The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-08-10

loud that we cannot hear. We have
heen looking and listening so long
for the south wind to wsft us a
friendly message. that We have be,
come community Of alert lockers
and listeners, so that no sigral or
sound from that direction passes us
unseen or unheard. if ever We get
free ferries the south side must give
them to us. We will wait as pc
tiently as possible this exhibition of
your brotheriy kindness.
And now that I have lost the curb
chain and loosened the check rein to
nv pen and she has struck the down
grade. T don't know where III fetch
up" In passing may cbuckle you
under the chin just to see you grin;
smite Brother Jones on the one cheek
to test his Christianity; speak good
word for my friend Stokes, and let
other people alone lest I become a
busybody in other news matters.
Brother c. L. Jones may not be
given to random fits O dafp," as
Bob Burns calls "a lark, with "wee
drap O the critter" along for COM
pany, but he is certainly, II not
random rover, a reckless rafting
'ri,er, who does not hesitate to put
all those who do not vote for his
friend Featherstone directly into the
''hell hole" using the devil himself
for a stopper, and yet you say, MIR.
Editor, that Brother Jones "does not
90 far enough" Why, how far
would you have our dear brother 60!
Don't you see be has gone "cl'ar be-
yant"? Then why egg the poor man
on to further display of uncharita-
bleness? Better join me in trying
to put blind bride on the fellow
ard back him into an exhibition of
some of the minor characteristics of
Christianity: "As you would that
men should do to you do you even
so to them," Love thy neighbor as
tbyself;" "That mercy I to others
show that mercy show to me-" Yes,
Josh, you are right, the success Of
prohibition would be fat thing for
the doctors and druggists, and some
people think they manage to get their
share as it is. "The dispensary is the
best solution Of the liquor question"
light again! Say it again! Give
US more like that! Lay on McDuff!'
etc.
But where does Stokes come in?
Well, he is like the old dark,'s fish
traps-he catches tEem gwine an
cummin. You can just travel for
miles and miles in Dutch Fork. and
find nothing but Stokites. Dutch
Forkers hold on to a good thing
when they get if, and that is why
they are going to keep right on vot-
ing for their friend Stokes, whom
they have tried and found true. An
Englishman considers himself very
fortunate when he is found at court;
and so the poor laborers, especially
the farmers of the Seventh District,
are very fortunate and to be congrat-
Mated in having a friend in Congress.
Mr.. Cal Cauehman, Chairman of
ceremonies at Kleckly's barbecue, hit
the nail on the head when he intro
duced' DR.. Stokes as the man who
had allowed no opportunity to pass
without improving it to the interest
Of every man who has his dollar to
earn by the sweat of his brow.
Emphatically Stokes is the laboring
mans friend. I recently met far
mer from Dorchester county and he
said it was solid for Stokes down
there. I heard a Conservative say
that he had a brother in washington
who assured him that DR.. Stokes
stauds at the head of the South Car
o!ina delegation in the House of Rep
resentatives. i am glad that "peace
and unity" means merit is to win in
this case, and Conservatives are join
ing Reformers in voting for Stokes,
knowing that his election means "a
survival of the ftest." Let it be un-
derstood that I see things through a
farmers spec:acles. j.. L. Shuler.