Evening journal., 1899-02-01
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mel wich / sent you las Friday. He
Civ this letter fur Wite 70 feller
named w. T. Fleetwood Fleetwood !
didn' male the letter. He wuz
100 good a fren' OF ourn to do that,
an, eff he'd mailed hit he wou.dn
a-got posishun he's after in theFilly-
defia mint. So he wen an saw Gale
Laton. our leder, befor he saw the
post offs, an LatOn red the letter
wich Conoway had rit to Wite, an
Gale red hit at the. Addicks dinner inl
Fillydeliia. Them Reglers is now
tryin' TO fin out as how that letter got
outten the seled envelope wich had
postage pade on hit, an took part in
the dinner wich we gev in Fillydelfia
l wish Addicks I'D keps his frensI
frum doin' sech things at a time wen
we're workin' the high morele prin-
slple racket on the peple I'm agin'I
holdin' back a Reg'ler's male matter
fur the sake Of perlitical exspediensy.
Hits my opinyun that the feller to-
hoom a letters addrest oughter hav'
the furst look. Wot we're afeerd of
is as how ef the postoffis department
finds out through Hyou Br0une as how
Fleetwood delivered that letter to Gale
Layton insted of to the POSTMASTER at
Georgetown Fleetwood II lose his plase
in the mint fur hit is shone by his
askshun towards a pore sick man as
how he CANT be trusted in wot my
fren', Walter Hayes, calls the comfy
denshal relashun. A feler who'll help
to opin anuther mans letter hahn fit
TO be emmy plase but in iale Eff hit
kin be proved as how Gale LatOn kept
that feller Wite's letter frum the male
to read hit to our feller Addicks hits
agoin' to play hob with us down in
Sussex. l he'd ies begun to think as
how me an Addicks had things in
purity good shape, an l had scarcely
thunk my think before this yere thing
Gums down outten the clere sky an
shakes everything up powerful-like.
/ hav' cum to the cOnclushun that the
Reg'lar Republicans has more boss
sense than our fellers. | am givin' to
understan' as how. wen the letter
didn' cum to Mister Wite on Toosdy
or Wensdy he sent out to Mister Con-
way to no about hit, an Conway sed :
Il sen that letter on Toosdy Mister
Fleetwood, who happined to be in the
room at the time, felt fur a corner an
sed; 81 think ! mailed that letter: eff
| didn't / misplaced hit" Then this
feller COnaway, whose vs. We needed
so bad, sed, "Ill rite anutLcr letter" "
wich he dun, an hit wuz printed in
the Evenin' Jurnil on Friday, an the
letter as Conaway had rit en- Toosdy
an witch our feller Fleetwood sez he
misp,ased, wuz red by Gaze I.aton up
at our dinner. an, to make matters
wurse, Ode More an uthers Of our fell
.ers owned up to hit in a barber's shop
at Laurel on Satterdy mite Ef hit
hadn't bin fur them hit wouldn't a-got
out. I've writ an toll Addicks about
hit, an now I'm waitin' fur an ansir
Hit won be so bad ef the postil peple
don git after our fellers Fleetwood
an LatOn, but ef they do hitll be
mitey onplesent to me fur hit nOcks
Fleetwood outten a job in the mint
an sewers Conway on all Of us fellers
Mary Ann, there's an OF sayin' "a
how lissener never heres no coed OF
hisself. Their wuz an excitin' objick
lessn of this at the Stait House this
aftirnoon. X-State Treasurer Ross, OF
Seford, cum up yere to-day to git the
| legislativ committee to FORMULATE an
sit in hits report settlin' with HIN
and the X-state awditer. Mister Ross
an Representativ' Frank Macknultee
wuz standin' down at the fut NV the
gran staresteps a-talkin' about the
closin' up NV the Farmers Bank
branch at M Cassil They didn nc
hit, but Cashier Walter Morris wus
standin' up at the top o. the stare.
steps lissenin' to all they wuz sayin'
They wuz tarin' up the banks propy-
sishun fur closin' up the M Cassi
branch an retirin' sum stock wen Sec.
retery of Stait Jim Hewes lined 'em
Now hit has bin wispered aroun' her
as how Mister Ross is gunnin' fur Mis-
ter Morris, and / CESS hit mus be trOt
fIum certen exspreshuns l hav herd
Mister Hewes toll Mister Ross an Mis-
ter Macknultee wot a CRATE man Mis-
ter Morris had bin fur maxim money
/ fur the bank. Mister Ross sed as nov
Mister Morris hadn't made emmy O
hit, an that emmy man could dur
the same thing. He sed as now Presi
den Ridgely wanted to make the stat
pay six per cent. fer money, an tha
Mister Morris wanted to make hi
/ poney up five per cent vile the bank
surplus wuz only drawin' two pc
cent. in Fillydelfia Mister Macknulte
toll Mister Ross as how the Unyoi
Bank NV Wilmington he'd lent Cit
e COUNSEL sixtey or seventey thousan
r dollers at a clip an asst fur no secur
ETY.. He sed hit wuzn't no stait or cit
% bank an wuz merely one OF them de
positin' banks fur the citys col cash
Things wen along this way fur SUI
time an then Mister Morris got tire
S ov lissenen an walked down the step!
;. He called to Mister Ross an tol hir
y he wouldn't anser him jes' then. HI
q wuz high tide on the NantykOke in
mint, an the flud NV elokwense wa
runnin over the banks before Miste
: Morris moved hit 81 didn' no as ho'
you wuz evesdroppin'," sed Miste
n Ross but wot / sed benin yer bac