Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-04-21
mn. EPlzO0T WILKINS.

Mn. EPlz0OT WILKINS.
The Oompanion OF HIS Bosom Does NOT
want Him to ..Figger in Politix.,s
Ho seeks Consolation From Mr..
Cleveiand, ana They Further Dis
cuss tho Political Conditionsor tho
Country.
Appleiack Farm, witch IL next tn Grover
Cleveland's, In the stait Of Moo Gersey,
Tu the Edttur.
Since ritin' mi last letter I hev bees
seriusly thinkln' Nv what Is II becum Nv
the crate Dimicratic party tibet all our
applejackers were wunst so proud nv.
I thot SO much about it I could not rest
In peece. I told mi wife, Mariar, tibet
I felt it tn be mi dooty tn talk with Mr..
Cleveland agin,. and see il we couldn't
hit upon sum plan tn save the old party
frum destrukskun and, .f~nserdentalll, tu
save the kountry il we could du 1t with
out sacrifcin' tn menny NV our trends.
Marian, the cumpanyun Nv mi buzzum,
hez never taken kindly tn mi desire tn
he sumbuddy and figger in politix. She
Gums frum low-down stock, and hez no
aspirations abuv the swingin' NV a dish
cloth. With me it IL diffurent. I hev
he'd a dreem, runnin' throo sevril yeers
nv mi life. tibet sum da I shood brake
loose frum the druggeri that falls tn the
lot NV the iaverij Moo .Gersey Dimicrat.
and be called upon tn help direct the. az.
fares NV our party. I never knu jist
how it wuz agoin' tn happen, but sence
the arrival NV Grover Cleveland, es mi
next door nabur, 1 kin diskuver an over
roOlin' Providence in the arrangement NV
things. 1 he'd hoped wen I m~enshuned
the subject tn Marian thet she wood see
it the same wa and jine in the enkur-
Pigment NV the idee. But she didn't.
s'Yu air an ole fool" sed she, land ought
tn be at wurk with a grubbin' no, instid
nv wich yu go about a shootin' off yure
mouth about the Dimicrats and their
fool dooins, and the kondishun Nv the
kountry, and film yer skin with apple
jack.
I could stand it no longer, tn be talkt
tn in tibet disrepootabel wa, and hev all
mi politikal hopes and aspirashuns krush-
ed. LEFT the littel vixen tn rassle with
her pots an kittles, vile I flu out NV
the bak dore, and run acrost mi field
tn where l seen the ex-President a per-
ambulatin' around hiz garden.
Approachin' him with bekummin' hoo
mility, 1 sed: II hope I don't introod,
Mr.. President, but l wanted tn hear VII
talk sum moar upon the kondishun NV
the kountry, and see if we Good plan
ennything for the redempshun Nv our
party and it's restitooshun tn its own"
'aThet il a prazewurthy idee," sed MI.
@ 4YN~D1nrl ~-l ~p, 6~xv tuvpn tho oSrn.'
pathetic cord in mi hart. 1t shoze
tibet yu hev a mind tibet scars
abuv the kommonplace surroundins NV
yure invirunments. In politikal mat
tiers we air tn prone tn lapse intu a staff
Nv 'innokuous desuetood,' as I remarkt
in wun NV mi messages tn kongress, and
let our politikal enemies triumf over us"
s"Them's mi sentiments exackly," sed
], altho' I hedn't the slightest idee Nv
whut he ment bi sum Nv the big wurds
he .yoosed. We hev no d%ickshunary at our
house, and so I went it blind N Mr..
Gleveland's langwige, tibet / didn't I'M
derstand, and endorst it on general prin-
ciples. We hey bekum SO accustomed tn
doin' tibet ez a party, and swallerin'
whutever wuz set before us in our plat
forms, without askin' eny kwestyns,
tibet l did it ez a matter NV course.
Mi assent tn whut he sed seemed tn
pleeze him, and he went on tn say:
1--WE air in the midst NV a CRATE revo-
looshun, and we air in crate danger NV
loosin' site NV the anshunt landmarks
Nv our f%orefathers, and sum Nv mi
professors in offs. All will KUN out
rite, however, as I sed tn yu last week,
Mr.. Wilkins, il we kin only stem the
tide NV prosperity. and pashuntly waite
until kalamity kin overtaik us. Already
/ kin diskuyer sun things tibet air work
In in our favor. I refer, NV coorse, tn
the sitooashun in the Fillipean Islands,
WHARF our forses seem tn hev run up
agin. a snag. If I Good only hev an inter-
VOC with A~gwinaldoo, and brace him up,
I feel konfdent we Good a sun,
political kapital out NV the deel. Emmy
thing tibet tends tn delay the final set
Element Nv the problems arisin' out Nv
the late war, or tibet increases domestic
diskontent, or embarrasses the guvern-
ment in deelin' with a lot Nv h~af-savij
furriners who kant approximate whut we
air tryip' tn du fer EN- must necessarily
operait in our favur. II we kin du en-.
nything' tn create a kundishun nv perma'
nent toomult in the Fillipeans, and rur
up the kost NV Suppression it, we air SURF
tn gain sumthin' in this kountry from thu
disturbance. In spite Nv mi sarcastic re
marks tn a noosepaper reporter recent!
made, I am paned tn observe tibet .sevri
nv our tso-called Dimicratic STATESMEN he,
n over tn the Republicans or the n,
politikal issOOs, and hev declared them