The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-07-09
Mr.. EPlzOOT WILKINS.
he bew"'is the Increasing Prosper
ffy OF the Country ms Inimical to
the Democratic Party and Suggests
Recruiting Its Depleted Ranks
From the .'FflIfpeenoze"
Tu the Editur:
WASHINGTON, d. c.

iHc E.ultur:
Ever sence the agurnnent uv kongress
bad nooze hez bin pourin - frum every
quarter The rebellion in the Fillipeens
liz peterin out, our moo possesshuns in
Cuba are givin us less and less truhble
the furrin nashuns ar beginin tn act ez il
tina didn't want Amerikin guns pinted at
'em, and tharo IL no prospeck Nv runnin
up agin emmy buddy we can't lick With
sich a sitooashun confruntin the Dimi-
cratic party, whut kin it hope fer beyond
the rollin seas? Nothin, l feer, wich kin
moor tn our benefit ez long ez we name
tame our present attitood NV ftin every
thing wich the administrashun proposes.
In this kountry the sitooashun is grow
in wuss and wuss. Ka1amity, our only
hope, seems tu be more distant than ever.
The crooel manoofacterers NV Moo Eng
land and Pennsylvany hev hit us a stag
germ blow in the nek bi raisin the wages
Nv all their operativs and givin them all
the wurk tina kin du. How kin we buck
agin sich practikle prosperity? Whut kin
we du tu checkmate r4e enthoosiasm Nv
men hoo hcv plenty tn du and git good
cash wages fer doom it? The ''pernishus
activity" Nv laber jest at the present time
is hurtin the Dimicratic party bi showin a
paneful contrast between the times ez tina
now iz and ez tha WIZ wen we WIZ run
min the kountry fer the purpose NV maxim
it fit the theoriz NV free traders and
dreemers on politikal ckonomy. Mr..
Cleveland hez wizcly sed tu me, ''Wate
ontil kalamity Gums, and we shell shoorly
return tn our own, - but how kin we waite
much longer fer the gosh hanged thing tn
cum? 1t maihs me sick at hart wen re-
alize thet the 'hard times wich wuz the
sheet anker nv our hopes NV restorashun
hez slipt its cable and thet the old Dimi-
cratic ship NV stait is driftin ontu lee
shoar with all sails t!oppin in the wind
and the crew standin with drawn knives
reddy tn chop each luther up, kill the cap n
and SHUTTLE the vessel Oh thet we Good
agree upon sum Jonah tu fire overheard
thet wood Civ general satisfacshun wen
the job wuz dun.
I sulntimes think we hev made an orful
mistaik in titin agin all the moo issoos
wich seem tn be cumin up fer settlement
CROWN out NV the war with Spanc. Per
haps we ort tn hev invited the Fillipeenozc
tn cum tn this kountry, jine the Dimi-
cratic party and Iced it and run it. 1t
wood not require much Nv change to
transform sich n restless, oneaZy and
kwarrelsomc heethen eZ Aguinaldoo intu n
man like ex-Guvener Atgeld, and the most
NV his followers Good soon be made over
intu class Nv Dimicrats thct Good be
made yooseful fer the purpus NV standin
up tn be countid even if tia cOOdn read
and rite Tha Good stan the Spcllin book
test eZ well eZ sum wv our Tammany Iced
ers, and tina Good take the places NV the
thousans Nv laberin men thet we hev lost
under the depressin inflooencc NV better
times. We Good send 'em to sum politikal
Kelley cure, hev n little dose NV good citi-
zenship squirted into 'cm, and we Good
then march em up TIL the poles and vote
'em agin whatever the Republicans vote
fer. Thare iZ alwaZe the material fer a
good Dimicrat in Il feler that iz roamin
around with nothin tn du and hoo IL will
in tu du whatever "a Dimicratic heeler tells
him tu. If we he'd only he'd few thousan
FillipeenoZe in Moo York and other stats
at the last elecshun hoo wood hcv voted ez
ordered, we shood now be spared the hoo
miliashun Nv seein IL Republican guvener
Nv Moo York, "A Republican majority in
the mex kongress and the prospcck NV re-
lnainin outside the breastw urkS NV offis
The moar l konsider the subjeck the noar
I reach the konclooshun tibet we must hev
sum moo recrootin territory frum wich tu
draw our votin supplies. We hcv about
exhausted our rcsoursis i'll this kountry,
and we ar losin our footin everywhere. 1t
suddenly occurs tn me thet perhaps the
.oneazy, lawlc and nakid hccthcn NV the
Fillipeens, who are agin the government,
may be jest whut IL needed til wurk out our
political salvashun. We hev alwaze he'd
the best lux wenevcr we hev he'd the least
intelligence tn buck aginst, and WHARF
law and order IL held in small rcspecl5t.
-Sho me ii place WHARF yu kin hang or
burn niger without hurtin ennybuddy 5
feelins but the nigger's, and III sho yu a
place WHARF we kin alwaze kount on big
Dimicratic ma jority. 1t iZ the same WHARF
Ignorance prevales, and if | Good be as
.shoored thet the Fillipeenoze Good be kep
ava from schoolhouseS and noozcpapers
and other civiliZin inf1ooences l shood
favur bringin cm tu our shores at wunst.
I shel speek TIL Mr.. Cleveland about
this promisin outlook ez soon cz hcv an
oppertoonity. He hcz he'd grato LUX in
gittin folks hoo didn' kno much tn vote
fer him. and am almost shoor he wood
favur emmy scheme bi wich DimicratiC
votes Good be imported bi the shipload free
NV dooty if tina Good be yootilized next yeer
fer hiz benefit. Sich a course wood call fer
sum sacritiseZ on hiz part, to be shOOr, fer
he wood hcv tn explane why yaller man
in the Fillipcens IL more tu be desired e2
voter than wun in the Sandwich Is
lands. He Good refer it tn Queen Lii Nv
the latter place, and whutever she sed WIZ
the reeZun he Good declare it tn be the rite
wun. ] am confident thet Mr.. Cleveland
hez no principles wich kinnot be altered
tn fit the occashun if thare ar votes eruff
to warrant the trubble NV maxim the al-
terashun. It IL an experiment wuth tryin
and wun full NV CRATE promise if it pans
out we'll We hev nothin tn looze and
everything tn game bi ennything thct will
bring intG the Dimicratic fold Il lot NV
voters hoo don I kno much and don want
tu share tn proniskuously in distribootin
the offises think we kin safely maik Il
proposishun tn the Fiilipeenozc tn Iii tn
our rescoo and save us frum the defect
wich awates lis in konsequcnce Nv tryin
tu ride tn menny hosscs in different di-
recshuns in the same race | hev alwaze