The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-16
1.-THE Execution of Archibald"

"The Execution of Archibald
In America rich, bubhling humor
breaks out In the most unexpected
places, and to run across piece of 1t
is decidedly refreshing in this age,
when almost everybody is in the mad
rush for the almighty dollar. AS a rule
the southern people are busy, sober
minded and in deadly earnest about re-
facilitating the south, and as rule the
Nashville American is most sedate
and solemn publication, frowning in a
majestic sort of way upon anything
light or frivolous, but lately under the
above caption 1t published an editorial
so rich in humor that it deserves
wider circulation than the American
can give it. SO here it is in full:
The scalp of Colonel Archibald Hughes
reposes among the collection that hangs
in the tepee OF the big medicine man of
Mecca sin Bend but the colonels vocal
chords are still in working order. He did
not yield his plume until after st Fl fight
He did not yield 1t at all. They simply
threw him down and took it avs from
him. but not before he had eng ged in
animated verbal exercises with the big
stick. Our own John Wesley, who is the
friend of everybody except the tobacco
trust secured him an audience at the
White House. and, in the language of the
street he talked hot talk to the president
| The incident took place several days ago.
| but accounts of 1t have recently appeared
| in the New York Times. Chicago Tribune
| and other papers. The American also had
q slice of It, but we quote part of 1t as 1t
| appeared in the Chicago Tribune
Representative John Wesley Gaines,
Democrat. of Tennessee. escorted Hughes
| to the White House. The president re-
| ceived him in the presence of several 9TH
| er callers who were waiting their turn.
| Hughes stated his case without any at
| tempt at conciliation and wouni up with
this. emphasized with a waving fist:
"'You wouldn't dismiss a Messenger
| from the White House without 4 hearing.
| and yet you dismiss me without one. and
| on the ex parte statement of man who is
| interested In getting my place.
"sYou shall have hearing replied the
| president. L will introduce you to the
postmaster general If you will wait
Presently Postmaster General Meyer
| came in, and the president said: This is
| Colonel Hughes the postmaster at Column
| bia. Tenn / wish you to give him a hear
| Ing
| "Mr Meyer said he would, and Hughes
started to go. The president turned to
| leave the room.
| Zone minute Mr. President cried Colo
mel Hughes. There Is one thing more
| want to say to you, and / may never have
another opportunity.
What is that2 asked the president.
| 81 had two great-grandfathers at
| Kings Mountain, one of whom was
wounded, cried Mr.. Hughes. and my own
| grandfather commanded old Jackson's
| bodyguard at Talladega and the Horse
shoe, and / don't come from stock that
will submit to this kind of treatment with
| out fighti
".Good; very good said the president"
The president knew he had been marked
| for slaughter and. while he doubtless per-
sonally sympathized with an old com
/ rade,'' he was not disposed to interfere
with the guillotine which operating
4 In the direction he himself had pointed
out After Colonel Hughes had said all
/ that is quoted and good deal more he
strobe down to see little MFR. Hitchcock,
] a pestiferous little politician from Ohio
| who holds the office of first assistant post
master general and who is a good friend
/ of II. c. Evans. To him Colonel Hughes
said
| Hitchcock. You think you know some
| thing about politics. / was voting for
/ Grant at Chicago when you were In dress
/ es. and yet you think you can teach me
/ something about politics in Tennessee.
/ I'm going back there to be elected dele
/
soon as I'm elected I'm coming back here
to shake my finger in your face and ask
/ you to take a few kindergarten lessons
1 before you go into the south again. You
remove me because | have been absent
| with permission" shouted the old cavalry
| man to Hitchcock. S'and yet you have
been absent the Lord knows how long
| going down south on political missions.
Colonel Hughes protested SO vigorously
| that Hitchcock sent man to Columbia
| to make out a stronger case against him.
| The man did as he was told. Now Colonel
/ Hughes. who was Roosevelt third term
| er, is an ardent Taft man. He is also out
| of a job. If he had lost a $4,000 position
/ with come private concern in Columbia
/ there would have been about six line
| notice of 1t in the American. and the Chi
cago Tribune and New York papers never
| would have heard of it. This shows the
| difference between private position and
/ political job.
i Recently my esteemed contemporary
/ the Nashville American, contained an
elaborate editorial under the title
What Is Roosevelt After?" Just at
present he Is after Senator Joseph
| Benson Foraker, but what he is after
ultimately must for the present be
classed with the time honored query.
'Who struck Billy Patterson
Smith of Georgia.
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