The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-11-29
BILL ARP'S SOUND ADVICE.
SOUTH MUST PRESERVE NAnIE.
Our People Should Move Right Along
and Keep in the Middle Of the
Road.

Our People Should hiove Right Along
and Keep in the Middle Of the
Road.
Let us move right straight along and
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-such q move would ALLEVIATE
their new Southern converts, for
Southern Republicans are at heart
all lilywhites and have no use for the
negro in politics. Southern Republicans
have been under the ban ever since the
war, and they realize that it Ia because
they are aligned with the negro.
Captain Lowry is all right when he
says, but for the negro in politics
the Republican party would have a
Gcod chance to capture and hold the
South" The captain is o Republican
"a Tennesseean, a Georgian, O banker,
and has travelled much, and his party
up North ought to give weight to his
opinions. He is gentleman, man of
integrity, and stands high in financial
circles all over the country. Financially
he is success and liberal with his
money, but he will not take Carnegte's
advice and give it all away before he
dies. Yes, the nigger is still in the
wood pile, and the joke Of 1T ia the
nigger don't know it. There are not
dozen negroes in this country who
care q straw about voting. II the white
Office seekers would lot them aloue
they wouldent go about the polls on
election day. What Ia wanted Ia to
purify the candidates. II this can be
done In Atlanta why not elsewhere?
We all rejOiced over the election oi
Major Minis, for he ran for mayor as
gentleman and had no heelers, nor
would he ask any man for his vote or
allow any corrupt electioneering by
his friends. He stubbornly refused to
promise anything to anybody, aud,
strange to say, was elected.
But the Republican party is growing
very fast in this section, and will grow
into respeotability II they will let the
negro alone. Mr.. Lowry is right. Some
years ago when we had suffered q
similar defeat my friend Newt Tumlln
was greatly distressed, and told me- in
q whisper that there was only ono way
to get even with them, and that was to
jine 'em. Well, there are lots Of folks
Jtning 'em around In these parts, and
1t is hard to tell who ia Democrat
and who Is not. They tell me that o
Democratic officeholder and two of the
executive committee OF this county
voted for Mckinley and our neighboring
county OF Polk went for him by 500
majority. Maybe that ia au evolution
that will stop the threatened reduction
OF our representation, for our Republi-
oan friends don't want that to happen
any moro than we do, and they will
file protest and fight 1t.
What we want at the South Ia to
preserve our good name, our historic
honor and our traditions. A section
that has produced Washington, Jeffer-
son, Madison, Monroe, jackson and
Polk, as presidents, Clay and Calhoun
and Lee and StOnewall jackson and
President Davis must hold up her
proud head 8hd vindicate her honor.
Who are wep We import no foreign.
ers to do our work, and hire 20 Hes.
SLAMS TO do our fighting. How did our
hearts burn within us 40 we read the
brave words OF General Evans to the
Confederate Veterans at Augusta: "Do
not let the history we have made be
perverted by partisan pens or polluted
by sectional sfime. Our schools must
be cleared OF Northern rubbish dumped
into the minds OF our children. We
want % literature that will not continue
divisions, but will contain the honest
relation OF facts, that will unity the
youth OF this country In common ap.
LrcciatiOn OF tho truths OF history"
Yes, we have been shameiully care
leBs In the eelcotlOn OF our school
books. The poison has already crept