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

sent report Of it to the secretary Of
war and began it by saying: "Sir-On
yesterday noon as was taking hast y
riatc Of soup The nation was
electrified at the victory, but every
body smiled at the old man style of
reporting it and the Importance he
attached to soup. Nevertheless the
Wigs nominated him for president
over General Scott and Daniel Webster.
Scott was called Old "Fuss and Fcath
crs,' but Taylor was dubbed cold
Rough and READY and that nonina-
ted him. The democratic papers made
fun Of him and called him 'oll soup
plate and "old hasty, but he was
elected. His fighting qualities put
!inl through.
And Henry Wattcrson says We can
IIt Admiral Dewey through for the
same reason Maybe we can am
willing, Of course, for he is democrat
aal a Presbyterian, and being one Of
the elect, ought to be elected. We
cont know that he is partial to soup,
but certain it is that he is partial
10 his stomach, for he actually
stopped fighting and sinking ships
long enough to cat breakfast. Was
such thing ever done in the midst Of
:. terrific battle before? ''Twcnty min
utcs for breakfast!' was the ring of
the stewards 8 bell on every vessel and
the poor Spaniards had surccasc 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
somcthing-the rest Of their ships will
keep
Dewey is Green Mountain boy and
I like that, for Vermont democrats are
the best democrats north Of the line.
And Just to think of his being Il
Presbyterian. l didcnt 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
a Presbyterian, but maybe he is one
of Zeb Vance kind. Xeb said: "Thc
difference between me and my brother
Bob is that Bob is Methodist and
believes in falling from grace, but Bob
never falls. =! am 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 oldfashioncd shoutin' Methodist
and you could hear him mile at
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 werc
continually at outs. They carried
much animosity On their tongues and
much corporosity in their abdominal
regions, for each weighed about $50
pounds and had short nccks 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 postofficc slowly
walking and reading his paper he and
Boyd met Mt the corner and the fight
began. Each was as big a coward as
old Falstaff, but they had to fight and
everybody around was willing. In a
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. II sent you
word / was going to whip you, said
Boyd, land now l 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 crumplcd 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
Dcweys coolness under fire and over
water and if he should be nominated
for our next president, as Wattcrson