The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-13

| genuine touches of genius that show
what an advanced thinker the Grea
| Fusionist is when he rally tries to be
He is best when his broad strength ap
proaches the brutal:
well, n meaner. baser, more contempt
ible falsehood and SANDER on white wo
men was never spawned by the low
born, sneaking. cowardly defamer wh(
| invented and circulated it.
/ And before the thing is over | under
stand we are all coming in for a quie
| roasting something after the manner o.
I the above) that will save the price OF
| fuel this winter.
Smoke the rascals out.'
Now this is what | call masterpiece
| For these many long years other great
| statesmen have been saying: Turn the
/ rascals out" but it remained for the
| Rev. Haleuiah Whangdoode, in these
closing days Of the nineteenth century,
| to discover new phrase: Smoke the
rascals out"
The book teens with these delicious
| morsels. DO not. | bescech you, ask
me to give you further quotations. Get
| it and read it Yourself You will be inn
mensely amused if you will just remem-
| Der that the man is writing seriously
| and expects you to take him seriously.
| If you are not amused, then your power
of being amused is gone. Yes, barring
| Dr. Ramsey's ''Zeke Blkins" l know
Of nothing so absolutely -side-splitting.
But | think we can submit to the
| deficit.
To those acquainted with the editorial
columns Of the "Cowky' before Senator
Butler saw it to the advantage of his
bank account to take personal charge
of the paper, Mr.. Airs style is familiar
They will, | am sure, agree with me
Gnat DR. Thompson, i'll committing this
book to Mr.. Airs care merely proved
once again his great good taste and long
cared sense. In this author he found,
not only politician and counsellor but
Il humorist and accomplished writer
His work was already an admitted fact
but i'll the book that now lies before us
he surpasses even himself. He shows
a direct yigor, almost brutal dominance
over his subject never before apparent
in his numerous literary remains.
He writes with the fiuency of Vesu-
vius. and with as much care as that
volcano ever displayed. The flow of
his language, as / have already shown,
is of strength that smells of sheol.
His ideas of sense, of policy and OF
consistency is as tabled as the Greek
kalends. One example is sufficient:
During a period of twenty years in
which that party sWayed overwhelming
power in North Carolina, it never pass
ed law nor made an effort to disfran-
chise or take from the negro the power
of the ballot which they now declare
they so m0rtally dread. On the other
hand, if there has been any positive
course of procedure with reference to the
matter at all on the part of the Demo
cratic party, such procedure has been
covert, sneaking retention of the
power of the ballot to the negro, in or
der that that party might fatten on the
prejudice it could raise against the very
power it established
To any self-respecting Fusionist i'll
whom that sentence does not arouse a
wild desire to cut and slash, both author
and sentence, | will gladly present the
most ornate fools cap and bells to be
bought outside of Spain. The good
creature forgets. if indeed he ever knew
that only last Saturday Holton and his
crowd printed on thousands of pieces of
cafu-DOaru. TO ne STUCK up ali over the
State, a false interview with Gen Cox
saying that with a return 10 power the
Democrats in North Carolina would dis
franchise the negro. The Rev. Aver has
now demolished the only bugaboo they
had to scare the negro into line next No
yemher.
After this the reader is prepared for
anything. and well he may be. A book
coucbed in so chaotic and choleric tom
myrot can never hope to be more than
one Of hell's paving stones Both its
and its meanness admirably
fit ii for that use. What the intent or
the lesson of the book of its writer may
have been matters not Il fig if its argu
ments are silly. its figures false and its
language so unchaste as to make 1t neces-
sary to handle it with tongs.
The Rev Hallelujah Whangdoode Air
+ severe. but his handsome book is
dull His meanness is as animated as
Il wooden Indian and his mud-slingins
as ineffective as the fire from a Spanish
gunboat. The book is mean and petty
so mean and so petty that it is one
great joke that | confidently recommend
to the perusal of the blind Not being
in raised letters it should be great
comfort to them not to be able to read
it.