Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — A Gentle Rebuke. [ARTICLE]

A Gentle Rebuke.

When Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, who reappears in the Fifty-fourth Congress after an absence of two years, was in one of the back counties of Mississippi during the campaign of ’92 lie met.an ancient denizen of the back districts who was all powerful in ipolltics in that section. The old man welcomed the Senator vlith great cordiality, but there was a strange twinkle In his eye, as if he were thinking of something, and thinking very hard. After a little lie said: “Senator, before the war there used to be a young man down here wiio was one of the best talkers and one of the most brilliant young men the State of ississippi ever possessed. He became attorney of the State, and there seemed to be great promise before him. Everybody in the State thought great things were going to be done by young Walthall, and that he would make a national reputation. I think he ran for Congress or something of that sort, and then all of a sudden he dropped out of sight and nobody in this section of the State lias ever heard anything of him since. Was that young fellow a relative of yours?” The young fellow was Walthall himself, and the old denizen knew it, but this was the latter’s method of rebuking the Senator for inactivity at Washington.