The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-28

is not lUot c6'V hSdVi hoA VIA tuc
North dare to cut down our represen-
tation in Congress- such movo would
alienate their new Southern converts,
for Southern Republicans are at heart
all lilywhites and have no use for the
negro in politics. Southern Republi-
cans have been under the ban social.
" ever since the war, and they realize
that it is because they are aligned
with the acg.c. Captain LcSS.y &c
right when he says, ''but for the me-
gro in politics the Republican party
would have good chance to capture
and hold the South. The captain is q
Republican, Tennesseean, q Geor-
giap, banker, and has travelled much,
and his party up North ought to give
weight to his opinions. He. is gem
tleman, man of integrity, and stands
high in financial circles al over the
country. Financially he is q success
and liberal with his money, but will
not take Carnegie's advice and give it
all away before he dies. Yes, the
niger is still in the wood pile, land
the joke Of it is the niger don't know
it. There are ro5 a dozen negroes in
this country who care straw about
voting. If the white Office seekers
would let them alone they wouldent go
about the polls On election day.
What is wanted is to purify the can
didates. If this can be done in At
lanta why not elsewhere9 We all re-
joiced over the election of Maj. Minis,
for he ran for mayor as a gentleman
and had no heelers, nor would ho ask
any man for his vote or allow any COR
rupt electioneering By his friends. He
stubbornly refused to promise any
thing to anybody, and, strange to say,
was elected. But the Republican par
ty is growing very fast in this section,
and will grow into responsibility if
they will let tho negro alone. Mr..
Lowry is right. Some years ago when
we had suffered a similar defeat my
friend, Newt Tumlin, was greatly dis
tresscd, and told me in whisper that
there was only one way to get even
with them, and that was to jine 'em.
Well, there are lots Of folks jiuing EN-
around in these parts, and it is hard
to tell who is Democrat and who is
not. They tell me that Democratic
oficeholder and two Of the executive
committee Of this County voted for
Mckinley and our neighboring Coun-
ty Of Polk went for him by 500 ma
jority. Maybe that is an evolution
that will stop the threatened reduction
Of our representation, for our Repub-
ican friends don't want that to hap
pen any more than we do, and they
will6ght it.
What we want.at the South is to
preserve our good name, our historic
honor and our traditions. A section
that has produced Washington, j eff
ferson, Madison, Monroe, jackson
and Polk. as presidents, Clay and
Calhoun and Lee and Stonewall Jack
son and President Davis,must hold up
her proud head and vindicate her hon
or. Who are we? We import mo
foreigners to do our work, and hire no
hessians to do our fighting. Eow
dld Cur hearts burn within us as we
! read the brave words oflGensral Evans
TO the Confederate Veterans at Au-
susta: DO not>le tho history we
nave made be perverted by partisan
pens or polluted by sectional slime.
Our schools must be cleared Of North
efn rubbish dumped into the minds Of
Our children. We want a literature
that will not continae divisions, but
Will contain the honest relation Of
.'s' 1haI Viii unity the yGuthrOf
4 'als country in common appreciation
a0i the truths Of history.
Yes, we have been shamefully care
4,ess In the selection of our school
3oooks. The poison has already crept
,n aud must be elected. There should
!. Oe school commission in every South
j t,n State, for tits a well.known fact
,na' there are teachers who are secret-
,y PAID by Northern publishers to get
4'neir books into our, schools. We
sannot control their literature, but we
san their school books. A few weeks
so an artful canyasser visited our
with an attractive history Of
s7.ue world in ten vo.ames. He was
'ue out'talkingist book agent I have
Yer met, and his scheme was to give
way hve or six sets in every town to
anaential men of culture. He called
giving away, butrequired the cost
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