Woodville Republican., 1903-02-21
NEGROES IN OFFICE.
Bill Arp Tells What He Thinks
About Roosevelt,
Accepts Taeorr Of a Medical Friend
Who says Rtesideat'S tefebtis
lam Is Too smRIl-iooktng
Forward to spring.

~ little more grape, Capt Bragg,
said Gen. Taylor, ct tbe battle Of
Buena Vista. Aud We say now TO Capt.
TEDDY; ~ few more niggers TO Of
fees up north and a leN more 10 Our
southern post offices, To the whole
hog while SOU are a. il. Mckinley gave
,ou starter by appointing a Negro
over white community at hogans-
vile, and another al Athens, the euls
tured college city Of the southi but
he got alarmed and took the back
track. II was just such case as you
have now in Mississippi at Indianola,
for the people oi lloganssille went
four miles TO get their mail rather
than take il from a negroa dirty
politician Teddy has done no worse
bn the post office line. The post Of.
fees are the peoples. not the presl.
dents. They are almost as near 10
us and as sacred as Is our preacher
or our family physician. No greater
insult, no greater outrage upon our
rights, could be perpetrated by a
tyrant than to appoint negro as
postmaster in white community.
The difference between Teddy aud Mr..
Mckinley is that the latter played fool
for awhile and quit, but Teddy keeps
it upand grows more defiant of south
ern op' nion and southern indignation.
Sometimes providence afiiicts the peo-
pie with a fool, and sometimes with a
knave to tyrannize over them, but ii
looks like we are TO have both fool
and knave in the same person. But
''the Lord loveth whom He chasten-
eth"
A medical friend from over the line
writes me that he has a growing sense
of justice and abounds in sympathy for
our long-suifering people, but that
Teddy's deformity does not come from
original sin or total depravity, but
from physical defects in his anatomy,
and says;
81 have studied his Uranium and find
| that he has too small u cerebelium,
His occiput goes straight up from the
medulia oblongata and meets the
sinclput at right angles and leaves no
room for moral attributes. Apefpen'
| Gieular back head like Teddys indi.
Gates fighting, hear-kilIing, athlttic
and foolhardy man. The aphryon and
the messiah plane are cramped to.
gether and Teddy's back head Is a
| perpendicular rl0uc without hill OF
dale. A man with very small cere
bellum is peculiar, and 1t will be fount
on inspection of the sinciput or fore
| head that the nose and cheek bones
generally rest on an enormous jaw
bone. or, as you might say, the jawbone
Of an ass. If Teddy had lived in Sam
sons day he would have rejoiced to
have been his armor-bearer, and car
ried his jawbone some"
just exactly not only so, but
also. ] understand IL all now, ant
thank my medical friend. The lacl
| of ccrebellnm and medulla oblongatf
and occiput has made Teddy crazy
about bears and negroes and other
black woolly things. But should like
tollnow what kind Of cerebellum that
fellow Crumpacker or .Stumpsuekel
or Dirtdauber has got, that makes hin
so yenomous toward our people. Al
/ Teddy's request he has introduced {
resolution to have committee ap
/ pointed to visit lndianola and see whai
our people are doing to the coloret
postmistress. OF course. he will b.
appointed chairman Of the committee
but III wager ten dollars he don't go
lie is nothing but gas bag and |
coward. Mr.. Thompson tried to ge
him to come down to Alabama and SCI
how the negroes on his big plantation
were getting on. He was invited ant
accepted the invitation, bur he did no
come He was afraid. And that ]
what discourages me about any grow
ing sense Of justice prevailing amonl