Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-02-26
THE IACKSONlAN DEMOCRAT.

is growing more pedantlc' ouch
svm metrical assemblage of beautiful
phrases. 1t occurs, readily to any cas-
ual observer that be is by degrees ap.
preaching that height where only the
nations elite, downy, soft-feathered and
gay-plumed campaign birds can soar.
This we are glad to ser. Only few
suggestions might be offered. We can
see that st John is an apt student and
we see where we can, by the proper aid,
lead him up TO such an elevation as a
writer, that ne will be in position to
cast a reflection upon the "Philippics OF
Demosthenes" or his famous "Oraton
on the Crown"
The Jacksonian is very much pained
at seeing st John fall down from time
to time upon the splendid argument he
is parading before the people and turn
aside to feed them upon the unpalata-
BILE, nauseating, colloquial, common
place expressions of everyday life.
He wants to give his articles tonic in
way of more stilted phraseology, and
come up out OF that ordinary peasant
lingo common to any and everybody
If YOU are to become a wrirer, a poll
tician and party leader you must stu
DIV to strike out all those old, stale,
fat and Improbable household words
and expressions and pull for business.
Serve the public with high rhetoric and
fancy expressions. Convince then with
your logic, lead them with your sua-
sion and dazzle them with your cream
of the dictionary effulgence. All those
whom you can't convince let theglaring
headlight of your splendid phrases daz-
zle, amaze and bewilder. Rise to the
| heights of Mt Olympus and from your
crater give vent to great oratorical
seismic phenomena.
The Jacksonian endorses every word
uttered by his mutual friend, st. John,
upon the protection and high tariff
score and apologses for him to the gen,
eral public for his short article and non
parade of all the principles and policies
of the party. Of course we know as
we'll as st. John that protection ant
high tariff are the saViors of our coun
try because they make the commodities
cost the customer twice what they
should, and with the dear dollar as ;
circulating medium the laboring mai
is doubly benefited, So, upon thi
score you see St. John is Sir Oracle. .
St. John and the Jacksonian are simila
in that they are pleased to see larg
corporations fatten at the expense o
the laboring man. We didn't mean t
placard this before the public, but a
St John has introduce the question
we will say that of course these larg
corporations are to be heralded as tn
pillars of the republic in that whe
campaign money is needed the admin
istration has but to fleece them for til
amount required and all is well, an
then Mark Hanna and Booker T. Wast
, ington and others can 60 on with thei
y scheme of cornering the cheap politics
units of the country. The Jacksonia
is together with st Johp very glad
+ see Mark Hanna taking up the cause @
. the negro, and proposing to give all e.
:. slaves pension. (How the jackson
ian and ST. John do wish their cole
a would change.) That is the crownin
a act of his life, and will certainly in
p mortalize his name.
# The pension question will offera ne
;. field of eudeavor for st. John. Bookt
q T. wants him, after he has alleviate
a the pain at Indianola, relative to tt
postoffice there, to bestride one of Te
dy's rough riding 'war horses" ar
make thorough canvass of the who
cou ntry and ferret out all the old colo
ed gentlemen that as much as ev
= heard the sound of rattling shack
and write them up for pensions. Th
will be quite remunerative to st. Jol
and will furnish steady employment
long as life and negroes shall las
y Vivela st. John and the sun-kissed so
of Ham You see there is nothing Iii
v being ambitious to rise by degree frc
the miasmal cesspool of ordinary Ii
a and reach plane of usefulness whe
promotion is in order 1t is likely th
v St. John would have passed throu
- this vale of human shadows unobser
ed, unnoticed outside of his commuui
st had he not enlisted in the journals
field where he fell under the direct
A., servation of the Jacksonian. We
,v but too glad to commend him with {
compliments to Booker 4. S favor VIII,
vo he will, together with the dusky Sa
bos, get some pie.
ar st. John with what unparalleled ass
ance must an American politician b
n poon the negro question with poni
-s dispegarding the lilies Of the field?
Ia you believe that the aesobologi
enigma Of the doNa Of the negro S
r. can be solved by the sevenfold rays
physical nature OF man? Please let
public have the benefit OF your view
on these questions in your next !
Jacksonlan wishes to interrogate
John concerning the address, subsc