Evening journal., 1899-02-04
BILL JONES SURPRISED.
Young Wilmington Mans Let
ter Too Much for Sandtowner.
SENATOR ABBOTTs MAIDEN SPEECH

4
TINE STANDBY OF THE GAS
MAN FINDS THERE is NO
WAY OF SATISFYING THE REG
UIlARS OF BRANDYwINE
SPRINGS.
Bill Jones, Of sandtown, IS becoming
more and more careless as to his cor
respondence. This is the latest found
by the Wayfarer:
Dover. Feb. g.
Deer Mary Ann
met Milf Wisun to-nlte an he sed
as how hit wuz a mistake about him
receivin' a letter frum X-Seniter Rick
erds astin' him to use his infooence
IN killin' off the Lawrel water works
bill. Hit wuz frum a feller named
F'ooks. He sez as how Mister Rick
erds mita put Fooks up to hit, but eff
he did he didn' hav' no posiMve nowl-
edge of the fac. Mifr sez he's agin'
water on generl prinsipels, but ef the
pep.e Of Lawrel wants to surprise
there stumicks hit hahn no water
brash of hissen an he's goin' to git
outten the fite vile the groun's dry.
George Smith, OF Lawrel, wuz up hear
to-day but his oppysishun lis sort Of a
help to the bill an we're encurigin
him along. Bill Jones has sed as how
Lawrel's got to hav water. an that
settles hit. Ef run UP agin that there
Addicks corrupshun fund I'm goin' to
buy all Of them I.awrel water bonds
fur hits my opinyun as how they're
all rite.
There's a feller named Frank Rose
down yere an I'v bin tryin' to fin out
wot he's after Las mite hit all dawn
ed on me in hepe. He's heddin the
lobby wich is back OF them Frizzle
bills maxim strete raleway companies
Civ there men time to etc, an the
city persent Of there resets. Hits
magnanymus pece Of wurk on his
part, Mary Ann, an eff the Humane
Society don Civ him a ms1dle to pin
on his coat hit won be doin' hits
dooty fur he IL eertenfy wurkin' fur
the publick good, an no mistake
Dan Stewert an Genrel Toppham
held close cawcuss at the Captitil
Hotel erly this mornin'. The generl
tol Dan as how fifteen Dimocrats wnz
a-goin to vote fur Dewpont an elect
him over our feller Addiclzs. Seniter
Pile asst Genrel Topham wot Dino
Gratis wuz goin' to vote fur Dewpont,
an he .sed as how it wuz the gol'
lDimocrats. Then Dan Stewert, Frank
ALE, Walter Hayes an me wen in the
redin' room an held a caweuss an
cum TO the conl1lushun as how sum-
body had bin lyln' to Genrel Topper
wen he didn' no hit. We gev hit out
as how man who'd spred sech dam
igin' roomers as that hadn no rite to
go to Congress, an now the hole Ad-
dicks aggregashun is solid agin' him.
He mite as well Civ up hope fur he's
begun to talk agin he's trends.
Mary Ann, I notis dis how sum OF
my letters to you is fndin there way
into the noospapers. There mus be
esrelessness at both ends of this yere
correspondence an a hdg leke TN the
middle. My ol' fren' r. NJ. Higbee, O.
Somewhat Bridge has rit me a letter
tellin' me as how ef wuz him or he
wuz me he'd go up to Wilmington an
smash the Ease often that edditer woi
is givin' pubhsity u my pryvtt com.
muniltashuns to you. But he don nc
wot a statesman has to stan. l rot,
him back ais how there wuz big diff.
ferense between running a sennit
toryal boom an a blacksmith shop r.
1 didn' hav nuthin' 70 do but pump
bellers an hit irun 1 could afford q
be independent an hit back, but
statesman's get to take ennyehing HI
kin git. Hit would be foolish fur q,
git into fte with this yere edditer an
h the only thing fur you an me to do IL L
be more earefuller in where we lay
4 down our letters. Them Reg'lers ha
=, control ov the postoffises an hit hahn
scarsely possyible fur us 20 keep thes
. yere letters outten print. Hit strike
me, Mary Ann, as how this yere fe.le
Higbee knows more about maxim
boss shoe than he does about maxim
a United States seniter. He nain' N
= statesman or he wou.dn be talkir
\ about smashin' the jaws offin thes
: yere noospaper fellers.
Nj OIL fren' Wilkins Cooch has bi
down here. asst him ef his vissit ha
emmy pOlitycal significance. He Sc
+ no, an that his only objeck in comii
IN was to see as how that generl corpy
3 rashun bill ov Mark Davises didn' dii
n krimynate agin' the franchise of II
lv 'Purgeetory Woods Park an Ian In
10 provement Cumpny. top him as no
o. hit didn' fur I had made a speehel e.