Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-10-14
OUR ZEKE CooNsx1N LETTER

money Plenty - Outrage Gus
Conduct Up North.
M1sruR ED1ruR:-The long agony
70 over. l hev come out OF tho BELLY
Of bell oil right, and from now on nv
mitey pen will support Weaver 4
Field. 1spent several long and tejus
nights tryin' to gulb down the obnok.
'ous dose of crow which our great
feeders, Tillioghast L Burke, hev
dishsd up for the dslsctashun Of Idaho
Dimycrsts, and after repeated throws
up OF the diseustin' mess, it now lays
peacefully on my ssumack, and only
gags me now and then and leaves 4
bitter and noxshius taste in my mouth,
and an unpleasant odor under nv
nose. Howsumever. to all and sundry
| put on bold front and insist that
crow is good, in fact, that when once
the taste gifts little famiIy.r it is
extremely sppe.izin'.
All of the old fellers down here feel
j'st a. do, and gulp down crow With
wry faces, smilin' now and then
ghastly smile, and tryin' to look as if
they thought crow was the most de-
lishus and, relishin' bird of all the
feathered tribe, in which, howsum.
ever, their success is not openly visible
to the naked eye.
The peculiar situashun makes it
very hard for me and extremely tryin'.
| hev 90 long been . shapin' my
mouth to holer for Grover & Steve
that it goes OF the wrong way. and I
find myself holIerin' for them instead
of for Weaver & Field.
After the meetin' of the Old Guard
went out into the fields all alone to
muse upon the unsartinty of oil things,
AID especially Of all political matters,
aud to practise all by myself hol.
lerin' for Griever and Feeve-I mean
Grover snd-no, hang it all! Wover
and the other TELLER. At FIRST my tones
wuz mere whispers, so easily wuz the
effort, and when at last l succeeded
in shoutin' out the names of the new
feeders, the eckoes of tho old-time
slogan come foatin' back from afar,
as if tie everlas,in' hills throwed back
into my face the villanus compact, and
repudiated the onholy oombinashun.
My knees smote together, and my
ting Glove to the roof of my mouth.
Howsumever, l am al right, now,
and will work hard for Wover & Field.
Wover is . firm believer in free
trade, and Field wuz q 6Rhtin' with
me to kill off Linkun hirelin's. This
10 sum consolashun. II Wover is
elected he will do away with the pro.
tsckshun on lead, and will give u all
tho silver we want. He will set al
the presses to printin' ereenbax, and
will hire small boys to scatter EN-
round among ali bis ielless. thus 10.
creasin' the ciroulatin' mejum. What
. haileluger time We will hev. Besides
this, Wover will oon6soate al tho
railroads, and give oil 10 fellers free
rides to 60 whcr We want 10.
l like this skeme real we'll. I hev
rote to Wover putin in for
passes for me and Betsey Ann. We
will 20 back to old Missoory on visit.
Hoorsy! Old Zeke is in the swim
after all.
l am eivin' sum attenshun now to
the new>fsneled noshuns OF our Iced
ers, and will hev somethin' to say
about them anon il not sooner. 1t is
awful hard to la'arn an old Dim>
ocrat like me . new political gospel.
l hev jist beerd with consternasbun
and grief that the feliers up north air
. kickin' up big muss, and air re-
pudiatin' the ackshun OF Burke and
Till. SIGH men As our Jim Hawiey
and Hagn and Woods and lots of 9th.
ers say they will have none of Wover
& Field, but will vote for Grover or
bust their suspenders tryin'. Now.
SIGH conduct is outrageous. Them
fellers must be lsshed into submishun.
Burke and me and Till will hev to 20
up thare and bring them sedishus
chaps to time, or cast them bodily on.
Of tho Dimycratio Synagog.
What do they mean by kiekin' when
me and Burke and Till hev set our