The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-05
AFTER TIE TEDDYITEs.
Some Side Remarks of Man Who bears of
Commercial Democrats

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Some Side Remarks of Man Who Bears of
Commercial Democrats
To the Editor: My daddy, grand daddy
and all my folks as far as / have been
! able to trace them, were Wings. and
was born Wing and staid so until "sar-
/ cumstances'' forced me to be a Democrat
/ and for several years / have been looking
about trying to find a place to quit, but
| circumstances" won't let me. | went
! over to 'em mighty slow. / didn't like the
| name and at first l called myself Con
| servative" and first one thing and then
| another before | could get into full fell
! lOWShip but after awhile / got clean
! over and had just about forgot all about
! the fine speeches that Henry Clay. Crit
/ tendon and others used to make on pro-
] lection and the encouragement of infant
! industries, until lately some of the fell
! lows that used to abuse me for being
| Wing. commenced talking about being Nc
! Kinley Democrats or Commercial Demo-
Gratis whatever that means) and / got to
| thinking on this subject again, and some
| how or other it occurred to me that if
old Henry Clay could come back and see
that infant that he made such fine
speeches about encouraging and find how
fat and bloated and pulled up he'd got,
he would say: Look here boy you need
exercise, you ought to go out with the
other boys, play cat, climb bullace trees,
fsh go swimming, 'possum and coon hunt,
ETC., and work off some of your superfluous
laziness.' Now l believe old Henry would
say this, for he was sensible man like
myself. The observation and experience
l. d 81 Efo
have young'un that is backward about
learning to walk and you go off and get
him nice "go-cart' he'll not only not
learn to walk any sooner but the first
thing you know he'll be begging for an
electric car, dynamo and all the appurten-
ances and some one to run it for him
Teach him he can and must use his
muscles, for concessions granted soon are
as rights demanded. / just know if l had
some one to make fires of mornings when
it was cold, I'd soon conclude that it
was very injurious to my health to get
out of warm bed and make them my
self.
The Democratic party in the South is
made up of all the white men except
those who hold office. who have been
promised office or. who are constantly
praying, and hoping for office. And i ex-
pect it's going to continue pretty much
that way, for we've been trying for thirty
five years to educate and elevate the
negro We've paid taxes and spent money
for this purpose. We have advanced
them far enough to render them worth
| less as ditchers and field hands, but in
all this time we've been able to elevate
only one high enough to dine with the
President, and fear even this slight sue
cess is going. TO make them bumptious
and cavorty. i know one negro, now
school teacher in Wilson county, who was
! born in Johnston county during Grants
administration and his father named him
and had his name recorded tWilIiam-
| Gabriel Schofield Grant President of the
| United States forever Sanders" and am
| expecting within the next twelve months
| to hear of a. thousand named Booker
| Washington Theodore Rough Rider
Roosevelt President of the United States
forever and what's more. every one of
| them will eXrect to succeed Teddy some
time, and l expect we'll have to keep on
being Democrats to hold 'em Off.
Well, L was a little afraid of Teddy
at first, but after awhile l thought he
was going to do pretty we'll. He appoint
ed some clever Democrats to office in the
South. OF course knew what he was
i.doing this for, sbut the negro didn't. He
regarded Ii aserewarding those he d been
taught to look upon as enemies and he
resented it and Teddy began to hear
mutterings from the negroes, which he
was afraid s'blocks of five wouldn't over
come four years hence. Foraker sent him
word that the Ohio negroes were strain
ing on the halter and he must do some
thing to conciliate them. A brilliant idea
struck Teddy. He did do that re-
quired more nerve than his charge up
| San Juan hill did. He sent for Booker
Washington to come over and eat corn
| field peas, hogs jowls and turnips with him
and Mrs. Roosevelt and the children and
well Teddy made a mess of it-that's
all.
Well some of the Democratic papers
have been acting in a way which, to say
the least of it, is peculiar. Now the
Morning Post at Raleigh has been pur-
suing conspicuously ambiguous course
and I'm sorry for it. too, for the editor
Of that paper is man that | love and a
man that the Democratic party has loved
and often honored and when L think of
some of the ''f1ickers" it has cut lately
feel like rhyming about it thusly:
Now the Raleigh Morning Post
Has been trying it's utmost
To prove it's Democracy true
But the skin of the lion
Which sometimes it does try on
Let's the ears of the (animal which talked
to Baalam) stick through.
And now with one more expiring effort
ut rhyming. I will come to a close:
Keep right on lammng. Josephus,
Jest lam 'em all around,
But stop Whenever they cry enough
Don't lick EN- when they're down.
Yours truly,
JAKE STEVENS.
Smithfeld, N. c.. Nov. 4, 1901.
1t is said that man can truly love but
once, but the average man does a lot of
eXDerimentine