The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-11-08
Barlow Philosopher Revorts to
Weather Conditions.
POLITICS ARE ALSO TOUCHED UPON
Course President Roosevelt Is Pursu,
Ing oeems to Go Against the Grain
So Far as the c. A. r.
Is Concerned.

wind seems to be veerlng southwark.
Roosevelt keeps on saying kind words
about us and the republicans are in a
tate Of apprehension The G.. A. RS
Made the first assault on him because
he dared to exalt the bravery and pa.
triotism of our people: but he answer
ed them back nobly And now they
are In CONSERVATION because he in
yited Clark Howell to dine with him.
The City of Shushan Is perplexed 1t
looks like there is a power of good po-
litical fun ahead of us, and we can't be
Worsted. Mckinley wanted to be kind,
and they wouldn't let him, but my
Opinion is that Roosevelt is going to
PUN the machine according to his emo
tons. He is a man of emotions, good,
generous emOtions-and our emotional
nature is the best part Of our nature.
That is the reason that women are bet
ter than men; they are more emotion.
al. A selfish man, greedy man or
politician per Sc" have no emotions.
They plot and scheme for personal ad-
vantage. Hamlet said that a polili-
clan Is a man who would circumyent
>lGod. They bride and deceive to gain
their end. But Roosevelt is outspoken,
candid and fearless. The politicians
utterances are cautious and come from
his head; Roosevelt talks from his
heart, and if he feels like inviting
Clark Howell to dine he is going to do
it without consulting Mark Hanna or
the G. A. RS or for a moment consid-
ering what the party will say about it.
l like Roosevelt because he has a
wife and children; in fact, he has been
',A'arried twice and has two sets of chill
dren. That's all right if the children
haFmonize and the last wife is as goou
to the children of the first wife as she
is to her own. Our nearest neighbor
for long years had three sets of chill
dren. Colonel Bayard widower,
with two children, married Mrs. Hand,
a widow with three children. Two more
children were born to the last mar
~riage, and all was peace and harmony
In that household. This reminds me of
another family, where there were
three sets, and they didn't harmonic,
and one day when they were quarrel
Ing in the back yard, the wife came
running in and said to her husband:
John, you'd better go out yonder
with a switch; your children and my
children are fighting our children"
7 l am pleased to learn that our presi-
dent is coming to Georgia next fall
and will visit his mothers old home at
Roswell Think l will meet him there
and show him around, for almost ev-
erybody else is dead but me that was
a there when his mother was a girl. l
twill show him where we boys played
: bullpen and town ball, and where his
uncle half Dan, or half of
his Uncle Dan and l played
sweepstakes and Dan always
won my white alleys. Yes, will show
him around But that colony of fine
Savannah people, all bIooded stock,
are not there now. There were the
olKings, the Dunwoodys, who were in
g college with me. Not all the King boys,
of course, for there were nine of them
and only one sister for the whole
crowd beautiful girl. have a very
dear cousin in Birmingham who has
nine girls and one son. What a pity
that those two families were not neigh
bors and contemporaries, so that the
children could have mated and inter
married l like families with numer-
gous offspring If l had the making of
the constitution, whether federal or
state, I wouldn't let a bachelor hold a
pubkc Office he shouldn't be eligible
to go to congress or to the legislature.
1t is not possible for him to feel deeply
concerned about the perpetuity of gov
eminent. 1t is the children and the
grandchildren we fathers are living
for. An unmarried man lives for him
self He may be smart and moral and
we'll educated, but, as Kipling says, he
can't understand the paternal anxiety
AN those Roswell boys were manly
and we'll favored. They made good
preachers, good soldiers, good archi-
tects and manufacturers and were
good citizens. Poor Tom King had his
leg shattered at Manassas, and as soon
tas he could walk was in the field again
Sand was killed at Chickamauga. He
was a bright, cheerful, handsome man
and everybody loved him. Old Barring
ton King sent north for a teacher and
5 got one by the name of Eels, but the
horr dian,t likn him They said he was