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VOU,, LIXE A E'ASE SOU, T2itE .2 i J'sY AZUKGUT 1v11.8840 VOL. 1.] EASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRDY AGS 29, 1884. [NO. 47 She fasteg Ajessenger. Ente.eed at. the. Postoftice at Easley S. C., as Secon d Qlass Matter. J. R. IHAGOOD, 14tor ahd Piop'r.1 TERMP :OF SUBSCRIPTION. One %t, -.; i 1 i advance . $1.00 Six months " ". 65 RATES OF ADVERTISINO. One square (1 Inch) 1 insertion...76c Each subsequent insertion ............ 40e Liberal discobmt on contracts or by the column. halt or quarter colunm. Marriage notices free and solicited., Obitaries over 12 lines charged for. Corresponden ts. to insure attention, mii ust give their full address. We are not responsible for the opin) !ois of our correspondeltS. All communicaflons for the paper must be addressed to the Editor; bousiiess letters to the Plublisher of the N ESSi N. it, E asie, S. C. THE PRtCE OF FAME. Bill Arp on The Conduct of The National Campaign. The higher a manl e:lilmbs the plai ner he shows his fun damental infirmities. That is if lie has any and most people have got them in this sublooinary wor'ld. .1 Vas wol dering in miy mIind why they h1ad( cut broughi t. out all these thinigs about Cleveland and Blaine befire when they were running 1o ofhice, but it seems that tho offlice they rn for wvasn't. high enough to de velop every hidden thing. As t hey elimibed up1) the pole the slan derers only puit at thei a Small op era glass but nowV that' they keep climbing ligher aunl higher they II ring out, their long barrelled tele scopes that, imagnifv a thousand times to the inch and they li hunt all over them for spots anId blemislies and if there is a little speek oni the glass of the telescope the1y mistake it for a big Spot Oi the man and raise a howl all over the nation. When Cleveland was ru ning for governor of New York he was abused right smiart by tihe repub lican newspapers, but they never said anytihing against morals or his virtue as a man, but now since he keeps climbinig upi the pole and gets higher andl 1highier, they hiave broulght Onl their telescop~es and~ mi - cr'oscopes andl( k aleidescopes, horo - sc'opes anfd Clevelind is an awful badI man. Well, I amn afraid he has not 1)een as clean in all respects ais he onght to have been, I ex peel hre has beeni overtaken by the in ti rmit ies of the flesh, bhut mighity little harm came of it and lie act ed like a gentleman. Whien men are overtakcen by a fault it does not matter so much how they fall into troule as8 it (does how they comeI out of it. Just so with Mr. Blaine. The sland~er ag'ainmst him is worse tin against Clevelanid, for' he has a wife and children. whom it af fects. It is cruel and1 outrageous, for even 'f it is all the truth it his been atoned for long ago by his good donduct in his domestfe reia tions. If it waeeut for: Mi. leings fCru~1y I WO.~~~t9r pO many b d gh n roug out on him, if the3 are title, for the southern people neiver had a worse slanderer than' he has been. His Andersonville Opeech was a web of lies, a monstrous cruel slander, a loody shirt dipped in slime, and it was delivered by iim, not for a principle, or to illustrats truth, but to make political capital f'dr him 4soIf. He deliberately souglht to play upon the base passions of mankind; to excite their hate and I'evenge, and thereby pl'9mote him self. And now since his own in iquities have been brougtht to light, I wouldent care one cent if it was 1not, for his family. David was in a power of trouble when he pray ed: 'h011, Lord, visit not upon me ithe iniquities of my youth,' Mr. llaiiie ha] better kept dark. Ile cotld have suppresse;d the chairges against Cleveland if lh . had tried or wanted to. lie ought to )ave telegra plied every republican edi tor in the nation an.d begged the(m, for his own sake, to puiblish no chariges against Cleveland withI a OIIImn in le case. Let not the pot call the kettle black. And there is Ulack Jack Looan. Injun Logani, Weathercock logan splu rti aroutndi( an abuI 4 1 s ing us; like we were a passel of devils and hadl juist brloke Out ill a new place. BIelore the wair e was hollerin g hurrah for Dixie and was seni1nY hiack our riuIn)iav niggmrs, and wihlen the war blrok(e ouitl he raised a colnfeaderate regiment and was sendini g the indian bovs down il. to K ent uckyv where he was to or ga inize his regYjim)ent, anld about that time he was br)ollgh t up wvith at C01n1nis8 n as briadier-general and tlopped over on the other side, and hias been waving i lie bloody shit.ever since. le is a national But it is all righ t I reckon. Whena man is a candidate the people are bounid t~o know the best of' himit and the worst, too. If he is an angel on one side lie will be made a devil on thle otherrn; and conlsid.erate peole will splhit the difference bjetweeni the two. A c'an didate ought to be fair and pure and sp~otless, for that is the mean 11ng of' the word.* But we ca'1t ex poeMt to geCt thalt sort. The best men dlon't seek ofhlee, and they rarely get it. It is a hopeful sig'n when the office seeks Lne man, and t hat is what I like about Mr. Clevo land . lie has never h unted for ollice or inltrigue~d for it, anid I be lieve the time has come when the Americani popjle hionor a manl ol that sort. They are tired-l-tired of the hunger hba(ie whio keel ,,. the istx'il betwedi the sections; tir ed of demagguies who deceive the pbophb to get h bafice to pitinder them.44t~greatpepoit gian6 .who ird . onney ipid, se elevei a kineAted' (h Ae torgive them f6r playing the den agogue. I like Zeb Vance and sunset Cox and Blount and Phil Cook and lardentan and all their sort, for they are amiable and un selfis). I heard Zeb Vance tell ing about how'he captured the Votes of a backwoods settlement in North Carolina when he first ran for Congress. He said he had nev er been in that settlement and did ent know the boys. Ue dident kno w their politics nor their habits nor their religion. But ho sent them word he would he there to see them on a certain day, and so lie rode over the mountain and got there :an(1 found about sixty of the sovereigns it a cross-road grocery. and he go)t down and hitched his horse an( began, to make tleir acquaintance and crack his jokes ar'ound, and thought he was getting along pretty well with them, but he noticed an old man with shna.gy eyebrows nnd hig brass spectacles sitting on a big ch uinek and mnarking in the sand with . a stick. The old man dident SeeIm to pay anly attention to Vance, and after a while Vance con e11ded that the old man was the bell-weather of the flock and that -it was necessary to capture him, so lie sidled uip close to him, and tle (bl mn got up and shook him self and leaned forward on his stick and said solemnil y, 'This is Mr. Vance, I believe.' 'Yes, sir,' sai: Vance. 'And you have come over here to see my boys ai bout theiru votes, I believe.' 'Ye-;, sir,' said Vance, 'that is my business.' 'Well, sir.' said the old man, 'a fore you proceed with that busi ness I would like to ax you a few questions.' 'Certainly, sir, certainly,' said 1Vance. 'What church mout you belong to,' said the old man. That was a sock dolger--Vance dident belong to any church. He knew that religion andl mneeting was a big thing in the backwoodis, andl controlled their p'1olitics, but he didlent know what their religion was, for North Carolina was p)ow erfully spotted and had a nest of EpIiscopalians5 in one place and Presbyterians in another and Bap tists here and Methodist over v'on der, and they never minxed, but were all one way in a settlement, and so he was in a dilemma. But he squared hinmself' for the responsibility, and says he: 'Well now, my friend, I will tell y'ou about that, for its a fair ques. tion. Of course it is. Well, you see my grandfathier came frmm Scotland, everybody ls Presbyte rian.' Here he paused to note the effect, but saw no sympathy with his gratidpa. But my grandnhther came from Enghnd, ald tfi ef4 body be longs t) the Episcopal church.' He paused agatin and the old man marked another mark in the sand and spit his tobacco away -off 'But my father was born in this country in a Methodist settlement. and so he grew up a Methodist.' Still no sign of ap proval from the old man, and so Vance took his last shot-and said: -But my good old mother was a Baptist, and it's my op.inion that a man has got to go under the water to get to heav en The old man waked up and tak ing him by the hand said, 'Well you are all right., Vance,' and thezn turning to the crowd said, 'lboys he'll do and you may vote for him I thought ho looked like a haptist.' And the old man slowly drew a flask from his coat-tail and hand - ed it to Vance to seal his faith. Speaking about slander, [ heard the other day that Governor Col quitt stopped over at Raleigh to see Governor Jarvis, and Mrs. Jarvis tol(l him how the newspa pers slandered her hi ushand when he. was a candidate--anld the- .Ic eused him of swildlilg and lying, and ev'erv inean thing. 'Well, Imadai1, did you believe any of it,' said Colqutt, very ear niestly. 'No, in(leed, I dident,' said she. 'Well, mad am, Governor .Jaruvis is a fortunate man, for my enimies abused and slandered me,' and he whispered, 'and I'm a fraid theY made my wife believe it.' Well, we are getting along very well in our country about polities. We have all huried the hatchet on Mr. Felton, and are going to send him to the legislature 'nolens vo lens.' We wanted to send Gener al Young too, for as Lawyer Gra ham said, old Barter wants to make her representatives serve six years in Congress as an apprentice ship before she sends them t~o tlhe legislature. But there were' so manny others hankering' to go that the general modestly dleclined;l nevertheless I reckon we will be represented all right, and~ no harmz done. T1his~ is one office the doc tor' has not sought, andl I am ga to see our good p~eople united on so able and so good a mian. BILL Aui'. -WTe learn our virtues of the 1bosom1 friends who love us ; our faults from the enemy who hate us. We cann~fot easily discover ourH real~ form from a friend, lie is a muir ror, on which the warmth of our breath umpedes the clean ess of our reflec:tion.