The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-20

Says The People do NOT Appear so be
Much CONCERNED.
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but our people DO not seem to be
very much concerned They have
more curiosity than apprehension.
The grcat excitement is at Washing-
ton. aad even there it is based not
upon fear or blood or suffering. but
upon the struggle between the two
great political partic-- which one
shall get ahead and wha: moyc IS the
best one to get ahead and stay there.
Whatever Mckinley does or proposes
to do the Democrats must fight it and
i vice versa. The success Of the party
is a bigger thing than war. We have
never seen Congress so bcwildcrcd.
Some are for Intervention, some for
recognition. ono for annexation and
all for revenge. Wall street sees
nothing but the money that is in it.
S""e preachers are for i,cacc Il: any
price aud some are bowling for war.
or course the army and navy want Il
fight. for that is their professional
business and gives Il chance for pro.
motion. Then there are the editors
and publishers who must appear to be
at fever heat whether they feel so or
not, Tor it Is Il harvest time for news
and the people want the news and
will buy the papers. The farmers.
too, are Affected and are studying what
TO !lan' for profit. and The SPECTATOR,
IL Grain an'l meat arc bulliny and
bcarin.. a~ccor,lin" to their faith.
But til" great masses of the .hlnrri-
can people. the %tpilcrs and consumers,
whp have nothing to gain and nothing
I" lose b.y Il war, are lockers on with
%unconccrn. They have no axe to
rrlnd. nor even hatchct. but still
haze Il feeble hope Of more work and
better wages. Down here at the South
there Is no great interest except in the
cities, for our people never get any
contracts or government Jobs, and
don t expect any gain from a war with
Spain. If we get u custom house here
and there the material must come from
over the line, Notwithstanding the
marble and the frantic are at our
doors. Northern contractors clean
out II rivers and harbors and all the
the prof, "ucs away from home.
Our mi>chievons people tell the
negroes they have got TO 20 and DO all
the fighting, for it is Mckinley'S wal
aud they al voted for him. The boys
read To them paragraphs from the
Northern papers which say that North
crn soldier, would die OF fcvcrin Cuba
III Il week and that only Southern
negroes can stand the climate. Lots
OF them around here are fixing to hide
out aud have done picked out their
cancbrakc. Clarence, the drayman, is
u leader, Il hcclcr in elections, and he
says Il never vote for any war. I
amt gwinc to fight. I amt done
nothin' to nobody and nobody amt
done nothin' Co me. Tain't mad wild
nobody and how can a man fight with
out he's mad. Mr.. Akcrman and Mr..
Crawford got me into dis scrapc and
dcy must git me out. wonder if dey
is gwinc to de war
Last Sunday l saw a gang of ne
grocs standing around a preacher and
he was reading the big headlines of
the Constitution to then. There is a
large pictorial recruiting poster in the
postoficc and :hey stand off and look
at it with serious alarm. But they
arc not going from these parts, neither
arc the white people going right now.
Old man Ingram was Il good fighter in
the last war and seemed TO like the
business and he says he wouldn't
mind going if they will let him fight
under General Lee and wear gray
clothes. My friend, Captain Dobbs,
says he will so along with DR.. Cal
houn aud will skirmish around awhile
and get sick and get the doctor to give
MIN Il discharge at the cnd OF three
months and then he will come home
and draw G pension all the rest of his
life.
Well, if it has to be u war Mr.. Nc
kinlcy had better TURF it over to Cen
e~ralI.cc to fight it.
Big things are piling in on us just
now. The State canvass for State
officials is now going on and getting
red hot and it takes nearly all our time
to keep up with that and the war too.
Maybe we will need another war gov
crnor and if we do Colonel Gambler has
had more experience in that line than
some other folks.
Colonel Rcnfroc could take care Of
the negro cOnyicts and march them to