The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-11-22

Barlow Man Changes Quickly
fHQm sanguine 10 sanguinary.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES INCIDENT
Williams Faith In New President Re.
selves a Decided shoek-Wlshes
Editor Brann Were Among the
Living Just Now.

II looks now like my old friend, Evan
Howell, has lost his influence with the
new president and l have lost my
faith. Hope and despair are sometimes
not far apart. Last week | was san
guine, which means hopeful, confident;
and now l am sanguinary, which
means fighting mad.
This world is all a feeting show,
For mans delusion given;
And you can't always sometimes most
generally tell what is going to
happen"
T % smartest doctor can't diagnose
every case, nor cure a disease If the
patient uoes net want to be cured. My
idol is shattered. l wish that Brann
was alive with his Iconoclast. May be
he could do justice to the situation and
save me the use of language. Bob
Toombs said that fanatacism Of our
northern brethren about the negro ia
tigued his indignation, and just so
now our contempt is getting tired. The
day after l reed about it l couldn't
realize 1t, nor did l believe it was as
BAG as pictured, and so I waited for
light-more light had an idea that
Booker Washington in some way hap
pened in about dinner time and Mr.
Roosevelt, having more heart than
head, thoughtlessly asked him to sit
down at his table. thought that may
be he sympathlzed with the man who
had done so much for his race and
was tabooed everywhere by white PEG.
pie and hotels and churches and white
folks! cars and opera houses, and so
his heart got the better of his head
and he did it in haste and would re-
pent at his leisure. l thought it was
just one case, for the New York Press
said it was unique. Then I remember
ed that Cleveland invited the dusky
queen of the Sandwich islands to the
white house, and maybe Roosevelt
looked upon booker Washington as a
kind of ambassador or chief of for,
eign race, and I kept on thinking and
hunting around for an explanation or
palliation until it was discovered that
the case was not unique, for he did a
/ like thing before at Albany, while he
was governor, and that he sent his chill
u dren to school with negro children at
Oyster Bay. Then l gave it up. He
- sadly disappointed his friends and
bnored the state his mother came
\ and desecrated the presidents
nIansion. 1t is no longer the white
house, but, like the chameleon, takes
any color that comes. Now l suppose
that Miss Washington, who is at Wei
lesley college, will be welcome visi.
tor to the mansion during her vacation,
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-thiG unique
case. But hopeful man, an optimist,
should wait a few days and ruminate.
Time is a good doctor and l am not as
mad this morning as / was last week
/ think maybe that it is not as bad a
case as l think it is. By nature l am
a. good deal like my good old kind,
hearted mother who gently took every
body's part who was abused. One day
my father came home very mad with
a man who had mistreated him and
when he related his grievance to moth
h. '.AToubo Tho MON 6idpJf
mea 1t and will make 1t all right af
ter while" Father got irritated lit
teeth mother and said: Caroline
believe you would defend the old
devil If he was here on trial" And
she said: well, / have sometimes
thought that too much was laid or
him"
I still believe that Roosevelt is ma
turally good, big-hearted man and he
didn't think that his official position
limited his private and domestic
rights. The white house was his home
his castle and he could ask in it OF
shut out whomsoever he pleased. He
was born and reared at the north
where a foolish and fanatical sympa
thy with the southern negro is almos
universal. 1t monopoLzed the press
and the pulpit, though they knew M
- about the negro and his racial in
IS than we know about Bulgaria
s1he Macedonian bandits. What Z
strange folly Is that sympathy. IT.
tendency is to spoil the most contenteC
rSpd happiest race on earth. Some
~ hes l envy them their merry nature