The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-17
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order it was moro than could do.
Quito fraud has been unearthed in st.
Paul In the past summer by the timely
report Of Scandinavian, who wrote tho
following letter to the mayor and thus
brought the parties to justice. 1t is
curiosity to those who have made study
OF the Scandinavian dialect:
DEAR SIR-I am wondering If you have any
naiedses of that satso svindling Is going on on
Savent St, and will now tally YOU yoth 81 IL
Thar is som dad bit that have gat colored
man In n Hedge, and sho HON for mony Shargs
10 cents for admission and than tri TO max pco-
pie blivo tho havc c0ugth hem in arisona, us
Wild man
do not blivo In suoh u ROBBERY from por peo-
pol, that don't now OF any batter and TO go in
thar and pay fifteen cent for to sc n negro that
Is as tam rs tho rast- Do you blive II is rigth
TO lat than do 80. like sport bout like to SO
1t In far play. Your Fraind for Aver
Very few people here would pay fif-
teen cents to see negro "that is as tam
as tho rast"
Politics is active bore. Much talk Is
heard regarding the late congress. Here
in North Carolina and elsewhere the
opinion prevails that congress has had
too many men In it who have been SO
busy watching the "home paper that
they have had no time to devote to legis-
lation, and thus they claim Incidence
and timidity have been the chief char
acteristics of the session.
In 1879 Gabe Bouck, Of Wisconsin.
was seen pacing up and down the foyer,
or whatever it is called, which surrounds
the. desk where the primary department
Of congress sits. Flo was member of
the house, and seemed to have stopped
out into the entry to swear little over
the arrears Of pensions bill, which was
evidently about to pass. "a set of
ID towards contemplate, ID
cowards!" he was heard to circulate
ever and anon.
But why don't you stop itr' said all
ex-member who came in just then.
stop It'll" he replied. How can
stop it when I'm one of the ID cow
ards myself?
Congress, however, is hardly to blame,
for it is too large body to act wisely or
we'll. just as our presidential oonven-
tions are lately, and If we continue at
the same rate, the great national fight
hereafter will not be to see who will be
elected president, but what town will
have the convention.
Those who have not read the open let
ter written this summer by Andrew D.
White. Republican, to Patrick A. Col
Inns, Democrat, Of Boston, ought to
get it and read it. Do we hold presiden-
tial conventions for the purpose of noun
mating the best man or for the purpose
Of farming out the lemonade privileges
to herd Of yaps and yahoos who can
yell down tho wisest sentiments, and np-
plaud and expectorate and delay the
convention, and then go back to the
asylums again to wait for another con-
vention?
Four or five pure minded men, with
no political principles, should get to-
gether and talk this matter over. l
could get away during the month of
October. Prior to that l shall be busy
hero on the place.
Alabama has just had very heated
fight over tho governorship, and the fol-
lowing, printed during the campaign in
the Birmingham Ago Herald, shows that
Is man in Alabama without lineage
has no business to run for governor:
ACTIVITY, MONROE COUNTY, Ala.
BILE governor was tho issue OF n German rail-
road engineer and IN Italian fruit woman OF
charleston. and boing unable TO answer such
an argument, weak as 1t Is. for God know
such an issue could be as honorable ns az,
other, provided It was legitimate / wrtto you
to give mo tho facts in the caso.
so please give as full and complete sketch
OF Governor Jones up TO his thirtieth year as
possible, stating antcccdcnt of both his father
and' his mother In full, who they were and
lfTlnf YxN.t.
from tho mountains Of Tennessee. am going
to try to mako some votes in here where the
Alliance, however, IS worry strong. One-hhf
column Of Governor US gencaology would
mako hundreds OF votes Yours for tho belt,
SUBSCRIBED.
How Governor Jones ran in Activity
have not yet heard, but if Subscriber"
got in half column of genealogy no
doubt hundreds Of votes were made
there.
We should try this fall to keep poli-
tics pure. believe we can. The disa-
greeable things We're said before, when
the same candidates were before the
people Tor rnelr suttrages. Pleasant
little items OF a personal character have
been printed and now we are ready to
enter into the campaign and each strive
to make the wavering voter understand
matters regarding tho tariff. which we
do not understand ourselves.
Need add that believe there will be
o pure ballot in the south? Should there
be fraud In 10y neighborhood, especially
fraud that will cut down our vote, l will
write piece for the paper about it.
South Carolina has law which nm
derstand requires the voter to present
his registration ticket at the polls, and
that is his Identification. That Is his
letter Of introduction, his right to ex-