The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-10

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sional politicians, of which you will
learn more as you grow older.
But, papa, why have Senator Till
man and Governor Evans met these
men in Charleston where you have
told me they were hooted at, jeered
ard cursed at the instigation of these
ve-y men?
Idon't know all that passed between
the Big Four" but from what l can
learn, they have made what is called
a deal, that is, they have promised
each other certain things, the par
ticulars OF which are kept from the
public until the bargain is made.
What does Messrs. Hemphill, Barn
we'll and Company want Senator Till
man and Governor Evans to give
them?
Messrs. Hemph!ll, Barnwell and
Company, with a generosity and
modesty characteristic Of them, only
demand for the one-sixth of the peo-
pie whom they represent just half of
the delegation to the constitutional
convention with the privilege of US
ing the negro probably to secure the
other half.
Will Senator Tillman and Governor
Evans agree to give them so much
Yes.
What have Messrs. Hemphill, Barn
well, and Company to offer in return?
Nothing.
Well, papa, I don't quite under
stand it.
No, nor 1.
But will the five-sixths of the peo-
pie submit to such trade?
I think not.
Did the Reformers tell Senator Till
man and Governor Evans to make
such a trade?
They did not; but son, you. must
know that that is a failing with most
men who reach the pinnacle of pow
Ell, to grow proud and think the peo
pie belong to them and are only so
many ciphers in the sum total. There
are many noted instances of this in
the history of our own times. You
will not have to go far back to find
them, but this is only an evidence of
decay that is very closely followed by
a fall.
Papa, here is a crowd of men away
back in this picture. l don't know
any of them; who are,they?
They are a lot of Reformers who
used to be leaders. Some of them are
good, true, honest-hearted men, who
by trickery, deceit, and double-deal-
ing have been forced back to the
rear, while some Of them deserved to
be retired.
Who is this large, fne-looking man
with the broad hat and smooth, red
face?
That, son, is United States Senator
Irby, whom we Reformers sent to the
Senate few years ago.
Well, papa, 1 never heard anything
about him; what does he do?
He draws his breath and his salary,
and does both as regularly as any
man in the Senate, no matter what
his enemies may say about him.
Does he have to be there always to
draw his salary?
Not at all, son; they will send it
after him wherever he directs and
thus save him the necessity of being
in Washington only when he pleases.
Then I would like to be a great
politician, papa.
Ny son, I would prefer to see you
corpse right now than to know that
you would ever be politician. In
that profession honest men are the
rare exceptions, for as a rule they are
men who have attained to emminence
by trickery, deceit, falsehood, nay,
even perjury, and are heartless in
proportion to their success.
But, papa, there are some honest
politicians, amt there?
Yes, my son, there are some honest
politicians, but they have a very te-
diously hard time forging to the
front, but when they do get to the
front they are never troubled with
the disease known as the swelled
head, and the people have reason to
rejoice.
What is the swelled head, papa?
My son, it is peculiar form of dis
ease which attacks brainless men,
who, by accident or otherwise, find
themselves elected to some Office.
They carry their heads among the
clouds and are not of this earth.
They have an hallucination or an alb
surd belief that they are great men;
in other words, Imagination fills
the vast vacancy where the brain is
missing.
Have we any men in Office in South
Carolina troubled with this strange
disease?
Yes, there are several whom I
know to be suffering from this
strange but common malady.
Who are they, papa?
Go to bed, my son, for am very
tired and fain would sleep away
these very unpleasant reflections.
SILAS JONES.