The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-20
NEGROES IN OFFICE.
Bill Arp Tells What He Thinks
About Roosevelt,
Accepts Theory of n Medical Friend
Who Says Presidents Cercbcl-
1um lis Too SMaIl-Looking
Forward TO Spring.

"A little more grape, Capt. Bragg
said Gen. Taylor, at the battle of
Buena Vista. And we say now TO Capt.
Teddy: "A few more niggers TO Of
fees up north and a few more to our
southern post offices. Go the whole
hog While you are at it. Mckinley gave
you a starter by appointing a negro
over a white community at Hogans-
vile, and another at Athens, the Gull
tured college city of the south, but
he got alarmed and took the back
track. 1t was just such a case as you
have now in Mississippi at Indianola,
for the people of ~Hogansville went
four miles to get their mail rather
than take it from a negro-a dirty
politician" Teddy has done no worse
on the post office line. The post Of
fees are the peoples, not the presi-
dents. They are almost as near to
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 a negro as
postmaster in a white community.
The difference between Teddy and Mr..
Mckinley is that the latter played fool
for awhile and quit, but Teddy keeps
it up and grows more defiant of south
ern opinion and southern indignation.
Sometimes providence ~affiicts the peo-
pie with a fool, and sometimes with a
knave to %tyrannize over them, but it
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
of justice and aboundsi in sympathy for
our long-suffering people, but that
Teddy's deformity does not come from
original sin or total ~depravity, but
from physical defects in his anatomy,
and says:
Il have studied his Uranium and find
that he has too small a cerebeIlum.
His occiput goes straight up from the
medulla ~oblongata and meets the
sinciput at right angles and leaves no
room for moral attributes. A perpen-
dicular back head like Teddy's. indi-
Gates a fighting, bear-killing. athletic
and f~oolhardy man. The aphryon and
the messiah plane are cramped to-
gether and Teddy's back head is a
perpendicular plane without hill or
dale. A man with a very small cere-
bellum is peculiar, and it will be found
nm inSnnatipn Of tha r,pir,+ -, fo,,
head that the nose and cheek bones
generally rest on an enormous jaw
bone. or, as you might say, the jawbpne
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 so-eXactly-not only so, but
also. / understand it all now, and
thank my medical friend. The lack
of cerebellum and medulla oblongata
and occiput has made Teddy crazy
about bears and negroes and other
black woollv things. But | should like
to know what kind of a cerebellum that
fellow Crumpacker or Stumpsucker
or Dirtdauber has got, that makes him
so venomous toward our people. At
Teddy's request he has introduced a
resolution to have a committee APP
pointed to visit Indianola and see what
our people are doing to the colored
postmistress. Of curse, he will be
appointed chairman of the committee,
but I'll wager ten dollars he don't go.
He is nothing but a gas bag and a
coward. Mr.. Thompson tried to get
him to come down to Alabama and see
how the negroes on his big plantation
were getting on. He was invited and
accepted the invitation, but he did not
come. He vas afraid. And that is
what ~discourages me about any grow
ing of justice prevailing among