The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-11-05
BILL ARP WANTS RICHES

]Ho ThinlSs Bryan Ia Sure to Win-The
Driving Up the Cow and NIondinp
tho Fence.
1t scoms to mo that tho domogosucs
aro undertaking the intelligence Of tho
people whom they dcnouucc 4 cundi- |
date hccnusO he is rich or bccausr h,
owns owns so'nE stock in Il national bank.
That is all thut have seen charprd
against Mr.. Scwall. Snaborn Wrirht
who was tho choice OF the populisLs,
spoke honestly aud frankly whom ho
SAID regret to say that | have no
stock IN Il national bank" don't SIM.
poso thrrc isn reputable populist in
tho country who would refuse to own
somo II he could got i, fairly. This
effort Of the dumayogucs to excite in
the poor envy and hatred Of their more
fortunate fellow citizens is shamcfully
disgusting. IL Il man acquires wealth
honestly he should BE- commended for
1t. Abraham was rich and so was To-
scph and Laban and job and Solomon,
ana JoScph OF Arimathca, who laid
the body OF Christ in his own new tomb
Every man who l., any account is ,ry
ing to better his condition and wouid
got rich II he coula. So don't believe
thnt the topu.isis are opposed to Sc
wall because OF his wealth, aud when
near any OF their leaders SAY they
arc, 1t is my opinion they arc wing.
They talk Ghbly about u!utocrais and
some OF them seem 10 think that
wealth and HuiO and hol are all
mixed up together. The fact is that
ftutuS, who was the god OF wealth, was
a very different person from Pluto.
For ionE time he gav" riches to the
good only, hut Jupiter aid not like that
ard Smote him with blindness so that
he could not tel! The good from the
bad, and ever since then everybody
mas had an equal chance to got his
iaVorS. Mytdo ogy says he was club
looEeu ana SLOW IN movement when SD
proachlng mau 10 give him money.
but when he took it away his feet took
wings and he fairly flew away. They
must have gottcn that idea FROM the
scriptures which says riches take wings
nj tiy away. Plutus was good heart
ID, clever generous god. aud don. like
10 hear him slandered The boy with the
cornucopia WAS his mark. his cpsipo.
and | never see that picture but what
mink OF him and wish he would come
tuls way and empty his horn of plenty.
| would like to feel the feeling OF a
, ? utOorat before / die.
But the long agony will soon be over
and 1T will be II great relief TO us all,
whether VIC lose or win. Once heard
300 Taylor, who was raining against
his brother make a speech, and in
) closing he urged his hearers to vote
for him, but said he: "If you cant
conaoientiously do so, then vote for nv
brother Alf." If 15ryun Is not elected
1T will be grain OF comfort to know
that some OF my good neigh bors are
gratiticd. II possibly can am going
to rejoice with those who rejoice. But
there are some signs that do not like.
Who is backing up this anarchist,
Lauterbacb, in his reasonable utter.
ances? He says that if there is rot
one way to prevent bryan being presi-
dent there is another. Does he mean
to have him counted out by bribery as
Mr.. Tildcn was ? Has he rot tho
scheme 'lixed,iind is it to be done with
Hanna's barrels OF money? | read
sometime ago q boast that $40. 900 apiecc
would buy every election manager in
Chicago. THAT would take only q
million TO BUY 100 managers and they
say they have got ten millions ut their
command. Is it possible that So good
SO honorable man rs Mckinley would
consent 20 such iniquity? I don't be-
lleve IT. Maybe the cOnSpiratOrs have
plotted scheme through the courts
to get /" bill or injunction and let
cleveland hotd over pending the lit.
igntion. wish | did know what I,au.
terbnch means to do in case BRYAN i;
elected 1t is getting very close now,
close in time and close in count. The
betting is about even. Two months ago
1T was nifty to one on Mckinley. Froin
time to time it dropped to ten to one.
ana then live to one and three to one
and now is about oven and few takers,
know New York man who writes
ior Republican paper and sunrifcs
Bryan awFully, bnC Gays in II letter to
me, ut looks now like he is going to be
elected
Well. we will wait a few days longer
and see. am prepared for the worst,
and Tor the best too. | have N; con-
vlctlons and my hopes, but botn NAV
be wrong-but ! am no pcssimist. ]
do not Tear that the nation will be
ruined il things do not go my wav.
Man is naturally vain. concoitSd
creature, and when he forms an opinion
he wants thingS to happen that way
whether 1t is the right way or not. He
delights to say, Z" told you So"
Now ! am going to quit thinking
about politics for a day or SO at least
For my wife has forwarded me that
it is tho right time to take up the
plants and bulbs and pot them and put
them in tho pit. She is very careful
about the ltind OF soil plant them in,
and 50 have to take tho wheelbarrow,
which 10 tho unicycle now, and get
some leaf mo d from the corners Of the
fence. Then have to got some fertile
from the barn yard and mix with it
aud some sand to go on top. She bosses
it al very kindly, and | have nothing
! to do but the work, | li4e that, ID re-
lieves me from responsibility. If
plant dies in Tho pit can say, i fixed
it just rs you told me-" She has given
the heifcr calf to one OF the children
and now tho old COW Is lowing all the
day long and the calf is bleating at its
new home and my wife is 80 sorry for
both that she wants them bro1ght
| together again. believe sho sympa-
| thizes more with the cow than the calf,
for she says that children soon got
weaned from their mother, but thc !