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t * VTL,, I*ALz Y UTH'CRr M(Q2S4I J2 3 3500 z 1884A. VOL. 1.1 ASLEY, SOUTTHB CAROLINA,.AG5 29, 1884. {NO. 47. ie- nlej g w gn. Ente.ed it."the: PoStofie at Easley S. C., as Seconc( ass M<atter. J. R,."iO#00 diitet ahlfrop'r. One 3-r, i F.; i ;I k . vn.00 Six months . 65 RATES OF ADVERTTSINo. One square (1 incH) 1 insertion ...... 76c Eachi..subseqient insertion............ 40c Liberal discoitut on contracts or by the cohton. halt or (uarter column. Marringe notices free and solielted. Obiti'les over 12 lines charged for. Correspoudents, to lusure attention, must give their full address. We are not responsible for the opin !o1s of our corresponden1ts. All comimui'aitions for the paper must be addressed to the Editor; business letters to the Publisher of the AI SS1ENG i;R, E isIc, S. C. THE PRICE OF FAME. Bill Arp on The Couduct of The National Campaigi. rie higher a man climbs the phliner he shows his fundamental infimities. That is if he has any and most people hav'e got them in this subloonary world. I was won deritig in my inid why they had cnt brought out all these things about Cleveland and Blainte before when they were running for oflice, but it seems that the offlie they run for wvasn't high enough to de velop every hi(Iden thing. As they climbed up the pole the slan (lerers only put at them a small op erIa glass )ut now that they keep climbing higher aind higher they bring out their long baIrrelled tele Scopes that mylaglfy a thousand times to the inch and they hunt all over them for spots n d blemishes and if there is a little speck on the glass of the telescope they mistake it for a big spot on the man and raise a howl all over the nation. When Cleveland was ruming for governor of New York he was abused right smart by the repub lican newspapers, but they never said anything against morals or his virtue as a man, but now since he keeps climbing up the 1)ole and gets higher andl higher, they have brought Onl their telescopes and mi croscopeCs and( kaleidescopes, horo scopes and (leveland is an awful b~ad man. 'Well, I am afraid he has niot b)een as clean in all respects as he onght to have been, I ex<pect lhe has been overtaken by the in firmities of the ;iflesh, Thut mighty little harm came of it and he act ed like a gentleman. Whelin men are overtaken b~y a farult it does not matter so much how they fall into trouble as it does how they come out of it. Just so with Mr. Blaine. The slander against him is worse than against~ Cleveland, for lhe has a wife and children, whom it af' feets. It is crnel and outrageous. for even f it is al the truth itas been atohied foi 1ongk ago by his g'ood doniduct in his doinestib reol tions. If it vrpent, for many Adty b roUg ouf on him, i the e t1uefo the southern pe6p1e tie' had a *'rse slatiderer than: he shas been. His Andersonville ppeech was a web of lies, a monstrous cruel slander,<a bloody shit dipped in slime, and. it was delivered by 1itin, not for a principle, or to illustrat -'iuth, but to make political captia :r him elf. le deliberately sought to play upon the base .Passions- of mankind; to excite their hate and 1evenge, and thereby pronote him self. And now since his own in iquities have been brought to light, I woul dent care one cent if it was not for his f1amily. David was in a poVer of troulble when he pray ed: 'Oh. Lord, visit riot up'on Ine the iniquities of muy youth;' Mr. Blaine i had better kept dark. He COU ld have su ppwessed the e bi'arges against Cleveland if1 h2 had tried i.or wanted- to. Ile ought to have telegra)hed every republican edi tor in the 'iiation and begged tham, for his own sake, to J)tblish no chiar'ges aoainst Cleveland with a woman in the case. Let not the pot call the kettle black. And there is Black Jack Logan. Injun Logan, Weathercock Logan splurguig arotunld and abusing us like e were a passel of devils and had just broke out in a new place. Before the war he Was hollering hlurrah for Dixie and110 was sending .back ur runaway niggers, and when the war blrOke out he raised a Conlfederate regiment nd was sending the Indian boys down n - to Kentncky where he was to or ganize his regimnent, and about that time he was brought up with a conunission as brigadier-general and lloj)ped Over onl the other side, and has been waving the bloody shirt ever since. le is a national fr ufd. BUt it is all right I reckon. WhenI a man is a candidate the people are boundl~ to know the best of' him and the worst, too. If' he is an angel on one side he will be made a d'evil on the otherr; and considerate people will split the differenlce bet ween the t wo. A can didate ought to hq fair and pure and sp)otleis, for that is the mean ing of the word. But we can't ex poet to get that sort. The best men. don't seek of1ice, and they rarely get it. It is a hop~eful sig'n when the ofice seeks the man, and that is what I likeC about Mr. Cleve land. lHe has never hunted for office or