The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-11-29
Letter from GuiIermo Sed.
Shady Grove, NOV. %, I9O
To The Press and Banner

To Inc Press and BAnn6r:-
Dear Gents
It's not often that ask space in a news
paper but things are gettln' 30 hot some.
lhln's got TO be did. and 80 l will ask you 10
lend the . little space. 10 begin WIN l. zee,
crack my heels together three times and turn
a double somerset Al the way the internal
OLE aispensariss are oein, wiped OF ths lace
IN Press and Banner that ones gone ! take
my old double barrel out and let Ter on and
yell hurrah Tor Hampton !! Yes Sir, things IL
getting warm and makes ME wear = smile
that Just nacherly won't come Oh. That
plagued old dispensary's the only drawback
10 the farmers movement. l endorse break
Ing up the Iing ; l endorse Clemson; l en-
dorse Winthrop; but the Dispensary never
did 60 down my alamerkoozetlum-ln take
that back, have drunk the pasty stuff but
II war because l nacheIly oulau get IT
any wnere else.
It's a sin aud q meazley shame when a
man has 10 buy all his lick or from one place,
and II you get II then you've gotter sign lei
II, sligo min' YER and pay cash loo. NOW
what the dickens the use OF signen Wnen
you'vs gotter lay the cash all the m l
can remember when u fellow conld gel credit
ut the bars same as he can anywhere, but
he oan'b do 1t 1T The dlspensary, aud
what's worser still they won't let q fello"
treat yer 4! Now II that ainL contrary TO State
rights you can bang me for y loteetaIes
We've 6 y her goin' boys, Pickens IL gone
and Greenvllls II gone ana Anderson's gone
huQ VIC dI6 kOlu w AlbtIO ~ ~
ole thing OUT OF AbbeviIle forthwith.
What right Is the state got to SELL lcker
anyhow? Why, by gosh, the preaeners,i
tell er that the state alnt got no more
right 10 sell Ilcker " us than q lHther hassio
give his only child. Sukqueoxide OF OF ASA
ndlty.
all mean, strong, nrery burnin' Ticker
that ever triokled thru q wurm the licker
In the dlspensary IL IT, An ordinary man
can't drink more'n q quart q day wlthout
having orful hedakes and maybe bind
staggers and jimiams. I'll be Jiggered II Ia
touch another drop, II cud Get II anywhere
else.
l hail the day when We can get good pure
Ticker when we want II and where we mani
II, without havln 70 waltz up 10 q dispensary
coun Tor, like a tree Niger Ter u weeks rash
IONS. an have q neatly clerk 10 ask Yer u
yer twenty one, an sign yer name IKE you
was maxim over adowry or sumthln an tnen
have sum meazly imperdent scoundrel "
yell at yer, git out. You can't open that thing
in hare Like q man didn't nave. the right "
open IT where he pleaseB.
But Shes goin boys an there's one inhabi-
tspt OF SHADY Grove whose, glad OF II. Let
er 20. It's q mlnacs to civilization, II threat.
ens the inherent rights Of man, II robs. us OF
| our freedom, and unuermlneB the very SUD-
stratum OF our Democrat government. l fur
one will shore be II the poles when the day
comes and ever other man what likes net-
dom and good licher do the same.
| would like TO wink my lett 1 at that man
VINO bad q peice in yore last paper, his name
/ wuZ SLurky i tnlnk, 60 IL, DrOtn6r, vote the
| pesky skunk out. you're rlgnt the states got
| no right 10 sell Us Ticker. We can bell our
own ticker when 10 want 10. You're right
| erbouL the opportunity too, noW's the time,
less get rid OF 'er at once. An II we don't get
rio ri or, why by the piper what played
before Moses, I'll move to Mccormick where
! can get my stuff from Augusta In short
order and not have 10 shashaa sign. tickets
an sware TO age ever time l wet my alerma-
goozerlum.
Even these fellers what never touch q drap.
| the good templers, acknowledge that the
| dispensary Is all wrong. The preachers, ana
the deacons and the eIueIs in the churches.
most OF Fem, will tell you that the dispensary
Ia all rong q they are going ter vote, agin
1t at the next lection 70. She's gone boys
Throw up your hats and yell hurrah for
Hamton. I'm jest hatchery diem OF the Itch
10 sign Sturkeys petition an unless he gets
here purity soon I'll have TO meet him naf-
way.
aein the Internal thing as soon as Sturdy
gets the petition circulated. You bet Ive
got Shady Grove In line. And II you give
my letter q place in your paper why as soon
as his feched dispensary IL wiped of the
perlitical map I'll send you q quart or two
OF stuff that IL stun right, made right here In
the county, and when you wet your neck
with IT you'll wish II wuz az long as q
cranes.
Yours very truly,
Guilermo Sed.
P.S. 1 will also send a quart TO any other
paper that copies this letter.
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