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Show During a political campaign in. Mississippi a certain Colonel Robinson was running for congress on the Republican tioket. On the morning of election elec-tion day one of the friends of the Republican candidate can-didate chanced to meet an old negro, known locally loc-ally as Mose Thompson, whom he asked: "You are going to vote for Colonel Robinson, are you not?" "No, sah, I ain't goln' to v6te fer the colonel." "What? Not vote for the man who is for giving your race its due opportunity; the man who led them in a splendid charge? Isn't it only honorable honor-able and chivalrous to vote for him?" "No, sah," replied Mose. "I ain't goin' to vote fer the colonel. I's goln' to be hono'ble and chlv'lrous an' voto gjft for the genulmen that give me five dollars." |