intrigued for it, and I be.. lieve the time - hats come when the Amnericani peoplIe honor a man of that sor't. They are tired-l-tired of the hungrry horde who kep up the 'shiint*e th esobtions; ti t ed df dehiagouus who deleive ne p6ople to Jet a cbifice to phtinder , s p cever Al 1011 4i 6i $ rorgio bei foi r idin g the derri agogue. T. like Zeb VIince and sunset. Cox and Blount aqrd Phil Cook and H*ardentn and all tdheir sort, for they are amiable and un selfish. I heard Zeb Vance tell ing about how iie caipturd the votes of a backwoods settleinentin North Cai-olina when he first ran for Congress. He said he had nev er been in that settlement and did ent know the boys. He dident know their polities hiortheir habits nor their religion. But ho, sent them word he -would be tlxere to see them on a certain.day, and so lie Iode over the-mountain and got there aid found about sixty Of the Sovereigns at a cross-road groCery, and be got down and hitched his.horse and began., to make their acquaintance and crack his jokes around, and thought he was getting along pretty well with them, but hehnoticed an old man Witif -shggi e yoyevbi'ows and hig brass spectacles sitting on a big ehunck and marking in the sand with a stick. The old man dident seem to pay any attention to Van ce,' and after awhile Vance con chided that the old man was the bell-weather of the flock and that it was necessary to capture him, so lie sidled up close to him, and the old man got up and shook him self and leaned forward on his stick and said solemnly, 'Tis is Mr. Vance, I believe.' 'Yes, sir,' said Vance. 'And you have come over here to see my boys about their votes, I believe.' 'Yes, sir,' said Vance, 'that is my business.' 'Well, sir.' said the old man, 'afore You proceed with that. busi ness I would like to ax you a rew questions.' 4Certainly, sir, certainly,' said Van11lce. 'What church mout you belong to,' said the old man. That was a sock dolger-Vance dident belong to any church. lie knew that religion and meeting wa lbg thing in the backwoods, and controlled' their p)olitics,' but he dlidenlt know what their religion was, for North Carolina wats pow erfully spotted and had a nest of Episcopalians in onhe lae andl( Presbyterians in another and1 Bap tists here and Methodist over von der, andl tehey never mixed, but were all one way in a settlement, and so he was in a dilemma. But he squar'ed himself for the responsibility, and says he: 'Well now, my friend, I will tell you about that, for its a fair ques. tion. Of course it is. Well, you see my grandftather camne from Scotland, -everybolyks Presbyte rian.' H'ere he pause4 to note the effett, but saw 119 sympDathy with his gratvly But My gani Atide aiihe froimi Engant',inaa tV iid d #bdy be Jongs to-the Ep acopal church.' He paused agwit* a'd the old inan marked. another mark in the sand and' spit his tobaceo away off. 'But ny father was horn in this country in a Methodist settlement. and so he grew up a Methodist.' Still no sign of approval from the old man, and so Vaiee took his last shot-and sa'id: -But my good old mother was a Baptist, and it's my opinion that a man has got to go under the water to get to heay en The old man waked up and tak ing him by the hand said, 'Well you are all right, Vaiiee,' and then1 turning to the crowd said, 'hoys he'll do and you imay vote for hiii I thought ho looked like a Haptist.' And the old man slowly drew a flask from his coat-tail and hand ed it to V ance to seal his faith. Speaking about slander, r heard the other day that Governor Col qutitt stopped over at Raleigh tro see Governor Jarvis, and Mrs. Jarvis told him how the newspa pers. slaldee[Od her iisbtdI(l when he Was a canldidate-and they ae cused him ot swindling andI lying, and every mean thing. 'Well, madam, did you believe any of it,' said Colquitt, very ear Iestly. 'No, indeed, I dident,' saidl she. 'Well, madam, Governor Jarvis is a fortunate man1, for my enimies abused and slandered me,' an111d he whispered, 'aud I'm atfraid theY made my wife believe it.' Well, we are getting along very well in our country aboit polities. We have all blried the hattchet on Mr. Felton, and are going to send him to the legislature 'notens vo lens.' We wanted to send Gener al Young too, for as Lawyer Grit ham said, old Barter wants to make her representatives serve six years in Congress as an ap prentice - ship before she send(s them to the legislature. Bunt there were so many others hankering to go thmat the general modestly declined; nevertheless I reckon we will be rep~resenited all right, and nto harm done. This is one office thme doc tor' has not sought, and~ I am glad to see our good)c people united on so able anid so good a man. Biri, Ant'. -We learn our virtues of' the bosom friends who love us ; ou r faults from the enemy who hate us. We cannot easily discover our r'eal form from a friend. Hie is a mir ror,on which thme warmth of our' breath impedes the clearness of ouir reflection.