The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-04-12
PROCTOR KNOTT
Answers Letter in a Recent Is.ueo of In.
Nindicator.

EDITOR oTAR:-lt Is not m,
purpose to provoke a newspape
discussion, nor would | engage i,
| sueh, but communication appear
ed IN the Vindicator a few week,
ago that / think deserves a reply
not On account OF any merit tha
1t possessed, but rather on account
Of its 0emerits.
| have known the writer from
my youth up" and if any mal
had told me 5 years ago that Uncle
Gabriel would ever have 50 far
lost his head as to "rushn into
print with any slush and bosh, /
would have resented the insult for
him.
Just listen to his first sentence:
1T is with feelings of peculiar
KIND that ! attempt to write this
article in behalf OF the laboring
people Of our county; those that
have endured the pain and toll
and have been sneered at as one.
gallnssed red.necked clod-hoppers,
not worthy to be esteemed or cred.
tied only as fit subjects to toll for
those that have a more easy wav
OF subsistence than by pulling the
bell.cord over old Beck" Now.
Uncle Gabriel, let. me ask YOU in
all seriousness, why did you write
such sentence? Don't Won feel
ashamed of it?
Let us see how badly the Demo.
cratic party has treated the red
necks,' as you call them. Let us
see who have been the officers Of
the county for several years back
and note how many of the laborinp
people have been represented
among them. We will begin with
the office that you now fill:
John Riley, farmer; H. l. Land.
farmer; G. R. Conner, farmer
Circuit Clerk H Sullivant
farmer.
Sheriff-A. G. Noah, farmer; ].
II Gilliland, farmer, J. w. Wood.
wari, farmer; D. J.. Smythe, far
mer; d. F. Love. farmer.
Treasurer. 7. Riley, farmer;
}. z. Buck, farmer,
Assessor-W. p. Ratlif'. farmer:
J. II. Wallace, farmer; z. Phillips.
farmer.
Supt. Of Education Since elee-
,ion) 7. J. Fowler, farmer.
SO much for the clerical and ex-
.cutlve officers OF the county. Now
you kno very well that the rep.
'esentatlon OF the county in the
lalls of the legislature has been
Utmost entirely from the laboring ,
people for the last dozen or more ,
ears. How much more will it
AXE to satisfy you, Uncle Gabriel? :
20 you want the earth and the {
noon thrown ia for goat pasture? ;
[ on surely did have peculiar feel i,
ngs when you wrote that article. :
lour head certainly would have =
the school boy with an :
xample off, unstable equilibrium, !
+ words to- that effect. = :,
You oughtnot to write such SEN y y
'nces. 1t dsltivates bad spirit :, y
mong our people. 1t is wrong !, I
ecause it is unchristian. Politi- : !
llly, no Democrat, | suppose. !, !,
ares a fig for the article, as it is =
alculated to do the Peoples party u u
ore harm than the Democratic y y
arty; but it is a bad spirit for the y y
red to show. The Democratic :; -
arty gave you the best office in \. ~
e county, and if you choose to =; =;
,use it for such mistakes, it is 3
'ur privilege to do so. But YOU - =,
'ould not make such sweeping - y,
,nunciatiOns for such few errors, " "
e will try not to do so any more. =, =,
You call the Democratic party 8
account for our present State /, /,
Institution, and then urge the H. !.
'opfe to go to studying their -, -
oks and learn to read and write, -
1ich you say they can do in ff- -, =,
en- nights and not lose any of ~ :"