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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.