The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-05-17
SHOTS FROM SHOCCOE.

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ton Picket blatant diatribe over tn
signature OF supervisor which wa,
evidently intended to draw my fire
and which would have passed unnoticet
but for the fact thati in it, the author
sees tit to assail my loyalty to the dem
ocratic party, something which revel
allow any man to do with impunity
TO hu-l this charge in his teeth and te
set myself right in the eyes of the
young democracy who have grown ur
to manhood since that time, alone i'm.
pei me thus to waste my ink.
| The dark days" to which '.Super.
visor" refers, was the time immediate.
] ly after the war when the bottom
rail was on top" niger was lord of all
he surveyed, and our old party was al
! most without local habitation and
a name" So completely were we sub
/ jugated and so hopeless our condition,
thar no one Thought of putting a car
! didate in the field. when five men met
toge Their in Sharon, dubbed themselves
| a Beat convention and nominated me
] for the Office which supervisor" now
| holds. Nobody felt bound by their
action, and when the election came
round. the negroes, as tribute to my
integrity, and knowing me to be
! democrat died in the wool, elected me
Justice of the Peace and in order that
we white folks might have one white
Magistrate in the district instead of
two black ones, accepted and filed
the Office. Now this may have been a
grievous sin, but my democratic white
friends have kept me in that office al
most continuously ever (See?
| Now this is the record and when
supervisor has to go back quarter
Of d century to dig up slime with which
he hopes TO soil my democratic linen,
it only shows that he was hit hard by
my last fusilaue and he certainly be-
trayed lack of policy by shooting
back with blank cartridges under the
silly delusion that he was loaded with
,,shot ana she'll" All this happened
4 too about the time that supervisor
voted for old Horace Greedy, the great
Pontifix Maximus of the Republican
party for president of the United
States! (God forgive me, for did too.)
Now when supervisor" with his
hair-spltting definitions, presumes to
instruct Grape Shot" in the correct
use of the English language, he only
makes me smile, and can but wonder
how one small head could chamber all
he knows Yes. | said it, and repeat
with all emphasis, that our people are
being Systematically robbed by on
erons and oppressive taxation and that
our treasury has been shamefully plum
dered by wasteIul and extravagant APP
preparations, and our people must head
you off in self defense. Robbed and
plundered; use the terms with a clear
knowledge ofstheir meaning, and in my
article accused the Supervisors of in
competence and not rascality, and
never intimated that they had been
stealing anything; and do them the
Justice 20 believe that they are gentle
men who would not be found guilty of
such "a crime. And "Supervisor" if he
k nows his Mother tongue" as any
school boy should, wilfully distcrts my
meaning when he puts any other con-
structiop on my language.
..Supervisor" in d great outburSt OF
wonderful political sagacity, advises
the voters OF Madison county that am
not a fit man to send to the Legislature.
..Gim me your hand on that pardner,
I have been busy trying to persuade my
friends To the same effect for the last
two months, and am delighted TO find
at last, one lone individual who thinks
Just as do ON that score. l certainly
DO feel better now; Unlike himself, l
never did "hanxer'' much after an Of
flee which l was hot competent to fill,
and really wonder what aroused his
that had such aspirations
any way Perhaps though he gauges
every man by his own standard of self,
and whenever he hears IA patriotic sem
timent uttered he is ready to suspect
its author of selfish motive. Some
men are diseased that way.
Tie gentleman seems to forget that
his official acts are public properly
and that he is only the servant of the
people who put him in office; and he
should remember that he has no right
to get pot-gutted Ia vulgar term but u
Ats him. when they use their right to
criticize his business blundnrs. NOW
did not deserve the TRADE which he SO
viciously hurled at me through the
Picket; Only told him some unpaiata-
Bile truths and if he will wait till the
.Ides of August" his vision will doubt
ess be extended beyond the end of his
nose.
Ever since 1865 have been dead-oP-
posed to war of any kind (you bep and
specially newspaper war. IL only
,tirs up bad blood and God knows and
Supervisor" knows too, that all the
,lood ever had to spare. was left on
virginias CORY fields many years ago;
md more than that, as | have no more
Lmm 1nition TO waste on small game,
most positively decline to train my
runs any more in his direction under ,
my circumstances. |,
CRAZE SHOT. ,