The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-03-03
GORDONSAYSFAREWFLL
Senator Depew Declares It the 1ost Impressve
Speech He Ever Heard
e''s OF War Experiences and Says lie Skedaddled' Times
invites Hepburn to His mississippi Plantations i
Thinks He Will Change Views of Lee

haVlhS more money than anybody else,
and | do not lnlnk that is any fault. but
is misfortune.
Il am sorry for man in his condi-
tlon-when Il man cannot 20 out in the
street and have even his little grand
children walk in sight of him without
threats that they will xiii his little
babes-I know the old fellow loves those
children better than all the gold in his
vaults and he would not be il human be-
ing if he did not
Thinks John D. Is a Good Man
Il am going to say something that is
unpopular i'll my section of the country.
and If | were one of the oftice-scekers !
might be tempted to do wrong, but [ al
ways did say before my people what I
thought was right | think that Mr..
Rockefeller is good man and | am
going to think so until somebody shows
me that he has done wrong. | see his
employees often and | never saw one who
did not speak well of him. ] am told
that he never had strike among his
employees.
Il am told another thing, that he has
gwen more millions-I do not thinf
much of him for that, because he had
more than he had any use for-b"t h,
has given some of them to the poor,
charity, to the churches, and to educa.
ton, anc to build ho"pitals all over tn,
country where they are needed for hi.
employees, and when they are sick they
go there and are cared for. If anybody in
the United States does not like that let
them put it in their pipes and smoke it.
| have said it.
Would Welcome Old Pipe Lines.
"lf my old friend from Arkansas is op-
posed to what call prosperity, would
like for Mr.. Rockefeller to come down
and run his pipes through Missis, ,ippi
lie can 90 ;. over my land. We snail
be glad to have him. | used to pay 40
cents Il gallon for oil to be burned in my
la' :. We are Il little better off now;
we are independent because we have got
electric lights, but we paid 40 cents
gallon for oil, and now | can yet it for
~ ceiltS IL Sallon.
Il do not know whether Mr.. Rookie
feller IS the cause of the price coming
down to 10 cents, but | think it will
be that way in Mississippi if they get the
conveniences that this pipe line BUSINESS
proposes to give them, and | intend to
vote for the pipes. That is all there is
to it.
Fought, Bl2I, ard 'Skedaddled.'"
'Well. | want you to understand that
| am II plain, blunt old Confederate sol
dier. | wore the ,a'ay and | fought and
bled, but | did not die. But | sledad-
dlcd' frequently, You understand that
word. These I'D soldiers will under
stand it.
Il had the honor, during my services,
to capture some prominent men in the
Northern army. Among them was Cen
eral toburn, of indianapolis, Ind. l
captured one great big man named John
Shatter, who "aS II major in the Ninth
Michigan. lie was II poor shot, for | ad
vanccd at him with my saber and he
shot at me five times and never
touched me.
Now, will tell another truth. That
fellow Shaftcr gave me an awful scare,
anyhow. When | approached him he
handed me his pistol and sail:
"Nou are welcome TO it. bGt it will
do you no good; ! have shot AL The car
tridges away; but over at stockdar, near
Ero nj lin rnnr | I.,
got a thousand cartridges in it, aud YOU
are welcome to these if you will g, after
them"
Il said, Thank you for the pistol.
will go after them
Never Fired Shot in the War.
IN this fix | went down with Forrest,
and we went to Brentwood station and
captured the fort and got the cartridges,
but | never used them. | never fired Il
shot during the war. That is q fact.
had Just about as much as | could do,
with the scare that was on me, to look
after the men that | had engaged, and
that is the kind of soldier | was.
told the other fellows to do the fighting
\ great many of them stayed at home,
and if | had been as smart as they were
| might have done the same.
Smother time gentleman, who is
living yet, by the name of Captain
Brown, of the Seventh lllnois--he and
had some little engagement. That Sew
enth Illinois was the meanest regiment
ever saw, for it never wanted to quit
fighting. The Seventh Illinois and the
Second Iowa were the worst men | had
to fight, but | am glad when | see them
alive today.
"Whcn we meet we shake hands. We
are the best of friends, and Captain
Brown, of the Seventh Illinois, and
have kept up a correspondence ever since
the war. lie is living at Leon, Ia, now,
and if you think I am not telling the
fact, you can call on him and prove it.
Wants Real United Country.
"Now, gentlemen, 7 did not get up
here just to make you laugh. want
of citizenship and clear insight into
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