Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-17
SOUTH AND NORTH.
4 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 az the southrons.
Now that Abe Hewitt has raised
this question about southern politicians
having less brains than the Yankees"
taid 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 tariff for New England. We con-
troll congress. We are the nation today,
and these mudsill Yankees are sitting
down in tho hall"
How do you get 80 many congress-
mem? asked Bourke Cochran.
"Why, Abe Hewitt's ignorant Yankees
gave them to us. The Yankees voted
taemselyes out, and we voted ourselves
IN. Why, do You know that little brainy
South Carolina, with 4G2 900 people, has
seven congressman, while Massachusetts,,
with 2,2l500o people. has only 1877
''And Mississippi
''She's got J44 900 people and seven
congressman, while Pennsylvania, with
5,l4s, 900 people, has only rs. In one dis
trict in Georgia 10000 southern people,
or 1850 white voters, make "a congress
man, while it always takes III 900 Yam
KEGS, or 81, 600 voters, to make con-
gresham. But you've got representa-
ton according to your brains-'small
brains, small representation
"But do the negroes vote:" asked
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 votes? | 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 il
the majority. 1t wouldn't do"
Then the 30 congressman represent
ing Louisiana, South Carolina amt Mis-
sissippi are fraudulent"
"No. sab, it's southern brains. We
know how to manage
How many votes did Cleveland get
in South Caroina:'
why, he got 5000. and S. 600 in
Mississippi. and 81 600 IN Louisiana, but
they made him president, and those ig-
norant northern Yankees let us do it.
Why, You Yankee fools put Mckanc in
Sing Sing for DISTINGUISHING u few citizens
in Brooklyn and make great row be-
cause Bob Ross was shot at the polls in
Troy, while we braiuy southern men
count ont $4,000 niggcrs in Georgia,
oblitcrate $50 900 in South Carolina and
aunihilate 7l4 900 black Yankees in Mis-
sissippi. We actually whip you Yankees
in and make you help MS do it! Brains!
! reckon we have got brains!'
What would You old rebs do if We
Yankees should elect n president fraudu-
lenty in three northern states as you
did Cleveland in the SOUTH"
What! You disfranchse 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 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 njgger
states, But you Yankees are afraid to
do it, We old rebs would have some re-
spect for yon if you had nerve enough to
write fraud on Cleveland like this: