The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-11-06
BILL ARP HAS LOST FAITH.
The Roosevelt Washington Din
ner Has Aroused His Anger and
He Gets Fighting Mad,

ner Has Aroused His Anger and
He Gets Fighting Mad.
Atlanta Constitution.
1t looks now like my old friend,
Evan Howell, has lost his influence
with the new President, and [ have
lost my faith. Hope and despair are
sometimes not far apart. Last week
was sanguine, which means hopeful,
confident; and now / am sanguiuary,
which means fighting mad.
" This world is all heeting show,
For mans delusion given;
And you can't always sometimes most
generally tell what is going to hap,
pen"
The smartest doctor can't diagnose
every case, nor cure q disease If the
patient does not want to be cured. My
idol is shattered. L wish that Brann
was alive wjtl his Iconoclast. Maybe
he could do justice to the situation and
save me tho use of language. Bob
Toombs said that the fanalucism of
Our Northern brethren about the negro
fa,igued his Indignation, and jusl as
now our contempt Is getting Tired. The
day after l read about 1T i couldn't re-
alize it, nor did / believe it was as bad
as pictured, and so waited for light
more light had an idea that Booker
Washington in some way happened in
about dinner time, and Mr.. Roosevelt,
having more heat than head, thought
lessly asked HIM to sit down at his
table. l thought that maybe he SYM
pathized with the man who had done
80 much for his race and was tab ,oed
everywhere by white people aud hotels
and churches and white folks, cars and
opera houses, and 80 his heart got the
better of his head and he did it i'm haste
and would repent at his leisure. i
thought it was just one case, for The
New York Press said il was unique.
Then remembered that Cleveland in
vited the dusky queen of the Sandwich
islands to the White House, and maybe
Roosevelt looked upon Booker Wash
inglon as kind of ambassador Or chief
of foreign race, and L kept on think
ing and hunting around for an explana-
ton or palliatiOn until it was discover.
ed that the case was not unique, for he
did like thing before at Albany, while
he was governor, and that he sent his
children to school with negro Chi .dren
at Oyster Bay, Then gave it up. He
has sadly disappointed his friends and
dishOnored tho State his mother came
from and desecrated the Presidents
mspsion. 1t is no longer the White
Hohse, but like the chameleon, takes
any color that comes. Now 1 supp Sc
that Miss Washington, who is at
Wellesley college, will be welcome
visitor at the mansion during her vaca-
tion, and maybe Roosevelt's son will
fall in love with her and marry her
without having to elope. That is the
tendency of this new departure--this
unique case. But hopeful man, an
optimist, should wait few days and
rumirate. Time is good doctor and
am not as made this morning as
was last week think maybe that IL
is not as bad case as think 1t is. BY
nature ] am good deal like my good
old, kind-hearted mother, who gently
took evetybody's part who was abused
One day my father came home very
mad with man who had mIstreatec
him and when he related his grievance
to mother she said: Maybe The mar
/ didn't mean 1t md will make 1t al
right after whilep Father got irri
tated little with mother and said
I" Caroline, / believe you would de
fend the old devil IL he was here OF
trial.o And she's i'd: g Well, i hay
sometimes thought that too much wa
laid on him T"
~ / still believe that Roosevelt is ne
I turallv n good. biy.hearted man and h