The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-06-01
SOUTH AND NORTH.
A erAvE SoUTHERNER ANSWERS
ABE HEWITT.

Judge Lee Lectures the North on Fraud
Brains-They Are Not Clever Enough to
Take Advantage of Favorable Situations.
Not So UnscrupuIous as the ~Southrons.
Now that Abe Hewitt has raised
this question about southern politicians
having less brains than the Yankees
said Judge Lee Of Georgia, Il want TO
tell the truth about this thing with no
Eli Perkins imagination. The fact is, we
southerners have always had brains
enough to control this government.
Think of tive cotton states actually
make a tariff for New England. We con
troll congress. We are the nation today,
and these mudsill Yankees are sitting
down in the hall"
"How do you get so many congress
men?' asked Bourke Cochran.
"Why, Abe Hewitt's ignorant Yankees
gave them to us. The Yankees voted
themselves out, and we voted ourselves
in. Why, do you know that little brainy
South Carolina, with 462, 900 people, has
seven congressman, while Massachusetts,
with 2,215, 900 people, has only 12f"
"And Mississippi"
''She's got 544, 900 people and seven
congressman, while Pennsylvania, with
5,148, 600 people, has only %. In one dis
trict in Georgia 30, 900 southern people.
or 1850 white voters, make a congress-
man, while it always takes III 900 Yam
KEGS, or $1,000 voters, to make a con-
gresham. But you've got representa-
ton according to your brains-'small
brains, small representation"
But do the negroes vOte?" asked a
northern congressman.
''Niggers votei should say not, and
they never will. Your Yankee idiots
made them citizens-made them voters
but do you think w brainy southern
ers will ever count their votes? l should
say not. They vote in Kentucky, Ten
nessee and the border states, but they
will never vote in South Carolina, Mis-
'sissippi or Louisiana, where they are in
the majority. 1t wouldn't do"
''Then the 20 congressman represent
ing Louisiana, South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi are Fraudulent
mo. sab, it's southern brains. We
know how to manage"
'How ma2yy votes did Cleveland get
in South Carolina?"
"Why, he got 5000, and 81, 900 in
Mississippi, and IS, 200 in Louisiana, but
they made him president, and those ig-
norant northern Yankees let us do it.
Why, you Yankee fools put McKane in
Sing Sing for DISTINGUISHING a few citizens
in Brooklyn and make a great row be-
cause Bob Ross was shot at the polls III
Troy, while we brainy southern men
count out $4,000 niggers in Georgia,
obliterate $50. 900 in South Carolina and
annihilate 744, 600 black Yankees in Mis-
sissippi. We actually whip you Yankees
in and make you help US do it! Brainsl
I reckon we have got brains!'
"What would you old rebs do if we
Yankees should elect a president fraudu-
lently in three northern states as you
did Cleveland in the SOUTH"
"What, You disfranchise a Demo-
crat! You Yankees haven't nerve enough
to do it. You haven't brains enough
to stand by your own disfranchised Re
publicans in the south. If you should
put in a president fraudulently. we'd
paint FRAUD on his brow, as Dana paint
ed it on Hayes, who was really the last
president honestly elected in the niger
states. But you Yankees are afraid to
do it. We old rebs would have some re
spect for you if you had nerve enoughto
write fraud on Cleveland like this: