Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-11-28
THE DEMOCRATIC BEARS OF
MISSISSIPPI.
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From The New orseanslDairysstates, Nov. 49,
This is the fifth and last day of
the Roosevelt bear hunt in the dense
Jungle Of the winding Sunfiower,
ont the President had not up to
the present writing succeeded in
killing a bear, or so much as get
ting shot at one of the elusive
brntes- This fact leads naturally
80 the conclusion that the bruins
OF the Sunilower valley are. Demo-
gratis OF the trus Iacksonian type.
and have determined to, be ever
lastingly fiabbergasted and horn.
swaggied. " they allow themselves
to be " done up "bya Republican
De he distinguished or otherwise
Either this conclusion is correct
or the bears got a sniff of that
aromatic Senegambian, Holt Col
ller, who led the drive. and have
gone far afield, so far in fact that
they are now safely enscouced in
the tangled thickets of the Yo-
kockany-that distant aud lonely
river, upon the banks of which
the lean but agile panther and
the bobtailed wildcat join the
rotund otter, the red fox and the
artful raccoon in singing rouude-
lays to the virgin moon or the
blinking stars.
Mayhap some one will call at
tention to the fact that a bsar
was killed on the first DAYS
hunt of the presidential party ana
desire to know if it were Re-
publican bear and willingly sacri-
heed for the delectatioD of the
mighty chief of the party-the
only Republican bear on farm, or
rather the Sunfio wer. We must
confess ignorance as to policies of
beast, but we cannot shy that the
Associated Press dispatches sent
by q correspondent Oh the spot,
said the bear was FRI bad health
and was tied to tree at the time
and the President turned down
his thumb, and Mr.. John Parker
acting upon the signal, admins
tered the coup de grace with his
snlckernee. The stroke was d.
rectly under the fifth rib aud the
President applauded the artistic
manner i'll which the blow was
given.
There is suspicion, however,
rapidly ripening into conviction,
that the emaciated bear thus slain
had previously been purchased
from Forepaugh and Soils Broth
ers' consolidated circus which had
given entertainments at points
on the Mississippi Valley Railroad
adjacent to the lovely town Of
Smedes only few days before the
Presidents camp was pitched, and
that the purchase was made in
order to make sure that the party
would have bear meat for their
Sunday dinner. This may be
true or not; we cannot say. We
only know that from the press die
patches that the PresidelIt "takes
his ill-luck good naturally and
says it's simply the fortune of the
chase. +" But we opine that the
President feels down in the bot
tom of his heart he was made
the victim ef-a foul Hiber-
man trick when he was adroi' eddy
stuffed with the idea that the
roaring brown bears were thicker
in the Sunfower bottom during
the month of November than
cranberries in Massachusetts,, and
all be had to do was to blaze away
with his deadly Winchester until
be had killed bears enough to
enable him to present every Re-
publican in Congress with a bear
skin overcoat and. thus clamp the
ronzhlnation in 1901.
We have not heard that the
President has been invited on
on another bear hunt in the same
locality at some future time, and
we are strongly inclined to believe
the forest shades of the sweet Sun
flower that have seen him once
will see him no moreno more in
the parlance of the COW country
/" Martha Ann has enough. I"