Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-01-03
LETTER TO PENNOYER.
When Governor PennOyeI'
retjres to His SdlU MiU
He tCiU take Tommy
Tongue and Char
ley Fulton aCiH
him.
(Communicated.)

pardon me for writing you an open
letter at time when no doubt you
are very busy with your holiday
pleasures, turkeys, cranberry sauce,
etc. But having noticed your let
ter to Cleveland, or rather your
second annual message, and this
being near the end of your official
career as governor of a great and
growing hard up state, / have
thought it might not be out of
place for one of your former dis
ciples to address you in an open
letter, but 7 desire to disclaim the
honor of being the one who first
conceived the idea of writing open
letters to big officials. I readily
concede you patent-right on that
idea, and promise never to infringe
on your rights.
When you were first elected you
followed in the line of democratic
principles, and made a rafting
good governor, and thereby en-
deared yourself to the people of the
great webfoot state. And 10 show
you that an Oregonian appreciated
a good administration you was re-
elected, but as soon as you was
returned Jour head began to grow
and you soon forgot the trust ofthe
people, and commenced to follow
after false Gods, no doubt thinking
that you could ride into the White
House on fowery beds of ease, and
be surrounded by such angels as
Mrs. Lease, General Weaver, Gov
errors Wait, Lewellen and Sockless
Jerry. Yes my dear Governor your
conduct for the last four years has
been extremely anti-democratic,
and in some cases un-American, for
instance, when you forgot to show
proper respect to the peoples presi-
dent, We say peoples, for after a
man is elected he is everyones' pres
ident, regardless of creed or politics
But you imagined thatyou were the
Sun, and that the whole earth was
depending on you for light and Sec
ond class lumber. You thought
that you were greater than your
party, and better than all the dear
people who placei you in your ex-
alted chair. Your letter to Mr..
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state with its never failing harvest,
as being inhabited by a starving
people, was all for newspaper bunk
um and a Pennoyer boom. You
advocate free silver and Christmas
letters, You had better hand out
some of your great wealth that kind
providence has given YOU, to some
OF these starving whom you have
written so much about. You have
done all in your power to sink the
democratic party, and are now reap-
ing your reward by being CAM
paigned by such men as General
Coxey, of the Buckeye state.
Now my Dear Governor as one
who always admired your first ad-
ministration from a farmers stand
point, and still believing that you
are brainy and have courage to
back up your convictions, therefore
hope that in your lonely days
down on the banks of the old
Willamette river, after you have
counted over the earnings of a day,
and balanced your books and laid
by the measuring stick, 1 hope that
you will then repent and go back to
your first love and democratic prin-
ciples. We will rejoice more over
the saving of one lost sheep, than
over the ninety and nine that are
safe in the fold.
There is one thing that you have
done Governo, that us farmers think
real funny. 1t surely is a good
Joke that is the trap you set for
Charley Fulton and Tommy
Tongue. 1t has raised quite a
racket in the republican ranks, but
even the republicans are laughing
at the joke to think that these two
who were stumping Oregon