Life — April 1, 1909 — page 48: what you’re looking at

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One mawnin’ he went up to the White House and he says: ‘Mawnin’, Mistuh Cleve- land.” “*Mawnin’, Mistuh Simmons.’ Mistuh Cleveland, I want seventy-five thou- sand dollars for a post office over at James City.’ “*Go right over to the Treasury and git it, Mistuh Simmons.’ “Pretty soon he goes up and says: ‘ Mistuh Cleveland, I want twenty thousand dollars for the road to the national cemetery in my town! “*Go right over to the Treasury and git it, Mistuh Simmons.” “He's got plenty of influence, plenty, but lemme tell you niggers they’s such a thing as too much influence. Some day Mistuh Sim- mons will go up to the White House and say: “Mawnin’, Boss Cleveland.’ “*Mawnin’, Mistuh Simmons.’ “*Mistuh Cleveland, T want all them niggers down in my district put back in slavery,” and he'll do it, and then where'll you niggers be, I ask you?” That settled it—Seturday Evening Post Too Much Influence Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, served one term in the House of Representatives, ‘way hack in 1886, and was defeated for re-cleetion. This is why: mons had secured a post office for James a solid black town, got an appropriation public building at Newbern, across the , and an appropriation for a road to the national cemetery near by, A negro was nom- inated against Simmons, but early in the cam- mons went to James City and had a ing. All the colored brethren were for mons’ opponent said nothing during the BUFFALO Livni SPRINGS WATER A Powerful Nerve Tonic and Restorative. Does it Contain Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda? Hunter McGuire, M. 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