The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-10-09
Observation-Disclosures
PHILOSOPHER is OlSPLEASED AT M'KIN
LEY'S POLICY

Takes Walk to "Cool orr.
of CoIored Pustmasters in the South Ell
eyates Williams .Choler...Other Inter.
esting Talk.
When Abasuerus got so dreadful
mad with Haman he dident do any
thing rash all of 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 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 l
take on new mad, fresh indigna-
ton at Mckinley, and if l dident
walk in the garden and peruse the
roses and posies or feed the pet rab-
bits and the peafowls or pick a lot of
tomatoes for dinner my choler
wouldent come down and I would lose
my appetite and my serenity. Dogon
him, confou.:d 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 | am thankful for it, but l
did have respect for him and believed
his sincerity and his national patriot
ism, but he has falsitied 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 he 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 fool, some say knave and some
that he hos been hypnotizel 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 healingswound 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 few minutes and walk in the
garden. I;see the beautiful flowers
from the window, the cannas, with
their turbaned tops, waving in the
evening breeze; the zenias and dahlias
: snageraniums in all their variegated
colors. : / see the flocks Of little birds
picking the sunhower seed. I am
p looking upon the innocence Of nature,
and I 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
sud comfort, my olfactories with a
sprig of lemon verbena and heliotrope.
t** Well, now l think I feel better.
Let Mckinley proceed with his pro-
cession. The governor and the press
will attend to him. T 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 of
negro blood since the war-not q
lynchlng 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 thaseght and back him up in it,
Which haa, of course, arms for his
trends aHd soldiers stationed near oil
hand and an internecine strife and al
last another war between the north
and south. What is all this for
What necessity? Who is Loftin OF
Lyons or Dent that they should put
the south in such peril? The post
Offices Of all others belong to the PEG
pie of the towns and cities. They ar,
nearly as close akin to the color linz
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. It will widen the breacl
not. only between the north and the
south, but between the whites and the
blackN But all this has been
said Over and over again by the
press and our senators and rep.
resentatives all over tie SOUTH: and
it has been felt by millions who think
much and say little. 1 wonder il
Hanna, Mckinley & Go. think they
can by force reform and regulate the
sentiment of great and mighty PEG,
plea people who want peace, but
are not afraid of war when they are
tramplad on or insnlto1 Rnt T p,no4