Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-03
TO THE PREsIDENT-ELECT.
Bill Nye Turns Over the Government to
MIR. Cleveland.

Bill Nye Turns Over the Government to
MIR. Cleveland.
The painful duty of turning over to you
| the administration of the United States
and the key to the front door of the White
House has been assigned to me. You will
find the key hanging inside the storm
door and the cistern pole upstairs in the
| hay-mOw of the barn.
1t is expected that you will make such
changes in your Cabinet and other turni-
ture as you may see fit. The asparagus
bed, however. will need little top-dress-
ing in the spring, and you can do as you
see fit about putting pillow shams on the
pie plant bed. In your attitude toward
foreign powers you will, of course, have
your own ideas, and a suggestion from
me at this time would be entirely out of
place. Govern the people with a firm, yet
gentle hand, and put little rat poison
down cellar where it Will do the most
good.
have made great many suggestions
to the outgoing administration relative to
the transfer of the Indian Bureau from
the Department of the Interior to that of
the Sweet By-and-By. The Indian, L
may say, has been a great source of
annoyance to me, several of their number
having jumped one of my most valuable
mining claims on White river. Still, l
do not complain of that. This mine,
however, l am convinced would be a
good paying property if properly worked;
and, should you at any time wish to take
the regular army and such other help as
you may need and recapture it from our
red brother, | would be glad to give you
a controlling interest in it.
You will observe, on taking possession
of the administration, that the navy is a
little bit weather-beaten and wOrmy. l
would suggest that it be newly painted
in the spring. If il had been my good for
tune to receive a majority of the suffrages
of the people for the Office which you now
hold | should have painted the navy red.
Still, that need not influence you in the
course which you may see fit to adopt.
You VIII find all papers in their appro-
pirate pigeon-holes, and small jar Of Gu
cumber pickles down cellar, which were
left over, and to which you will be per-
fectly welcome. Take these pickles and
use them as il they were your own.
You will also find half a ton of coal left
over, and an old ak in the wood-shed,
which a man from Ohio lett with us to
have ground. OF course you do not make
a business of receiving presents, but you
cannot refuse to receive these as slight
testimonial of regard, and not in the ma
ture of a brihe.
There are many affairs of great moment
which | have not enumerated in this brief
letter, because l felt some little delicacy
and timidity about appearing to be at all
EDITORIAL or officious about a matter
wherein the public might charge me with
interference.
hope you will receive the foregoing in
friendly spirit, and, whatever your con-
victions may be upon great questions of
national interest, either foreign or domes-
tic, that you will not undertake to blow
out the gas on retiring, and that you will
in other ways realize the fond anticipa-
tions which are now cherished on your
behalf by mighty people, whose aggre-
gate eye is now on to you. BILL NYE.
7. S.-You will be a little surprised no
doubt to find no soap in the laundry or
bathrooms. 1t probably got into the
campaign in some way and was absorbed.
B. N.