Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-01
GO HOME. COLONEL.
TEREE your hat, Colonel
n The South isn't in your ring. I"
It's high time You were hurrying

It's high time you were hurrying home
ou>your former visits to our State and section.
you have found that eOnsiderate welcome to which
you were Oaically entitled. sOutherners by ma
tare mannerly folk and they have always met you
with the graciousness due President. or a former
President Of the United States; but when you twist
heir hOspitable greeting into omen of political
support you become rather presumptuOus as a guest
and. certainly very foolish as politician
You seem. indeed. to have mistaken the South
for an African game trail where the natives viii
dock to dance for your sport and gaze pelTbound on
your strange tappings. In guise Of sanctity, you
come to convert what you derisiyey call the Solid
soth but be not deceived, doughty Colonel; for the
eyes Of this section have pierced your missionary
makeup and they you the political adventurer
Jon really are
You may shout ~Armageddon' and sing Onward
Christian Soldiers until the yOungeyed cherubim
yavn with disgust but you win never md the South
a missionary Geld for a man of your doctrines and
your record The Southern people have longer
memories than you imagine.
They have not forgotten your scorn OF their
heroes and their dead but sacred cause in the days
when you cared nothing for Southern votes.
They have not forgotten how you wrote of JEFF
ferson Davis-whose memory is revered in this sec
tion az least4-as a traitor and criminal
VINO that is southern born could ever forget
your vicious Islander of Robert E. Lee, the knghtes
spirit OF Americas epic war?
Yon have trampled brutally on the annals and
the ideals Of the souths Confederacy, and yet you
now come among the sons of the men who died for
that cause and try 70 hatter them into following
your selfish ADVENTURE
This is New South. but it is the child of the
Old; and. while its sympathies are today as broad
as the Union. its heart is none the less warm or
reverent 70 the memory of its sires It nurses no
rancor Of sectionalism Had you fought against its
fathers Colonel Roosevelt as did thousands Of brave
men. that could never have been held against you;
bur when in the peaceful time of returning friend
ship, you went out Of your way TO slender them
you then forever barred yourself from political
consideration.
Go home. Colonel. Go home and regale yourself
on those pages in which you belittled and fslshed
the lives Of Southern leaders.
If you fancy that the pharisaic pose You have
recently assumed on the negro question win win
you this sections support you are pitiaby deceived
You have sraddled this issue in both the North and
the South, fraternizing with the negro there and
execrating him here.
Do you think We are so stupid as not to see
through this twolaced and impudent game?
Did you not bid mightandmain for the support
Of the negro delegates at Chicago:
Would you ever have pretended this sudden
change Of heart had you succeeded in capturing the
machinery Of that party as you violently strOve
to dO2
why was it, Colonel, that you never awoke to
the eorrupting influence Of the colored delegates
from the South until you found that they would no
longer serve but would embarrass your political
sehemesg
The whole country knows that no Republican
ever went further or stopped lower than. you for
these same negro delegates when you needed them to
run your particular machine.
Certainly, the Southern people know that never
since the days Of Reconstruction was there Repub-
lean president who antsgonized their sentiment in
this regard so hagrantly as you
You dOggedly retained the negro Crum as eollec-
tor Of the port at Charleston over the protests and
appeals of the white citizenship Of that community.
In utter disregard of not only the feelings of the
South. but also the decencies Of your Office, you
dined Booker Washington at the White House. re
ceving him the most intimate terms of social as
wen as political equality.
You closed the postofice at Indianola, Miss, and
told the people there that If they would not accept
your negro postmaster, they should. be deprived of
the mail service.
And only few months ago, did you not
stand before gathering OF national note and,
with your arms around two negro politicians from
the North. proclaimed them the equal of every
white man within the sound of your voice"
Go home. Colonell Go home and apologize as
best you can to the colored bretheren whom you
slider your equals in the North; but for the