Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-01-26
WASHINGTON, D. C.

;Tu the Editur:
Ez a harmunizer Nv vagrant idees /
considered it tn be mi dooty tn attend the
lait meetin Nv the Dimicratic National
Committee witch wuz held in Saint Louis.
in the Dimicratic stait Nv Missouri. About
twenty members wuz present, and it wuz
desided tibet the exigencies Nv the sitooa-
shun justi6de US in deelin with tibet num-
Der, in speekin Wv en-, es two-thirds Wv
forty-fye. m%enshuned the subjeck tn
MIR. Bryan. hoo l he'd never met befoar.
and he sed thare wuz no reesun whs
twenty coodn't be called two-thirds NV
forty-fve ez eazy ez fifty cents wurth Nv
silver Good he called a dollar. In fact
twenty wood hev alwaze bin NV tibet size
if it hedn't bin fer the crime NV '13 and
the unconstitooshunal entertainments NV
the Goldbugs. Ez it wuz. he sed he WIZ
in faver Nv manetainin tibet rasho with
out watin fer the konsent Nv emmy furrin
nations.
The members Nv the National Commit
tee wuz called tugether fer the purpus NV
organizin sum harmuny fer next yeer.
Tha wuz expected tn du in St. Louis, on
q big scale, whut l he'd failed tn du in
Washington on a small wun in mi hum
ible wa. After we he'd organized and
compared notes we found we he'd gained
nothin hi changin the center NV disturb
ance. A Goldbug Dimicrat wuz jest ez
oncompromisin and onreazunable in st.
Louis ez he wuz in Washington, and a
free silverite wuz jest eZ big a fool in
wun place ez he WIZ in anuther. We
Good mostly agree upon drinks, aud he'd
no violunt outbrake consernin the bill Nv
fare; but wen it cum tn shapein out a
pattern fer a platform Nv p%rinsiples fer
a crate politikal party tn yoose a year
ahed. we run aginst moar snags than a
Mississippi River steamer. We he'd a fu
men hoo insistid upon the gold standard
SIGH ez Mr.. Cleveland insists upon. We
he'd moar hoo wantid whutever Mr.. Bry-
an wantid. Then we he'd sun tibet didn't
kno whut tina wantid except that tina
wantid tn git intu offs and didn't care
how tina got thare. Most NV EN- felt tibet
the heethen NV the Fillipeen Islands
coodn't git a fair deel ez long ez Dewey
and Otis WIZ oppressin them with the
Amerikin army and navy. and sum Nv
the western members hoo he'd sons in the
army, and on board Dewey's fleet, sed
tibet emmy man hoo simpathized with sich
Uneasy heethen wuz no better than the
heethen themselves. we all agreed tnel
it wuz our dooty tn fite imperialism" il
we Good only find out fer sure jest whit
imperialism wuz, and tibet we wuz agin
''expanshun" if "expanshun" wood helE
the Republican party. The tariff, we con
Guided. wuz tn mulch NV a hot potater tu
handle safely, es all our predickshuns
consernin it he'd bin nocked in the he'd b
the fggers at the custom house and the
internal revenoo buroo.
Only one issoo renamed beside Mr.
Bryan's idol Nv free silver and tibet wu.
tn maik a howly howl about the Trusts
Mr.. Bryan insisted tibet hiz idol shooe
head the processhun. but we prevailed up
on him tn side-track it fer a little vile
ontil we Good feel the Dimicratic pulse
with the onderstandin thet it Good be
trotted out agin if it wuz thot best tn d,
so. Under these condishuns he consented
tn talk tn IFS about the. TRUSTS oni nro