The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-04-04
L0nQinO and the C0nfed-
crate Soldier.
The DAILY States.

crate Soldier.
The DAILY States.
1t is not the purpose of the
Daily States to take a dip into
the politics of our sister State.
Mississippi, but we regret that
her governor is one of those
products of the so-called New
South, who seem to have SO
little reverence or respect for
the brave men who fought under
the Stars and Bars of the Con-
federacy that he is now inviting
the criticism of the newspapers
of his State, the effect of which
is sure to prove a serious, if not
a fatal, handicap in his race for
the United States senatOrship.
We reproduce the following
from the Crystal Springs Miss
Meteor.
''The Bulletin is tod that it isn't likely
many of the old Confederate veterans of
Natchez will vote for Governor Longino for
the Senate, against the old war horse,
Hon. II. ID. Money. The latter is veteran
and takes great deal of stock in what his
excellency pleased to deromnate 'Con-
federaie rot The Colonel wouldn't shine
very brightly dress parade, with brass
buttons, gold lace and blue uniform; the old
Confederate gray would become him very
much more, and be much moe 10 his liking.
When he wore ssoljer clothes there was
something doing between the sections, and
he Ii1p'f heth fhev lppE e1 y
or not.-Natchez Bulletin
In commenting the remarks of its
Natchez contemporary the Meteor says:
IF this does not it should &C.
cupy a determining position as a
factor in the equation of final
choice. How man who has
risked his life to emphasize an
idea and to give it force and domi-
nance can hesitate in selecting
between the two is what Lord
Dundeary would declare as past
finding out" To fealty to idea
and fidelity to memory, add pride
of service and glory of achieve
ment and there appeals to every
oou IL I1loA q III &c VI AoSA\s @
conviction of tradition and an
overmastering devotion to the
memory of his sireS that will i'm
pei the support of the man who
is the expone Mt of the idea, the
embodiment of the tradition, the
one altogether lovely who has
never challenged the claim Of the
men of Lee, Johnston and Smith
to occupy the highest position in
public esteem.
When one recalls the magnifi-
cent and mistaken stand taken
by the old Confederate soldiers
in the trou blous days from '65
to '75-by Humphreys, by
Hooker, by Money, by Lowry,
by Lamar. by Barksdale, by
George and by the other figures
canonized by gratitude-and
their devotion to Mississippi. the
trenchant pen is dulled, the
facility is lost in the
of expressions to extoll
their patriotism and to depict
their virtues. They are as far
above praise as they are above
reproach.
What is the State today? Is
it's progress and development
the resultants of the new selfish
idea, EGO sum, ecce homow or is
it the legacy of that unselfish
and self-abnegation,
which stands out in bold relief |
to condemn the preposterous as
Of Longino, to assert |
the contravening fact that to the
men of '65 to rs, whose conse-
Grafton and dedication of life, of |
lonor, of purse, and of purpose
20 the breaking of the thrall of
should he be awarded
The glory of progression and not
he ignominy of oblivion as Lon
,ino's enamel of himself would
;onsign them to.
The ex-COnfederate soldiers,
heir sons-the patriots-the
nen of devotion-the men who
AVE made Mississippi great
AVE created alike the spasm in