The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-07
An Election Revere.

LIN 4AASS ANP
ton. The second chapter will end on Tues
day, the thirteenth, the observer sees
much OF that in comprehensive thing,
human nature, during Election times. He
sees many funny thugs, many things to
be regretted, many constituencies acts,
many brave acts, during election times
He hears men, good men, responsible men,
say things they do not mean. He hears
men make statements which they pretend
are in keeping with their policies whom the
observer knows such are not their policies.
He hears singing things about candida
ties, which under any other conditions
than that Of an election, would not be ut
tered. He hears one candidate berated in
order that an impression may be formed
that the other candidate is better suited
to the Office, when in all probability the
first candidate is just as good a man as
the second, and just as capable Of filling
the office.
Blease and Featherstone, Featherstone
and Blease. Poor Blease, what a black
sheep he must be to deserve the quartos
and folios and S-Vos of set solid %nonparael
o%pprobrium that has been heaped on his
poor sinful head during the past month.
How much guile, what ~artifce, what chic
inery, what Jockeyship must Blease pos
ess to call down on his head all the dam
ming epithels and i~nnuendoes, and insin-
uations that have lately fallen on him.
What a devil OF a man Blease must be!
But are all those who make such inun-
endoes and insinuations, are they perfect
ly honest; or are they M Of a pack who
bark in the trail of the leader? Tney say
the devil himself is not as black as he is
painted. This is all, as I see it, that pre-
vents Cole L. from being covered from
head to foot in a coating of linseed oil
and lamp black and %sprouting horns!
What a picture of Blease has been held
up to the public eye during this campaign !
In comparison Captain Kidd is a Sunday
school boy. All the bad language Of the
mother tongue has been doing double
duty for a month in making word pictures
Of Cole L. and mind you, some artists have
been on this job.
wonder If it seems thus to other folks.
I could not have happened to strike just
such as were reading Cole LIS titles each
time and thus heard it all. 1t Is not at all
likely. Other folks have heard it too no
doubt.
Let's see. Have Ireally heard anything
good about Blease? Idon't remember it
If I have. That man is an enigma to me.
How does he receive political preferment
so often in his home county and yet be
such a rake-hell, reprobate, and r%apscalion
as he is painted in word pictures almost
every hour in the day?
Birds OF q feather flock together. are
the people Of Newberry of that stripe? I
wish I knew whether OF not he pays his
debts. If he fails to pay his debts that is
enough for me. II he does pay his debts
then he one-half good man. I wish I knew.
Ill ask some one who knows him and find
out, for some who have been beratiDg
him do not payitheirs, I'm sure.
This matter Of making my mind up how
to vote worries me some. The State" says
platforms are to be laid aside and the con-
test made between men, but this does not
help me for l know more about the plat
forms than / do about the men on them.
Now, I do not know Mr.. Featherstone. I
have met, him it is true, but I do not
know the man. Not ono word Of censure
have I ever heard of Featherstone. He
must be an idealman.
When a man enters politics it is said that
all the and rascality he has been
guilty Of in his past life comes to light,
placaraded. advertised, heralded from
house tops, and yet not one word against
the reputation, the charactero OF candidate
~Featherstone have / heard. Indeed he
must be q model man judging from that
fact, and yet I feel that l know just as
little about Featherstone as I know about
Cole L. The estate" says choose between
men. The News and Courier says choose
between men. But neither the State nor
the News and Courier lives either in New
berry or Laurens.
The editor Of the State and the News and
Courier are good and wise men. I know
that on the dead level the above advice is
good to follow. After all that is what we
people do. We chose between men plat
forms do not bother US much, we talk
them sometimes but when it comes to
voting we fellows cast n ballot for the
man who we feel Is nearest to us, for
the man who sympathises most with US,
In other words o rthe man We like best,
chat ;e about tho trutb NJ II
Now these two papers say choose be-
tween men and choose Featherstone. For
law and order and peace and tranquility
choose F~eotheastone. shun Blease as II the
State House were a china shop and Blease
a roaring bull OF Bashan. And yet a ma
jority of the good old common people OF
Newberry county endorses Blease and
repuidates Featherstone and majority Of
these same people In the adjourning coun-
ty Of Laurens endorses Blease and repui-
dates Featherstone, and that too when
Newberry is the home Of that wild cat
Blease, and Laurens the home Of that
good man Featherstone.
I'm all tangled up, I don't know where I
am 'at". Do the Editors Of the State
and the News and Courier know more
about these two candidates than a majori-
ty OF the peoplein the candidates W
bome ~countips2 Maybe all good people