The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-09
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Some Things Arp Don't Like.
atlanta Constitution.

other side. L have not seen any such
abuse of Mckinley by the democratic
press, but the northern republican
| journals just TEEN with the vilest and
| most malicious ISLANDERS of Bryan and
his platform. He'is denounced and
cartooned as the arch anarchist and
repudiator tool Of the silver mines !;
babbling boy; sky scraper; a bag
of wind, and the punka Of the Platte.
don't know what punka means, but
suppose it is some very bad thing like
polecat. His Madison square speech
which ingalls, said was very great
speech, is ridiculed as an abortion,
chestnut, 9. miserable failure; and
they cartoon him as little sophomore
schoolboy orator. This is very bad
policy. The people Of all parties know
that Bryan is very eloquent, smart
and sincere man and the reaction
comes when such. ISLANDERS are used
against him. The jubilant guying
tone Of the republican press reminds
one of goliath and David-"And when
| the Philistine saw David he disdained
him for he was but youth, and the
| Philistine cursed David by his gods
and he said come to me and will
give thy flesh to the fowls Of the air
| and the beasts Of the field.
Fortunately for the country bothsof
our candidates for president have
characters above reproach and clean
records in their public life and are
endowed with very high qualifications
| in craftsmanship. The one elected
cannot make law. Then why abuse
him :? Each has host Of friends and
it wounds 81 man 8 feelings to hear his
idol, as it were, lampooned and vilifed
by penny-a-liner scribblers, who have !
no conception of what constitutes true:
greatness. There is no manliness or !
good breeeing in the modern modes Of
conducting political canvass. L
heard an old veteran say to-day that
he had not intended to vote for Gov-
| ernor Atkinson, but since Watson and
Wright were denouncing him for
pardoning that man Hinton he had
changed bin mind and should support :
him. candidates are in desperate
strait said lie, "when they resort to (
such demsgogism as sthat. Hinton
ought to have been pardoned. The
governor has shown more consideration \
for negro convicts and pardoned more
of them than any governor we have
had.
Hating the railroads and loving the
negro are still campaign capital. Its
| all lie, of course, for no sensible
man does either to any extent in his
heart. He says he does, so as to catch:
votes, but he knows that he is q hypo-
critic when he says it. Such declara-
tions are about as sincere as newspaper
editorials and governors proclamations
against lynclling negroes for their
horrible outrages. tits all for bun
combe. I've forgotten that fellow 9 {
name, but i have always admired him
for his frankness. When he was re-
minded by the speaker that everybody
had left the house he replied: aThat's
all right, sir, I'm not speaking for
them at all, sir. I'm speaking for
Buncombe, my county, sir, and my
constituents, for it will be printed, sir.
| And he kept On with his argument.
But the way read it in the go!dbug
papers the republicans are not as
jubilant az they were. They are
somewhat alarmed even about the
State Of New York. I see in yester.z.
days papers that the rich women OF
New York city have organized female
Mckinley clubs in every ward and
they have parceled out the work and 1
are to visit the tenement houses and
canvass among the toilers. [ read
McKinley'a letter to these women
bidding them godspeed and saying he
was glad to see the noble women OF
this country taking an interest in
politics. This is no fake. 1t is pub
lished in TIE republican papers and to
my mind is the first bad break Mr.:
Mckinley has made. The idea OF
encouraging women to go canEassinss
in the slums of great cities for votes
looks like alarm to say the least OF it.
Bryan has made no break. Every
utterance along his travels has been in
good taste and entirely proper. He
has not boasted of himself nor abused
his adversaries and we are glad to see
that the people, the common people,
heard him gladly and treated him with :
the greatest respect. The other day q
fake appeared that for awhile astound-
ed me. The idea that Ben Tillman
had visited Tom Watson to get him to J
come down and take cabinetposition
was monstroas, for Mr.. Bryan chooses
his own cabinet. He will not buy
them, and if he did Ben Tillman would
not be his broker. The average poll
tician seems incapable Of measuring
Mr.. Bryan He can't conceive OF
standard that is far above mercenary
or ambitious motives. Neither will
Mr.. Bryan for moment encourage
any attempt to get Sewall down. Il
would be dishonorable, and he knows
it. What is the matter with Sewall
anyhow? Nobody, not even the re-
publican press, has said a word against
him, except that his son is republi-
can. Well, that is hard on the boy,
but nothing against the old man save
suspicion that he didn't whip him
enough b and make him stay in at night
and keep out Of bad company. These
populists pretend they don'tlike Sewall
because he has stock in national
bank. That's all hypocrisy. Every
one of them would have it, from Tom
Watson down, if they could get it.
Whenever [ hear a pep or anybody
else denouncing rich men and banks
and bankers [ know that he is hypo-
critic in his heart and there is a streak
of envy and ,neanness and original sin
running down his backbone as big as
a fence rail. He has nearly reached
condition of total depravity-and that's
the law. BILL ARP.
lloW's This.