Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-06-10
WAYS OF GENERALS.
Arp Tells How Victories Were
announced BY Them.

day neon as I was taking a has
tv plate Of soup" The nation
was electrified ct the victory,
but every body smiled at the
old mans style Of reporting i
and the Importance he attached
to soup. Nevertheless the Wigs
nominated him for President
over General Scott and Daniel
Webster. Scott was called "Old
Fuss and Feathers" but Taylor
WIS dubbed "Old Rough and
Ready" and that nominated
him. The Democratic papers
made fun of him and called him
odd soup plate" and "old hasty, "
but he was elected. His fighting
qualities put him through.
And Henry Watterson says
we can put Admiral Dewey
through for the same reason.
Maybe we can. l am willing, of
course, for he is Democrat and
a Presbyterian, and being one
of the elect, ought to be elected.
We don't know that he is par
tial to soup, but certain it is that
he is part al to his stomach, for
he actually stopped fighting and
sinking ship long enough to est
breakfast. Was such thing
ever done III the midst Of a TER
1iIc battle before? "Twenty mlin~
utes for breakfast was the ring
of the stewards bell Oh every
vessel and the poor Spaniard
had surcease of sorrow for lit
tie wl:i,e Zachary Taylor said:
"a littt> more grape, Captain
Brag, bat Dewey said: Boys,
let us 1T awhile aud eat sem :
thing-the rest Of their ships
will keep"
Dewey is a Green mountain
boy and l like that, tor Verm ont
Democrats are the best Demo-
Gratis north Of the line. And
Just to think of his being Pres
bvteriln. l didn't know they
had any in Vermont and would
have set him down as a Unira
Ran or a Roman Catholic or
deep water Baptist, Grover
Clevcl md they say, is a Presby-
terrain, but maybe he is one of
Icb. Vance's kind. Zeb SAID:
."tlc difference between me and
my brother Bob is that Bob IS a
Methodist and believes in falling
trom grace, but Bob never falls
/ am a Presbyterian and don't
believe in falling from grace,
but am falling all the time.
When Zeb was running against
Holden for Governor he found
out that all the people in little
valley over the mountain were
Baptists and so he went over
there lust a few days before
Holden was 20 speak there and
told the boys that his old moth
er was a Baptist and that Eol
den was q regular old fashioned
shouting Methodist and you
could hear him a mile at camp
meeting. The result was that
dozen men came out to hear
Holden and Vance got every
vote III the settlement.
But that stopping for breaks
fast at Manila reminds me OF tt e
fight between DR.. Hall and COL
onel Boz d, of Our town, away
back before the war. They
were leaui lg citizen andHcon>
tiuuallv at outs. kThey car
ricd much animosity on their
tongues and much corporoslty
in their abdominal regions, tor
each weighed $50 pounds aud
had short necks and short arms
and shorter legs and each had
vowed to whip the other if he
tv>r crossed his path. One day
a Hall was going from the Pc. t
Office slowly walking and read
ing his paper he and Boyd met
at the corner and the fight be-
gan. Each was as big a coward
as old FalstaH, but they had to
fight and everybody around
was willing. In brief time
they got to the ground and
neither could get up or get on
to2 and they bowed like porS
poises. After awhile the people
took pity on them and helped
them up and then each claimed
the victory. Il sent word was
going to whip you,' said Boyd,
4 and now l reckon you will quit
telling lies On me-" "Whlp
who, you old lying dirty puppy.
Why, I whipped you and did
not stop reading luy newspaper,
and he held up the crumpled
sheet that somehow or other
he had never let go from his
hand. The old docto; always
swore that he never stopped
reading his paper while fight
ing Boyd. Ju t SO Taylor never
got his soup and Dewey his
Breakfast. Thee is no record
in history that matches Dewey'<
coolness under fire and ove1
,uatec aud If he should be nom