The Washington bee., 1911-11-04

deVOured the whole stake Now and
then he locks himself in his study and
edltes an epistle to the President
only to wake up the next morning to
| learn that he didn't know a frazzling
thing about what he was writing.
Now and then he reaches into the re-
cesses of his jeans and filches few
hundred dollars to spend in organ
izing a band of vOteless Negro CON
stituents, who have an itching Dalm
to defeat the Republican candidate for
President There amt many members
OF the National Negro Independent
Political League who are as gener-
Gus with their own money as Rev.
WaldTon IS with hls-according to his
statement. OF course there are some
! ldOubtlng 1hOmaSes who don't be-
Ilieve the Doctor spends his own coin.
[ but you know every man has a right
to tell his own story about the size
and number of fishes he caught Now
Just because Rev. Waldron Is sui
eide in politics, and so narrow across
the chest OF his ideas that he can't
tolerate a fellow who has the edge
on him, don't think shat he Is a corn
tassel OF course | think. and
there's a whole lot of people think
ing the same dope, that a minister
whose duty 1t is to save souls hasn't
got any business wearing his soles
out in politics. You never saw a min
lister who monkeyed in politics who
didn't get the skirt of his religious
garment all dabbled around the hem
with conjectures and accusations. As
Dorsey FOultZ use to say, no min
lister is fitten to mix in politics But
as minister-just minister, 1 think
the Rev. J. Milton Is prime He's a
vigorous orator, has a commanding
presence, and makes you think of
John Mccullough in Virginius when
he stalks across his pulpit. l agree
| that the Lord called him 70 preach,
| but l never was so loose in my
| charges as to accuse the Lord of call
| ing him to do anything else Some OF
us try to make a goat out Of the Lord
| by charging lot of things up to him.
| but when it comes to saying that the
| Lord called Rev Waldron to mix in
politics you amt playing the game
as they do out in Deadwood-on
the square-The good Reverend has
| been persuing little baldheaded Ros-
|
and being a minister, it has occurred
to me whether or not he ever read
| that foolish injunction, writ some
| time during Anna DOmini. He that Is
without sin let him cast the first
stone" or DO unto others as YOU
would that men should do TO you"
1t may be that Rev Waldron has an
leXpurgated copy of the Holy Writ
with these quotations cut out. IF he
has, I've got an old copy with every
thing in it, which | never use. ! can
| lend him for a few days. Personally,
| Rev. WaldrOn is a most gracious man,
| affable, and pleasing to converse with
| It's only in politics that his better
! side gets covered with the barnacles
of pessmism. A big, handsome fel-
| low, standing six feet in his stock
! {ings, with a strong determined jaw,
/ he looks a leader, and he would be
! Just the same as four aces with the
| joker-highest deal in the deck, in
la table-stake game, with all the 9th
/ ers holding two paIrS-If he would
only cOnfine himself to doing what
| the Lord wirelesSed him to do
| preach the Gospel. Take it from me,
Rev WaldrOn is a gentleman, and
scholar a man of great ability, but
jhe's just a trihe short on judgment.
My advice to him is to think a couple
of few times of what old Henry St
John said-"History IS Philosophy
teaching by examples" This is the
ninth inning, Doctor, and there's two
down, and you are up with two
strikes on you, and the score umteen
To nothing in favor of the other feI-
low