The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-05-12
DR.. B. F. Wards Crucifixion of
Private John.
A Dead Fly in the Ointment.

The only trade ever made
in politics was with you. sir
John did not ask him 10 ex-
plain. | was for John. and staid
with him. and betray no conf
dence In recalling what occurred
publicly
John SAYS, Il have had some
experience in Washington. and
have never known Il man of
sour radical views and intempe-
rate speech 10 accomplish amy
good there
We tried John there for long
he had no radical views. but
that, like poor Yorrick, he
! was a fellow Of infinite jest. and
yet the only monument To his
bove the horizon Of the congress
ional skies is the fish pond at
1 fupelo. We have concluded TO
Try man of more radical
views
j. l.. George was Il man of rad
ical views. In his leadership of
the rebellion against negro. and
= earpetbae rule. in his fight
against the force bill. his de-
fru>e ii the constitution Of Miss
iSsippi and many other measures.
ne was radical To the core. No
greater mistake WAS ever made
than 10 class George rs Il con
>ervatvie He was deliberate
| careful and ludicious in arrang-
ing his plan OF battle. hut when
his lines were once formed and
ready for the conflict. he was
bold to the point Of hazard
Gen. William 7. Martin. one Of
his most bitter opponents. said:
ahen III, Mississippi constitution
wds assailed in the senate, he ex-
pested George 10 stand on the
Tdefense. bnt he was not prepared
10 see him chrage the enemy
90 over the breastworks. capture
their camps and scatter them to
the four winds. h,t he did II
is well known that John WAS not
n admirer Of Senator George.
Ben Hill. grand. glorious. i'm
mortal Ben Hill. WAS as radical.
y Voltaire and aS impetuous AZ
Richard Golden. 1t is we'll re
nembered that when he made his
famous reply to Blaine the kne, :
f S.out heln conservatives.
>mote together in fear that Ben
Hill : radicalism would call far
down upon us the wrath Of the
Northern people. Instead of that
he hushed the voice Of the storm
, and stilled the angry waves Of
, sectional passion by telling them
, the truth. When he died. John
j. Ingalls,. the fiercest Of South
iaters. i'm his memorial address
said of him ttat Ben Hill was
one of very few men who. when
he first entered both houSeS of
congress went with one STRIDE
/ to the front and STAYED there.
Carmaci; was q man &c radi-
cal -iew. ;rd. as John would
say ri :ntelnl c,'#t.. speech.
vet. he was the Demosthenes OF
the American senate. Better like
Carmack. to sleep IN Il bloody
grave and live in the hearts OF
his countrymen than To wear the
foggery of kings jester
; and revel in the lazy luxury OF
4 an ohsequiouS ard cringeing con
servative.
l.aFoilette Cummins and Borai
I are men OF radical views s.
| was Dolliver. Such men wrot.
I their records in tablets of ston,
+ while congressional punsters
s write theirs i'm the sands Of fol
i " and dissipation
John saws Of the secret caucus
i 1t was the same sort of secre
II caucus that elected every Unit
: ed States Senator elected in
d .ontest before the Mississippi leg
e ilature for more than fifty YEAR
m Every intelligent man in Miss
v issippi. except John Allen. al
il ready knows that statement
II not true
e Did any five or six candidate
l. in any of these previous caucu,
: es band thems Ives together in
e common cause. league. ci
II fensise and defensive. agains
the one other candidate who ha,
; more votes than any three p,l
) together. No. and -Johnx Ale
r knows it. Did amy compact o
e loyal leaeuers in any prev
n cns eaucns spend forty seyel
re days, at an enormous expense I
the taxpayers, trying by the MS
le,lof mooney, whisky and officis