The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-05-15


as little eido line papers pick m anne.
time with a paper like the Greenyl,le
News. critical observer said:
you don't see such wrangles in the
ANDERSON INTELLIGENcER. WHY. ifit
wanted to, 1t has 10 room for prize
fight ring. 1t gives the whole OF Tia
weekly issue as play ground. camp.
meeting sociable, to the whole of the
County. Big and little from far and
near they join in, become acquainted.
It's 'hOwdy.' and 'wasl, l declare. an,
where have you been so lone?' and %.
I've been away; how is 30 and so?' aud
hello glad TO hear from you over there
and so Oh. 1t gives you the finest cup
board Of good things you ever saw In the .
inside OF the paper, 80 that when folks
are tired talking and reading of them
| selves and others they go inside and re-
fresh on the best the country around
affords. Why, was in there couple Of
weeks ago. and the sditor was slaahing
down his editorial. saying he had no
room for them-he hatcd to he discour-
teous with nice people who from new
location were sending good letters Of
3ewf; hut they arc Just crowding me
OUT said be. Also tiue letters he said On
farm subjects from writer's who knew
what they were saying; crowded out by
those folks who wanted to laugh and
chat and weep with each other. Where
is the room here for prizs flgh,q"
"iIow long have you been reading the
paper?" asked a listener.
| hra corSa, c.
ANDERSON INTELL1aExcER for fifteen
| years."
You would make q pretty fair canvas.
considering your trifle of acquaint-
ance! Well, It has been In my family,
with one or other of US, for ABOUT forty
years, or since in 50 or go Jas. A. Hoyt
our 'Col.'-was in charge. It Is good
you SEQ for man or beast, even news.
pepper to have an ancestry. would like
to tell you of the great @anvasser ofthat
day, Warren D. Wilkes"
The conversation was becoming q di.
version, and the narrator proceeded:
Warren D. Wilkes, he said, had been
chosen by Mr.. IIoyt to secure subscrip-
tions to the paper. He was the man of
all others who outside the Office sauctum
could keep newspaper alive. His
great genius was oratory, his great fault
was drink. He approached man for
Subscription, and If the customary
amount Of oIatory was not forthcoming,
the man from bottle helped the divine
afiiatus-then it poured-that ie, the ora
tory. Listeners wore captivated and sub
scriptions were gathered from the crowd
easily as handful Of nickles.
Well, oace, In 1851, he also gathered
iaurols At the presentation Of Hap BIZ
Inc ladies' OF Richmond to the old 4th
Regiment on thoir way to Manassas, q
large assembly was present; among
them Jefferson and Mrs. Davis ar many
dignitaries. The orator Of the day-a
great man from som owhere had fatty
failed In his response to the presentation
address. Warren Wilkes was called up
on as the only man who could ariss q. an
unprepared moment, and be the best
prepared of all. The only question was
"would hs be ready?" CONSERVATION
ran high for speaker on such an august
occasion. Wilkes was ready-that is, he
was in q tent, according to report, 'dsad
drunk" With help he got up, was led
out, led forth and up to dry goods box
on which he was steadied. An outline
OF his predecessors speech was given him
as suggestion Of words. He had great
eyes. he rolled these around on the as
sembly few times, the words begen to
roll and In lea sthan Ave minutes he was
sober. History was raked, chronology
theology, philosophy. poetry. From
Egypt to Persia, from Persia to Greece,
from Greece to Rome and round about
the world. There never was North or
South such q burst OF eloquence, such
magnificent oratory; the audience went
wild, and from the ascending pile Of flow
ers, hendkerchie:s. which were threaten
lng to bury him, his prudent friends
contrived to get him out of the mob, aud
back to his tent.
Another big occasion for him was about
'73 when in Beiton an unusually impor-
tant temperance meeting required bril-
liant speaker. Warren D. Wilkes was
the only man could be found for su Oh an
occasion. He was conveyed from his
plow-field, where drst as a necessary
consideration he was inspired from the
messenger's bottle. The ladies at the
temperance meeting, unacquainted with
his moral failure. were carried to intense
enthusiasm; they were beyond xpres-
sion, such an address, its power, its elc-
| quence, its convictions were beyond
them. They could not aspire or hope to
| ever hear its equal.
He was mt itudied speaker, he
; could not speak from prepared speech.
| The first public address of his life YVES
delive ed In Beaverdam Church, under
| certain select auspices; he began: "Ladies
aud gentlemen, this country was once
bowling wilderness, and am happy to
repeat It to deg. Ladies' aud gentlemen,
this country was once bowling wilder
ness; 1t was. and I am happy. Ladies
and gentlemen-I am happy-!!w HIS
studied address was humilisting fail
ure.