The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-11-29
AFTER THE STORM.
Arp SoIiloquizes on the Result of the
Elections.
he Chats About the Populi.ts-Many of
Them Arc His Neighbors, and They Used
10 be Democrats--DilrsE lex PLANTATION
of the Reduced Majority,

What delightful calm after the storm.
How quickly does politics simmer down
after the election. 1t really provokes
smile to look back a few weeks and won
der what all this fuss was about After
Ill tbere's nobody hurt and nobody has
anything to brag about. 1t was barren
victory all round Like the victory over
hreckinridge in Kentucky, 1t was sort
OF uogiall, as we boys used to call wres-
tie when neither fell on top. The truth
!" we don't Know which whipped, silver
or gold, and what is still worse, we don't
KNOW which ought 20 whip. When such
statesmen as Turner and Crisp differ on
tpe silver question how can common
man make up his mind? Until recently
diunt have but one politics, and that
was defending the South against the
North, but these populars, as Uncle Sam
calls them, have rsiseds UGH a rumpus in
our own ranks that | am obliged to take
sides. We used to have a solid South,
but the offices gave out and the hungry
ontsjders called for new deal, so
they fixed up platform that would give
everybody something and baited the
trap with 1t, and caught right smart of
the sovereigns. A few OF the leaders
got into Office and then kicked the plat
form over; some went back to the Demo-
cratic fold and some smelt the old bait
and found it rotten and concluded to get
new bait and change their name and set
the trap again, so they hollered free sill
yer and free school books, and no more
5-cent cotton, and have caught right
smart birds. In the meantime the Dem
ocrats got into family quarrel and had
a row over their own platform and their
followers got Disguised and lots of thom
kicked out of the breeching and wouldn't
pull pound, and good many pulled
just little under the whip and so it h as
been hard fight to keep the team in
the middle of the road. BY scratching
and pushing and hurrahing they have
got the old Democratic wagon up to the
top OF the hill again, but they will have
to do better next time or quit. Got to
stop this ring business and tote fair. No
more by-bidders at this auction. The peo-
ocrats wouldn't vote at all whats
che use," they said, "when the ring as
done fixed it?" Lots of good men voted
against the supreme court amendment
because 1T was said the ring had alread y
chosen the judges. Look at Cobb and
Cherokee and Forsyth with over 1900
majority against it, What does that
n he ,.,;1 l.. l. "A.
Now, II these fifty Populist members
are treated like White folks in the legis-
1ature the people will have a fair show.
Ing, If there is a ring the Populis
members will smash it. Let us have nc
caucuses.
The Populists are Democrats after all
Their platform amounts to nothing and
they know it. 1t was intended to ge
in the train on-thats all. II all the
counties that have elected Populists
have chosen as good men as Barlow
nobody need be afraid of them. They
won't buy any railroads nor build any
subtreasury barns nor vote away any
free schoolbooks. Let them have fail
showing in the election for judges and
square for our men, but the people in
barlow chose other men and they are
good men and we don't want them ruled
out. 1t is little business to take re.
venge on our home folks. We have
enough enemies abroad to keep our
luminosity busy for some years to come
We have squelched the Ida Wells bust.
in u1o nd Att = 10 oti1 he,
up North in Republican circles. They
are still nursing their wrath to keep il
warm. verify believe our Northern
enemies want us to keep on lynchine
negroes so as to have an excuse to abuse
us. 1t looks like they will never get over
our slavery sins. They feed on them and
fatten. thought that there was one
religious paper up there that was dis
posed to treat us kindly, and that was
The New York Evangelist, edited by
DIR. Henry Fields. He was Henry
Grady's friend and mad travelled over
the South and wrote pleasant letters
about us, and so / subscribed for it, II
is capital paper, but every now and
then it makes fling at us and hurts
IN lttllnRS anu Keeps MIS- arp lrOu
being calm and serene. Only two weeks
ago it had wild hyena screech from I
man by the name of Putnam, who hal
recently discovered that his uncle raj
an underground railroad in 1s47 ant
later abducted lots of slaves from Vir
ginia into Ohio and let them sleep IL
his best beds, and once while he wal
over in Parkersburg, Va, on that bust
ness the people found it out and pur
sued him and he escaped by jumping
into the river and how one man suet
him in the United States Court fo
$1,000 and Salmon z. Chase defended
him and wore the case out by con
tinuances. and Chase didn't charge an,
fee, etc., and he copies the summons
and it is signed by that great jurist ant
patriot, Roger B. fancy. This con
temptible South hater Putnam seem
proud of his uncle and goes out of hi
way TO say that his uncle sometimes
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