The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-10-08
Star
ARP WON'T GET MAD.
HIS OLD FATHER USED TO
WALK THE RIIEUM ATISM'
OFF.
lie DON'T LIKE M'KINLEY.

mad with tlaman he didcnt do any
thing rash all Of a sudden, but walked
out in the garden to 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 rheumatic pains coming he dident
sit down and grCnt and look miSer-
able, but seized his hat and his cane
in 4 hurry and started out to peruse
the farm. In an hour or So he would
return all'In Il sweat OF p~erSpiratiOn
and the rheumatism was postponed
for a time. Walk about some and
commune with nature when you feel
bad. Almost every day l take OF a
new mad, Il fresh Indignation at Nc
Kinley, and il | dident walk in the
garden and peruse the roses and posies
or feed the pet rabbits and the pea
fowls or pick Il lot Of tomatoes for din
ncy my choler wOuldent come down
and ! would lose my appetite and my
serenity. Dogon him, confound him,
dad blast him! The good book says
Cursed be the de%ceiver," and II he
hasn't deceived us no mar ever did. ]
never voted for him and l am thank.
full for it, but did have respect for
him and believed his sincerity and his
national patriotism, but he has falsi-
fed our faith and broken our hopes.
and my personal contempt for him is
amazing. l didcnt know what my
kind, gentle disposition could generate
s much contempt for any IA We
didcnt know that he was a south hater
per.sse and had smothered it in his
bosom all these years only to be un-
covered when he got us in his power.
Some say he is a fool, some say a knave
and some that he has been %hypn0tized
: by Hanna; but my conviction is that
it is a 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 hcartlesS, reckless
tyranny of official power, such insult
ing humiliation? Let me stop a few
minutes and walk in the garden. |
see the beautiful flowers from the
window, the cannas, with their tur-
baned tops, waving in the evening
breeze; the zenias and dahlias and
geraniums in all their varicgated
colors. l see the flocks of little birds
picking the sunfower seed. l am
looking upon the innocence of nature,
and l gricye that man is the only
creature that disappoints and decei ,cs
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
heliotropc. \ Well. now l think
l feel better. Let Mckinley proceed
with his procession. The governor
and the press will attend to him. l
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 a good deal Of negro blood since
the war-not a 1ynching 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. 1.-THE New York Press"
in splitting its venom ut the South,
says the national government should
at 0nce arm every culOrcd Office holder
and prepare him for the fight and back
him up in it. Which meaDs, of course,
arms for his friends and soldiers sta.
TONED near at hand and an internccine
strife and at last another wal between
the North and South. What is all
this for? What necessity? Who is
Loftin or Lyons or Dent that they |
should put the South in such peril {?
The postOiices Of all other 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 Il people on this subject.
and he knows that it will not be peace
ably 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 Representatives
all over the South, and it has been
felt by millions who think much and
say little. i wonder If Hanna, Me
Kinley & Co., think they can by force
reform and regulate the sentiment of
a great ana mighty people-a people
who want peace, but are not afraid Of
val when they are tramplcd on or in
suited. But ! must walk out again or
change the subject. ] believe | will
20 and see some Of the little grand
children aud play horse for them. II
like that. ! had rather Durse and pct
the little chaps than TO hate McKin-
ley. II pays better. But the greatest
trouble l have now Is in trying to
keep my respect for some OF my friends
who still stand up tn him. | don't
see how any Southern man except an
Office seeker a stay In his party.
The average Office seeker is a politi-
clan, aud Shakespeare says "a politi-
clan would circumvent God"
But here have got back To the