Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-03-29
LEGISLATIVE RESUME.
Extracts from an Undelivered Speech by
One of the Minority

One of the Minority
The end of our lahors has come and
We now belong to history. Profane
history. What is called Barebone's
Parliament is the most famous of all
parliaments, wherefore we need not fear
lest we escape our due need of fame.
None of our predecessors has shown less
fear of the constitution, nor in their
Acts shown smaller awe of the ten COM
>mandments or the multiplication table.
We have convincingly demonstrated the
moral superiority of erasing fluid over
Three Feathers, and restored to Bribery
that protection it has so long enjoyed
and so we'll deserves. And while we
have not succeeded in unseating one
of Mississippi's United States Senators,
we certainly succeeded in putting tacks
in his chair. These things done and
other things by US damned and done
for, History will take note of, along
with matters we cannot expunge.
We have fought some hard political
battles on this floor, but to our ever
lasting credit, be it said we showed
\ ourselves to be magnanimous in victory
and good losers in defeat, thereby prov
ing ourselves not only statesmen but
gentlemen and philosophers as we'll.
Who among us shall ever forget that
aggregation of statesmen congregated
together in Tight-wad Alley, by them
sselves likened to the Macedonian
Phalanx but by others likened to flock
aof sheep with particularly wise and
aerafty bell wether at their head Ala
Baba and his Forty Thieves who
robbed poor Noel of all the glory and
fruits of his latter administration.
tell you, gentlemen, in Union there is
estrength.
From these we turn to where stands
Louis Nicholson, the lone apostle of the
seventh beatitude. pouring forth the
oil Of joy on the troubled waters OF fac
ton and sending out the gentle dove OF
peace, to receive her back again sore
wounded and hurt but bearing in her
beak very small and very withered
olive branch. Later in the session he
was heard to quote to himself Blessed
are the peace-makers for they shall see
Jars"
Who wlifsvefi 4disremember er"the apos-
trophies to the "Peepull," the choicest
flower in the garden of Edens and
others. We have with Smith mounted
into the higher attitudes and skinned
the blue empyrean, with Evans sounded
the deeper depths of abysmal profundi
ty: have listened to the siren tones OF
Morrison, and seen the Thorian ham
mer of Stennis in operation; have heard
Milan standing knee-deep in the mire
of faction, sing with great JUNCTION
"Lord. Plant My Feet On Higher
Ground,' and the expunging chorus
sing on March 18th, with great gusto,
'Let The Sunshine In"
There are many other persons and
things that will linger long in our mem
cries. The big hearted Anderson. the
brave Barbee, and so on down the al
phabet. There is Johnston of Coaho-
ma with mind that works with the
rapidity of an electric motor and the
accuracy of an adding machine; Sam
Johnston of Lowndes who showed he
was descendant as we'll as namesake
of the great photographer by defining
the income tax law as San Act to Gre
ate 50. 900 more liars in Mississippi" ;"
and the other Johnsons making four of
kind, though seldom found in the
same hand. The venerable Lewis, the
militant Cavctt, and Montgomery of
Leflore, who never was in the majority
except when the greater number voted
the same way he did.
~ There is Bennefeld, knowing and
known of Ill, and Brame the astute. and
the gentleman from
"sunflower who left the debate when he set
Just as dark as it was when he rose"
Pittman who would gleefully apply
the initiative and referendum to the law
>of gravitation, and Rencher who has
made Kemper county famous. Sim
mons. of all beloved, and Nabors, who
was so un-neighborly when he opposed
YOUR bill; Rushing who rushed enrolled
4 bills and other things, and Sheffield.
with his roses, poet, orator and states
man, There is Denton, the morning
for EVENING" star, not visible except for
short intervals but very effulgent when
above the horizon. There is Simpson
the discourager of verbosity and Daven-
porl tle great expunger. The sapient
Candy and Doctor Conn who can cure
fit of the blues in five minutes. Call
the roll Mr.. Clerk.
And there is Mr.. Speaker, soon by
merited promotion to be translated
to a higher sphere of action, where he
will learn how it is to be declared out of
order when he thinks he is in order.