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Aosoo ~ y liaNf fft l sfF5f 70 ''~
sinca Ry last letfer y the News
have received a pFigate lettor that was
mailed atDunlap ana vas addressed 10
Bill Dooley and signed Blue Jacket
When read the lettrr did not know
whether 10 get mad or 10 laugh II
was very funny in some respects hut
disagreeable in Others Me-. Blue Jack
ct appears to be worked up TO fever heat
about something had 10 say about the
census Of 1900 in giving the official re-
port Of the census BE sure that every
word of it was correct but in giving the
number Of states carried by the rppub-
licans without the help of the negro
vote a mistake was made by either the
editor or myself. 1t should have been
26 instead of 2S which is an evident
fact and no man who reads enough to
know how things are jogging along In
politics will deny it.
Mr.. Blue Jacket gets up on his hind
feet and says man that will send out
such report as thatis a liar and fool.
Well, Mr.. Blue jacket, may be both
in your estimation but at the same
time you may not be competent judge.
From the way you write you don't APP
pear to be very we'll posted about poll
tics and you may also be behind the
times about mems wits. There are wise
men and there are sensible men but
there are millions of men who do not
come under either of The above heads
The sensible man tries to make life a
happy dream but wise man goes to
speculating on the past and future and
i makes life mental nightmare for him
self and every body near him. Most
wise men are self-made men and they
are so awfully stuck on their maker and
admire their own wisdom so devoutly
cl that all that part Of the world that does
not worship in deep veneration at their
feet are considered fools. tsa t1.aar +
Is The man of sense does not pretend
to be wonderously wise. Hothas sense
! enough to know that the average hand
of wisdom is mostly in the wiseaeres
head-a mental delusion, an intellectual
dummy stuffed with self-esteep and the
long straw Of presumption,
Some of the most sublime sparks oi
idiocy ever heard of were elected
from the wise heads Of some of our wise
college professors. They were regular
''jims' or germs and have never beer
7 equaled except by a few of our ten thou
sand dollars year ministers whel
preaching a sermon to glorify the tyr
amy OF plutocracy or to justify the A
merican trusts or war or to prove the
benefit OF Jobs crop of boiis. Ne, sir,
, never posed as IL wise man nor even as
man of sense. A man OF sense neye
gets drunk more than once. He want
the experience SO he goes and gets o.
one glorious drunk So be can judge th,
evils sofintemperaneea of and talk on the Q
wills of rot gut rum and ruin and preacl
% prohibition doctrine from an intelligen
standpoint but he don't get drunk an
more and this is the reason why knog
so we'll that am not man of senst
/ have been fun too often to even tr
-, to deceive myself into believing that
have been blessed with the article cal
O. ed sense to any noticeable extent, nc
have the public been deceived in tht
respect. Not even my nearest neighbc
- 10 rrpgl
stored away under my skin. Good sens
and whiskey don't mix any more tha
water will mix with OIL Perhaps
might call myself man Of thought {