The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-10-12


disgust, but you will never find the
South a missionary field for 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 Jefferson Davis-whose
memory is revered in this section at
| least-as a traitor and a criminal.
Who that is Southern born could
ever forget your vicious SANDER of
Robert E. Lee, the knightliest spirit
of Americas epic war.
You have trampled brutally on the
annals and ideas of the South's Con-
federacy, and yet you now come
among the sons of the men who died
for that cause and try to flatter them
into following your selfish adventure
! This is new South, but it is the
child of the Old; and, while it's SYM
pathies are today as broad as the
Union, its heart is none the less warm
/ or reverent to the memory of it's
sires. 1t nurses no rancor of section
alism. Had 1t fought against it's
| fathers, Colonel Roosevelt, as did
thousands of brave men. that could
never have been held against you;
but when in the peaceful time of re-
turning friendship you went out of
your way to SANDER them, you then
forever barred yourself from our poll
teal consideration
Go home, Colonel! Go home and
regale yourself on those pages in
which you belittled and falsified. the
lives of Southern leaders.
If you fancy that the pharisaic pose
you have recently assumed on the
negro question will win you this Sec
TONS support, you are pitiably de-
ceived. You have straddled this is
sue 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 two-faced and
impudent game?
Did you not bid might-and-main 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 do?
Why was it Colonel, that you never
awoke to the corrupting influence of
the colored delegates from the South
until you found that they would no
your political schemes?
The whole country knows that no
Republican ever went further or
stopped lower than you for that same
negro delegation when you needed
them to run your particular machine.
Certainly the Southern people know
that never since the days of Recon
struction was there a Republican
president who antagonized their SEN
tlment in this regard so flagrantly
as you.
You doggedly retained the negro
Crum as collector of the port of
Charleston over the protest and ap-
peals 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, received him on the most in
innate terms Of social as we'll as poll
teal equality.
You closed the postoffice at Indian
ola, Miss, and told the people there
that if they would not accept your
negro postmaster, they should be de-
prived of the mail service.
And only few months ago, did |
you not stand before a gathering of |
national note and with your arms
around two negro politicians from
the North, proclaim them the equal |
of every white man within the sound |
of your voice"
Go home, Colonel Go home and
apologize as best you can to the col
ored brethren whom you consider
your equals in the North; but as for
the South, what you have done spoke
speaks so loudly that we cannet hear
what you say.
Republican policies have never been
popular in this section but, if it came
o choice between you and Mr..
Taft's we should infinitely prefer the
after; for he has shown himself at
east sincere and has proved himself
n honorable partisan; in appointing e
ederal officeholders he has been most {
of our peoples's interest.