Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-02-09

APPLEJAcK FARM. wIcH is H.xT tn
GROVER CLEvELAND's. IL THE STAT
Nv Moo GERsEY.
Tu the Edit,M:
After ~encounterin so many setbacks tn
Dimicratic harmuny, and heer1n no end
NV bad nooze from every pint uv the po-
titikal kumpass, doorin mi stay in Wash
ington, I he, returned home fer a breef
konsultashun with MI. Cleveland befoar
l go abroad agin intu territory outside wv
Moo Gersey ~ drum up recroots. Wen l
sot down and realized how he he'd snacht
me frum laber and sot me adrift amung
strangers with more mummy in mi pocket
than l he'd ever seen thare befoar l felt
tibet it wood be base ingratitood not u
call Upon him and let him share the at
tlickshuns tibet he'd fallen ontu ME. l
seen hiz shadder on the barn dore ez I
approach hG premisiz. and found the
CRATE man engaged in settin a hen,
wich seemed tn be wobblin around
tn much tn SCOT Mr.. Cleveland's peece-
full idees. The old hen wuz wallin and
kickin and cacklin in a belligerent atti-
TODD, and failed tn approximate her own
er's pacific intenshuns jest ez sum Dimi-
Gratis hev dur wenever hiZ name IL men
shuned. Befoar l Good git a chance tn
sa ennything, Mr.. Cleveland commenced
to talk tn the objeck NV his solicitood and
~onburdened hiz sole tn her ez if she he'd
bin a delegate tn a nominatin convent
shun. "Yu air a toomultuous and kon-
trary old kuss," sed he, "but l kinnot af-
ford tn hev yu feel emmy luminosity agin
me. Yu need konciliation. Yu alp jest
like the Dimicratic party ez constitooted
at the present time. Yu hev tn mulch
ftin blud in yure constitooshun and not
enuff judgment tn bak it up. Yu air
huntin fer trubble in every direckshun
and likely tn find it if yu keep on huntir
fer it. Yu need sum strong man like me
for instance, who Good seeze w with 6
mailed hand and hold yu in check VILE
yu get rid Nv the ftin fever tibet seem:
tn onbalance yu. In yure present frain
Nv mind there IL no tellin whit furthel
delooshuns may enter yure he'd, nor how
soon yu will run up agin sum bigger birt
tibet kin lik the stufin out NV yu. Thar
il the saim uncertainty ez tn how yu will
act after yu git quoted down and gi
intu the incoobatin bizness. Whut kim
Nv a platform-bird I mean-air W goi1
tn hatch out? Air yu goin tn hatch GU
wun with golden plumage, or wun wit!
silver fethers, or wun with no cutler a
all? Perhaps yu will incoobate a scare
crow with a niger outfit bi witch tn scar
sumbuddy tibet is eazily scared-jest e
the Republicans Nv Baltimore wuz bi GU
folks at the city elecshun in May. o
tibet 1 Good take a peep intu futoority an
find out whit is ahed Nv us!'
Findin mi benefactor in such a medita
tiv mood. and inclined tn be d%esponden'
it made me downcast, miself, wen re
membered tibet l brought no tidins ka
culated tn cheer the hart Nv any Dim
crat hoo hungered and thirsted fer off
So jest ez he wuz about tn resoom b
conversashun with the hen in regard t
politikal ekonomy, l rusht up tn him an
frantikally embraist him amidships ez fl
ez I Good reach.
"What nooze frum the battlefield" sc
he, ez he. gently ontangled me frum b
arms.
''The nooze is all wun wa, and all agi
u.s.. MI. President" sed. L "wether v