Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-03-13
Bill Nye to Cleveland.

these 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 up stairs in the
hay-mow of the barn.
1t is expected that you make such
change in your cabinet and other fur
niture as you see fit. The asparagus
bed, however will need little top
dressing 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 suggestion from me at this time
would be entirely out Of place. Gov
ern the people with firm yet gentle
hand, and put little rat-poison down
cellar where it will do the most good.
| have made good many sugges-
tons to the outgoing administration
relative to the transfer OF the Indian
bureau from the department of the
Interior to that Of the "Sweet Bye
and Bye" The Indian, | may say,
has been great source OF annoyance
to me, several of their number hav-
ing jumped one of my most valuable
mining claims on White River. Still
do not complain of that. This mine,
however, | am convinced would be
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 control
ling interest in it.
You will observe, on taking posses
sion Of the administration, that the
navy is little bit weather-beaten and
wormy. | would suggest that it be
newly painted in the spring. If it
had been my good fortune to receive
majority of the suffrages of the peo-
pie for the office you hold, | should
have painted the navy red. Still, that
need not influence you in the course
you may see fit to adopt.
You will find all papers in their APP
propriate pigeon holes, and a small
Jar of cucumber pickles down cellar
which were left over and to which you
are perfectly welcome. The asperi-
ties and heart burnings that were the
immediate result of hot and unusal-
ly bitter campaign, are now all bur-
ried. Take these pickles and use
them as though they were your own.
They are none too good for you. You
deserve them. We may differ politi-
cally, but that need not interfere with
our warm personal friendship.
You will also find ton of coal left
over, and an old AK in the wood-shed,
which the man from Ohio left with us
to have ground. OF course you do
not make business of receiving pres
ents, but cannot refuse to receive
these as slight testimonial of regard
and not in the nature Of bribe.
There are many affairs of great
moment which | have not enumerated
in this brief letter, because feltI
some little delicacy and timidity about
appearing to be at all dictatorial or
otiicious about matter wherein the
public may charge me with interior
terence.
hope you will receive the forego-
ing in a friendly spirit, and whatever
your convictions may be upon great
questions of national interest, either
foreign or domestic, that you will not
undertake to blow out the gas on re-
firing, and that you will in other ways
realize the fond authorizations which |