The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-04-20
SOUTH AND NORTH.
A BRAVE 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 Interruptions as the southrons.
"Now that Abe Hewitt has raised
this question about southern politicians
having less brains than the Yankees, I"
said Judge Lee of Georgia, 81 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 tariff for New England. We con-
troll congress. We are the nation today,
and these mudsill Yankees are sitting
down In the hail."
"How do You get so many congress
menY' 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 1915, 900 people, has only 1872"
"And Mississippi
''She's got 544, 900 people and seven
congressman, while Pennsylvania, with
5,14S, 900 people, has only 20. In one dis
trict in Georgia 10000 southern people,
or 2,S60 white voters, make congress
man, while it always takes III 900 Yam
KEGS, or $4,000 voters, to make con-
gresham. But you've got representa-
ton according to your brains-'small
brains small representation.
"But do the negroes voter asked a
northern congressman.
'Niggers vote! should say not, and
they never will. Your Yankee idiots
made them citizens-made them voters
but do you think we brainy southern
ers will ever count their votesp 1 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 90 congressman represent
ing Louisiana, South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi are fraudulent"
mo, sab, it's southern brains. We
know how to manage"
"How many votes did Cleveland get
in South Carolina?'
"Why, he got $4,000, and $4,000 in
Mississippi, and IS, 900 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 few citizens
in Brooklyn and make a great row be-
cause Bob Ross was shot at the polls in
Troy, while we brainy southern men
count out $4,000 niggers in Georgia,
obliterate 689,000 in South Carolina and
annihilate 744, 900 black Yankees in Mis-
sissippi. We actually whip you Yankees
in and make you help us do it'll Brainsi
l reckon we have got brainsr'
"What would you old rebs do if we
Yankees should elect president fraudu-
lently in three northern states as you
did Cleveland in the south?'
"What! You disfranchise a Demo-
GRAFT! 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: