The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-07
! BILL. ARP WON'T GET MAD.
Ills Old Father Used To Talk the
Rheumatism Off.
HE DON'T LIKE M'KlNLEY'
Barlow Philosopher Is Not Pleased
With the Appointment OF Negro
POStmaSterS.

When Abasuerus got so dreadful mad
with Haman he didn't do anything rash
all of a sudden, out walked out IN the
garden to cool off to let his choler
down. That's the way am doing now
every day, and am thankful that
I've got a garden to walk in.
When my good old father used to
feel the rheumatic gains coming he
didn't sit down and grunt and look mis-
erable, but seized his hat and his cane in
hurry and started out to peruse the
farm. In an hour or so he would re-
turn all in sweat of perspiratlon and
the rheumatism was postponed for
time. Walk about some and commune
with nature when you feel bad. Almost
every day take on new mad, fresh
Indignation at Mckinley, and If L
didn't walk in the garden and peruse
the roses and posies or feed the pet rab.
bits and the peafowls or pick lot OF
tomatoes for dinner my choler wouldn't
come down and [ would lose my appe-
tite and my serenity. Dogon him, con.
found him, dad blast him! The good
book says Cursed be the deceiver,
and if he hasn't deceived US no man
ever did. Ihever voted for him and l
am thankful for it, but / did have re-
spect for him, and believed his sincerity
and his national patriotism. but he has
falsified our faith and broken our
hopes, and my personal contempt for
him is amazing. didn't know what
nv kind, gentle disposition could
generate so much contempt
for any man. We didn't know
that he was q South hater per Sc 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 fool:
some say q knave and some that he has
been hypnotized by Hanna; but my con-
viction is that it is . deliberate party
rolicy to open the breach between the
North and the South, to set the healing
wound to bleeding again. They have
despaired of capturing any Southern
State ana now seek to raise hell between
us and the negroes. Oh, my country
was there ever such heartless, reckless
tyranny of official power, such insult
ing humiliation? Let me stop few
minutes and walk in the garden. l see
the beautiful flowers from the window,
the cannss, with their turbaned tops,
waving in the evening breeze; the zen
las and dahlias aud gcrsniums in all
their yariegated colors. see the tocks
of little birds picking the sunfiower
seed. I am looking upon the lnno.
cence of nature, and grieve that
man is the only creature that dis
appoints and deceives us. Let me
90 out among the howors and rumi..
nate and calm my fretted thoughts and
comfort my olfactories with sprig OF
lemon verbena and heliotrope. '
Well, now 1 think I feel better. Let
Mckinley proceed with his procession:
The governor and the press will attend
to HIM. liked those headlines OF the
governor, "McKinley's Skirt Stained
With Loftin's Blood" That is fact,
and his party's skirts have been stained
with good deal of negro blood since
the war-not q lynching has taken
place that was not the result of their
teachings. Just look at the anlmus
that seeks to provoke war OF races IN
the South. "Ihe New York Press In
splitting its venom at the South, says
the national government should at once
arm every colored office e-holder and pre-
pare him for the fight and back him
up in it. Which means, OF course,
arms for his friends and soldiers sta
toned near at hand and an internecine
strife and at last another war between
the North and South. What is all this
for9 What necessity9 Who is Ltoftin,
or Lyons or Dent that they
should put the South in such peril.
The postofices of all others belong. to
the people of the towns and cities.
Ihev are nearly as close akin to the
color line as the schools and churches.
Mckinley knows. this and knows the
temper of our people on this subject.
and he knows that it will not be peace
ably permitted. 1t will wider the
breach not only between the North and
the South, but between the whites and
blacks. But all this has been said over
and over again by the press and our
Senators aud Representatives all over
the South, and it has been felt by mil
lions who think much and say little: L
wonder if Hanna, Mckinley 4; Co.
think they can by force reform and reg.
ulate the sentiment Of q great and
mighty people-a people who want
peace. but are not afraid OF war when
they are trampled on and insulted. But
I must walk out again or change the
subject. believe I will and see some