The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-26
lednn CRIT and Rr'er Fox.


story that IS herein unfolded.
In fact when you see it IN the
lTimes, it is always true. :
Once upon q time (all nice
stories should begin this way)
there lived two men with con-
gressional aspirations in a little
village called by those who haye
heard Of it, West Point, distant
about seventy miles from the
thriving metropolis Of Winona.
These two men were both law
yers and both believed that the
only genuine salvation for the
country was to elect them to
congress-that all other saliva
ton would be spurious and count
erfeit and without them, or one
of them at least, the country
would go to the demnition bow
vows at shoot the shute-rate.
But unfortunately only one of
them could go to congress at one
and the same time.
So Brer Fox he HE'D himself
around to the jedge's Office, he
did, and said he to the Judge:
Say, ledge, amt we friends and
neighbors and didn't I say first
that [ wanted to be congress
man and now if you had said it
| first, being friends and neigh
bors as we are, I wouldn't ask
for it, not on my life, jedge, and
don you think you ought to be
| filed with the same self-sacrific-
ing and noble spirit?
And the iedge was filled with
noble sublime impulses and he
rose up and said. said he:
[ allow no man to be more
generous than [ and if, Brer Fox,
you would not ask for the Office
if [ asked first, then you shall
have it and [ will help you get it. ;
Brer Fox got it.
By and by the jedge wanted
an office. He wanted to be gov
ernOr of the great commonwealth
of Mississippi and he announced
his name and Brer Fox held his
] DCdCG anu SG1lN IOU a WO1
Then some bad men in Jack
son headed by an abdominally
large man who is known as
= Republican Referee" began tt
! scheme to encompass the defeat
of man called Vardaman, who
also wants to be governor They
said, let US lombard Brer Fox
with letters and entreatieS anC
get him to run for governor
Accordingly the bonn bard mem
was made and 10 and behold i
, was successful!
Brer Fox said he could mo-
withstand the pressure, albeit
the volume and velocity of sale
) pressure was neither large no.
: swift.
But the jedge said, Nay, nay
: Pauline you must not poach up
on my preserves. F"
And forthwith the jedge prod
ded Brer Fox's memory and car
ried him back to the time wher
he (Brer Fox announced frs
and would not have announced
against a friend and neighbol
who had already announced
And the jedge said, l have so an
nounced. Then the jedge reach
ed up and got down Blackstone
Common Sense Justice and read
as follows: It's a mighty poor
rule that won't work both ways
But Brer Fox was unmoved.
And yet again the jedge reached
to his shelf and brought down
|, another book called the Bible and
he read to Brer Fox: Whatso
ever you would that men do unto
you. do We likewise unto them. ,
But Brer Fox was obstinate.
He refused to bulge.
He said he would be governor
anyway if the people would elect
him.
Then the jedge said: Go to
Il" l myself will be governor, OF
by the great horn spoon, know
why.
And the fight wakes warmer
and may wax warmer.
Moral This, again we say, is
not fable, but truy story.
Still it has a moral which is that
while Brer Fox and the jedge are
vocalizing with each other, Ma
jor Vardaman will get to be gov
ernor. Wine na Times.