Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1897-10-14
ARP'S CHOLER Is UP.
Tho Barlow Philosopher Does Not
Like Mckinley.
says He Finds NJ Hard tn Respect
Even Friends WI. SIM stand
ID for the Man from
ohio.

/ garden 10 cool off-to let his choler
down That's the way | 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 rheu-
/ matte pains coming he didn't sit down
| and grunt and look miserable. but seized
/ Bis hat and his cane in a hurry and
/ started out TO peruse the farm. In an
hour or 50 he would return all in a
sweat Of perspiration and the rheu-
/ matisu wis postponed for a time.
I Walk about some and commune with
nature when you feel bad. Almost
every day l take on a new mad. a
| fresh Indignation at Mckinley, and IL
! didn't walk in the garden and peruse
the roses and posies or feed the pet
/ rabbits and the psafowls or pick lot
/ Of tomatoes for dinner my choler
wouldn't come down and | would lose
my appetite and my serenity. Doguu
him. confound him. dod blast him. The
Good Book says Cursed be the de
c-iver." aud il he hasn't deceived rs
no man ever did. never voted for
HIM and am thankful for IL. but did
have respect for him and believed his
sincerity and his national patriotism.
But he has faISihed our faith and
broken our hopes. and my personal
contempt for him is amazing. I didn't
know what my kind, gentle disposition
could generate 50 much contempt for
any man. We didn't know that he was
a south Halter per so and had smothered
il in his bosom all these years only 10
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 con
viction is that Il is a deliberate party
policy 10 open the breach between the
north and the south. 10 set the healing
wound 20 bleeding again. They have
despaired Of capturing any southern
state and now seek to raise hell be-
tween Us and the negroes. Oh. my com
try, was there ever such heartless.
reckless tyranny Of official power. such
insulting humiliation?
Let me stop a few minutes and walk
in the garden. see the beautiful flow
ers from the window. the cannas. with
their turbaned tops. waving in the even
ing breeze; the zenias and dahlias and
geraniums in all their variegated col
ors. see the fiocl<s of little birds pick
ing the suntlower seed. | am looking
upon the innocence OF nature. and I
grieve that man is the only creature
that disappoints and decctves US. Let
me 60 out among the flowers and ru-
inmate and calm my fretted thoughts
and comfort my olfactori : with u sprig
Of lemon verbeua and heliutrope.
Well. now | think | feel better. Let
Mckinley proceed with his procession.
The governor and the press will attend
to him. | liked those headlines Of the
governor: "McKinley's skirts Stained
with Loftin's Blood" That is a fact,
and his party's skirts have been stained
with good deal IF negro blood since
the war-not lynehing has taken
place that was not the result of their
teachings. just look at the animus
that seeks to provoke a war Of races in
the south. The New York Press" in
splitting its venom ut the south. saws
the national government should at once
arm every euiored Office holder and pre-
. pare him for the fight and back him up
in il. Which means. of course. arms for
his friends and soldiers stationed near
u hand and an internecine strife and
ut last another war between the north
and south. What is all this for? What
necessity Who is Loftia Or LYONS or
Dent that they should put the south
IN such peril The post Offices of all
others belong to the people of the
towns and cities. They are nearly as
close akin TO the color line as the
schools and churches. Mckinley knows
this and knows the temper of our PEG.
pie on this subject. and he knows that II
VIII not be peaceably permitted. II
will widen the breach not only between
the north and the south. but between
the whites and the blacks. But all this
: has Ssen said over and over again by
4 the press and our senator's and repre-.
: sentatives all over the south. and IL IN.
D been felt by millions who think much
E and say little. | wonder IL Hannah
: Mckinley & Co. think they can by force
I reform and regulate the sentiment O;
great and mighty people, people
who want peace. bur are not afraid OF
war when they are trampled on or in.
suited. But | must walk ont again Oh
change the subject. believe | will 20
, aud see some Of the little grandchildren
and play horse for them | like that
bad rather nurse and pet the littl,
. chaps than to hate Mckinley II paw,
better. But the greatest trouble hav,
now Is in trying to keep my respect for
some Of my friends who still stand NJ
70 him don't see how any southern
, nan except an office seeker can stay in
his party. The average Office seeker i,
politician. and Shakespeare saws -
, politician would eirrumvent God"
But here have got back to the same
eontemptiole subject. Plague take u,
niggers. / wish that Bishop Turne,
J would hurry mp his transportation
t This everlasting fuss has been going
|. o. "a years since freedom came ane
half a century before aud the end /.
=. not in sight. ard now half the legisIa
I ture i in session a. a committee to de,
D termine what TO dc with the 1900 oil
: 1000 eolored convicts and more TO come
IL will cost the state a million of dol
arS before the new plan is carried out
and the national government ought tc
pay 1t or ship them away. The north
first brought them over here from
Africa and in course Of time sold then
to Us and then set them free and re
: fused to pay the money back. dogor
EN-! confound EN-. But we are get
!, ting along fairly well Notwithstanding
our troubles. We were hoping for !
peaceful and prosperous administra
tion- but my faith weakened when
read that Mckinley was boo-hooine
r over John Browns grave and said TN.
: very place was an inspiration. Yes
sympathizing with that old crazy fan
attic, who seized the arsenal of tn.
United States at Harper's Ferry to gei
, arms to murder yirgiEians, and he i.
: fOOked UDoa aS "A saint ard ~, ,--.,.-.. . :