Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-11-21
BILL ARP'S ADVICE
Move Right Along and Keep in the
Middle of the Road.
SOUTH MUST PRESERVE NAME.
He Talks Politics Says the Southern
People Should Be Careful In Select.
ing Books for Children.
Bill Arp. in Atlanta Constitution

keep in the middle OF the road All is
not lost save honor, nor will the north
dare to cut down our representation in
CongreSS-su move would aliena,e
their new southern converts. for south
ern Republicans are at heart all lily
whites and have no use fUT the negro
in politics. Southern Republicans
have been under the ban socially ever
since the war. and they realize that it
is because they are aligned with the
negro. Captain Lowry is right when
he says. but for the negro in polite,
the Republican party would have
good chance to capture and hold the
south. The captain is a Republican,
TenneSseean, banker. and has travel
ed much, and his party up north
ought to give weight To his opinions.
He Is n gentleman. Il man OF integrity
and stands high in financial circles all
over the country. Financially he is
success and liberal with his money
but will not take Carnogie's advice and
give ii all away before ne dies. Yes.
the nigger is still in the wood pile. and
the joke of it is the Niger don't know
this country who care straw about
voting. If the white Office seekers
would let them alone they wouldn't go
about the polls on election day. What
is wanted is to purify the candidates.
III this can be done liz Atlanta why not
elsewhere? We all reioiccd over the
clection OF Major Minis for he ran for
mayor as gentleman and had no heel
ers. nor would he ask any man for his
vote or allow any corrupt electionecr-
ing by his friends. He stubbornly re
fused TO promise anything to anybody.
and strange to say. was elected. But
the Republican party is growing very
fast in this section. and will grow into
respectability IL they will let the negro
alone. MIR. Lowry is right. Some years
ago when we had suffered n similar
defeat my friend Newt Tumlin was
greatly distressed and told me in Il
whisper that there was only one woy 70
get even with them. and that was to
jine EN-. Well. there are lots OF folks
jining EN- around in these parts. and
II is hard to toll who is n Democra:
and who is not. They tell NO that a
democratic officeholder and two of the
| executive committee of this county
voted for Mckinley, and our neighbor-
ing county Of Polk went for him by
500 majority. Maybe that is an cvolu-
| tion that will stop the threatened re-
| duction of our representation. for our
| Republican friends don't want that to
happen any more than We do. and they
| viii file protest and fight it,
What we want at the South is to pre-
serve our good name, our historic hon
| or and our traditions. 4 section tn
| has produced Washington, jefferson
! Madison. Monroe, Jackson and Polk. as
| Presidents. Clay and Calhoun and LIE
and Stonewall Jackson and President
| Davis must hold up her proud head
| and vindicate her honor. What are
we? We import no foreigners to do
our work. and hire no He $ ans to do
| our fighting How !!H our heart, burn
| within us as we read the brave words
| OF General Evan, to the Confederate
| veterans 1T augusta: DO not let the
| history we have made be perverted by
| partisan pens or polluted by sectional
| slime. Our schools must be cleared of
| Northern rubbish dumped into the
| minds OF our children. We want n H.
| erature that will not continue divis-
| ions. but will contain the honest rel7-
tion OF facts. that will unity the You h
| of this country in common appreCia
| iton of tho truths of history
Yes. we have been shamefUlly care
| less in the selection OF our school bCol;
| The poison has already crept in and
must be elected. There should b. a
| school commission in every Southern
| State. for II is n well known fact that
| there are teachers who are secretly
paid by Northern publishers to get
| their books into our schools. We car
not control their literature, but we car
their school books A few few weeks
| ago an artful canvasscr visited oul
| town with an attractive history OF tn,
| world in ten volumes. lie was tho out
| talkingist book agent ! have ever mot
| and his scheme was to give away five
| or six sets in every town to influential
men OF culture IA called il giving
away but required the cost OF binding
which he said was sli. The sale pric
was $45. ! was selected by him as one
Of the favored six, and he fed me libc:
| ally on nattery and assured me that
| there was not line in all the volume.
| that any Southern man would objeCt
f; to Eor could any reader tell wheth 81
| tne authors lived North or South He
had one volume as a sample and
| noted that the authors were distin-
| guished professors in some northern
colleges. Tho volume was we'll written
and | was pleased with il and with The
| price and the iat:ery and so | put my
name down with the condition that or
examination OF the other volumes
might accept or reject In due timt
they came. and took up the nintr
volume that contained a history OF ouI
civil war The book was opened al
| random and there was an engraving o
\ William II. Seward and the first para.