The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-13
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
TIE SAGE CAN SEE NO oBJEC.
TON TO BEING APLUToCRAT.
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are undertaking the intelligence Of the |
people when they denounee a oandi- !
date because he is rich or because !
he owns some stock in a national !
bank. That is all that / have seen
charged against Mr.. Sewall. Seaborn
Wright, who was the choice Of the popu-
lists, spoke honestly aud frankly when
he said; 81 regret 10 say that / have
no stock in a national bank" / don't
suppose there is a reputable Populist
In the country who would refuse TO
own some Of Il II no could get il
/ fairly. This effort Of tho demagogues
10 excite In the, poor envy and hatred
/ Of their more fortunate fellow citizens
is shameiully disgusting. II a man
acquires wealth honestly he should be
commended for it. Abraham was rich
and 80 was Joseph and Laban and JOB
aud Solomon, and Joseph of Arimathea,
who laid the body Of Christ in his own
new tomb. Every man who is any
account is trying to better his condi-
ton and would get rich If be could.
So / don't believe that the Populists are
opposed to Sewall because OF his
wealth, and when hear any Of their
leaders say they are, it is my opinion
they are lying. They talk glibly
about plutocrats and some Of
them, seem to think that wealth and
Pluto and hell are oil mixed up to-
gether. The fact is that Plutus, who
was the god of wealth, was a very diff
ferent person from Pluto. For a long
time he gave riches to the good only,
but Jupiter did not like that and smote
him with blindness 80 that he could
not tell the good from the bad, and
ever since then everybody has had an
equal chance to got his favors. Myth
ology says he was club footed and slow
In movement when approaching a man
to give HIM money, but when he took
1t away his feet took wings and he
fairly flew away. They must have got
ten that idea from the scriptures which
say riches take wings and fly away.
Plutus was a good hearted, clever,
generous god, and don't like to hear
him slandered. The boy with the
cornucopia was his mark, his ensign,
and l never see that picture but what
l think Of him and wish he would
come this way and empty his horn
of plenty. would like to feel the
feeling of plutocrat before I die.
But the long agony will soon be over
and 1t will be a great relief to US all,
whether we lose or win. Once / heard
Bob Taylor, who was running against
his brother, make a speech, and in
: closing he urged his hearers to vote for
him, but said he 'If you can't con-
! scientiously do so, then vote for nv
{ brother Aft" If Bryan is not elected
+. it will be a grain of comfort to know
a that some of my good neighbors are
a grstifed. If 1 possibly can am going
4 to rejoice with those who rejoice. But
a there are some signs that l do not like.
y Who is backing up this anarchist,
Lauterbach, in his reasonable utter
Y ances? He says that if there is moi
J. one way to prevent Bryan being pres
n ident there is another. Does he NEAR
J. to have him counted out by bribery al
}. Mr.. Tilden was? Has he got the
@ scheme fixed, and is it to be done
IS with Hanna's barrels of money!
0 read sometime ago a boast tina
9 5000 apiece would buy every cleo
!. ton manager in Chicago. That would
y take only million to buy 100 mana
gers, and they say they have got tel
+ millions at their command. Is it pos
It sible that so good, so honorable mar
It as Mckinley would consent to sucl
Q iniquity2 l don't believe it. Mayb,
the conspirators have plotted a scheme
n through the courts to get bill OF in
l. junction and let Cleveland hold owe,
IS pending the litigation. / wish / dix
d know what Lauterbach means to do il
y case Bryan is elected. 1t is getting
he very close now, close in time and clos
ID IN count. The betting is about even
Two months ago it was fifty to one Of
Mckinley. From time to time
dropped to ten to one, and then fv
, to one and three to one and two &
= one, and now is abont even and few
takers. I know New York man VIII
! writes for a Republican paper and scar
- rifices Bryan awfully, but says in
~ letter to me, "Itlooks now like he
going to be elected"
= Well, we will wait few days longe
- and see. am prepared for the worst
- and for the best, too. I have my con
- victions and my hopes, but both ma
:. be wrong-but l am no pessimist
:. do not fear that the nation will b
80 ruined if things do not go my way
- Man is naturally a vain, couceite
creature, and when he forms an opir
ion he wants things to happen tha
~ way whether it is the right way G
q. e not He delights to say, II told 70
so.
- Now I am going to quit thinkin
= about politics for day or so at leas