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and it is unreasonable to expect a
farmer to vote for a congressman or
senator who favors this great nation
■ al wrong.
In a nutshell, we observe (for we
don’t belong to the order, and, there
fore, don’t know), that the Farmers’
Union stands for the farmer’s life,
liberty and happiness, and ip their
purposes the Gwinnett Journal bids
the order Godspeed.—Gwinnett Jour
nal.
THE MINORITY LEADER SLINGS
MUD ALL OVER MISSIS
SIPPI.
Last Saturday at Yazoo City in
the presence of an assembled multi
tude, John Sharp Williams proved
to the world what we already know
—that he is an unappreciative,
bigot ed, all-wise-in-bis-own-estima
tion, narrow-minded mugwump. Af
ter he had defeated his opponent,
and after Vardaman had said, “I am
for the nominee, and I hope he will
make a great United States Sena
tor,” a great man like John proceed
ed to unload himself of more vile and
slimy mud than was ever thrown at
Vardaman and his friends by the
most unprincipled partisans. He said
things which he did not dare say
before the election. He said:
“Few realize how grave an issue
the late senatorial contest became.
It was grave for Mississippi and for
the South. You have a right to con
gratulate yourselves upon the fact
that Mississippi has again gone dem
ocratic.”
There were very few who realized
it, John. In fact, nobody but you.
What was the issue, John? The re
peal of the fifteenth amendment,
wasn’t it? We heard you say at
Union that you would go into a hos
pital and have your right arm am
putated to get the fifteenth amend
ment repealed. Then before you sat
down you said you would not open
your mouth in congress about it. Yes,
it was very grave. In fact, you were
too close to the grave to be comforta
ble. John, how can you, with all
your boasted college degrees, and
your learning and refinement, and
especially since you have become a
total abstainer, stand up before Mis
sLsippians who have done so much
for you who was born in luxury in
another state; how can you have the
unblushing gall to insinuate that our
beloved governor and those who sup
ported him are not democrats? John,
do you remember how you acted at
the St. Louis convention? John, if
you had a little more brains, and a
little less gall and education you"
might become a majority leader in
stead of a minority leader. A school
boy will get off of a licked “kid”
when he hollers “ ’nough,” but if
you ever were taught any fighting
manners, your egotistical gall over
balances your 'better nature. You
remember, you ridiculed and abused
Bryan at St. Louis .when he was
down. Now you throw your rottenest
mud after you have beaten your op
ponent and after he acknowledged
that you were the nominee. Jonn,
you ought to be a man.
John says, again:
“When I first entered into the
campaign I thought it was a case of
friendly competition between two
democrats.”
Everybody else thought so, too,
John, and you know it, and you know
it now, but you made that speech
to send to your republican friends in
the north, who thought you were so
gloriously popular in Mississippi.
Then you say: “The result shows
I was mistaken.” Isn’t he cheeky,
to conclude that if he had been run
ning against a democrat he would
have received a greater majority? If
cheek and unadulterated gall is what
you want, and the Williams men say
that is their objection to Vardaman,
we have it in abundance in John. He
says there should be a law requiring
every voter to say he is a democrat
before he votes in a primary. John,
are you afraid to risk your case
again with all the white men of the
state? Anyway, if it were left to
you to say what a democrat was, you
would say it was a man who voted
for the minority leader, for you said
you thanked God the state had gone
democratic again in electing you.
John, you are a sight.
John, your insinuations against the
Farmers ’ Union are a little more than
we can stand. We know some of
these people and they are as good as
you are, no matter what they read
Some of them voted for you, and you
ought to be ashamed of yourself. We
do not suppose, however, you have
ever been ashamed in your life. You
say when the Union men have their
eyes opened there will be no danger.
Those we know already have their
eyes open, and are working for their
own advantage, whether it is for
Watson, Vardaman or Williams. John
you should not cast any reflections on
the farmers. Good-by, John. —Mis-
sissippi Reporter-Index.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT THE WEATHER
BUREAU.
Hon. Martin V. Calvin, in the At
lanta Journal, writes as follows:
“When Mr. Alexander Hamilton
Stephens entered congress, Mr.
Toombs and Mr. Cobb gave him
friendly counsel —advising him to
avoid Prof. Espy.
“ ’Who is this Prof. Espy?’
“ ‘Oh, he is a crazy Frenchman
who affects to believe he can predict
the weather which will prevail in
the District of Columbia in a given
twenty-four hours.’
“ ‘Why, that interests me,’ re
plied Mr. Stephens.
“ ‘Now, Aleck,’ said Mr. Toombs,
‘I urge you to be careful —steer clear
of Espy or he will straightway bring
you into a circle of laughter. You
are a new man. He will instantly
pounce upon you. If you give ear
to him a minute, he will fatigue your
indignation.’
“ ‘Thank you, gentlemen,’ said
Mr. Stephens, ‘I will have an eye out
for Prof. Espy.’
“ ‘No, Alex; it will not be al all
necessary for you to have “an eye
out” for him, he will have two eyes
busy in search of you.’
“Mr. Stephens had barely taken the
oath of office as a, representative, and
been assigned his seat in the house,
when a page handed him a card from
Professor Espy, who craved a brief
interview at ndjoifrnment.
“To this Mr. Stephens readily con
sented. for he was anxious to talk
with the professor on a subject in
which he then felt, and during his
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
life felt and manifested, a profound
interest.
