. Editors I have known since the civil war (rewritten and reprinted from letters in the Clarion-ledger) . st on a Visit to Alcorn A. & M. College a Northern Republican Editor, and Put Him on the Tenter Hook Before Dinner is Served. Bucked on Social Equality. I had met John A. Atwood and wife, of the Graphic, ofStillman Valley, 111., at conventions of the National EditorialAssociation, generally accompanied by my wife. They wererefined and genteel people who had lived all their lives inthe North and had no conceptions of the South. We becamefast friends. We visited them in summer and they visit
. Editors I have known since the civil war (rewritten and reprinted from letters in the Clarion-ledger) . st on a Visit to Alcorn A. & M. College a Northern Republican Editor, and Put Him on the Tenter Hook Before Dinner is Served. Bucked on Social Equality. I had met John A. Atwood and wife, of the Graphic, ofStillman Valley, 111., at conventions of the National EditorialAssociation, generally accompanied by my wife. They wererefined and genteel people who had lived all their lives inthe North and had no conceptions of the South. We becamefast friends. We visited them in summer and they visited usin winter, sometimes extending their trips to New Orleans, asour guests. Our association was altogether delightful, pleas-ant in every way—a mingling of the North and the South, ofRepublicans and Democrats. The last time that Mr. and Mrs. Atwood came South, wasafter the Roosevelt-Booker Washington dinner in 1903. n. As the Mississippi Commissioner to the Worlds Fair atSt. Louis, it was made my duty to visit the different countiesof ihe state and deliver addresses in behalf of the great ex-. Page M. Baker EDITORS I HAVE KNOWN 331 position. I had an appointment to make a speech before thestudent body of the Alcorn A. & M. College, and invited At-wood, then a visitor at my home to accompany me, tellinghim he would see something that would open his eyes. Thatbeing a northern man and a Republican, he naturally got hisideas of the south, the negro and conditions in this sectionfrom his local environment, from Republican papers and poli-ticians who made it convenient to ride into office on thenegros back, by abusing the people of the South for refusingto educate him, and by their persecuting, abusing and killingof Sambo. Atwood said he would be glad to go; and we made thetrip, via Vicksburg, arriving at Lorman in time for break-fast, where a team was to be provided to convey us to theCollege, ten miles away. The landlady was a red-hot Southern rebel, and whenshe learned that At
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