Mower County transcript., 1903-04-01

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OVER COUNTY. MINNESOTA. u
FARMER BEL COL LUNlIl
Good enough for the gumps in Min,
neapolis who put up 500 bonus to
Pitchfork Gilman the South Carolina
ranter and blatherskite to speak k-ups
there the other night. Tillman brought.
with him his notorious southern gall
and shocked the .deeencies Of. q respect
able northern audi ienee BY his. black
guardism and abuse Of the negro. I
notice that. down at Detroit later he.
Egotshissed when he in a cowardly man
ner threw mud at Shermans army dur
in the rebellion and called ,em chicken.
thieves and buns and the like. Till.
man is a southern fire eater who thinks
that becaus he can shoot down Innocent
people without provocation in South:
Carolina that he is the whole cheese:
anywhere and that's where he fools his
self when he comes north same, as the
James and Younger and other southern
gangs hav found before him. It's the
old fire eatin' spirit that led to the re
bellion. Hotheaded and fiery, blind
with prejudice, unreasonable and BULL
dozin', Tillman represents the southern.
spirit when it comes in CLASH with any
thin differin' from their prejudiceda
notions and whims. So far as the negro
question goes, Tillman will never settle
it with pitchfork and if he keeps stir
rim up the agitation and widenin' the
gap Of injustice towards the colored
man, he may find that Farmer Ben and
the old boys will be ready to come
south and punch 'em hard again as
they did in 61.' Too much 'Tillman al
together for the good Of the country.
LAVlllS ulou ulM quick. . - -. II
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So boss Hanna has taken the job of
cleanin' out Roosevelt for president to
punish him for failin' to ally hisself1
with the trust influences and knuckle
to 'em to placate 'em, and with the
southern vote which Hanna controls it,
amt gOin' to be a Walkover in the
national republican conVen tion, I'm
Altered. The southern representation
is the rottenest thing in all American
politix. It is based on the negro vote:
that is entirely disfranchised and on a
big representation from states that
never Civ a republican majority on
president and never will. Just think
the.-south never helps tose1ecta
republican presidents by carryin' any
states down there for him and yet
comes in with straw vote that can be
manipulated by tricksters against the
will of the majority of delegates from
the northern republican states that do
the electin'. Amt this a corker? Why
should not the nomination be made by
majority of the delegates to the re-
publican national convention from the
states that are likely to cast majority
votes for him on election day? But
fair ways amt what political tricksters
and bosses want or intend. They are
never satisfied unless they are schemin'
against the wishes and interests of the
masses. | just wish for one thing that
congress would just fetch the south to
time on this point that they must cut
down their representation in congress
and national convention to what they
actually allow to vote and if there is
no negro vote then there must be no
padded representation based on the
ostracised negro enumeration.
| The eastern papers say that the rail
roads really got up the Elkins law for
congress to pass and schemed it
through for their own advantage. 1t
don't make any differ so long as the
peoples interests are also protected and
enhanced. This rebate business for
large shippers and givin' out passes
galore on the side to influence traffic
never was in public interest but for pri-
vate greed. Now the railroads were
gettin' just swamped with the blood
suckin' crowd that got passes and rates
out of 'em until they got no profit out
of the big chaps and had to pile it
double on the little fellows to liy and
make fat dividends. Under the new
Elkins law, passes and rebates and cut
rates for one against another are played
out and don't you see that the railroads
are goin' to make big out of it? But
that's neither here nor there. The peo-
pie at large are treated unfairly when
these rebates and passes are given to
favored ones for you bet the fellows