Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-06-15
THE WAYS OF GENERALS.
A GOOD ARTICLE FROM
BILL ARP. =
He Revives Some Good Stories
About Prominent Men of the
Past-He Has Found Out
That Admiral Dewey is,
a Presbyterian.

a Presbyterian.
When General Taylor had
fought and won a great battle in
Mexico he sent a report of it to
the secretary of war and began it
by saying: Sir-0n yesterday
noon as 1 was taking hasty plate
of fsoup." The nation was electrified
at the victory, but everybody
smiled at the old mans style of
reporting it and the Importance he
attached to soup. Nevertheless
the Wings nominated him for
President over Gen. Scott and
Daniel Webster. Scott WAS called
"Old Fuss and Feathers. but
Taylor was dubbed "Old Rough
and Ready" and that nom-
mated him. The Democratic
papers made fun of him and called
him "old soup plate" 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. 1 am willing, of course, for
he is a Democrat and q Presby-
terian, and being, one of the elect,
ought to be elected. We don't
know that he is partial to soup
but certain it is that he is partial
to his stomach, for he actually
stopped fighting and sinking ships
long enough to eat breakfast.
Was such thing ever done
in the midst of a terrific battle be-
fore? "Twenty minutes for break
fast!" was the ring of the stewards
bell on every vessel and the poor
Spaniards had surcease of sorrow
for a little while. Zachary Taylor
said: ga little more grape, Captain
Bragg" hut Dewey said: "B )ys
let US rest while and eat uI
somethlng-the rest of their ships
will keep.
Dewey is Green Mountain boy
and I like that, for Vermont
Democrats arc the best Democrats
north of the line. And just to
think of his beiug a Presbyterian
1 didn't know they had any ill
Vermont and would have set him
down for a Unitarian or a Roman
Catholic or deep water Baptist
Grover Cleveland, they say, is
Presbyterian, but maybe he is one
of Zeb Vance's kind. ,Zeb said
'The difference be tween me and
my brother Bob is that Bob is 8
Methodist and believes in falling
from grace, but Bob never falls,
am a Presbyterian and don't believe
in falling, but am falling al
the time," When Zeb was
running against Holden fol
Governor he found out that all the
people in little valley over the
mountain were Baptists, and so he
went over there just a few days
before Holden was to speak there
and told the boys that his good old
mother was Baptist and that
Holden was regular old-fashionec
shoutin Methodist and you could
hear him mile at camp meeting
The result was that not a dozen
men came out to hear Holden
and Vance got every vote in the
settlement.
But that stopping for breakfast
at Manila reminds me of the fight
between Mr.. Hall and Colonel
Boyd, of our town, away back be-
fore the war. They were leading
citizens and were continually a,
outs. They carried much ami.
mostly Oh thair tongues and much
cor porrosity in their abdominal
regions, for each weighed about
$50 pounds and had short arms
and shorter legs and each had
vowed to whip the other if he ever
crossed his path. One day as Hall
was from the postoffice slowly
walking and reading his paper
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