Mississippi Spurning<\/b><\/p>\n
A good bit of one-upmanship has transpired over the years between Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, the two Mississippians in this week\u2019s showdown for Bob Dole\u2019s job as Senate majority leader. But as Jackson columnist Bill Minor notes, their rivalry pales when compared with a feud waged six decades ago by two other Mississippi senators.<\/p>\n
The nation knew the state\u2019s junior senator, Theodore Bilbo, as a race-baiting demagogue, the author of a bill to ship blacks to Africa. But many Mississippians revered him as a champion of the poor and foe of the mighty. Others in the state despised him as a bribe-taking crook. One rival, preparing to discuss Bilbo in a stump speech, shed his coat and said, \u201cExcuse me. I\u2019m going to skin a skunk. Ladies had better leave.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mississippi\u2019s senior senator, Pat Harrison, had helped engineer Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s early New Deal. When the Senate majority leader\u2019s job opened up in 1937, Harrison went after it. Nose counts put him in a tie with Kentucky\u2019s Alben Barkley. Harrison\u2019s campaign manager asked Bilbo to consider voting for his fellow Mississippian. Bilbo said he would if Harrison asked him to. That was a big if. Harrison loathed Bilbo and hadn\u2019t spoken to him in years. The response was swift: \u201cTell the son of a bitch I wouldn\u2019t speak to him even if it meant the presidency of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the ballots were in, Pat Harrison was a one-vote loser. But his reputation as the senator who wouldn\u2019t speak to his home-state colleague remained intact. <\/p>\n
Lewis Lord, U. S. News & World Report, June 17, 1996, p. 12.<\/p>\n
A Father\u2019s Will<\/b><\/p>\n
One of the worst cases of hatred I have ever come across is found in a will written in 1935 by a Mr. Donohoe. It says, \u201cUnto my two daughters, Frances Marie and Denise Victoria, by reason of their unfilial attitude toward a doting father, \u2026 I leave the sum of $1 to each and a father\u2019s curse. May their lives be fraught with misery, unhappiness, and poignant sorrow. May their deaths be soon and of a lingering malignant and torturous nature.\u201d The last line of the will is so vicious I shudder to quote it. It reads, \u201cMay their souls rest in hell and suffer the torments of the condemned for eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our Daily Bread, February 18, 1994<\/p>\n
Hate is Like Acid<\/b><\/p>\n
Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. <\/p>\n
Ann Landers, Bits & Pieces, September 17, 1992, p. 3<\/p>\n
TNT<\/b><\/p>\n
A man who hates to be slapped on the back packs his coat with TNT and waits for this man who always slaps his back. His idea is when he hits me I will get him, I\u2019ll blow him up. Hate kills both the person who you hate, but also yourself as well. <\/p>\n
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. <\/p>\n
H. E. Fosdick<\/p>\n
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