Show LITTLE MR BURLESON 1 I ii E nu memory o of William Villiam McKinley nee needs 3 no defense de dc f feme- feme against the slight placed upon it by y Postmaster Post- Post master l' l General Burl Burleson The great public service ser r ices ice of the tho hc third martyred President and nd the beautiful beautiful beau belm tHul simplicity si of his private life have written the I rt remembrance I of his lua virtues upon tILe the hearts of his hie 1 countrymen As the great war President who piloted c the ship hip of state successfully through the troubled f suns ws of the struggle with Spain his name and fame fameI I will grow bri through h the succeeding years The I order given J Jen en by b little HUle Mr ll to remove remo President President Pres Pres- i ident McKinley's ine 5 likeness from the postal cards and It to substitute therefore tho the semblance of Thomas Jefferson Jef i f ferson forson erson consequently is interesting only as another I sporadic evidence that the South is in the saddle J Jt It t is difficult to determine ne whether the thc postmaster l' l general i is gratifying ratifying the prejudice that is his Southern South South- ern birthright against a famous veteran of the Var War ii of the or whether he fails to comprehend the tender emotions the recollection of President Me- Me c- c 4 II Kinley aroused in the bosoms of most Americans The 1 t latter latter hypothesis is the more charitable but it so seriously challenges his common sense ono one hesitates d 1 to tu follow Although h he be was w s s born in the South during during- the I I pivotal year of tho the great g war and grew to manhood a among those who ho bore hore marks of the martial prowess I of Major McKinley's s comrades in arms it seems impossible impossible im im- im- im II possible that Mr r. r seven soven years cars in Congress iI should not have broadened his views dews It is incredible i il that his youthful prejudices should have e outlived a alonar aJ J lonar residence in the tho national capital in an era ern when North and Seuth are outgrowing the tho wartime wounds It is not ur unusual sual to discover an unreconstructed Rebel t among those who suffered on the battlefield but it iti i is amazing is-amazing to find one so intense and embittered in inthe the cabinet of a President sworn to uphold and defend the Union Union- I The removal remo of President s McKinley's W likeness from the tho postal card eard is but an incident casual at best i were vere that great grent statesman restored to his mortality that he might be he apprised of it it would provoke pro no nomore more than a tolerant smile Tho The significance of the I action lies in the spirit that dictated it it or if one i takes the view that reflects more upon the postmaster r generals general's intelligence than his hs loyalty the thc depth of it exposes in a n high government go officer 1 I Tim The constant habit of mind Mr r. r Burleson has displAyed displayed dis- dis djs djs- plAyed since sinco his induction into office renders him himI I 1 rather rathor an object of sympathy Scarcely had he had a parting courteous word with the efficient official II he lie succeeded than he issued a a. statement attempting I Jo So blacken that officers officer's record that his own might seem clean b by r contrast Immediately adding millions of annual expense to the posto fico department and creating unnecessary positions t to feed the tho appetites tes of hungry constituents he betrayed himself a n spoils spoils- man and aud a only from rom tim the outset lIe He has j 4 capped the thc climax by an incident that whatever n aspect aspect as as- i of it one chooses exposes him in a light that 1 unfits him bim for his place I I Ij |