“At adjournment, he found Espy
in the cloak room.
“The professor unfolded his plans
with deep earnestness. Mr. Steph
ens saw they were perfectly practi
cable, whereupon he bade the profes
sor call on him’ at his hotel at a
certain hour the next day.
“Mr. Stephens went vigorously to
work. In a few days he had obtained
$2,500 from the Smithsonian Insti
tute with which to aid Professor Espy
in putting into action his sharply de
fined ideas.
“Professor Morse, of telegraph
fame, lent the undertakini/his zealous
co-operation, so Espy’s weather pre
dictions for the District of Colum
bia became an actuality.
“When the session closed, Messrs.
Stephens, Toombs and Cobb journey
ed together homeward. Much of tho
distance was by stage. One day the
subject of conversation turned to the
weather. Said Mr Stephens:
“ ‘By the by, there has been, as
you gentlemen know, a destructive
drouth through Georgia and the Caro
linas. A season of rain is at hand;
for there was a storm central over
Alabama —’
“ ‘Stop, stop!’ cried Messi’s. Cobb
and Toombs. ‘Just what we told you.
We counselled you against talking
with that crazy Frenchman, and here
you are tailring about a storm cen
tral in Alabama’’
“ ‘Yes,’ said Mr. Stephens, calm
ly, ‘a few days ago, a storm was cen
tral in Alabama. It followed the line
of the drouth. When we reach Wel
don we shall find the river out of its
banks. ’
“ ‘Stop, Alex!’ said Mr. Toombs,
‘don’t talk that way—you’ll bring
yourself into disrepute. You will be
looked upon as a vagarist!’
• “ ‘Very well,’ replied Mr. Steph
ens. ‘wait until we reach Weldon and
see for yourselves; wait until at Wel
don we receive information from
gia and the Carolinas.’
“Sure enough, when the distin
guished party reached Weldon, the
river was out of its banks and over
the railroad track. Information
showed that a storm, almost as de
structive as the drouth whose wake
it had followed, had swept through
Georgia and the Carolinas.”
WHY NOT SELL THE PHILIP
PINES?
This is not The Age-Herald’s par
ticular and peculiar question, but it
is the New York Herald’s. Our New
York contemporary has a c»lumn each
day in which individuals express their
opinions, and the letters thus far re
ceived by it show that public senti
ment favors an early disposal of the
archipelago that we have held nine
years without bringing peace and con
tentment to its millions of little
brown people.
The Malays have nothing in com
mon with the distant Angb-Saxon
country, and they never will have.
They yearn fcr a release despite all
our efforts to better their physical
condition. We may be able to bring
them many blessings, but we cannot
make them Anglo-Saxons or fill their
breasts with contentment. They have
yearnings that are as natural as were
those of this country in the days of
1776.
Besides, what right have we to in
dulge in colonies, when in 1776, we
fought to get rid of colonial subjec
tion ourselves? As the New York
Herald says, “The sooner the Unit-\
ed States goes out of business as a
colonial power the better for every
body concerned.”
The nomby-pambyists who say we
cannot sell the Philippines forget
that we bought the islands from
Spain, paying $20,000,000 for them.
What we had a right to buy for a
price we certainly have a moral as
well as a legal right to sell for a
price. Placeholders in the Philip
pines may say otherwise, but the
mainland people are pretty solidly,
it is pla.n, in favor of a sale of the
Philippines at an early day. There
would be more than one bidder if
the islands were offered for sale.
England wants them, and so does
Germany, and so dees Japan. Even
Holland and France might be
come bidders. Let the islands be of
fered to the country that will treat
them best —to the country that best
understands their population.—The
Age-Herald.
WHEN? WHEN?
“It is idle to ask me not to prose
cute criminals, rich or poor,” said
Mr. Roosevelt in his Provincetown
speech. Then why this endless talk
ing? The way to prosecute is to
prosecute.
What single rich criminal has ISfr.
Roosevelt convicted of violating the
Anti-Trust law? Or even indicted?
What single rich criminal is he going
to prosecute?
Harriman? If so, why did Mr.
Roosevelt and his cabinet decide
against such prosecution? Why did
Mr. Roosevelt urge Gov. Dc-neen, of
Illinois, not to proceed against Har
riman for the Alton swindle? Why
did Mr. Roosevelt emasculate the
Interstate Commerce Commission’s
report? W’hy did he not grant Mr.
Kellogg’s request to begin the pros
ecution of Harriman?
Prosecute Harriman? Why months
have passed since Harriman refused
to answer questions before the In
terstate Commerce Commission. The
questions have not been answered. No
attempt has been made to compel an
answer. Judged by the standard of
insurance risks, Harriman could
plausibly pretend to be prosecution
proof.
Mr. Roosevelt is forever talking
about the malefactors of great wealth
whom he is going to punish, but the
punishment is iuflicted in public
speeches, not in court. Not a single
Wall Street law-breaker has yet lost
a day’s liberty on account of any
thing the president has done.
When will Mr. Roosevelt cease talk
ing and begin to act? When will he
stop prosecuting business and begin
prosecuting the rich criminals he
rails against?—N. Y. World.
The Farmers’ Union has decided
to establish at Barnesville a “School
of Cotton,” in which farmers will be
instructed how to classify and price
the different grades of the staple.
The Union promises to be one of the
most useful farmers’ organizations
that ever got busy.—Dawson News.
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