The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-17

come from Danyille, where there s col
lege and opry house. We are plain folks
here, and we don't aim to put on any
style; but, boys, when Jinerel Fry
comes here and seeks to pervert the facts
We call him down. We know that we
are not highly educated people here, but
next to liberty and the love we hold tor
our homes we love the great big eter-
nal truth, and when Jinerel Fry, with
all his advantages, comes here to warp
our minds regardin the magnanlmlfy OF
the Republican party at the clothes Oh
the wah he should not be permitted to
do So
"Now, gentlemen, what did they do
with Jinerel Robert E. Lee at the
clothes of the wah? Of co'se l did not
er,lly agree with Jinerel Lee regardln
the wan ana Mt on the other Size; but,
gentlemen, Jinerel Lee was a brave
man. fit with him at Beuna Vista and
Risaccy when the pesky greasers rid
over him as eff he'd of bin a<emains,
but he lived to lead the glorious fight
for his people, loyal to old Virginny.
gentlemen, ruther she was night or
ruther she was wrong!
"And what did they do to old Jinerel
Robert E. Lee, with his blue blood and
educated at the expense OF the United
States?
'Took him and tried him by drum
head cote martial, sab, and had him took
out behind camp and shot. sab, and his
body quartered, his poor body, SCARED
with Mexican lances 80 years ago and
with Federal bullets again, sab, in de-
tense of his country, and yet shot ard
riddled by Republican bullets, sab, mag
unanimous Republican bullets, sab, and
quartered like bullock, sab, to make
Republican holiday!
But" said General Fry, Colonel
Woodford, you do not want to lead these
people into al error willfully. Every
child in the primary schools knows that
General Lee died ten years after the
war, honored alike by friend and foe,
the loved and respected president Of a
southern college,
''Now, Jinerel Fry" said Woodford,
eye must not come down here and try
to mislead our plain country people that
way, because We come from the great
intellectual center at Danyille, where
they can parse Paradise Lost with one
hand tied behind their backs and wear
open back shirts.
"Bill, what do We say about the
death of Jinerel Robert E. Lee?''
Bill arose in the middle of the house,
paid his salivary respects to the exposed
foot of a Lincoln hireling and said: Il
wuz one of the detail, colonel, fer tew
shoot Jinerel Lee, and my old heart
bleeds when 1 think of it, boys, fer was
from Kaintucky and belonged to the
Sons of Temperance at Lexington, but
we done it, sab, we done it-shot him
and then drored and quartered him there
before his wife and children.
Then he sobbed and sat down. ''Now,
Jinerel Fry" said Woodford, "one
more word, and am done. We do not
claim to be in advance of civilization
here We are, in fact, as we know. away
yander in the rear of progress, but when
eloquent gentlemen like Jinerel Fry
comes down here fer tew pervert and
mislead US as regards the conduck of the
wah, sab, and the magnanimity of the
Republicans at the clothes of the wah,
sab, l am heah to protest, sab, with my
dyin breth.
''Let Us see now, in conclusion, what
the white winged bird of peace brought
to POI old Jefferson Davis at the clothes
of the wah. What about the justly cele-
brated olive branch which the Repub-
lican party had secured in carload lots
for jinerel distribution ip the south?
mind We. did not agree with Mr..
Davis regardin the conduck of the wah
and fit agin him, but am a Democrat,
and will not stand idly by to hear the
magnanimity of the Republican party
bellered at ye By the silver tongued