The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-06
BACKWARD STATE.
Blacks More Progressive Than whites
i'm Arkansas-Gun Rule.

New York Press
Grand old State-Arkansaw 1t is the
only State in the Union where the negroes
are more progressive than the white folk.
and where they are better educated than
the lower classes of white folk Let me
tell you of a typical white farmer. He
comes to town with eggs and butter TO sell.
What price? We will say 10 cents for eggs
and % for butter. You rebel The market
price of eggs is 121z cents and butter 20.
1t makes no difference to him; he positively
will not sell at 1912 and 20 cents, but Will
take 10 and a quarter. He can maintain
his reckoning at 10 cents, but not at 12E;
he knows that four quarters make dollar,
but 20 cents is a sealed book.
If he offers eggs at 10 cents and you pro-
pose to give 1O4, it will scare him nearly
into spasms. He has six dozen; you want
all at the fraction, or none at all. He
yields reluctantly. You may give him So
cents, IS cents, 80, 10, 9O-anything you
please, and he will accept it. In the awful
agony of wrestling with that fraction he
loses sight of the 10 cents a dozen, and
thinks anything you give is honest pay
ment. He is swindled every time he goes
10 town by clever negroes who understand
his mental perturbation over numerator
ana QSnOmlndIOr. his son Is with MIN.
You ask why don't you send that boy
to school and let him learn how TO calcu-
late for your" My boy ter school? Well.
I've got thirteen mo- like i'm ter hum en-
marry one NV EN- kin nur ever shall git no
edicashun. An three gals-ditto an like
ways. I've never been to no school my
self, an L make ez good er Twin ez any
man in Their State, an l don't propose ter
make fools o. my chillun by schoolin'.
Every one Wv EN- shall be farmers like
Their pa"
to be found in every hip-pocket Got any
money none you ask a., the native Nav.
whisky" Nav" Got any land?" Nav
Jaw. Got dog?" Nav" Got a
pistol?" yep; always carry that"
Colonel Rector, son of the war Governor
of Arkensaw, having nominated himself as
a canGIuate for Governor in opposition TO
jeff Davis, hopes to win by the hip-pocket.
The other day he met the superintendent
of public schools in the main street of Hot
Springs and held the poor man up at the
point of a revolver Don't shoot! said
the principal, Il am unarmed." Then Rec
tor smote him on the cheek and told him to
so home and get a gun and they'd fight
ii out. This incident was the outgrowth OF
the gallant colonel's son being SO far be-
hind in his studies that he was not quail
fed to be graduated.
Governor JEFF Davis is again running for
Governor His administration has been a
disgrace to the Union. He shouts it over
the Cldle lLdl he is q quart BdpllSl,
meaning that he is not a Prohibitionist.
His inebriety is so conspicuously fragrant
and monotonous that his secretary is act
ing Governor and by many humorists is
addressed as Governor This secretary
Charlie" Jacobson, is a clever young He
brew. But don't forget that he is also
Major General Charles jacobson, acting
adjutant general Of the State
James z. Clark while Governor of Arkan-
sas publicly assaulted man who had pub
licly slandered him and did il in a hotel on
a Sunday afternoon and with drawn six
shooter. Senator "Washtub' Jones, the
pro-trust Populist-Democrat dubbed near
had dunned him. Governor Jeff Davis
threatened to go cunning for an editor who
had vilified and libeled him, and Colonel
Rector did go cunning for a school teacher
who refused to graduate his boy. Old
Poker Jack" McCune is cunning for Sen
ator Jones because he got a discharge in
bankruptcy and never paid his sister-in-
rowed. The whole State says the money
should be paid. Clarke wants TO succeed
Jones in the Senate; Jeff Davis wants to
succeed Berry.
Do not confound Governor Jeff Davis with
General jeff Davis or with President Jeff
Davis of the Confederacy He is a horse
of another color. His fame rests upon an
opinion that a certain law of fool Legis-
lature excluded from the State not only
corporations and companies combining To
fix rates in Arkansas but all such as were
members of any such associations i'm COM
bination TO fix or limit prices anywhere.
Being attorney general at the time, this
opinion carried weight and siXty-three fire
insurance companies withdrew. This set
the business men wild. But presently the
courts decided against jeff and the cor
porations resumed operations.