The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-29
TOBE SPILKINS.
HE is "GITTIN' NIFTY SUSPISH.
US THAT HE'S A PHOOL."
His Wife Shares In His Suspish.
uns.-Reasons For Such Con.
clusiOns. the Past.
[From the National Re eformer.]

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MIsTUR EDITUR:-Tobe Spilkins or
tent tu be phool, but I'm getting
mighty suspishus NV him. He rubbed
up agin enuff ruff korners in this wurl
to be good deel smarter than he il.
Crosby the deer wife Nv mi bussem,
has had suspishuns long while. The
moar I think Nv the prosparity what
don't never cum the mOar madder l
get and bigger phool kno 1 am.
Dident l vote fur good times?
Dident five milyun other phools du
the saim?
repeet it, did we?
Here it il putin up ash-hopper
time agin and nary a good time in
site.
I'm thinkin today Nv the past.
The time when 1 Good be a Demi-
KRAFT without kickin and fndin fault.
Them wuz the daze ween the Demi-
krats had neerly haf the offices and
nun NV the res resposibilitize
How we larruped the Republicans.
Nv korse them wuz good times kom-
pdToU WILL UucSc.
We Good set under our own, wild
grape vine and big tree and eat our
corn bred.
Sumtimes we had mete.
We nearly always had melasses, and
purt neer alwaZe coffee.
But how is it now?
Az the girl sed when the feller
poligized for kissin NV hur, "don't
menShun it,"
In them daze we kussed the Repub-
likans fur the hard times.
We told the peepel that it wuzent
the falt Nv the Demokrats becoz the
Republican Preident, or the Republi-
kan SENT wuz in the wa and we Good
ent du ennything until we got full
power.
We sed give us chanse and we'll
bring good times on the wings Nv the
morning. The uthur da wuz reedin
NV speech what l maid down at a
picnick at Mullen'S Mill. I rit it out
and lurnt it bi hart so az tn maik
tellin speech. l had on a good suite
NV clCZe then and wuZ knockin Nv
the stuffin out Nv the Republicans.
Tobe Spilikins wuz in hiz glory. I
sed:
"Feller Sitizens:-The CRATE Ameri-
kan egel which il the emblem Nv our
CRATE kuntry, IL not prouder than 1
am tuda tn have the privilege NV talk
in tn downtrodden peepel. This flag
which IL the emblem Nv liberty iz
flauntin Ii. Kin ennybody sa that
peepel IL fre when tina hav tn sci
wheet at $1.00 a bushel and kotten at
n &c tn
he liz fre when he haZ tu pa a tax on
everything he bize as we'll az every
thing he's got: Du you wurk frum
mornin til mite rain kotten at cents
a pound and wheel at 81 per bushel
tn kepe the CANT wolf Nv hunger
stickin hiz he'd in the door Nv yoor
humblel kottage? Then thank the
dad blasted Republicans fur yoor fur
lorn kondishun and vote the Demi.
kratic ticket. Be4 this kuntry kom-
mensed goin tu the dogs under blak
radikal rule, you got 55 cents fur yoor
kotten and $1.75 fur your wheel.
Then you wuZ free indede. But a
dark da KUN. The devil entered our
garden WI eden. In 1873 the misery
maxim Republicans deQunetized de-
munetized silver. 1t wdz 'the crime
of the 10Th sentury." On it's dark
sable wings it brot 10 wages, 10 prices,
and misery. What we need, fellow
sitizens, is a Demikatic administra-
Shun. Give us chance and we'll re-
stoar the government bak tu the pee
pie in its purity. Well maik prises
better. You kant live rain 81 wheel
and sent kotten. The Republican
party il a set Nv thieves. s'Sic semper
tyranus;" which meens ''set the dogs
on 'em." You want good wages and
better times; vote the Demikratic
ticket. You want better prices fur
your kotten and wheel; vote fur
Democracy. You want prosperity,
peese, happiness, and plenty; stand by
the grand old party; the party Nv Jef-
ferson, and Nv Jackson, and Nv Ben