The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-10-26
As to the S,sr.Timss.

OHehSc u ueSlIt W ouOW up w NuC PSO
pie Of Lafayette county-those peopl,
who are expected to assist this double
sexed journal to continue TO live b!
subscribing money to its purse for tn
privilege Of perusing its mast!
columns-the disgusting position o
this sheet. We deem IL proper tina
our readers should realize the facts.
In discussing the righteous indy
nation Of the southern people anenI
Roosevelt inviting a negro to hi
table and after having commented OF
what IL calls the kindness OF The
national government toward the
states Of the south regarding the laws
governing the right OF franchise this
journalistic hermaphrOdite at Kansa;
City says;
1t would appear that this unusual
privilege ought TO satisfy the south
aud Danish the specters OF negro
domination and social equality be-
tween the whites aud the blacks. TIC
fly into the rage which the south has
manifested because the president has
chosen to invite TO dine with him at
the white house a distinguished
southern gentleman who has been
entertained by many Of the best
families in his own section, and to
heap upon Mr.. Roosevelt unseemly
and vulgar abuse because he exercised
the individual right of extending a
graceful courtesy to a man OF distinc-
ton aud irreproachable manners is
most too much for public forbearance.
THE fatigue which the senseless
conduct of the south has induced by
its conduct in this affair is not made
any nor endurable by the knowledge
that it has hurt itself by its lack OF
reason more than anybody else"
Will the shameless pre~varicator Of
the Star-Times give the names OF
"many Of the leading families Of bis
own section" who have dined with
Booker Washington? The country i:
not inclined to satisfy itself with
generalities in so important a matter,
and were IL so inclined the witnes:
would have to be one OF more pro-
nounced integrity than the Star
Times. Like unto the story thai
Thomas jefferson once dined with {
negro on common equality, now
brought out for the first time TO sup
port Roosevelt In his Views anC
actions, this statement Of the Star
Times is unsupported and bears tht
unmistakable sign Of having beer
manufactured out of whole cloth
These craven villifers OF a brave
patriotic and self-respecting people
had they in their composition thu
least scintilla Of t%ruthfulness or de
cency, would down upon theil
knees and apologize to the dead JET
ferson and the people of the south To-
the calumny heaped upon them il
order to bolster up a cause that SMELL
to heaven.
The Kansas City journalistic her
maphrodite suggests that the revolt
10 the south against social equality il
"fatiguing' to its tne sensibilities
apropos TO which it seems shameful
that the people Of any section of gu
common country should be guilty O
any act that gives "a tired feeling
TO Baron Nelson and his sOcia
equality newspaper up at the mouth
of the Kaw; but then in this case tn
hermaphrodite will have ~ IN Ike III
its MUD TO grin aud bear IT.. Ever
the greatness of Baron Nelson, o
Convention hall fame, is not suthcieu.
to rub out the color line in this coun
try strange as II may seem.
Again the Star-Times says:
1.-The suggestion that the Booke
T. Washington incident logically pur
sued might result in a mulatto race o
Americans is about the most detesta
bic Of the many gratuitous indecencie
perpetrated by Senator Tillman. Tn
truth OF the matter is that IL tn
southern people were as consistent II
their race distinctions as the northern
people are there would be mighty fe,
~Off-colOr negroes 10 the country."
We deem this loathsome paragraph
too detestible 10 be met with digni
fed argument. 1t is a libel on tn
south and a disgrace to the sewer
bred source whence 1t comes.
But hear again:
THE trouble with a great man
} southern people is that they regar,
: the race question as their own privat
, problem. The north is responsible
for the freedom Of the slaves-a Der
efactiOn that is now Endorsed by tn
great majority Of the southern pee
ple-and the north ought TO hav
something to say about the recognI