Evening journal., 1899-02-15
BILL AND THE COLONEL
The Sandtown Statesman
Takes Tea With DUPONT.
REGULARS TO BE oALLBD DOWN
CC1lONEL DUPONT TOLD THEM TO
10 ALL THEY COULD FOR AID
DICHls, BUT THEY EVIDENTLY
RIlEUNplERsTOCD HIS MEANING.

DICKS, BUT THEY EVIDENTLY
NllEUNDERsTocD HIS MEANING.
While Honorable Wiliiam Jones, OF
Sandaown. dated the following letter
ffcm Dover he evidently wrote II in
Wilmington for It was mailed at the
Wilmington pslt Office. and as soon as
Fos.master Browne. who is chairman
ci the Regular Republican State Com
mittee, found It in the drop-box he
eurned it over to the Wayfarer:
Dover DeL, Feb. Is, 1899.
MyDsreMaryAnn: HM'sbin a-snowln'
up we're. an sIuEl Ohere haint no
e.eclzshun. rm mitey glad aus how that
There branch rode into Sandtown
wuznH bit before the sno cum, fer ef
hit had a+bin' you an med a-had to
dug hit cut. I've bin up in Whining
ton fur three days, an me an Charlie
I0.utinger's had a bully time. Mister
Addix sent him down to kepe me cum
pny. He's a Mise feller. Mary Ann.
but he haint got muoh bizness sense.
Fer instance. he wanted to hire a
speshel trane to take him an Bial1eiy
an Frizzell down the Delewar road as
far as the furst big sno drift He
went up to them ralerode ferlers an
SD: "IG civ you $3.50 fur one engine
an 2 cans" They ast him Who they
wuz for He sed ais how Mister Ad-
dix wanted to git FrzzeA. an Blake
~, an Nox. an Burns. an Hahchens,
am Robertson, an Maclnultee an
y lEonnyhoe. an Dave Rose on the spe-
}, ,she. an run HIT into a sno-drii. about
five miles frun nowhere, draw the fires
ou.ten the engine AM leve 'em there
TO freze to de,h. The ralerode feller
, sed: IL emmy Of them feIer5 Gray
men" An Charlie sed; Il Think they
H." Then the ferer spoke up an sez,
5 we don care about them Chandler
y an Doopont feilers but hit would be
agin the interest OF the rode to freeze
II NAAN ANAAN lNM " 4fNAs AANkNA AAN1
4 intent like hit" Charlie sed as how
p it wuz anuther case Of a grindin mo
p nopolee harln down hard-Ike en- 9
pore man like Addix, an he went on
a a-cuaLln an eayin as how a mnI
z dldn have no charlse delen With sole
/. lees corpyraaAuns nowadays. Then
IS Gray an Docpont men don't no wo
dose shave ghey had, fur ef wei
onot a-got em in that drift they'd a
never got out.
After we cum out Charlie sed: ''Bil
s we've got to git to Dover" l see
r 'SWot fur?' He sez. "To elect Miste
Addix" / sez, How're you agoiu
r. ITO do ht?" He eez, That's a ante
,r consideraehun. I sez. "T CESS yo
n hain't bin redln the noospapers.
why" says he. ''Bsoase ef you have,
N SCI I. you'll see as how df you q
IN every burned Addix feller there hi
~ won't make a kwOrum, an wOt's tn
le use OF victim eff yon hain't got
* Kworum." I never thot Of that" Sc
D. lhe. "Hitb a vallyable suggeeltshun
M cum an take aimthn'; fur hits
n lhnin' wind" We went, and felt bel
eer. He sez, 1--WE didn't git ths
n- egoshel. but hit wuz a good advei
,e tisement" l sez, "Wot way?" i
es sez. "HltIl make pep,o talk about Nd
rs tor Addix." I sez, "WotTl they say
be He ssz, They'll say wot an ente
ad prism feller he H." l sed, Il tn
ed maybe they'd say ais how hit wuz
"a. case OF a fool an his money soon par
a. cd. That's wet they've bin a-sayil
nd lH9. made Charlie kinder mad an
az lew.tShed off on things he caAed co
ng per properties He might a-nowed W
m he ment, hut I haint bin able to Il
on ger hit cut yet. II Mister Addix had
Of Charlie Kigtingers he'd be bustid
IN. three weeks. There haint no end
aid that feiler's e1travygens. He dc
;. think nuthln' Of buyin' ten-cent
emit sazs. an don half smoke EN- up.
rol ast me ef I thot Mister Addix cud
eleokted. sez. Charlie, eff yo'
we'd rede the Mornin' News, the Midd
no town Transkript, the Mifurd Noos
ZEN. Advertlzer an Bob Houeiten's par
ted ahe Sussix Repnb.icikin, you'll see
No. how them fel,ers is layin' the gro'
She fur vaklnsy. They're not only
in lavn' hit. hut they're after sadd
rem. the responsibility on us fe,lers.
bed Mister Addix nows wot plane Ing
NTH IL all he has to do IL to rede q
he Regrer Republican, papers an /
the see as how he hain't got no cha
d of bein' elected" He sez, "Frzzell
so P.akely wanted to go down on
,osi- midn.te with me, an wuz also
lder. fur that speshel" sez, That 'ud
and make seventeen, an I'd like to
nue.. where the luther votes IL AGO,
no. frum. Hit hain't no use a-tai
sent Charlie; hit CANT be did. Them
'serS IL after Mister AddiX's go