Evening journal., 1899-02-02
FRlE SILVER SPLIT.
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sech a bill
That there Maeknultee is a funny
lfe.ler. When we wuz up at Farnnulut ne
guz sittin' in the parler ov the ans
house talkln' 10 nise-.ookin' young
gal. She lookt sumthin ike yer Cusin
sareys gal Kate. Mister Rose OF the
House cum in the parer an Mister
Macknultee got up an sed, Mics Mac
koy hit affords me no end OF ploshur
20 interdoos to you Mister Representa-
tive David Rose ov the Wite Klay
Kirk hundred deearlct. Mister Rose
an the gal smiled nOwingly at one
anuther an then Mister Rose up an
sez: "Hit so happlns as how this yere
hahn Miss Mackoy, but my own be-
luvid sister" An so hit wuz, Mary
Ann. Mister Macknultee had inter-
duced a man TO his own sister an
didn' no hit. l laffed and laffed, fun
nit wuz so funny to see MIN after he
had dun hit.
In the asi,um there wuz crazy
nieger boy who wuz won OF these yer
checker vertuowsos yo' rede about.
he asst President sammons eff he now-
ed how 90 play checkers. 81 kin pay
sum, an I'll try you a game" sed
Mister sammons, an, Mary Ann, hit
wuz cawshun TO see the way that
craz nigger boy clened up the prese-
iant oy the SENT. Hit wuz a regger
givawa game, fer a fac.
The Dlmocrats we's got engaged 70
keep Hp the free silver spit an to cut
down Gray's vote Is doln' good wurk
an 1 respect 'em fur hin Sum mites
ago one Of these felers wuz TO meet
me down at the railroad stashun. an
wen he got there sum Dimccrats who'd
cum down on the mite exspress foun'
him there an he wen a terruble site
outten his way to exsplain as to wy
he wuz down ther al sich an hcur.
He oughter put on boz frunt an not
gone inter exaplinashuns.
Jes' to show you hcw pupler our
feller Addicks is, wen i wen inter the
Stait House sum days ago there wliz
two Kentin wimmin waitin' fur me.
One wuz gray-hared ar the uther had
black hare an the Lord had Civ her
a pare Of black eyes. One ov them
SEE, How duz hit look, Mister Jones?"
| SEE, "Kinder dark. How 6 things
a-mown' out aroun' Kentin?" She
sez, confdenshal like, "Everything's
fur Addicks, Bill, ole boy. We wan
Addicks or nobody. an we's druv or
9 miles to tell you so. Den Civ in.
Stick hit out to the las. I'd tell SEN
liter Lewis there the same thing. but
he's a Dimocrat, an wouldn' do emmy
votin the way l want him to-" seq.
ladies, hit's pleasin' TO lern as how
Kontns al rite fur Addicks. Tell
them peple out there as how Bill Jones
never surrenders.'
I'm glad to tell yo Mary Ann. as
how we won have no more ftin' with
Spane. Our fellers mere has rattyfido
the treety an everythings an rite.
Hay' yo' saw that feler Fred Book
sneakin' aroun' Sandtown? We've los
site ov him here an ne appears to
have got !os', slrayed or stolin. El
he Gums TO the house DIN CIV him
nuthin' to eat an dom let him slepe
in the hay-loft, fur he's a red-hot Hig-
gins man an mite set the hay Attire.
We wuz calculatin' on him to split
them Reg'lers wide opin hut ne hahn
dun hit fur our benefit. sum gay a.,
how DUPONT an Mckinley has sen.
him down South 20 git him outten
Hyoo Browns way Ef they dun tha,
hit wuz a purity durned meme thing
an Wen git even with the admins
trashun fur hit l hav' bin givin' ia
understan' as how DOctr Manshil
wants cur feller Abbltt to leve Ad-
dicks fur five minits an Civ him a
complimentary vote, but I'm agin emmy
brake in the lines, an Abbltt is fol-
lerin' my instruckshurs.
Sum days ago the Wilmington cit,
Council cum down hear TO tel me a.
how Mister Leary had a brand new
baby, an sence then they've bin down
agin. Hit wCu.d hav saved expenst
ef they had writ me postil card. bu
hit jes' goes to show, Mary Ann. how
popler | am. The Gray Dimocrars 4
hedgin' an a hedge bill has bin inter
dooced in there behalf by Representa-
tive Shalcross, an hit may pass e
the barbed-wire fence trust don set M
,obby agin hit.
/ CHARLES Hignitt, NV the Eighth War
q Republican Club. hahn got no idee q
wot he owes Addicks. We never ha
out one peece NV Fediril patronage I
give out an Hignitt got that an no,
hes ded up agin our man Addicks.
think he's the mos ungratfulest felle
IN the hole state. ave gev thar fele
al we had 10 Civ. an then that's IN
l. way he's treatin' us. We got him
l. good job on the railrode when h
= could ride, an wurk an pay hiss ow