The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-08-05
BILIOUS MINDED

He says that Cedar Rapids has only
one true, genuine democrat, one bred
in the bone, whom he clothes with
plumage grown aged and threadbare.
This lone democrat is just up from
the Southwe presume from Mr..
Harding's pellagra infested and semi
starvation district-and this pilgrim
tells you, so says Mr.. Holmes, that
the true democratic party never cell
ebrates the 4th of July in contempt
for government that stole it's mig
gers. stole forty from his father and
never paid red cent for them"
Wilkes Booth did not kill Lincoln, and
was not killed himself but died a
natural death in Canada years after
the assassination and was brought
here for burial in Kentucky-and a
whole lot of nauseating tommy rot
stuff which appears most pleasing to
its author.
"The true democratic party" Mr..
Holmes makes his fictitious demo-
crat exclaim, docs not in contempt
for the government celebrate the 4th
of July.
Why not. please?
Was not the founder OF the demo-
cratic party the author of the 4th of
July instrument which we celebrate
xv;kI, 80 ~o,,or, o,dcr0
Was it not Southern tongue that
uttered those stirring words, "Give
me Liberty or give me Death?' Did
not from the South go the powder to
New England for the first revolutions
airy attack? Did not from the South
go the food which fed Washington
army Did not Southern brain
evolve the United States constitution
which Mr.. Gladstone pronounced the
greatest document ever framed by
mortal man? Was it not a Southern
sword that won the revolutionary
war?
And yet Mr.. Holmes makes his
fictitious character wantonly say that
the true democratic party-meaning
the party in this section-does not
celebrate the 4th of July.
In making its celebration possible
compare the part the South figures in
it with the part Mr. Holmes state
figures in it and where does he find
himself? He should not be ungrateful.
The South stands always ready to
compare its record in the revolution
try struggle; in the formation of the
government; in its purchase and con-
quest of territory; in the war of 1912;
in the Mexican war: in the Sanish-
American war and in the Great World
war, with any other section of the
country loyalty, in bravery and in
achievements.
This section does not breed Berg
dolls and the red flag of anarchy has
never been seen anywhere along its
borders.
Knowing the predictions of his
mind-how it revels in ghoulish glee
over every distorted description of
things relating to the South-we quote
for his delectation from book writ
ten by visitor of his class on Flor
ida whose author received nothing
but courteous and dignifed treatment
from its people and it's state officials.
Not only are the stories stupidity
and wantonly drawn but the pictures
of the native born citizens are carl
catures so perverted and untrue to
life and habits of its people as would
be resented by the lowest type of Hot
tentots
Why these writer's love to indulge
in this sort of fiction we can not
understand unless they know it will
be gulped down by men as bilious
as this Cedar Rapids newspaper cor
respondent.
No Southern writer visiting the 1
North, East or West, that we have ever
seen, INDUCES in such puerile stuff
written in contempt of its native born
citizens. They are too truth-loving
and high minded
We quote from this book on Flor
ida:
Slowly climbing rise in the road
we were surprised to see four women.
seated on fallen tree close by the
roadside, all We're precisely the same
size. with same features. eyes and
hair, and vacant, stupid stare: each
wore a light-colored, faded calico
dress of plainest, scantiest possible
make, quite clean Ca surprising fact.)
and large, plain, cotton sun-bonnets:
each wore a cheap, bright-hued, cot
ton handkerchief around her neck.
and they were an bare-footed. carry
ing their low, thicksoled shoes in
their hands. The dress and kerr
chief appeared TO be their only gar
underwear whatever.
Our driver, sociable sort of fellow
from Ohio, stopped and chatted with