The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-09-14
WARM CAMPAIGNS.
In Carpetbagger Days and Now
Some Robesonian Contribut-
correspondence of The Robesonian

OfS.
Correspondence Of The Robesonian
In perusing the columns of
your valuable paper, which is a
welcome visitor to my sanctum, I
for twice a week it's smiling face !
beams on US, we find contribu-
ton after contribution from
many sections of the county, the
grand old county of Robson, and
of other section of the country
as well. Among them l notice,
and with pleasure, too, one from
A. L. Davis, a former Robeson-
ian but now of the Birmingham
District, the State of Alabama.
(Here we rest. He has favored
US occasions with his ever bright
and always spicy articles, for he
has knack at pleasing ones
palate, especially the kind and |
pleasing references given Aunt
Becky" ,one who has for a term of |
years continued to place US all |
under lasting obligations to her
for the many sweet and delecta-
BILE things said of men and things
concerning the issues of the
day
Now, l would mention, if you
will permit, that the writer, be-
ing a visitor to the old soldiers
: reunion in Birmingham last June,
: did not meet the aforesaid A. L.
Davis; but will right here and
now say that we heard his mer-
ry laughter from the sidewalk as
we passed his place of residence
: down there on one of the many
green hillsides of the beautiful
Pratt City, a pleasant suburb of
/ Birmingham, where we old SOL
; diers and sons and daughters of
those who wore the gray collect
0 ed by the thousands from every
e hamlet and hilltop of the South
d to do honor to ourselves and to
e the cause we had the distinguish
e ed pleasure to represent. And
t we would like to say further we
8 found there some dear old school
J. mates and friends of more youth
full days who have found it to
their advantage to seek homes
and to gain friendships in this
y great giant of the Southwest.
e Among other thoughts crowding
a in upon our already burdened
IL mind we are reminded force
ably of the very feeling and
,, touching lines of famous poet
e. loft in the Silly night,
m Ere slumber's chains have bound me
'. Fond memories bring to mind
The light of other days, - etc. -
le 1t seems you and your fellow
" countrymen are just emerging
r. from the warmest political cam.
F. paign of the age, locally,I mean
d Now the writer would say thai
At if there is anything more dis.
u tasteful to him than persona
l. 1; politics it would be hard to place
5 it. Now again, we can remembel
oe when we over here in the Swami
IL Fox country had common enc
T. my in combination of carpet
le bagger, ,scallawag and the negro
s. just Immediately succeeding tn,
In civil war, when the poor negr
Us Gust emerging from the bond
ne of slavery had the right of suf
NJ frage imposed upon him by
ne war measure born in hatred, pre-
eo judice and malice by the dirt,
ie- andpolluted minions of the North
0y Then, and in that event we foun
ne pleasure in making what pun!
oI and feeble resistance we could t
ne such disabolical measures as wa
ne heaped upon US through a perio,
of years of torture and torment
We At such a time and under sue
.er conditions as these, | repeat, W
us could afford to grow indignan
ne at the treatment received at tn
ug hands of such an array, but whe
to- we have to fight brothers, frienC
II, neighbor in a great political bat
no tie such as is almost always tn
lg- case, from all such we beg to b
excused.
nt- Well, l can add that your e1
us periencc is our experience, fl
les we over here in Marion count
no have just closed one of the warn
oW est campaigns in history. l hay
ln' not space, if had time and in
ct clination, to give details. l Wi
Oh say, however, that the termin;
ton, while not satisfactory to al
my is, we think, favorable. If yc
IN will pardon the length, will 81
we selected for Senator, Hon. v
,et J. Montgomery, a practicing Law
yer far many years at the Maj
ord on bar, a man of ripe judgmen
i'm m y And then for sheriff, we ha7
iipS 'ips another worthy son of Marie
'Lna' hn' and a grandson of Richmor
@ for county (now bonnie Scotland
tbn The your State-W. E. Blue, son
,;nb I Hon. John G. and brother of E
md md sign Victor Blue, U. S. navy, Il
1c" 1ct man who has gained fame al
no honor in the service of his cou
,eir 3, try, and, by the way, a nephe
how how cf the present incumbent, Cal
,s ons VIM. T. Evans, who was a g;
of Of liant and popular Confedera
arc 70 soldier. He will have, jar
Who ary next, completed his II
tnII year of service in the office a
VII with regret to his many frien
. vacates, that his kinsman m
assume charge.
and With many kind wishes
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