The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-02-13
AN OPEN LETTER.
Mr.. StiIhaus, of Floyd, Writes
to The President Elect.
Hon. William Mike Kinley:

Dear Sir: You may not no me but am
vel ackwainted with you by repetition.
was raised here in the mountinys and
will tell you the skwarc truth. j have
not always voted with the rePublickins.
because 1T has not always been to my nd.
vantage. The rivernew ofliscrs have in
most of my experience been members of
your party and | am agin them on gin-
eral principles. Towsumevcr, after rot
IL docc of Grover Cleveland the fuss
time, was agin his rvernew officers, of
course, so, when Gineral lIairson run
Tor President / voted agin Cleveland and
put t.airson in, but he proved n wuss
fren' to the working man than Grover
was, so When HARRISON and Grover run
agn one another the second time, | cast
my balance for the Demmycrats. But.
my sakes. this time Grover is the wust ]
ever saw. His ri !erncw officers don t
have no mercy on the working man ut all,
and don't no more mind Dustin uD IL still
in the mountings than you would takin'
II drink of buttermilk.
by the way, major, whats all this talk
about making II cabinet, anyhow. Now,
cf was you, l'de buy me IL good second
hand bureau ut some furnity Stor and not
spend my valleybull time trying to do
sOmcthin | Amt had no experience mt.
ing biziDess, it's II great bother and IL big
vast OF time to make piece of furnity
like that big enough to hold the different
sizes and shapes of men that you are gwine
to put i'll yourn y man must under
stand Il dizziness before he can do it we'll
1t amt every man that can make good
likcr and save the CONVENT talks anymore
than 1T amt but Il few men that can
make II fuss-class cabinet
Cleveland rivernew officers have
pretty near busted up the moonshinc.
Ticker dizziness, although me ard ii good
many others is Still at it. AS was 90.
ing to say ! voted for you at the last
election: fust, because | was agin the
Dimmycratic riveraew officers, and, sec
ond, because like the looks of your face
and ginrul makeup and you've got IL
full, fat rOun face and u ncZe on il that
seems to signify you was II good ledge of
redlicker of the genu wine stuff; but as
between the two, that is you and Mark
Anna, | must say that he has the good
Ticker snes in greater Development than
you have. Now, l don't mean to say that
ether one of you drinks to xcess; fur
that is not the case. What mean to say
is that ef You was to come out here In
the molntings you would enjoy IL toddy
on cold mornin as well rs the rest of
us. And have IN idea also that when
you come home from church on Sunday
before you set down to dinner IL few
drops of the ''cretur" with sugar in it does
not 20 agn the grain. Ii am mis-.
taken. beg you pardon, ana can only saw,
there amt ncthin in sncs. don't think
anything less of you on chat account
believe you will make IL good Pre- sidcnt.
because you have an honesC face, but
hope, for the sake of the votes we fellers
have given you, that you will keep the
rivernew officers down, and let us ive.in
Peace.
1t is IL common sayin that the worm
will turn, EFF you tired on it and mash it
too hard, and that accounts for the fites
we have had with the rivernew officers.
Up in Floyd YOU have many frens 1t is
the gineral opinion that we are going to
have prosperity; so | hope you will send
him along right away. have always
been in favor OF Il Protective Tear If IL
|; fellers bound to get on one, as there is no
Knowing what n man will do when lie S
drunk-two quarts of red Ticker. But
when you get your cabinet made. and
have put all the men III il, don t forget
your frens up in the mountings We
don't want no office; but we want peace
and quiet, and eff you will give us that, I
can promsie you right now that YOU will
have all the Ticker you want without
payin any tacks on it.
see that Govner Bushnell is hangin
fire about appintng Mark Anna to the
Sennit. Now, that's what call down.
right mennness but eff you can't do no
better for Mark just appint him riverncw
collector OF this Dccstrict, and all will be
well.
Hoping that you will be duly inaugu
rated on the 18th of March, and that you
will aprint II good, easy man collector ol
this Deestrict, | am as ever yours foi
Peace and quiet.
WILLIAM STILHAUS,
Pinetop Township, Floyd Co, Va.