Show THE TIlE PROFESSIONAL SOUTHERNER The action of that Virginia mob of hoodlums in burning in effigy President Roosevelt on account of his regarding lynching in the South South- lern tern States will be condemned by citizens in the North Korth and South alike It is an injustice to the Southern people to charge that the action n of this crowd of fools and desperadoes is in line with the sentiment of th the men of Dixie True there are are amon among the called so-called better element of of that section citizens holding public office who in indorse orse and enc en- en c curag rag a and d similar s r f forms of f la lawlessness l That hat flourish the there e But these ar are arc professional Southerners men wh who strut about Washington attired attired attired at at- tired in tow li linen en suits and slouch hats bats and spout out out continuous streams of gab about reconstruction tion days dueling and the lynching of some black rascal These statesmen are arc a disgrace ace to the ther r- r South They hold their characteristic jobs by ke keeping keeping keep keep- p- p ing alive the very feeling President Roosevelt sought to condemn and the day they are disowned relegated to the rear real and left to vegetate in the shade of forgetfulness will mark the dawn of better times in the land of cotton Blackburn and Wheeler of Kentucky Tillman Tiliman of Sou South h Carolina and Carmack Carmack Carmack Car- Car mack of Tennessee may applaud the tle action of the Virginia inia mob but such men as Lindsay Brown and Buckner of Kentucky of Tennessee Alor- Alor gan of Alabama Caffrey of Louisiana Ioney Money of Mississippi and McLaurin of Korth Carolina willbe will willbe be found among the most bitter enemies of the sentiments these professionals represent |