The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-07-20
AN OPEN LETTER.
Some Friendly Advice to guv-
q nef RUSSELL.

! DEAR JoE:-We are all signing
for that promised report in the Ban
ner that was to show up the state
debt proper so enormously. The
negro who went into a hole after a
skunk and found a bear was not
half so astonished as you fellows
were when you come to FAMINE
roun' dat hole" Doak is holding
on to the bears tail for dear life,
though. And don't you suppose
Luke Wright heayed a good-sized
sigh of relief when he found that
he would not have to go in to help
Doak let the bear loose? Poor Joe
Fussell-you never had any 'speri-
ence with bears. You said YOU
stood in your political cradle Bet
ter lie down, Joe, we're going to
rock you some and you might fall
out If Baily sends you in the hole
and you mistake Doak for the ne
gro in the yarn, you'll set right
in to prosecuting that negro-you
can't help it, can you? And then
the bear might get you and Doak
both. Run, Joe! If Doak ever
does get out and tells what that
state debt proper is, what are you
going to say. They've done prom
ised US at least SO, 100000 and pos
sibly $13,000,00O. If it turns out
that way, Joe, and you find that
your crowd told the truth when
they said that the SOB was more
than the COG plan, what'll you do?
They set you up because you never
did anything or said anything
about politics and you didn't have
anything about you to knock down,
and because you are honest, Joe,
| (and you are) and heightened and
wouldn't stOop to repudiate, and all
that, and you want to pay the poor
bondholder as near what we owe
him as possible, and now when you
find that 6O-6 repudiates more than
50-3, why you IL have towel,
don't know what the devil you nil
do. Do your Please don't resign
as encouragement. When we get
through rocking you you'll need
employment and you'd better hold
your grip on your $4,000 Office. We
can rely on you not to resign, can't
we? But if you FnoS you're going
to be elected, as you said in your
speech, L can't see how you can get
around resigning. The boys won't
believe that you think you're going
to be elected unless you burn this
bridge behind you. But if you
burn it, where will you retreat? o
these thorns in the political bed,
how they prod a fellow. What
would you do if you were to lose
your other office and didn't get
your other office? That carpenter
business looks mighty nice on pa
per, but Joe, much as l love you,
would not let you carry boards
to cover my stable, because you
don't know how. You never hurt
yourself planning planks and boring
anger holes and L know you don't
want to hurt yourself after you are
fat and forty and famous. If you.
do know how, I'd advise you to
bore you a nice auger hole to
crawl in next fall. It's going to be
cold out doors with nothing to do
to get up circulation. Captain,
you've got the best voice for gov
ernor ever heard, but it will be
with you like it was with the negro
who had a good voice for eating
chicken-"whare's de chicken?'
Be honest and firm, Joe. They
nominated you because you were
case-hardened and wouldn't mind
butchering the democratic party.
Bate, Beasley, Barrett-and by
the alliterative fitness of things it
should have been Bailey, but Bolt
er will do. Brutus did the stab
bling and Benedictarnold was
Bolter and turned Britisher, and no
matter what their candidates name
begins with, they can trace their
lineage back through alone line of
BIS. You don't belong there, cap
tain. They certainly made a mis-
take, or else they are throwing
off on you. You are too nice a man
to be made seapegoat of or sent |
chestnut hunting for Hawkins. FL
you can work in Butler among the
Bs above mentioned it will be APP
propriate, and after the election |
you may add Beat. 1-.t
Respectfully. a
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