Evening journal., 1899-02-09
STILL NO ELECTION.
Bill Jones Comments on the
Flopping Of the Regulars.

GIVES A JOINT PRIMARY TIP
THE SAN1DTOWN STATESMAN RE
DATES A PATHETIC MEETING
WITH w. S. HIII4ES-HE RE
CEIvES A LETTER FROM HIS
MARY ANN.
Dover, Feb. Z, 1899
Ny Dear Mary Ann: An stil there
has bin no eleckshun. Wen d wuz
comm down from Wilmington this
evenin' heerd sum good news. Two
fellers frum Milford wuz on the trane,
an one of them sed as how Addicks
had fifteen votes an six more a
comm. 1 no where he got the fifteen,
but I'm still figgerin on the utner six.
Me an Frank Alice has bin usin' long
an short arithmetic an we CANT
make moren' sixteen by counun Friz-
zle, an he's still avoun fur Chan
der. We're still in the majority, fur
Gale Layton caught Conaway's letter
on the fly an got Misses Conaway to
burn hit up. Hit don make no differ
ence wot Conway SEE, we say he's an
Addicks man. In our opinyun he's
sick, an hahn got nuthin' &c d with
hit, fur this is a well mans n.s a.
were runnin' hit. My men is a-goln'
20 stick to Addicks. Them RegIers is
foTpin' aroun' like that OF yaller
hen ov ourn after chopt her he'd off
They know they're foppin', but they
don know jes' where they're a-goin
10 IAN on the next flop. Hits aggre-
vatin' to them, an hits aggrevatin' tC
US. In this respec' hits wot my fren
AIbbitt calls a case OF hOss an boss.
don no as how you'll no wot hoss an
hoss menes, but, ef emmy Of the nabert
asks you, jes' tell 'em as how hi
menes two hosses. Hits ded esey wer
you study a bit. Sum OF our feller,
lays awake at mite, waitin' to herr
about Regler Republican confrenses.
ust to do hit, but / don do hit enn,
more. Them Reg,ers hahn a-comin' Z,
Addicks, an our fe,lers haint a-goin
TO ennybody else, so I don see as ho7
hit makes emmy diffrense now menn,
confrenscs them Reglers hold. We'r
takin' new menes OF bringin' then
Reg leus to terms. We sez TO then
that ef they don jump i'll an he'll
elect Addicks we're a-goin' to jump Il
an lick the life outten them at thi
yere comm sitty eleckshun, an folle
that up by jumpin' in an lsckin' er
at the mex generel elecl1shun. Theyr
countin' on us jumpin' in an holdir
jint primery eleckshuns with ther
this Joon, but we haint a-guin to d
hit. There won be no more lint Or
meries in M Cassil ef we no hi
Once wus enuf fur us, an we hail
quite got over hit YET. Jint primer
les in Nu Cassil county IL a de,ooshu
an a snare, an can prove hit ef
at Sam Nox an them uther feller
We're a-gOin' to hold primeries Of OIL
own after this, an let the Dlmocra
carry the county. This summer
D.mOcratic nommynashun in Wi
mington will be ekivalent to elecl
shun, an visee versy on the Republ
kin an Addicks nommynashuns. We
a-goin' to hand the hole burned sh
bang over to the Dimocrats an tn,
the Reglers won nave a duru,
thing but the Federil patrinage
hang onto. Hits suddint.y dawned
us as how the only way to get rid
them Reg'lers is to go in an ma
there stampin' ground Dimocrat
We're goin' to do hit at ne sitty elec
shun, an then ag.n at the mex gene
eleckBhun. Them fellers has b
countin' on jint primeries 20 git all
them county offices but we're ago
to give every burned one of them
the Dimocrats ef they won swing
an elect Addicks. Eff they do tf
We won Civ 'em to the Dlmocrats, /
jes' take 'em ourselves. So you s
Mary Ann, as how the Reg'lers is
tween the devil, witch is Addicks,
the depe bloc sea- which is the Din
Gratis. HITS a tryin' time fur Reggie
an Hu Brownies thinhn' apperati
IS wurkin' overtime. Ef we could oil
git Mckinney away frum them fell
they'd all be huntin' fur COZ
beneth the protectin' wing ov Addfc
Eff we once make 'Nu Cassil Din
cratic them fellersll have to move
into Pennsylvania fur the sake
havin' sumbody To talk to. We've di
EN- cutten Kent an sueeex, an n
we've snuck into M Cassll. wich
wot Wiilyam Jennings Bryan wo
can the enemy's countree. / teel so
fur sum of them, fur they deseru
a better fate, but eff a man butts
he'd up agin' a stone wall he n