The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-06-11
Quotes a Tennessee Lunatic
and Draws a Lesson.
VETS REUNION WAS GREAT
Bill Wants to Know What Manner Of
Man Is Governor Longino, Of
Observation-Disclosures Cham.
pion State for
Lynchings.


20 Jonesboro. Twice have been pres
dent Of these United States since the
! surrender and have attended all the
reunions up to date, but now they
nave got me penned up here as Ten
nessee lunaic and won't let me 60 to
New Orleans. l can't get passport
because | am Jesus Christ. Can't you
10 something for me? l want to go
and rejoice with those who rejoice and
weep with those who weep
/ That poor fellow has my sympathy.
Maybe if they had let him 20 with
The veterans it would have restored
his reason. l know it frightened up
our boys and now they can't talk about
anything else. Was there ever such
glowing, growing patriotism? It looks
ike the number increases at every re-
lnion and That without pensions The
Grand Army of the Republic has re-
unions. but it is mainly to keep I'D the
pension grab, the thing that Tom Ben
ton called the "bottomless gulf Of
charities and gratuities."
I saw it stated the other day that
10 per cent of the federal army were
foreigners or foreign-born and were
lighting only for bounty or booty or
ouncomb, and they got it all and the
pensions thrown in Oh, that was a
grand gathering at New Orleans 1t
seems to me that if | was northern
man l would say: Look here, boys,
we can't do anything with those reb-
els down SOUTH and move we quit try
ing. We have been working on 'em
for nearly forty years and have never
converted one yet" AS they marched
| through New Orleans 100000 strong
you could hear that same old rebel
yell from st. Charles to Vicksburg.
Old Father Mountcastle told me it
bursted every telegraph wire south of
Mason and Dixon's line and away up
In Pennsylvania the Western Union
had to cut down their poles for hun
dred miles.
But I'm distressed about MISSISSIPPI
pi. Who is Governor Longino, any
how? His name is not in any biogra-
ply that I've got. l reckon it wasn't
worth putting in. I reckon he is q
foreigner or he wouldn't have invited
Jackson to help lay the corner stone
of the capitol. Roosevelt said that
Jeff Davis was the arch repudiator and
while governor vetoed the bill that
made provision to pay the repudiated
debt and he has never retracted nor
apologized for that lie. I wonder If
Longino knows that Governor McNut
was the author Of reputation and
gave as his reason that the money
was borrowed from Baron Rothschild,
in whose veins flowed the blood Of
Judas and Shylock, and whose mort
cages would confscate our cotton
fields and make serfs of our children.
That's what he said in his message,
but the legislature wouldn't vote for
it, and it took five years 70 get the bill
through. All this time Mr. Davis was
fighting for his country in Mexico and
got desperately wounded at Buena
Vista and had to use crutches for six
years. He was never in the legisla-
ture nor was he ever governor, and yet
Roosevelt, the slanderer, lets the lie
stand and Longino invites him down to
lay the corner stone. Oh, my country!
When will all this toadyism and by
pocrisy cease! Oh, Mississippi. How
are the mighty. fallen
Now these utterances are In my own
neither the editor nor any paper is
responsible for them. My feelings
and emotions are all my own. honor
the memory of Mr.. Davis and have pro
found respect for his widow, and there
is no limit TO my contempt for the
brute who put manacles on him or the
conceited historian who slandered him
It is a comfort to despise them both
And now, three cheers for Indiana
the champion state for lynching ne
groes when they commit Outrages on
their women. Not week passes but
there is a fresh case and the people
turn out and scour the country for the
brute. And now they are driving all
the negroes out of a count ywhere an
outrage was committed. You see
they have no chain gangs up there and
but few negroes. Lynching has almost
stopped in Georgia because punish
ment is more speedy and there is q
chain gang in sight in almost every
county. but let sLreenough case
come up and a sure-enough lynchine
will swiftly follow. There are more
than 1000 men in our state who have
not bowed the knee to Baal-and the
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills shouldn't
sleep in a bed in my house unless he
was sick unto death.
But enough of all this. 1t sounds
like I am mad with somebody, but
am not. We are all happy at my
house tonight, for our far-away boy is
on his way home. We have just had
q telegram from him and he will be
hsre tonight. He lives in Mexico City
and it has been three long years since
We have seen him. This is Carl, tht
Youngest boy-the pet of his mother
40 -, rhn loves the best and prays