fishes. Nero burnt
Rome. Cleveland is burning us. Nero
brave Nero-butehered paper lions.
Cleveland is pressing to the hilt the
asSsssio's dagger lot; ID. fair bosom o;
Columbia. Nero charged the Christians
with his crime. Cleveland charges the
Alliance. Nero has been execrated by
ali succeeding generations.s Time will
do justice to the character Of Cleve-:
land.
Coming down to matters in the State,
can any one give any definite report az
to the whereabouts of the Anglo-Saxon
manhood of the citizens of Spartan
burg? Was it hats or cowardice that
permitted the brutal outrage in that
city some days back? I am Reform
er. and not a furiously or aggressively
brave man, but want to say that
should such game ever be attempted
in. my sight upon the most violent
anti in the State, even Remphill or
Gonzales, that he may count upon
some Of the most effective cold steel
and lead argument in his favor that is
IN my power to produce. Leaving out
the constitutionality or advisability Of
the law. out Of which all of these dis
turbances arise, the fact still remains
that it is on the Statute book; put there
by competent authority, and is there,
fore entitled to consideration until such
time as public opinion shall present a
just cause for its erasure.
It seems that the fact that "a mans
house IS his castle" has bit lately
dawned upon the minds of sorne peo-
pie; and it is strange that the proviso,
so long as he shall not use it for any
purposes that are violation of the
laws Of the land, should have so en-
Si-ely escaped their notice. Alonely
cabin on the mountain side is as much
q castle to the poor moonshiner as the
proudest edifics in the land is to its
owner, and yet the revenue officials
have raided them by the hundreds,
and are doing so to-day. Yet
"Not wave of trouble rolls
Across our peaceful breasts"
But let the present State administrs.
ton exercise the.right, which no sane
man will deny, of searching for and