The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-11-17
THE GEORGIA HUM0RIST
PHILOSOPHER IS DlSPLEASED AT M'KIN
LEY'S POLICY

Takes a Walk to s'Cool Off'---Appointment
of Colored Postmasters in the South Eel.
evates Williams Choler-..Other Inter.
esting Talk.
When Abasuerus got SO dreadful
mad with Haman he dident do any5
thing rash all of a sudden, but walked
out in the garden to cool off-to let
his choler down. That's the way I
am doing now every day, and am
thankful that I've got a garden to
walk in. When my good old father
used to feel the rheumatic pains
coming he dident sit down and grunt
and look miserable, but seized his hat
and his cane in hurry and started
out to peruse the farm. In an hour
or so he would return all in a sweat Of
perspiration and the rheumatism was
postponed for a time. Walk about
some and commune with nature when
you feel bad. Almost every day I
take on a new mad, fresh indigna-
ton at Mckinley, and if I dident
walk in the garden and peruse the
roses and posies OF feed the pet rab
bits and the peafowls or pick lot of
tomatoes for dinner my choler
wouldent come down and would lose
my appetite and my serenity. Dogon
him, confouId him, dad blast him!
The good book says "Cursed be the
deceiver," and if he hasn't deceived
us no man ever did. never voted for
him and I am thankful for it, but
did have respect for him and believed
his sincerity and his national patriot
ism, but he has falsifed our faith and
broken our hopes, and my personal
contempt for him is amazing I
dident know that my kind, gentle
disposition could generate SO much
contempt for any man. We dident
know that ne was south hater per Sc
and had smothered it in his bosom all
these years only to be uncovered when
he got us in his power. Some say he
is a fool, some say knave and some
that he has been hypnotized by
Hanna; but my conviction is that it is
deliberate party policy to open the
breach between the north and the
south, to set the healing wound to
bleeding again. They have despaired
of capturing any southern state and
now seek to raise hell between us and
the negroes. Oh, my country! was
there ever such heartless, reck-
less tyranny of official power,
such insulting humiliation? Let me
stop q few minutes and walk in the
garden. [ see the beautiful flowers
from the window, the cannas, with
their turbaned tops, waving in the
evening breeze; the zenias and dahlias
and geraniums in all their variegated
colors. I see the focks of little birds
picking the sunfower seed. I am
looking upon the innocence of nature,
and grieve that man is the only Great
ure that disappoints and deceives us.
Let me go out among the flowers and
ruminate and calm my fretted thoughts
and comfort my olfactories with a
sprig of lemon verbena and heliotrope.
*** Well, now 1 think I feel better.
Let Mckinley proceed with his pro.
cession. The governor and the press
will attend to him. I liked those
headlines of the governor, "McKinley's
Skirts Stained With Loftin's Blood"
That is fact, and his party's skirts
have been stained with a good deal of
negro blood since the war-not
lynching has taken place that was
not the result of their teachings. Just
look at the animus that seeks to pro-
woke a war Of races in the south.
The New York Press, in splitting its
venom at the south, says the national
government should at once arm every
colored office holder and prepare him
for the fight and back him up in it.
Which means, of course, arms for his
friends and soldiers stationed near at
hand and an internecine strife and at
last another war between the north
and south. What Is all this for?
What necessity? Who is Loftin or
Lyons OF Dent that they should put
the south in such peril? The post
offices of all others By long to the peo-
pie of the towns and cities. They are
nearly as close akin to the color line
as the schools and churches. McKin-
ley knows this and knows the temper
of our people on this subject, and he
knows that it will not be peaceably
permitted. 1T will widen the breach
not only between the north and the
south, but between the whites and the
blacks. But all this has been
said over and over again by the
press and our senators and rep
resentatives all over the south, and
it has been felt by millions who think
much and say little. I wonder if
Hanna, Mckinley & Co. think they
can by force reform and regulate the
sentiment Of a great and mighty peo-
plea people who want peace, but
are not afraid of war when they are
trampled on or insulted. But l must
walk out again or change the subject.
[ believe [ will so and see some of the
little grandchildren and play horse for
them. 1 like that. 1 had rather nurse
and pet the little chaps than to hate
Mckinley. 1t pays better. But the
greatest trouble I have now is IN try
ing to keep my respect for some of my
friends who still stand up to him. I
don't see how any southern man ex-
cept an otfice-seeker can stay in his
party. The average office-seeker is