Political parties are not the only
things producing freaks these
troublesome days; three legged
chickens and two tailed pigs are also
reported from “up No’th,”
Since the foot-ball season has
opened and the newspapers are filled
with pictures of the husky young
brutes who play the game, we have
less fear of a German invasion.
The mere fact that the Progressive
party ran third in some States is
vastly better than in prevoius cam
paigns, where the party was simply
in the role of “among-those-present.”
Things are quite lively in Mexico
at present; Villa and Caranza are
getting ready to declare war on each
other, and the Yaqui Indians are
adding to the joyousness of the oc
casion by fighting any of the Mexi
cans they can get near enough to
fight.
Somehow it always goes against
the grain to note Southern news
papers using negroes as political al
lies in factional fights. The papers
of Tennessee are sinners in this re
spect.
And wouldn’t you think Rich
mond Pearson Hobson would be
wanting more war ships, with all
this war in Europe? But he hasn’t
offered a single resolution to that
effect since thelorknows when.
Alabama is jubilating over the
fact that the State has cleared the
immense profit of $136,583.43 from
her convict lease system. Georgia
found profit of this sort reeking with
blood, and abolished it some years
ago.
The loss of Senator LaFollette’s
prestige ,and with it his job as Sen
ator from Wisconsin, should warn
the other members of the long-haired
fraternity who seem anxious to use
their Senatorial toga as a means for
theatrical engagements.
