The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-11-05

munded Mr.. spoopeudyke. "Whst are
W thinking With, your elbowsH i Mr..
Garfield didn't send 1t, how could Morey
get It? s'pose he went fishing and
caught It like an eel?" r.,
spoopendvte' but Il Mr.. Morey did
get It, who senttt? BE must have got 1t,
because 1t was directed to him"
THAT settles It," groaned Mr.. spoopen-
dyke. Nobody thought Of that before.
You've got the whole postal system In Q
teaspoon. II somebody would ft you up
with pigeonholes and an iron safe you'd
only need 10 be assessed ten per cent byla
campaign committee TO bea postoftice. II
Mr.. Garfield never sent that letter, Of
course Morey never got It Amt that
plainP II he did get Il, then the chances
are that Mr.. Garfield wrote 1t. Can ye
see that?" @ 49,,
Morey didn't get It, how did the newspa-
pers get hold OF TT Did Mr.. Garfield
send It to the newspaper" .a
"0hl didn't he?" howled Mr.. spoopen,,
dyke. "He took 1t around himself, and
sptalned his leg In doing 1t. Oh! you've
struck 1t. II took your logic 70 fetch out
the facts. With your metaphysics you
only want red aud green light to be q
drug store. The Republicans gay that
Garfield didn't write It or send 1t, and
Morey never got 1t or saw 1t. Can you get
that through your head? Is there room
in your skull for that idea?"
@Plenty," rejoined Mrs. spoopendyEe.
upn, don't the Democrats say that Mr..
Garfield did write It and Mr.. Morey, did
get Il? They may know as much about
Il as the Republicans, and then they've
vot The letter TO prove it. II they didn'
nave the letter II would be different, and
It shows that 1t went t? Mr.: Morey. NOW,
the only thing Is whether Mr: Morey was
a Democrat or Republican. II he was"
"Are yc an idiot2 Have ye got to 60 TO
night school to be fool? Don't you know
Morey's dead? He amt Republican, OF
Democrat either; he's an angel, Il he's had
luck. He left that letter among bis papers,
and his wife gave It out for publication.
"'Then that ends It," said Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke, "If his wife gave 1t out, ! know he
never got 1t. That's Just the way with
some women. Always getting Their poor
dead husbands in trouble. She ought to
he ashamed. And 30 Mr. Garfield amt to
be President?" "
"Do Won know what you want? You
want a high chimney and gravel walk to
be a lunatic asylum. Who says he won't
be PRESIDENT Why can't be be ftesi'
dent?"
al he didn't write the letter how can
heP" argued Mrs, Spoopendyke.
"What do you suppose the letter was =
measly flower pot? Think It was q shot
tower? What dye s'pose 1T was, any
"Why, bis letter Of acceptance, wasn't
it2 Wssn'tit something about his nomi'
nation?" ID
dyke. at was q confession that he was
old man Bender. That's what 1t was. 1t
laid the blame OF knocking Nathan's brains
out with Charley Ross on George Wash.
ipgton-that's what il was. Got It now
Think YOU can talk about II like o human
being another time9" and Mr.. spoopen-
dykeshot out Of the house.
swell, WE'LL" said Mrs; spookendyke,
as che held the bed spread up and figured
on whether she would turn II over or
have 1t washed. "1'm g lad I'm beginning
to understand politics. But II Mr.. GARFIELD
didn't write the letter and Mr.. Morey
was alive, it would go hard for Mrs. Morey
In giving 1t out. A woman can't be toe
careful about what she does In politics.
and having decided to turn the spread,
Mrs. Spoopeudyke tied atowel around her
head, and having busted her husbands
nrivate papers, put them away where no
human being could ever And them.