St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-25

men of the southern states. They are
a noble race. We may well take pat
tern from them in some OF the vlr-
tues that give strength and glory to q
free people. Their love of home; their
chivalrous respect for women-their
ourage--their delicate sense of honor
their constancy which can abide by
an opinion or purpose through adj
versity and prosperity and through
years and generations. And there IS
another hing-covctousness, corrup-
tion and the low temptation Of money
has not yet found any place in south
ern politics.
MY friends, we cannot afford to
live in state of estrangement from
people who possess these quail
ties They are friends of ours, born. OF
our borning, flesh of our flesh. blood
of our blood, and if have vight to
speak for Massachusetts,, will say:
'Entrcat ME not to leave thee or for
sake thee, where thou goest, l will
go. Thy people shall be my people,
and thy God my God. 30
This is only part of it. | have
placed it in my scrap book along
with the able editorial comment of
the Constitution.
The senator spoke truly when he
said that corruption in national pol
itics had not yet reached the south.
If the case had not been reversed our
members would not have unseated
ho
bers the ends justify the means.
Yes, I remember from away back
how the old man fought us. My
father was brought up in his state
and my mother in South Carolina
and when the senator and l were in
our early manhood 1--WE were born in
the same year) the war began be.
tween those two states. Yes, more
than so years ago, and has been Bit
ter and unrelenting ever since. This
is the first sign of returning sense
of Justice that has come from any
great man of the Old Bay state and
we rejoice that it has come from
Senator Hoar, the noblest Roman of
them all. It's influence will reach ,
from Chicago to Boston and its gem
erous sentiments will thrill every
breast in the southland.
I care nothing for Mr.. Roosevelt
nor his late letter. am too old to
be deceived by wordy paragraphs.
When he retracts his ISLANDERS on
Jefferson Davis and apologies to
his widow will have some conf
dence in his honor and his professed
good intentions, but not until then.
If he is gentleman he will do that.
If he is not a gentleman he won't,
and that is all there is in it, Thomas
Nelson Page and Harry Stillwell Ed
wards and the Methodist preacher OF
Cincinnati, to the contrary notwith-
standing. Senator Hoar would not
have uttered and published those
ISLANDERS and if he had done it un-
Willingly, he would have long ago
made the amende honorable. "Slan-
der is sharper than the sword. It's
breath rides on the posting winds
and its tongue outvenoms all the
worms of the Nile. Roosevelt is
a stubborn, conceited politician. He
processes to be friend to the
south, when he is not. If we send q
consul to foreign country and they
do not like him he is recalled because
he is mon grata persona" How
much more careful should the pres
ident be to appoint no one to Office
who is not grateful to our own peo-
pie. If Roosevelt is a friend what
makes him keep on showing DR..
''I know that you say that you love me.
But why did you Kick me downstairs?"
Crum on the people of great city
like Charleston? And the negro is an
arrogant conceited fool or he would
not take it.
Some one asked Tom Reed if
there was such thing as an honest
politician. He said: Eyes. An
honest politician is one whom you
can buy and he will stay bought,
but even they are scarce. Bill Arp,
in Atlanta Constitution.