The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1896-02-01
NATIONAL NEWS
From The Sentinel's Gifted Washing
ton Correspondent.
Another Pot POuri OF Timely Truths
Tersely Told.

Tersely Told.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. %, 1896.
EDITOR SENTINEL: You remember
that more than ayear ago your humble
Washington "space-tiller" promised to
inflict frequent punishment, in the way
Of semi-occasional communications, on
your delinquent subscribers, until we
had forced them all to liquidate their
Indebtedness to the SENTINEL and pay
for years subscription in advance,
and we are indeed gratified at the pro-
gress we have made, according to your
last report, but as Jim Slowpay, near
Elliott's: Bill Stingygreen. at Dry
Grove and the Closefist family, of
Grenada. are still in arrears, we will
keep up the treatment until a com
plete ard permanent cure is Effected
or no pay. "A word to the wise is Tor
ought to be) sufficient"
We have often heard it said that the
American people love to be humbugged,
but one must reside at the national
capital fora time in order 10 appreciate
the full meaning OF the term and wit.
ness It's literal demonstration Passing
alon" the avenue the other evening @
heard the most hideous and blood
curd ing sh"ieks of terror and agony
coming from room over a store, that
would have done justice to /. modern
theatrical ira agedy, or an up-to date
Washington Thomas cat, but upon
! look inT up we saw a 81 gn in bold |c'tcr.
which read: Teeth extracted without
pain" We went on until we reached
| the beautiful terrace that leads to The
great while capitol of these great Unit
ed States. the pride of Washington, JEFF
ferson, jackson, Lincoln, ana sixty
millions Of living freemen. There We
paused. and as we l;:ed upon the mag
nifcent sp'"ndor Of the grand old
struc,urc--H perpetual monument tt
the genius, vllor and independence oil
the greatest nation of people on earth
and the thoughts fitted through our
mind of the scenes which are transpil'
ing daily on the inside of its great
white walls. we could but compare its
colossal similarity to the painless den
tai humhuggery on the avenue. anC
could all but hear the agOnizing groans
and distressing cries of sixty million
suffering people undergoing the pain
less process Of extraction-eXtractior
of their principles, their rights and
privileges, their hard earned dollars
and otherwise abusing their confidence
and credulity: ard standing there il
the shadow of the great Goddess o
Liberty we could not restrain half
suppressed exclamation OF "Oh, Lord
how long, How long shall a patient
trusting people continue to be the sim
ple ard suffering victims OF pGlittca
humbuggers and humbuggery? Year
after year the people elect their rep
resentatives to the national congre~
inStructing and expecting them to per
pc'uate government jn the interest !"
'.the greatest government, with prrt"r'
eonality of law" and year after y"i'I
dn those same patient. suffering re"pI'
continue to nurse an overerown disap-
pointment; and the subject of my text
is txemplitied.
There was a conference OF "sIIv"r
men, here last Friday-mostly ropH
)isrs-who discussed the free silver
our stion without reserve or l'mlth
tion Of speech. They adopted strong
free silver platform with the IL to
attachment. which they decided to lei
out to the first bidder, and in the
event that neither the Republican o!
Democratic national conventions nomi
nate a silver man on silver platform
they declared that they would-anc
sweep the county. From present in
dications they had better lay in {
good supply Of brooms, for it is gener
ally believed by knowing ones tha
both OF the great old parties will 60 tt
the convention with a double row o
stitches in the seat of their pants so a.
to enable them to successfully make
grand straddle. Many Democrats
and quite number of prominent Re.
nublicans assert as their belief tina
Should the Democratic convention
name q free silver man on free silve
platform, he would be elected. Blu