The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-21
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
THE MAJOR REMARKS ON THE
"norNEss" THE WEATHER.
Retroapection, Politically and other
Wise, Of OLD limos.

Confidence is q plant Of slow growth
in an aged bosom. The republicans
are making much ado about something
that Mr.. Bryan said about the supreme
court, and even some Of the Georgia
lawyers criticised him severely and de-
Tended the court as the best bulwark
Of our liberties, aud spoke Of IL as the
high tribunal that stood like a wall 10
protect people against the assaults Of
passion aad prejudice. All that ia
very pretty 10 q young man, but old
men have more memory aud less conf
dence. There was a time, q good long
time. when tho court had the respect
and the reverence OF the nation, es-
pocially OF the south, when John Mar
shall and Roger b. Taney, two south
erners, were the chief justices for
period Of nearly sixty years, but soon
after Taney died partisan politics aud
sectional prejudice crept into the court
and il is there yet. IL has been only
twenty years since members Of that
court ruled Mr.. Tilden out of the
presidency and seated Hayes, as clear
ma act Of legal fraud as was ever per-
petrated by the most interruptions
| politicians Law is said 30 be the
perfection of human reason. Then
how is it that in such great questions
republican judges decide ono way and
the democrats the other? 10 is right
melancholy to recall that stupendous
farce-seven democrats and eight re-
/ publicans oil under oath to do justice
in this great question, and yet they
drew the party Ines to man. That
Tilden was elected all parties now adj
NIT and history has so recorded. He
was cheated out of the high Office by
three members of that supreme court.
This is the same court that decided the
income tax unconstitutional. Why I
wouldn't trust such a court with any
case that involved great corporations
or sectional questions. Ever since Joe
Bradley was young man, and up to
1870 he was president or director of
two railroads and several great in
surance companies. He couldent tote
fair with them on one side and the
people on the other to save his life.
No, am like Mr.. Bryan. I've lost
confidence in the integrity of that
court. l will not say that its members
can be bought with money, but their
wills are nodded by undue influence
and ought to be broken. That income
tax was a fair and Just measure auG
would have put into the treasury near
forty millions of dollars and no doubt
saved the government from the dis.
grace OF that bond business.
But didn't start to write on poll
tics. The weather is too hot to thinl
about anything that excites indigna
ton. We old chaps here in Carriers.
vile have been going to school every
night for a week, preparing for til,
deestrict skule show that was to come
off. The ladies got it up and ther
levied on as and put the Oldest me1
and women in an infant class, and WI
had to toe chalk mark and learn on
a b on a blackboard, and be laugh
to sing 81 want TO be an angel ant
we had to speak speech like we useC
to speak it away back in the 30s auC
40's. Some of us had to walk up ant
be licked for our mischief, and we hat
a recess and played many, many star
with the girls and I got kissed sever0
times and 30 forth. The nights wer
hot, but we had fun, lots of fun-ol(
fashioned, innocent fun. Old people ar
never so happy as when recalling tb
memories of the old school days. Tha
is about as far back as we con go, an,
it is a big landmark in life's history
Shakespeare tells of the whinin
schoolboy creeping unwillingly int
school. That was true picture some
times, but as a general thing, we wer
glad to go. Charles Lamb writes O
! his joyful school days 1t was a mos
delightful mixture. With mother t
help us get our lessons and father t
encourage and teacher to praise L
= when we die well, the daily task wa
0 not hard, and then the surrounding
: the frolics, the recess, the dir
ner bucket, the good time goin
u home in the evening, the prett
I, branches we had to cross, the red gu
q lies where we got chalk, the walnu
y trees over in the field and the chestnr
}, trees on the hill and then there wei
q persimmons and blockhaws and may
!, y pops not far away. We had townba
Il at noon, glorious old townball that he
= been debased and degraded into bias
ball. We used to give good balls
the batter and wanted him to hit it al
knock it q mileif he could Then thel
was our old fashioned Skinny that Wi
! akin to the modern golf. 1t was hal
: game and kept us with bruised shiI
Q and bloody toes, and gradually fell i
. to state of inocuoas desuetude.
Il And there were some pretty girls
Q look on and admire, and we had OF
sweethearts aud loved to stand |