The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-05-04

| AVeS. III the T0OIS could be lifted
how these carking cares would rob
pride Of its glitter and vanity of its
gilded display.
1t is only righteousness which ex-
alteth nation and contented mind
is the only true haven of mortal ex-
istence. We should daily pray for q
proper understanding Of the best and
truest things for our own souls!
THE DAY WITHOUT NONSENSE.
| Never having been candidate for
public Office I do not know exactly
how candidate feels on election day,
but [ have had sufficient anxieties to
give me fairly good idea Of what it
means to stand and wajs until the
CONT is completed and you knew your
fate.
The fuss and furry which attends
on exciting campaign is all gone when
the polls close and the managers pro-
gress with the count. It is the dead
still calm which goes with the same
sort Of wait, like when the doctor
comes and says it may be all right in
the morning with the patient, but it is
very uncertain whether the sick one
will be here, or in the hereafter.
You may be elected or you may have
to stay at home and hoe your own po.
tatoes, but it is certain to be one Or
the other.
There is no halfway ground in the
business. You are going "to get
there" or you are sure to think you
were born fool for risking this un-
certain business. Like the decisions
Of an old-timed petit jury, it is as apt
to hit you as to help you: but it is 60
ing to do one or the other and do it
quickly.
About IL o'clock on election day
when the bystander says: "How is it
with you?" You are brave enough to
answer: "It looks like I'll make it,"
but about the time the sun is nearly
down you wish there was way to put
an end to your own uncertainty, for it
has about taken all your appetite and
your strength (and without any per-
sonal reflection on your normal condi-
tion) and your courage to stand about
until you know whether you have
made the trip are all sorts Of fools,
when you do get left on election day.
| The majorities you have figured out
q month ahead look like very dismal
figures sometimes when the day closes
finally, and you can't find them in the
scuffie. People whom you confidently
expected to be in the crowd ho!, ering
for you are not there, and while they
were pleasantly cool and nonchalent
when they were there Cor few min
utes, it has been like sort of cold
douohe on your spirits to remember
them the rest Of the day.
It is the day Of all days that deals
in facts with nonsense left out. It is
only votes that count and the count is
like cold cash and occasionally about
as hard to get, but you do make q
reckoning that is convincing on elec-
tion day. You ere in OF you are out.
| II you have spent considerable mon.
ey you are doubly interested, neverthe.
j less that money has gone "'where the
woodbine twineth.
| Election money is like s'getting a
fat SOW" II you are elected you are
convinced it wasn't needed, and IL you
are defeated you are as firmly con-
vinced chat it was simply throun
away. So there you are, hung up like
Mahomet's eoEin, for the time being,
and il you do catch q fall you have
6 clearer vision for one day in che
three hundred and sixty-6ve than all
the rest Of the entire calendar year.
i When you stare home that night
yon prefer to 60 before the last name
and vote is called, because Sally will
have fewer words, while there 10 hope
| that you will hear good news lster.
If you are pushed in q corner and must
beloh up the whole truth for domes-
tic argument, on the folly Of ''going
into politics, it is surely bad.
| Some folks ''don't go home till morn
ing" but that is q poor business to
| follow. When the, whiskey dies out
you are considerably more unhappy
than you were just after nightfall.
And the fellows who have been liv-