People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-12

NEGRO POSTMASTERS.
In North Carolina they have some
colored Postmasters who were put
into Office by Harrison. The Dem
ocratic Congressman of that State are
moving ''heaven and earth" to get
them ousted. Cleveland says it
shan't be done. He says there shall
be do color line drawn on these
men.
What do you say to that, Charley !?
You came near whining the
bridge of your nose off last summer
because Mr.. Watson said in opening
his campaign that the color line
should be wiped out of politics.
That was in August, 1892. Less
than a year has passed, and now we
have the Democratic President say
ing just what you abused Mr.. Wat
son for saying.
How do you feel when you think
of it, Charley?
VIII you abuse Mr.. Cleveland,
too?
WATT OF COLUMBUS.
The ex-pOstmaster of Columbus,
Ga, in a letter to the Postmaster
General, refers to brother Moses as
"a little Squirrel-headed school
teacher"
This is rough on the Squirrels.
THE MAN ON HORSEBACK.
The Atlanta Journal founders
along under the impression that this
country wants to know every day
just exactly how the Hon. Mike H.
Smith looks, feels, walks, or rides.
This is a cheerful delusion which to
some extent comforts the lonesome
young man who was left in Atlanta
to run the Journal, and " to push his
fortunes on Georgia soil" at the time
that Mike and the balance of the
boysswent to Washington, by tele-
graph, to ''revel in partisan spoils.
The last mournful effort of this
young man to crafty the intemper-
ate thirst of the public for every little
scrap of information about the looks,
the doings, and the sayings of the
Hon. Mike, consists in giving us an
account of the said Mike riding on
horseback to a Cabinet meeting.
Next to the dissolution of the Ger
man Reichstag, it is the most inter-
esting thing the Journal contains.
The account starts out in this emo
tional way.
Choke Smith is coming on horse
back"
Palpitations of the heart immedi-
ately became prevalent in Washing
ton of course. Around the White
House the excitement was painful
Baby Ruth quit rubbing, for the
moment, the place where Tom Glib
son &c Kissed his way into Consul
ships" Mrs. Cleveland almost forgot
the bandage which she keeps wrapped
over the spot where her queenly hand
was royalty kissed by the Italian Min
lister, Baron Humbuggero Jackassi;
old Grover polking his head suddenly
out of the window to catch glimpse
of "the solitary horseman, inadver-
tently bumped his head again-just
between the NewsYor bruise and
the Oregon scratch.
The Atlanta Journal says that the
White House attendant sent the news
(about "the solitary horseman who
"might have been seen, etc.'') fly
ing through the Mansion. I should
think SO! "Flying" was the only
gait which would have been appro,
pirate.
The chambermaid paused with her
broom; the cook almost forgot his
soup and his dignity, and even the
stately butler had some doubts as to
where he was at.
Mr.. Smith came up at smart
gallop," says the Journal.
OF course. How else could he gal
lop2 Smart man, smart gallop. The
two things just naturally go together.
A man named Mike might gallop a
horse all day in the ordinary hum
drum manner without causing the
bubble of reputation to swell itself
into radiant gladness to catch the
myriad brightness of newspaper COM
ment, but when plain ''Mike" is dis
carded and the stately Choke" is
exclusively adopted, the only kind of