Evening journal., 1899-02-02
LETTERS FROM THg PEOPLE
"BILL JONEsn cRIr1cIsED.

To the Editor OF the Evening Journal
Dear Sir: ! am a careful and inter
ested reader Of your valuable paper.
and l live in a community where we
all have been taught to believe that
everything we see in the newspapers
is true. 1 notice that in several issues
you have published communications
purporiing to come from a man sign
Ing himself Bill Jones" and pretend
ing to be directed to his WIFE Mary
Ann" | have industriously inquired
among my neighhors and ! can find
no one familiar with these names. !
have even asked If in the community
anyone Of prominence had wife
known by the name of MARY Ann
We have gone over the whole list OF
prominent men in our section and not
one Mary Ann appears. / am there
fore led to believe and hereby affirm
that you have been imposed upon. You
are regarded here as the Democratic
organ and, pardon me for saying, you
should know enough to recognize the
fact that this section of country is the
birthplace Of Democracy We have
reared. a happy united and contented
family, and are amazed to find that
some pretender styling himself as a
follower Of Addicks, should claim "a
be our representative. This rising
statesman" will soon take a fall.
1 hesitate to make a suggestion tc
you scruunizing newspaper men, but
| have had my suspicious aroused that
this same man signing himself 'Bir
Jones, is none other than my old IA.
miliar friend. Reuben Scraggs."
/ have talked to Reuben about IL
but he denies II. Still there are cef-
tain earmarks that make me suspi.
cious. For instance. his allusion to Milf
Wilson, who ought to be a Democrat
because he is really that way Of think.
ing. and most Of his friends are OF
that side. The style OF his spelling Is
very much like that Of Reuben and Ir,
Cooper, who teaches school in oui
high school, says that scarcely a wore
is spelled correctly But whether it /,
/ Reuben or some other fellow imposing
upon You, take my word for it. tha
any man pretending to represent thil
section of country who poses as an AID
dicks man is a fraud and ought to bl
exposed.
IL may be that this little note vii
beto hima squelcher, but If he attempt
to write again to any woman in thi
town named MARY Ann" I give hin
notice that the postal authorities hav
been warned and he Will. be huntet
| down. One matter which 1 had ne
elected to note shows conclusively tn
fraud which this man Jones has at
tempted to perpetrate and in consider
ing this il unsettles me in my view a
TO whether or not he is really Reube
Scraggs. Reuben knows John Sauls
bury as well as / do. Reuben can sin
and so can I, but John Salisbury don
know the difference between "The OF
oaken Bucket" and "A Hot Time 1
the Old Town" Now in your last issu
this Jones pretends to give a piece {
poetry as coming to him from John I
set to the music OF the FIRST piece aboy
I, named Well, II anybody should sin
il John wouldn't know whether ii wa
"Oid Hundred" or when This CRU
War is Over"
Il may be that when this man Jonl
sees that he is not really representa-
5 the sentiments of this community. !
! viii stop writing. but n he should so
, anything more I only ask the priv
lege Of answering him. Yours oppns,
TO annexation TOM SMITH.
p Sandtown. Del. Jan. o.