The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-11-01
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county resident. It seems hat back
in Alabama they cannot believe thai
Woodruff is a candidate on the Re
publican ticket.)
Gopher Town, Pike County,
Alabama.
my Dear Old Tom Snort:
you no doubt will laugh yourself
grizzly when | have told you how I
reserved a newspaper clipping from
New Mexico telling us how Keen
Scooter Woodruff has been nominal
ted for high sheriff, and say it's by
the Republican party, and that paper
blows him up and says he had filled
the sheriff's office here and was PEI
fectly fooant in the work, n said
if elected they had every assurance
that the office would be honored,
and all SIGH things. Now you know,
Tom, as we'll as | do thai Keen
Scooter's' highest position here was
captain of a gang Of possum hunting
boys. They gave him this office as
it made him feel frisky, and in that
mood no possum could escape the
sniff of Keen Scooter. But as to his
bein' a Republican, I hardly think it,
but if it's the genuine old "Keen
Scooter" that we know that is doin
all this, there's been an awful change
come over him, for you know that
at a Democratic possum roastin, with
potatoes run in the possum and b.
tween 'em, old Keen was pulling
them taters out and his mouth Il
so full before sneakin' was ended
that he would try to cheer the speak
er Inc would make a noise like a
calf tryin to bleat. And old Keen
Scooter at those gatherings seemed
to be at his best and when the spec
kim was over he would dodge behind
rhe camp, clear his mouth of all out
ward signs of gravy, and hen would
come out hollerin' unearthly yells OF
Long live Calhoun and Andrew Jack
son." and then he would make anolh-
err dive for the possum and taters,
and you remember, Tom, it was at
one of these possum Democratic raj
lies when Keen Scooter was at his
best and full of possum and Eaters
that good, old sister Wigler said thar
there was a powerful outcome ahead
of hat boy, but Law, she didn't
once dream that the powerful outcome
was to be turned into a Republican
1N SOOhCIJ LII III SdIlIOuI1 COLIiLy
is right now awaitin' to see if his
is not a fake, and not the genuine mr.
ticle. No one will ever believe it ua-
old Keen Scooter to say nothing, un-
til he has the game, and then tell us
just how he worked them voters out
there, just like he was on the hot
trail of an old fat possum. He
would yelp, but slip up and
get the game by the tail before the
unsuspecting possum would know
Keen was in the woods. And you
could always tell when Keen had
him by the tail or up a persimmon
bush by the way he yelled. But when
it came time to hand around the per-
simmon beer which only came on
rare occasions Keen was on the front
seat. This was the Democratic Dev
eridge and many is the time old
Keen said if a Republican would only
take two glasses of persimmon beer
he would yell long live Democracy.
In your reply you tell me if you can
what you think that boy Keen has
been drinking Aren't you sorry that
he has done so, but I'll bet they fool
ed Keen and he thought he was get
on the outside of some persim-
mon beer. and these old GONZALES they
ell US about he mistook for the ia
ters from the possum. If this is