Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-20
HoLLlNosWoRTH THE LAUGHING
STOCK.

/ That bloody shirt waving mas reach
ed its finish In the House OF Repre-
senatives was demonstrated on Mon
day last when Mr.. Hollingsworth, oil
Ohio, read a number or newspaper
criticisms OF himself for protesting
against the portrait OF Jefferson Davis
appearing on the pieces of the silver
service presented to the battleship
Mississippi by the citizens of the State
for which the ship was named, and
was denied the privilege to make re-
ply on the floor Of the House.
The Ohio representative rose to a
question of personal privilege and
read extracts from Mississippi news
paper editorials which instead of in
yoking indignation amongst his North
ern colleagues. provoked laughter and
merriment.
In these editorials the Ohio con-
gresham was variously characterized
as Perhaps one of Sherman's buns
who robbed defenseless men and wo-
men,"
Contemplate little whelp.''
"A political nonentity from Ohio
"A pale faced luminary."
"A pussillanimous pigmy from
Ohio
General Bollingswor,h had his
speech in his pocket ready for de-
livery, but under the ruling of the
speaker he was prevented from de-
livering It,
Below appears part OF the effer-
vescence of the surcharged Ohio con-
gressman had he been allowed to
uncork:
Il do not object to the South honor
ing its heroes at home in its own
way. Indulgence and sympathy for
the South have marked every National
Administration from Lincoln to Taft.
Generously have they accorded to the
South every right They have not
sought to interfere with Its internal
policy. Even though shocked to the
point OF resistance by the recent cree
ton On the horrible dead line at An
Jacksonville of monument TO Major
Henry Wirz, foreign-born Confeder-
ate, responsible fer the admitted afro
cities therein enacted during the war.
the rising tide of public Indignation
at the national capital and in the
Northern States has been restrained.
mo action has been taken against
such dissertation. No dynamite has
been applied. No congressional reso-
luton has been introduced.
There has been marvellous tOlera-
ticn, not interference or restraint. for
all Southern ideals and tastes. But,
with due Difference, protest that the
limit has been reached in the pro-
posed action. claimed as right by
the State CT Mississippi, to decorate
with Objectionable emblems, trophies
so-calied. calculated 10 teach want OF
respect for the .igh ideals and history
OF the government. one of our nation
al battleships simply because ii hap
pens to bear the same name as the
adopted State OF Jefferson Davis. II
would be little less Objectionable to
order old Glory hauled down and
the stars and bars run up to the
masthead
1T would not be more surprising or
useless fer the new and progressive
State OF Utah 70 propose to emblazon
the portrait OF Brigham Young on the
| United States steamer Utah and at
the same time protest in the face OF
ChTisendom that II did not teach those
things which his life typihed. pro
test. therefore. In the name Of consti-
stutional government. in the name OF
a just people. against modern at
tempts tc nuiIify the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the consii-
tuition. and especially against the open
efforts now being made in certain
/ quarters TO teach false doctrines ana
false ideals to the rising generation
/, by object lessons such as the deccr7-
ton os United States war vessels with
emblems OF a defunct and defeated
I Confederacy Let the pact q Grant
and Lee a. AppomstiOx be kept in
violate In spirit and in fact. u Is
the oaly safety OF the republic
I