The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-18
Wants Supreme Court to Hurry Up.

MiStur edtur:-
bin tole that edtur ov nusepaper
ken git amos emmy thing he want eff
him nuthin heather. line tole that
edtur rides free on the trane an that
heather the legislator nur the cuppera-
ton cumition ken kene him FUN ridin
free. I'm tole that a edtur kilograms free
an that he telephones free and that he
etes free at the hotel. All this here jes'
proves to me that hit is a fac that a
edtur ken git emmy thing he wants Now
Mr.. edtur, line in trubbel an mead hep
an / want you fur to hep me. Hit looks
like you oughter hep me fur bin scrib-
ing fur yo' weakly nusepaper ni'onter ten
year and hits guide nusepaper two an
think yure a good edtur two. Now
yure welcum to publish what Inc sayn'
about you eff you think httel do you emmy
good, But mr.. edtur you sho mus hep me.
want you to see the Supream Cote fur
me an axem to hurry up and beside my
case. May be you dunno that l got my
leg broke three year ago by the ralerode
engin an my onliest littel stear was kilt
at the same time at the big rode crossing.
The jurys gimme ateteen hundred dollers.
tel you Mr.. edtur you jest oughter herd
my lawyer plede that case He shuck
his fist at the Super of the ralerode vino
wassa tendin the trile an my lawyer
also called the most principulest witnes
agin me lire but tell you he prais me
an he tole in fine words what a guide
man | was an how valubel wuz to the
community. / saw him cry when he tole
the jurys how | suffered. He didn't tell
the jurys that we wuz to divvy on what
they gimme but | recon he node best
and hit wuZ best hotter tell that But
my lawyer sholy wuz polite TO the jedge
an the jurys. Afore we got into the cote
house l heerd him say that the jedge
wuz a block he'd an that two of the jurys
wuz the biggest raskils in the country.
but mi. you oughter heerd
him talkin to um in the
cote house. Envy time he looked at
the jedge, it wuz "yo' Onner this" an
"yo' Onner that and eff he had called the
jurys gemmen onct he called UNI that
twenty-fore times. Now Mr.. edtur. Imei
jes coming to what / wanter say. You
see my trile was last March jes one year
go an the ralerode tuck the case to
the Supream Cote. My lawyer went down
to your Sitty tride the case before the
Supream Cote las fall He tole me that
the Cote node that l had bin outten my
mony a long time an that they sholy
would beside it before they went home
crismas, but l keeper watchin' your
weakly nusepaper an nary word about
it untwel at las | seed that the Cote had
quit and gone home fur the hollerdays.
l tell you Mr.. edtur that maid me sad.
went an axed mi lawyer what wuZ the
matter. He lowed he didn no but he
reconed they had tuck a adversary on
the case. l told him l didn like no sech
and he lowed ide better hesh up or hit
mite git to the Cote that l was mad an
they mite beside the case agin me. l
axed him eff he madden sed that nobody
but a billie cote could beside that case
agin me- He sed yes he Sed that but l
mus hesh UP or hit mite bert the case
and cause me to lose mi hafe an his
hafe two. l axed mi lawyer then when
wuZ they going to beside 1t. He lowed
they sholy would beside jest as soon as
they got back after the hollerdays. Well.
sir, they didn cum back tel way yonder
about fust NV febuerry and then they didn
beside it. / bin a watchin yo weakly
nusepaper evy weak an hopin an eg-
spectin tosee sum thing about it but mar
ry line yit. Hits bin five weakS now
sence the Cote met agin an | binner
reedn in you weakly nusepaper that the
lawyers frum evy whitcher way bin
down thar with cases an evy weak that
Cote has bin desidin cases that cum up
thar long arter mine. l jes tell you Mr..
edtur hit doan look like that's totin fare.
Way up hear in these hear mountings
whar l live the fust man that gifts to the
mill with his turn gifts it groun fust. l ak
ed my lawyer about it yistiddy, and he
done give up lookin fur it. He lowed that
Their wuz a heep mo lawyers all up in
these mountingS an up to AShvil an fur
as Sharlot that wuz a wonderin what the
Supream Cote had done with the cases
that wuZ tride las fall. He lowed that
hit lookt to him like while the Cote wuz
eattin their Crismuss dinner these hear
cases all got stale an now it wuz as hard
to beside UNI as it wuZ to eat cold bat
ter cake fore days old. / tole him eff that
wuz so then the mex time ! got wonner
MY legs broke or d stear kilt / ment to
fix it SO / could get my case befo the
Cote in the spring time when the ledge
wuzzent hurren home to eat Crismuss
dinner. l tell you, mr.. edtur thar wonst
wuZ a jedge by the name Of Clark that
cum up in these mountings as / heerA
him say ten yeer go that it wuZ a shame
fur folks not to git a quick trile and he
sed eff emmy body wanted a quick tribe
befo him, they could git it. ! wisht he
could git hole Nv mi case. I axed mi
lawyer why he didn git after the Cote
about the way they wuzza doin with the
cases from the West He lowed he wua
skeered to and l bleave he tole the truth
that time. Now mr.. edtur. eff you is on
good terms with the Supream Cote, please
see um and tell UNI to beside my case,
but eff the Cote don't like you, you mus
sent say nary word to um for the Lord
nose | don't wanter make UNI mad Tell
UNI please sur that the crate West feals
like the Cote oughten to spend all its
time on the cases fun the east what cum
up thar long arter ourn frum the West.
AK jedge Firchez eff he don consider his
sef fum the West, and eff he says. he duZ,
then ak him to please see that the West
gifts quick TRIES an jestice. l told mi
lawyer l wuz a goin to write to you Mr..
edtur and see eff you couldn git that Su-
pream Cote to beside my case. He lowed
1de, better not, but | bleav he kinder
wanted me to, for he tole me eff | wrote
to not sine my own name, but TO sine
(Which | doz)