The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-13
A POLITICAL PECKSNlFF
Contemplate Attempt to Discredli Mr..
Wilkinson = Record and Character
Unlmpeachable.

flourish Of trunpets Mr. J Y Sanders
has repeatedly posed as the quintessencc
OF charity and forbearance t. his politi
cal opponents. Yet az every possible
turn he has assailed Mr. Wilkinson as
viwiously as lie knew how. and not CON
tining his attack 10 Mr.. Nilkinsons re-
cord has included IN his assaults the
latter's native parish. his relatives and
speech At Franklin Mr. Sanders has seen
fit 10 invade the sacred precincts OF the
tomb and call in question the memory
OF his opponents honored father.
There al Franklin, Mr. Sanders, aitcr
extolIing the yalor Of his own and ms
friend Edmunds' relatives, said:
Neither in the army of Grant or Lee
was Colonel Wilkinson orsColonel Wi
kinson's father
But neither Colonel Wilkinson nor
his father barred their breasts to shot Or
shell on either side Of this controversy.
Mr.. Sanders. for the sake Of ignorant
applause, will sacrifice reason, truth,
sense, propriety, and everything that any
sane man would value i'll a campaign.
| He knew when he made this reflection
on Mr. Wilkinson and his late father,
that Theodore S. Wilkinson was only
thirteen years old when the Civil War
began.
| 1t i'll becomes Mr.. Sanders to excuse
his flight from justice, and his later tax
ing an assume name in another State,
the former when he was nearly twenty,
and the latter when he was over twenty
years of age, on the ground of his eN-
IRENE youth, and now to assail his oppo-
nent (before an audience that did not
pribably know the latter's age) for not
barring his breast to shot or SHELF at the
tender age Of thirteen years.
The late DIR. ]. B. Wilkinson's mem
DRY is not an issue here. A passing ref
erence, however, may be appropriate.
At the time the war broke out DR..
Wilkinson, his aged father and mother,
his wife and nine children, his brother,
Col. r. 4. Wilkinson, the latter's wife
and six children, the four sisters OF
those two brothers and their nepheWs
and several neces, all lived on the lower
coast.
DR.. Wilkinson and his eldest son, 10
seph Biddle, aged 16, and Col. Robert A
Wilkinson with his son Robert, aged y
years, and their nephew, Mr.. w. Pen
rose, were the only ones of their fami-
lies then eligible for the army.
By agreement the four latter went
into the Confederate army, leaving some
twenty female and minor relatives under
DR.. NVilkinson's protection. Two year!
later H. S. Wilkinson, who is now II
St. Martin, son of Col. r. A. Wilkin-
son. at II years of age joined the Wash
ington Artillery in Virginia.
Colonel Wilkinson was killed when his
regiment was cut to pieces at the secon.e
battle Of Manassas Lieutenant Penrost
was killed in the last battle of the war
DR.. Wilkinson's SON, Joseph Blddle
fought at Fort Jackson, Fort Morgan
and in other fights. Both r. A. Wllkln
son Jr., and II. S. Wilkinson tough
through the war.
1t is remarkable fact that DIR. ]. b
, Wilkinson, his father, Jos. B. Wilkinson
Sr., and his son, Jos. B. Wilkinson Jr.
. three generations bearing the SAM
name, were all imprisoned by the Yam
: KEGS in New Orleans after its capture
) Young Lieutenant Wilkinson came her
as prisoner from Fort Morgan. He Gu
through 4 brick wall, escaped, and re
.. Joined the Confederate army HI
grandfather died in 1865.
II there be aught in all this that vii
assuage the worry Of the Sanders Ed
: munds peculiar pot-pourri of Republl
: conference.-the Grand Army Los
Cause" conglomeration, they are wei
come to make the most of it. We woult
advise them, however, to cease pattern
i, ing after Pecksniff, and if they desire tt
, travel on war records, we suggest tina
they support the only bona fide Confed
, crate Veteran in the field.
> I! In order to show Our readers that on
statements are not baseless or Ill ma
tured:
1st. Mr.. Sanders attacked the SINGER
, ity of Mr. Wilkinson's views on high Ii
! cense. although he we'll knew MIR. VII
e kinson had for twenty years, at a grea
f loss to himself. refused to allow iiquo
sold on his places.
end. Mr.. Sanders, through others ?
his presence, attacked Mr.. Wilkinson
: Democratic white supremacy record
well knowing Mr.. Wilkinson's devotion
4 to white Democracy, and that the caus
of this baseless attack, J. nj. Holland
was under the civil service rules, an'
- , -;,,;t cery;re eva miner cOl1lfi not b.