The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27
THE GEORGIA HUM0RIST
PHIL osoPHER is DISPLEASED AT M'KlN-
LEY'S POLICY.
Fakes a Walk to "Cool Of''---Appointmen
of Colored Postmasters in the South Eel.
evates Williams Choler--.Other Inter
esting Talk.

evates Williams Choler.--Other Inter. |
esting Talk.
When Abasuerus got SO dreadful
mad with Hannah he dident do any1
thing rash all of sudden, but walked
out in the garden to cool off-to let
his choler down. That's the way l
am doing now every day, and am
thankful that I've got 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 it l dident
walk in the garden and peruse the
roses and posies or 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, confould 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 falsified our faith and
broken our hopes, and my personal
contempt for him is amazing. l
dident know that my kind, gentle
disposition could generate 80 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 fool, some say knaye 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 dahlia'
and geraniums in all their variegated
colors. 1 see the focks of little birds
picking the sunfower seed. an
looking upon the innocence of nature
and / grieve that man is the only Great
ure that disappoints aud deceives us
Let me go out among the flowers ant
ruminate and calm my fretted thought
and comfort my olfactories with
, sprig of lemon verbena and heliotrope
+** Well, now I think I feel better
Let Mckinley proceed with his pro
; cession. The governor and the pres
will attend to him. I liked thos
headlines of the governor, Mckinley
Skirts Stained With Loftin's Blood.
That is fact, and his party's skirt
. have been stained with good deal {
negro blood since the war-not
! lynching has taken place that We
: not the result of their teachings. Jul
look at the animus that seeks to pr
> woke a war of races in the soutl
j The New York Press, in splitting i
venom at the south, says the nation
:. government should at once arm evel
= colored office holder and prepare hi
!, for the fight and back him up in
= Which means, of course, arms for b
!, friends and soldiers stationed near
hand and an internecine strife and
last another war between the nor
and south. What is all this TO
What necessity? Who is Loftin
Lyons or Dent that they should p
the south in such peril? The pos
=, offices of all others belong to the pc
~ pie of the towns and cities. They a
70 nearly as close akin to the color Ii
I, as the schools and churches. Mcki
u lev knows this and knows the temp
y of our people on this subject, and
70 knows that it will not be peaceat
permitted. 1t will widen the brea
d not only between the north and
. south, but between the whites and
20 blacks. But all this has be
&c said over aud over again by
III press and our senators and II
% resentatives all over the south, a
a it has been felt by millions who thi
~ ~ much and say little. wonder
as Hanna, Mckinley & Co. think tt
g can by force reform and regulate
y, sentiment of great and mighty p
10 10 plea people who want peace,
no are not afraid of war when they
10 ne trampled on or insulted. But l m
10 10 walk out again or change the subie
, s 1 believe 1 will go and see some of
4 4o little grandchildren and play horse
~ ~ them. I like that. / had rather nu
30 10 and pet the little chaps than to b
We We Mckinley. 1t pays better. But
!. greatest tro1b,e have now is in {
- ing to keep my respect for some OF
friends who still stand up to him.
don't see how any southern man
- cept an office-seeker can stay In
~ parts. The average of6ce-seeker
-. politician, and Shakespeare says
49,. politician would circumvent God. :
Oh But here / have got back to the SO