The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-01
ARP WON'T GET MAD
llxsaNe Like McKinlry-Bartow Philoso.
a2her IL Not Pleased with tho AppoInt.
" ment Of Negro Postmas sters.
Hss OLD FATHER USED To WALK THE
RHEUMATIsnd OFF, e,ssisSs
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When Ahasuerus got SO dreadful
mad with Haman he dideDt do any
thing rash all of o sudden, but
walked out in the garden to cool off
to let his choler down. That's
the way I am doing now every day,
and am thankful that I've got gar
den to walk in. When my good old
father used to feel the rheumatic
pains coming he dident sit down and
grunt and look miserable, but seized
his hat and his cane in hurry and
started out to peruse the farm. In
an hour or 80 he would return all fn
sweat of perspiration and the
rheumatism was postponed f9r
time Walk about some and com
mune with nature when you feel
bad. Almost every day I take on Il
rrReS mud, fresh Indignation at Nc
Kinley, and if dident walk in the
gardon and peruse the rosos and
posies or feed the pet rabbits and the
peafowls or pick a lot Of tomatoes
for dinner my choler wouldent come
down and I would lose my appetite
and my serenity. Dogon him, con-
found him, dad blast him! The good
book says "Cursed be tho deceiver,"
and If he hasn't deceived us no man
ever did. l nevor voted for him and
| am thankful for it, but 1 did have
respect for him and believed his sim
cerity and his national patriotism,
but he has falsified our faith and
broken our hopes, and my personal
contempt for him is amazing. l
dident know that my kind, gentle
disposition could generate SO much
contempt for any man. We dident
know that he was a south hater per
SO and had smothered it in his bosom
all these years only to be uncovered
when he got Us in his power. Some
say he is a fool, some say a knave
and some that he has been hypno-
tized by Hanna; but my conviction
is that it is deliberate party policy
to open the breach between tho north
and the south, to set the healing
wound to bleeding again. They
have despaired of capturing any
southern state and now seek to raise
hell between us and the negroes.
Oh, my country! was there ever such
heartless, reckless tyranny of official
power, such insulting humiliation2
Let me stopa few minutes and walk
il the garden. I see tho beautiful
>Aowers from tho window, the cannas,
with their turbaned tops, waving in
the evening breeze; the zenias and
dahlias and geraniums in all their
variegated colors. I SEQ the focks
of little birds picking tho sunhower
seed. I am looking upon tho inno-
cence Of nature, and grieve that
man is the only creature that disap-
points and deceives us. Let mo 20
ont among tho flowers and ruminate
and calm my frettod thoughts and
comfort my olfactories with sprig
Of lemon verbena and heliotrope.
Well, now I think 1 feel bot
ter. Let Mckinley proceed with his
procession. The governor and the
press will attend to him. l liked
those headlines Of the governor.
"McKinley's Skirts Stained With
lIoftin's Blood" That is n fact, and
his party's skirts have been stained
with a good deal of negro blood since
the war-not .lynching has taken
place that was not tho result of their
taachings. Just look at the animus
fhat seeks to provoke a war of races
in tho south. "The New York
Press" in splitting its venom at tho
South, says the national government
should at once arm every colored
Office holder and prepare him for
the fight and back him up in it.
Which means, Of course, arms for his
friends and soldiers stationed near
at hand and an internecine strife and
at last another war between the north
and south. What is all this for7
What necessity7 Who is Loftin or
Lyons or Don't that they should put
tho south in such peril? The post
Offices Of all others belong to the