The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-07-02
UNPARALLELED INPUDENcR,

ton OF lonely Np.gnlur IN w ASH
iugton, and come to this district OF
Mississippi for the purpose of oh.
truding himself, his advice ano
ideas upon its people, and preha
bly, to attack its proscn, repruseh-
tatiyc, the latchet of whose shoes
he Is not worthy to unloosc. TIN,
is an aggression sompreccdented,
so contrary to all usage and politl-
cal ethics, if such oNist, that it
puts Mr.. Bailey beyond the pale
Of courtesy. Consideration is lost
upon g character so oh;use ; and
Justice to the people who arcaboul
to he insulted hv his presence do
mands that he should be proclaim
ed for what he is.
1t is not difficult to guess at
whose instigation this intrusion is
prompted. While thcpreteasion,
of Nj, Bailey to be a nationa.
leader have been denied and de.
nounced with Indignation by lead
ING organs Of the party from al.
quarters of the United States, ii is
undeniable that he possesses some
influence with that class OF politi.
clans and their followers who have
unhappily gained control Of the
State Of Mississippi and cursed il
with ignorant and corrupt rule fol
more than two years. Congress
man Bailey is the perfected type
of well known species of small
politician. not confined altogether
to the rural districts Of the south
west, though it is there, and par
ticularly portions of Mississippi
that they are most numerous anc
distinctive. Men whom a little
learning has made mad,-whC
have spread a veneer of semi-edu
cation over their native coarse ig
norance. and endeavor, with some
success, to make Il ponderous pom
posity and unmeaswed insolenct
pass with their gaping fellows fol
wisdom and superiority. Mr.
Bailey is the most prominent eX
ample in America Of the peryer
sion of an intellect which, under
natural conditions, would have
plowed straight furrow, or fec
hogs with discretion and gooC
Judgment. Like others of his
class in Congress, his first claim
to distinction arose from his re.
pugnance to assume the customary
clothing Of civilized usage; and tC
the loud and lasting fame he won
by his opposition to wearing q
dress coat. he has assiduousIy add
ed by making more different kinds
Of fool Of himself than even any
other man in Congress. He goes
down to posterity side by side with
Jerry Simpson, whose celebrity
rests solely ON the fact that he
wore no socks.
But these are tribes. He has
thrust himself forward in national
affairs with the same effrontery
with which he now seeks to inter-
fere with ours. His distinctive
characteristic is egotism and the
determination to advance himself
at whatever hazard to party and
national interests. He has foment-
ed dissension and almost accom-
plished the disintegration Of his
party to crafty personal ambition.
With cool audacity this person
comes, unsolicited by any recog-
nized authority, to interfere in a
matter concerning which he is
totally ignorant, and to attempt to
defeat Democratic candidate upon
whose election the vast majority
of the people feel that their most
precious personal interests depend,
it is this which constitutes the UNI
pardonable ohcnse which Mr..
Bailey offers the people of this
district. He has rushed in. with
FOOLS confidence, where angels
would fear to tread. He is under
suspicion, and with justice, of be-
ING Ieagued with a iunta of politi-
clans and spoilsmen, headed by
the governor of Mississippi, against
whose determined effort to gain
possession of the political and
financial affairs of this district its
people are waging Il continual
warfare.
But even this is not enough.
There is yet another motive for
Mr.. Bailey's action, so unworthy,
so base, that its existence could
scarcely he credited, did not we'll
known circumstances make it only
too plain. The main object that
Mr.. Bailey has in coming TO this
district is the same for which Gov
ernor NcLaurin was so universally
eXecrated for his treatment Of Mr..
Nardanan, viz; to crafty his per
sonal enmity and TO yilify the man
against whom be is actuated by a
private hatred.
Such is the motive that brings
him to the Delta. For this pur-
pose we are to be imposed upon
by this political aceident-this
poser and attitudinizer in hotel
Hobbies this disintegrator and dis
rupter Of his party-this repudia-
ted leader-this instrument Of a
corrupt and hated State admins
tTatiOn.
If Mr. Bailey ever had any
claim beyond his own inordinate