Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-01-28

utterly Ignorant OF the duties he must perform and
wholly unacquainted with the people and interests,
present and future, for whom and for which he sits
as the chief executive. These mistakes come from
the misguided expediency brought into vogue with
in the past quarter Of a century, in order that
tain elements in the large, close states might be
paefed. For several national campaigns it has
been considered that to degree New York state
must be represented upon the Republican ticket,
or that party's success endangered. The fact that
the machinery Of the party in that state has been
in the most corrupt hands has made no difference.
II the political managers decreed that it must be
recognized the great bulk OF the voters have shut
their eyes and swallowed the dose. The spectacular
antics OF the present executor in the white house.
in one Of his grand stand plays during the late war
with Spain, was taken advantage of by Senator
Platt, Of New York, as corrupt and Inscriptions q
man as that state has ever offered the public, to
save his own political wind bag from being punc.
tured, and he was made Governor. In this posi-
ton he soon Outgrew his creator, and in the hope
to shelve him for sll time, this same Platt under
the guise of friendship, sought to- and did unload
him upon the nation. Instead OF passing into
Obscurity, as was hoped; by the crazy act Of an
assassin, he stepped into the white house, where
the nation is disgraced and his party humiliated
The gall Of the fellow is only equaled by his daily
idiOtic blunders. The whole country is prepared
at all times to expect almost any new silly break
from him. While he announced on taking charge
Of his high position, that he would endeavOr to
carry out the policy outlined by the man be sue.
ceeded, the leather seat in the chair he assumed
was not warmed before he began to kick over every
thing within reach Of his clumsy feet. The excel.
lent feeling engendered by the administration be-
tween the two sections that had been so long es-
tranged, was smashed by the "brOnco bustef' in a
single stroke, and from day TO day he has added
insult to injury upon this great section which Is
just now on the eve Of the most friendly and pr
ftable business relations with the balance OF te
country. Nor can any other portion Of the Unilbd
States sanction the hatred and Viciousness thus dis
played toward the South. Capitalists from every
northern state have investments in and the most
friendly relations with all the states throughout the
entire South, and they do not approve Of the atti
tude OF the President toward this section. Secretly
they are disgusted with him now, and publicly, in
the near future, they will apprise him of their con-
tempt. There is a cOnfding relief, however, in the
consciousness that this nation is too big and strong
and sensible and thoroughly organized to be seri
Ousy effected through the acts of any one man. and
the present occupant of the white house viii find
himself the pOssessOr Of abundant time, the NOM
ent his present term expires, to take himself and
his family into the blsckest belt he can find, and
keep open house the year round to bis chosen social
equals Of negro birth. Seriously, it is maniiestly
apparent that if any is to be disgraced by the
associations it will be the negroes, and not the
"COw punoher'' president.