The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-09
BILL ARPS LETTER.
A rp Tells Of tho Old Know Nothing Party
to Which He Belonged.
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and got awfully beaten and has never
been elected since to any Office by the
people, and to my opinion never will
be. 1t is just AZ old Abe Lincoln
said "lou may fool all the people
some Of the time, and you may fool
some Of the people all the time, but
you cant fool all the people all the
time
Now, the common people. the farm
crs aud mechanics and %t0ilcra, are
| generally nnsuspccting aud crcdulnus,
aud when "A smart. shrcwd politician
talks sweet and nice to them they are
inclined to believe him, but what law
yer of any prctcnsions or respectable
ty ever believed in the Ocala platform
or the ~subtrcasury scheme or some
thing bcttcr?' or course any states
man who was fit to hold office knew
that it was utterly impractiblc and
would bankrupt the government to
build warehouses and advance money
on crops, but il was a hobby on which
to ride into office, and f%ooling the peo-
pie was Of ~ consequences. No, |
w0nldnt trust any man who would do
it or has done it.
Another way to fool the people j. to
form little secret rings in every cnun-
ty AMI divide out the county offices
and each ring man must get his bench
men to he at the court house ION cnn-
v@cntiun day and help elect delegates
who belong to the ring. The gonI,
easy. unsmsprctIng people don't know
anythin" about it and before they
know it the whole country is commit
ted t" Il man the people didn want
The men who control are smart and
they are politically INSCRIPTIONS and
all together they make Il powerful
combine, and it was the knowledge
and memory Of these methods that
provoked Colonel Gamblers letter.
lie wrote Just what we have all been
feeling eve since General Evans de-
feat. He expressed my sentiments
and like it better and better ut each
reading. Now lay on, MacDuf-no-
body liz hurt, except some ''honi soft
uui NAL y pcnsc.' which means cit is
the hit dog who yclps.' or words to
that effect. 1t is no insult to those
who accepted Office under Atkinson,
for he doesn't own but one Office.
Tho others arc public trusts in his
keeping and he has no moral right to
pay private political debts with them.
1t is his duty to select the best men
for the places regardless Of what they
voted for. The Offices belong to the
people and it is a prostitution Of
power to fill them for personal ad-
vantage. Ra. professional politicians
all do it from the president down and
this is political corruption. One day
i'll my Indignation remarked in a
crowd ''Wc arc a nation Of political
tricksters,' and an Office seeker close
| by whispered. Call no names, Bill:
call no names
But the people are really for honest
mc:hods anti they have a standard
bearer on whose nalnc and FAME there
is no blot. Let him write again if he
wants to aud let his banner have on it,
!. reform in political methods and
economy in administering the govern
mcnt. Already there are rings
forming t" defeat him, rings by the
men who control and they are dcsper-
atcly in earnest for the sccptcr Of
their office is departing. The issue is
plain. 1t is the politicians against
the people. We wan cleaner methods
both i'll State and county and muaici-
pal elections. Augusta and Marietta
amt Gainesville have recently de
graded their townships by corruption
al the polls and like smallpox the pes
thence is spreading. But We shall
sec what We shall see.
The combat %dccrens. On, sc brave!
The onc-cycd plowboy has nothing to
take back or qualify and the people
viii stand by him from Tybee to Pos
sum Trot and from Postum Trot TO
Tugalo. BILL Arr.
Observation-Disclosures.