The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-05-23
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charged that right here at home il
Georgia, the State of Toornbs ant
Stephens and Ben Hill and johnson
and Cobb and Jenkins. whose illustri
Gus examples are still fresh and greer
in our memories, there is court house
ring composed of nearly all the judges
and solicitors in the State, and tha
this ring has working fund ofSl0,00(
to control the Legislature and put theil
slate in Office. When I first heard Of
this I was indignant at the vile SANDER
but it keeps on coming, and is openly
charged in respectable papers. I know
of two judges who don't belong to ii
and I am told that they are to be left
out, and their places given to others
who have joined the secret league. Can
these things be true? Has our judiciary
surrendered to the common corruption?
Is everything rotten? Shades of the
honored dead who have graced the
bench and bar Of Georgia, turn from
the scene! Think of Lumpkin and War
ner, and Nisbet and Jackson and
Hutchings and Benning making such
a COM bine for office! What man or
creature would have dared to approach
them on the subject? Now the remedy
is to send our best men to the Legisla-
ture-men of integrity, regardless of
church or creed or calling or party
men who cannot be pulled around or
corrupted with tempting promises. The
Yazoo fraud combination was not to be
compared With the iniquity of COM
bine of judges and solicitors for per-
petuation of Office.
I saw the press gang yesterday;
thoughtful men and earnest women. l
saw Halstead and Cockerill and some
others who have been lampooning US
on these many long suffering years and
I wondered if they had at last found
out that there was something good in
Nazareth. I wondered at the sweet
charity of our people, who gave well
come to them. An editor is peculiar
institution. He can lampoon and scarify
another editor, and call him all the
scandalous names in the dictionary and
then they meet together in press con-
ventions and on press excursions and
drink toasts to each other and get low
ing and mellow and slobber all over one
another, and next morning go to fight
ing as usual. We outsiders can't do
that. It must be on the idea that Sidney
Smith spoke of when he said that q lit
tie morsel of slander was the sweetest
thing in the world. If all that these
editors have accused one another of be
true, the most of them are fit for the
chaingang. But i: is not true, and the
people know it, and make allowap ce
for it and smile. I heard a good one on
Phil Byrd the other day. Phil runs
The Rome Hustler with lively lick
and scarifies around in such sweet
way that the victim can't get very
mad. When Governor Northen re-
turned from the Corbett-Mitchell 6as-
co, The Hustler said: General Northen
has returned from the front with his
bottle-scared veterans. He came back
safe and sound, save thumb that he
sprained trying to cock cannon.' Mel
Gammon has a keen sense of the ridi-
culous and laughed when he read 1t.
He took the paper home and fading
his old father, the Confederate colonel,
at the dinner table, he read it to him
and laughed again, but the old colonel
never stopped eating nor smiled nor
made remark. Petty good, for Phil,
isn't it, father?' "No, don't see any,
thing smart in it. Governor Northen
was trying to do his duty and protect
the people from the bad influences of a
couple of vagabonds, and as for Phil
Byrd, if he is fool enough to believe
that cannon has got a cock to it, be
ought to quit running a newspaper.
Cooking a cannon! Who ever heard of
such a thing?" And the old war-horse
seemed to be utterly disgusted.
BILL ARP.