Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-05-07
WALHALLA, 8. g.
WEDNESDAY, MAY z, 1902.
Major Rankin on the Road.
TGreenville News.

deliberation, careful thought and
close communing with our innerself,
determined to come out as a candi-
date for political place and wish it
announced in your valuable paper.
We take this step after and at the
insistence and continuous urging of
friends.
A trip to Anderson last week put
ga bee in our bonnet" Everyone
seemed to be willing, yes, more than
willing to serve their country and
come out as cadidates for political
honors.
Willing to enter the fight from
which they would return "bearing
their shields or being borne home
upon them," our success in collecting
long over due accounts, has been
such as to determine in our mind
that we lack the persuasive power
that would bring about such results as
would warrant our continuing in the
important position we now honor, or
cucumber, which ever way you look
at it. "Hope deferred maketh the
heart sick," short crops, postpone
ment of court, owing to deficit in
the jury law, or adverse action of
presbetery, or conference, has rem
dered it impossible for so many of
our subscribers to meet their obli-
cations that We knowing that there
is the editor, the linotype men and
the D to pay every Saturday
night, feel it our duty to lay down
our arms and surrender, if elected to
any office, to the inevitable, an ap-
probation of our paper seems to be
extant aud the longer the subscriber
is i'll arrears the greater seems to be
the appreciation of the effort of the
management to furnish an up to- date
journal. So we have decided to
come out as candidate, "at the ur-
gent solicitation of our host of
friends" both of whom assure us
that there will be bigger fools in the
field (of this we are in little dcubt.)
We offer ourselves for any thing in
sight from the Senator. down, ma
tional, State or sectional, could put
on an air of bald headed dignity
that would ornament the senatorial
chamber, or the representative hall,
and our vote would be solid for any,
thing popular with our constituents;
would use six tined fork to prod
some man or measure, by which to
bring ourselves or State into notice,
in fact would be willing to become
the mountebank of the Senate, and
rise in season and out of season to be
"agin" any measure of the dominant
party's advocacy. In this way our
State would be brought into promi-
nency and ourselves into public
notice. Failing in the candidacy for
the Senate we would enter the race
for The House, where we would pur-
sue the same tactics and be found
always "agin EN-" without "rhyme or
reason"
If we are left out in national mat
tcrs we will submit gracefully and
take anything attainable from Cover
nor to coroner. If elected Governor
we will act wisely and will give all
my friends place on the State or
county board of control, and edo all
the boys right" With this declara-
tion of principles I throw myself up
on the dear public, begging and be-
seeching the earnest consideration of
all.
Knowing the farmer to be very
busy | hope to issue my declaration
of principles to be printed in large
type on card board which can be at
tached to the east end of mule or
horse going west, and read and re-
read by the ploughmen while at
work.
We shall at once cultivate and
perfect ali air of cordiality of greet
ing and warm method of hand
shake that will convince everyone
that we are everybody's friend ir-
respective of party principle, creed
or color, ready to become an unselfsh
public servant, creature without
guile, and blameless,
At Laurens, Spartanburg, Pickens
and Seneca and many other places
we find scores of others who are af-
flicted with the Aspirants Fever, al,
good men and true, Of whom the
voter can truthfully say, "ITow happy
could | be with either, were other
dear charmers away" With this
declaration of our principles we
throw ourselves upon generous
public besee eching their suffrages and
promising in any event that if they
will pay up for their newspaper we
will withdraw and never come out
again, for we feel as to being a suc-
cess az candidate there may be
some doubt.
Good for rheumatism.
Last fall / was taken with very severe
attack of muscular rhen tiann vuhinh