The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-06-01

and won great battle IN Mexico ne
sent report of it to the secretary OF
war and began it by saying: "Sir-On
yesterday noon as I was taking hasty
plate of soup" The nation was
electrified at the victory, but every
body smiled at the old mans style Of
reporting it and the Importance he
attached to soup. Nevertheless the
wings nominated him for president
over General Scott and Daniel Webster.
Scott was called Old ''Fuss and Feath-
ers," but Taylor was dubbed "Old
Rough and Ready" and that nomina-
ted him. The democratic papers made
fun of him and called him cold 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. am
willing, of course, for he is democrat
and Presbyterian, and being one Of
the elect, ought to be elected. We
don't know that he is partial to soup,
out certain it is that he is partial
TO his stomach, for he actually
stopped fighting and sinking ships
Tong enough to eat breakfast. Was
such a thing ever done in the midst Of
a terrific battle before? s'Twenty min
utes for breakfast was the ring of
the stewards bell on every vessel and
the poor Spaniards had surcease OF
sorrow for little while. Zachary
Taylor said ga little more grape,
Captain Bragg" but Dewey said
Boys, let us rest awhile and eat up
something-the rest Of their ships will
keep
Dewey is Green Mountain boy and
/ like that, for Vermont democrats are
the best democrats north Of the line.
And just to think of his being a
Presbyterian. 1 dident know they
had any in Vermont and would have
set him down for Unitarian or a
Roman Catholic or deep water Bap-
tist. Grover Cleveland, they say, is
Presbyterian, but maybe he is one
Of Zeb Vance kind. Zeb said: 'The
difference between me and my brother
Bob is that Bob is Methodist and
believes in falling from grace, but Bob
never falls. 1 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
mountains were Baptists and so he
went over there just few days before
Holden. was to speak there and told
the boys that his good old mother was
Baptist and that Holden was regu
lar old-fashioned shoutin' Methodist
and you could hear him a mile at a
camp meeting. The result was that
not dozen men came out to hear
Holden and Vance got every vote in
the settlement.
But that stopping fer breakfast at
Manila reminds me Of the fight be-
tween DR.. Hall and Colonel Boyd, Of
our town, away back before the war.
They were leading citizens and were
continually at outs. They carried
much animosity OF their tongues and
much corporosity in their abdominal
regions, for each weighed about 25O
pounds and had short necks and short
arms and shorter legs and each had
vowed to whip the other if he ever
crossed his path. One day as Hall
was going from the postofice slowly
walking and reading his paper he and
Boyd met at the corner and the fight
began. Each was as big coward as
old Falstaff, 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 top and
they blowed like porpoises. After
awhile the people took pity on them
and helped them up and then each
claimed the victory. 81 sent you
word I was going to whip you, said
Boyd, "and now reckon you will
quit telling lies on me. "Whip who,
you old dirty, lying puppy. Why I
whipped you, sir, and never stopped
reading my newspaper, and he held
up the crumpled sheet that somehow
or other he had never let go from his
hand. The old doctor always swore
that he never stopped reading his
paper while fighting Boyd. Just SO
Taylor never forgot his soup and
Dewey his breakfast. There is no
record in all history that matches