The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-06-01
BILL ARP TALKS POLITICS.
The Georgia Philosopher Discusses
the Leaders of the Republican Party
IN General--He Does Not Dotc on
thee. A. X

'' AAS DoeS Not DOUG %
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Horace said in one of his philosophi
odes that anger Is brief fit of lup.
cy." Then am ready for the asylur
right now, for | am mad-mad wit
Mckinley, and Buck and Bullock, an
the Grand Army, and the Repubica
party, and body else who is try
ing 10 Impose on our people. The Gram
Army demands the publishing OF
school history that will make Southern
treason odious to the generations T.
come. This is not the Grand Army fo
they are about all dead except the pen
sloners, but 1T is the grand army of pol
ltlcal plunderers who don't want an,
peace with the South. Gen. Grant said
L3t us have peace" and Lincoln saic
80, loo, but these politicians are afraiC
! OIL peace. Peace would wet all their am
munltlon. 1t is n very lats date to re
VlVc This cry OF treason. The argument
| mas peer long since exhausted and now
nothlng Is left but disgust I'd contemp
ior 'he polltlcal schemers who seek tC
pe"petuate discord. Treason ia a favor
ite cry among pretended patriots. At
hallah murdered the sons of the kinp
AID usut pee the throne, and when the
prophet ordered her to be slain she
rus 1ed forth and cried treason, treas.
on When Patrick Henry in his FIRST
great speech denounced George the "
Inc Judges cried treason, treason
Well, reckon that Patrick Henry and
Ben Franklin, and Jefferson, and
Adams, and Payne were the first trai-
Cors tnls country produced, and we don't
mind being in their company. In fact,
we are proud of it. | get awful mad
when | read the vile ISLANDERS of the
Nurthnrn -. 4,
us 10 love our neignbors, but those fell
lows up there are not our neigh bors,
and 1T Is not forbidden to hate an armv'
is it?
M contempt for that grand army is
not limited by time or dis ance or the
statute OF limitations, but had made
up my mind to let them alone if thew
would lot me alone. Of course there
are some clever men belonging to it
JUST IKE there are some clever men in
6he Republican party, but that don't
prevent me from hating both of tie
concerns as organic tti0ns, collectively
ana categorlcally. Schemers and plum
derers, and scalawags and slanderers
run both. Nobody but an unprincipIed
politician would seek to put "a negro in
the post Office at Augusta or in any
other southern town. 1t is an insult to
our people and there is no excuse for
lt-no palliation. OF all the Offices in
the gllt OF the government there are
none about which the people have such
moral social and political rights as the
postoflices. Every man and woman in
the community should be consulted. if
1T were possible. But as it is not. then
the public sentiment should be consid-
cred and the business men he consulted
and Nobody should be appointed who
would not be acceptable to a large ma
)rlty OF the people. In fact, thero
should be no partisanship about it. In
Democratic community republican
VINO could not get a majority vote
should not ask for no" receive the office.
but inasmuch as the rule now is that to
the victors belong the spoils Of course
we must submit. We in the South must
take the best Republican we can find,
out no President who is a gentleman
Will seek to put negro in this otfi GO
and no politician who is q gentleman
VIII ask MIN to do it. 1t is an office
tnat emphatically belongs to the peo-
pie OF the community. Itconcerns them
and them alone. No doubt but that 80
per cent. Of all the letters and papers
aud money orders that 60 and come
from Augusta are to the white people
OF that city. Besides this the color line
Is drawn at the South, and McKinley
knows it, and so does Buck and Bu!-
lock, aud they cannot wipe it out.
When will our people quit running after
these scalawags who would stab us with
the bl ide OF Joab while they embrace
us and say f: "How art thou, my broth
er?"
What is there that a politician will
not 40 Tor olfice? When the sexton
threw up skull Hamlet said: Per.
haps 1T is the pate of politician, one
who would circumvent God" And it
does seem as If they become hardened
to all sense OF the proprieties of life. A
hundred years ago Sheridan wrote:
Conscience has nothing to do with
pol tics" Our people have been doing
their best to think we'll of Mckinley
and esteemed him as a clever, upright
gentleman, but the fact that he enter
tains the idea of appointing Lyons to
Augusta has wiped out all respect for
him. The mugwump Democrats who
voted for him have all become cross
eyed and cant look you straight in the
bright little town OF Hogansville to in.
suit her people with negro postmas-
ter? Why does he not appoint negroes
TO the Northern towns where they
claim there / no color line ?-towns
whose white and black go to the same
school and sometimes intermarry.
And now there Is another tsouble
hero in Cartersville. A Michigan man
moved here not long ago with his fami-
iy and went into partnership with a
negro blacksmith and they all live to.
gether on terms OF sociai equality and
eat at the same table, and as the Mich
igan mans children go to our public
school, he has been notified that they
cannot go there any longer. So he has
taken his children away, and says he
dent care damn what our people
think and he will do as he pleases, for
1t Ia q free country. Well, that is hard
on the children, but the time has not
yet passed when 4he sins of the father
will not be visited upon the children.
He may conclude to send them to the
cClored school, as that would be more
consistent with his principles, but it ia
hoped that he will pack up and go back
to Michigan. The line is drawn and
will remain. Thirty-four years have
passed since freedom and there is no
change, neither in hotels nor churches
nor public conveyances or places of
amusement Both races would be con-
tent III 1t were not for the politicians.
AS long as the negro has vote he will
be made fool or by the candidates.
They say that Lyons is moral and capa-
BILE. Suppose that he is-he IL an i'm
pudent idiot to want to thrust himself
where he is not wanted. No gentleman
will do that, either socially or politi-
callV. and no gentleman will hpln N m,