Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1904-04-07
Marble Hill, Missouri, Thursday. April 7, 1904

nearly six months and could have
used part of your space, but motto
ing, weekly, that you had a lot of
newsy communications, we said
nothing. However, we did feel an
interest in the election, but not
being a citizen, we chose to be quiet
and watch the fight go on, hoping
that it would terminate as it has.
l am proud of my old township
vote, (German) German was al
ways considered the elective town
ship, and many there were of us
who used to work hard with an am
pie supply of bottled and jugged
persuasiveness, and we nearly al
ways got elected. AT this election
would have been glad to have
been at our old precinct, D. Boil
inger's. to see how things and peo-
pie have changed in these few years.
the dryest part of the county.
So you are "dry' and still you
are "wet"' Well, we had a good
rain January 20; now the earth
wears u beautiful carpet of green,
interspersed with myriads of beau
tiful flowers. Trees are all in full
bloom and growing green. Oats
all sown and some farmers are
done planting corn. Now, this is a
beautiful country to behold. We
had no snow, sleet, and but little
ice. The ground froze some times,
but it never got muddy in thawing;
it simply dried out. At pesent we
are just passing thru Il sharp biz
zard, but it's getting warmer
Now, I want to say, Il don't mind
the weather ifthe wind don't blow"
but it blows here. If you want to
enjoy some of the beauties of the
ethereal regions, Just come out in
this western, prairie country when
it's dry and experience one of these
Oklahoma ''zephyrs." You can't
see the sky, you can't see the earth
in fact, you can scarcely see at all.
Everything that is loose, goes.
Hundreds of destructive fires have
ragged during the last two months,
even burning people in many cases.
This will be a fine country, but [
abhor the sudden changes and, es-
pecially, the endless winds.
In six days God created the earth
and on the Seventh He discovered
q lot Of fragments that he had for
gotten to use, not Knowing that
the devil had slipped into the pile
4 lot of old Timber cheese and other
rotten stuff, He went to work and
made lot Of evil for future use.
He said this generation will arise
and flourish, but finally they will
decay and pass away; and so on,
age after age. But finally it shall
come to pass that out Of this pile of
putridity there shall arise a set of
beings in human form, with avari-
cious hearts, and clad in garments
of deception. And in the days of
great political strife these scoun-
crels will go forth among the peo-
pie asking to be made their humble
servants, and promising to faithful
,jy serve them. The people, not
knowing good from evil, put these
vanished rascals in high places,
where they shall be guilty of giving
and receiving bribes and all manner
of roguery.
And 1t shall come to pass that in
those days Of evil doings, one man
who is made Of adamant, shall arise
in defence of humanity and homes
ty, and he shall call these villains
before the bar of Justice to be tried
for their rascality.
They are tried and convicted, but
| 10, and behold, vision shall ap-
I pear in which it shall seem that,
owing to >'technicalities," those ras-
Gals must go unpunished until later.
Then the good people all over
the land shall rise up as one man
and praise this one good man for
his purity of spirit and persistent
prosecution.
Then they shall say unto onean-
other: Let's elect him governor of
our grand old state! When the glad
/ tidings go forth over the land, the
evil-doers shall begin to foam and
froth like mad dogs.
| And it shall come to pass that
! these villainous wretches will raise
up imposters who will condemn
and vilify this man. Even the gov
ernor and other state officigls may
condescend to aid in his defeat.
| Believe them not.
But 1 say unto you, my children,
arise, buckle on your armor and
90 forth to the battle of rimht and