The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-09
Ardmore, Wednesday, Feb. 9, is'
THAT IDAHO SENATOR.

From the reports that com" from
Washington it seems that the war IS
not over. That senator, shame upon
his name. that halls from Idaho. tried
to make a lead In q fight against the
loan OF fonts TO the Confederate Sol
dicrs for their annual reunion at Mo.
bile. Wonder If that senator wosii
like to have the people of the South
not reverence the heroes of the south
and not love its institutions and tradi
tions and not hoi TO its breast the
sacred pages of its history which re-
cords the deeds OF southern chlyalrJ
and southern suffering II the peop.c
of the south were dead to those tender
memoirs, > they would not be- worthy of
citizenship in these great United
States II they did not love htc
neither would they love Washington.
IL they did not love the heroes OF the
southern ConfodcraCy they would not
love Jackson of the War of lSl21t.
Have the chilly northern blasts So
frozen the heart OF that republican
senator that he would have the south
forget it's own history. its own heroes.
its own soldiers who died In the ditch.
as, It's own women who starved Ia
give food to soldicry and who bravcd
the bullets TO bind the wounds Of
southern soldiers who fell upon tht
fled OF yilor? What manner of man
is he. what does ho expect of the
South and OF its people. So bitter
was ne that he could not abstain from
offering insult to the memory of Io,.
Had u not been Tor Light Ilor.r nor.
ry and the mon who gave to l.'' his
taste for military tactics and n'S idea
of honor and hi, skill in M" lr' ~
war. that republican senator would
have no country ne could cal his avn.
Shall the boys Who wore the gray be-
denied few tents which they have
paid for thmsvlyos 10 proter, them
from tho southern dew while once
more the s'wgsl,ug ana dccimatcd
hosts who followed I.,c and Jackson
meet around the camp fire 10 recount
the traditions of the days Of the COS
The light of current events shows
the wisdom OF thai Cd Texas senator,
Roger q. M'lls. when hr stood ON the
floor Of congress and spurnrd the idea
OF th" south accepting pensions from
tho goycrumcn. and I'm this instance
tho south should toll this great gov
eminent 10 leave It's tents where they
viii be- consumed with moths but as
FOR the south 10 needs nothing that
must come from a cold heart that
would deny ono of these old boys" a
tent to shelter him from the dow and
from the heat of the sun Better camp
under a tree than under the tent civ
On with a begudgiug heart. That Ida.
no senator knows as lr'lc of the south
as II thcrc were no railway trains. no
telegraph lines ana 20 southern ucWs.
papers or southern literature. lie may
have read Whittier. who nflamod the
souls of men asaius. the south. hut
ne never heard OF the songs OF Father
Ryan, whose muhics rocked passion
and prejudice % slr,p
The nation that would ask the
southern boy To forget his father ,s
not worthy To hold the Jastlnies Of
the people I'm its hands and II the
people who opposed the south were Of
that sentiment the union could not
stand. Fortunatly the iackass In the
senate stands in a class all TO himself
lie reflects the sentiment only of his
own benight"d brain and calloused
heart.