Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-09-20
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BY PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: | had just been up in
Cleveland, Miss, at banquet
where 1t. George Lee, the famous
Beale Street Republican from
Memphis was the principal speak
er, and "Man-of the Year." of the
Cleveland Civic Club, and when !
set down to indulge my favorite
Saturday night pastime of fish
and beer, ! just couldn't keep his
speech from jumping in and Que
Of my mind, both because of what
he said, and the way he said it,
tho | mostly 'thought of what he
said, and | reckon the reason !
thought about what he said so
much more'E | did about the way
he said it, is because what he said
has kept Amt Haggar's Ckillnn
down here in the land Of cotton
all messed up about who is their
''friends" for the past eighty years
What 1t Lee did, Ike most
"Cullud" Republicans always do, is
spent most of the time Of his
speech talking about how Abe Lin
coin broke the iron shackles from
the tribe and set us free, which
makes US, until the sun goes down
for the last and final time, owe
every thing we got, and everything
we might git from here on in to
the Grand Old Republican Party
/. =. Ny grandpa used to tell me
about the great reverence thai
members of the tribe owe to Abe
Lincoln, but at the same time he'd
, tell me about the things that the
Republicans did to undo what Lin
coin had done before he'd got set
lied good in his untimely grave,
and among them things was the
removal Of the Troops from the
South before Amt Haggar's Chill
lun colld find out what to do and
which-a-Way to go; the acceptance
Of the "UnWritten Compromise"
| which drove the members Of the
tribe from the ballot box, in the
wake of the fiery cross of the
Ku Klux Khan; which brought or
She adoption of the Grand Father
Clauses in the Constitutions Of
1880; permitted the putting up Of
jim crow" signs all over the south;
and on top of that put all the big
banks ard big factories north of
lGhe Ohio River, which brought
about freight-rate differentials,
absentee ownership, and left Amt
Haggar's Cnillun dividing the
crumbs from the nations prosper
Iity with the "Why-folks" Of the
south What | was thinking
bout is when them hlg "Cullud"
Republicans lack 1t. Lee is talk
ing bout Abe Lincoln, how come
they don't say nothing bout what
my grandpa used to talk about . /.
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lies in its ILL that little old heart
warming and family-cementing
bundle, left another one the other
Jay at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Knox of the Community Radio
Clinic on Parish Street lisa
BOY, and their third . and every
body is well and happy g. Con-
gratulations you-all.
CUPID ALONG THE OLE
AVENUE: The latest victims of
the stings and arrows of Dan Cupid
are Miller Mosley, Jr. son of the
well known Parish Street shoe re-
pair man, and Catherine Johnson,
eff the Jackson College faculty.
They got married the other day,
and they can be found at home at
822 Rose St.
SEEN ALONG THE OLE AVE
! NUE.: Mrs. Doris Tharp Hall, of
J the social set, catching the reflec-
| tons from new hair coloring
while show window shopping
LUCKY MAN: Jesse McClendon,
Of the business set, who is State
Grand Master of the Scottish Rite
Masons, and President of the Ma
tional Baptist Laymen's Conven-
ton, counting his wardrobe for the
boys down on the old Avenue, just
back from the conventions in Chi
/ cago where among other things.
he won two new suits.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "The
things taught in schools and col
leges are not an education, but the
means of education R. w. EN-
! erson.
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