Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-12
EZRA GREEN AT
 OYSTER BAY
PIainSviIle Citizen Hoped to Persuade the President to Accept Another Term.

jop at the expirashun ov his present contrack.
 You see, I felt sort oy acquainted with Mister Roosevelt. When his trane stopped at Plainsville I shook hands with him. and he sez: q hope I may have the pleasure ov seein you agen some day"
 talked a good deel, I guess, about what the President sed to me, fer | did feel kind ov proud ov it, and the boys they sort ov got to kiddin | me about it. But I dident mind 'em | leastwise not much.
 So, when I laid out to go to N. | York to see what had becom ov the l dividens the feller sed would be a. | comin to me on them minin stocks, Hank Wheaten up and sez: "I say. | Ezra, why don't ye go down to Oyster Bay and call on your friend, Mister | Roosevelt?"
 Ov course, Hank was only funnin, but the idee sort ov stuck in my mind. | I dident make no doubt but that the l President would be reel glad to see me agen. and I kind ov thot if I cuold | go there and have a soshable sort oy talk with him, the boys to home mite deside they'd been barkin up the rong tree after all. I meen when they was joshin me and talkin about my freen, the President.
 And then besides folks out our way think Mister Roosevelt is pritty neer the goods, and sense that time his trane stopped at Plainsville I'd bin hopin he'd keep rite on bein President l fer awhile.
 | l lowed, oy course, that when he | first moved into the White House he was sort of skitish and enclined to shi | at things when there wasent nothin there to shi at. and other times he'd gone prancin rite ahed when. if he'd bin older and a lettle more used to the harness, he'd ov stopped, and looked, and lissened." But when a man meens well follIi kin squint their eyes and pertend not to see a good meny funny things he doz on the side.
 Besides. Mister Roosevelt's bin pro- gressin. He's lerned not to skeer at the cars Chats a joke ov mine, meenin the railroads), and he's done some other things what's turned out all rite that he mitent coy talked if he'd been reel safe and sane and consarvitive.
 I'd red in the papers about how Mis- ter Roosevelt had 3ed he woodent let 'em nominate him agen fer president. but way down inside I had a sort ov sneeliin notion that if I could go to him reel friendly like and say Mister President, it's you the plane people want and they ain't a-goin to take no substitute labeled jest as good" why maybe he'd take 1t kindly ov me and mite reconsider his iron-bound and copper-rivuted determinashun that he'd had plenty and to spare ov | bein President.
 | l remembered how that fellow over in Rusha they call the Czar would is- hue a proklamashun one day in which l he'd say Somethin was our unalter- able will' and next day he'd go square back on everything he'd sed and his will would be iist as 'unalterable' on 1 the same thing. and I dident no but maybe Mister Roosevelt was consti- tuted somethin like that Czar fellow. 1 Ov course, I no now I mite as we'll ov 1 tried to snap a oak with my fingers or push mountain over but us folks in rooral places like Plainsville don't often git chanSt to size up grateness at clost range and obsarve the work ins Oy minds in whose keepin are the i destines oy mankind.
 But I'm gittin further away from what I sot out to rite about that bashful bo gets from his girl when her mas in the parlor Sunday mite. It's about my trip to Oyster Bay I'm a-goin | to tell you.
 1 I sent Mister Roosevelt letter the day before I started tellin him I was a-comin. Now I aint no fool and dident expect Mister Roosevelt would be at the stashun himself to meet me with a band. But I did think mabe he'd sen one ov his hired men down with the keerage. I red that was the way he done when visitors was ex- pected.
 I'll own up I was a mite disappointed when no one was there what seemed to be lookin speshally fer me, but after I thot 1t over I desided mabe there'd bin some leetle misunderstand- in about the trane was expected on. I asked feller what seemed to be lofin around the stashun-a reel mise lookin feller in clothes what must ov cost a pritty penny-the way to Sag more Hill. where Mister Roosevelt lives when he's to home. He had bin lookin at me kind ov queer like and pritty soon I begin to git suspishus that he mite be one ov them pick pockets or bunko men. But after he'd asked lot oy questions about my biz ness with the President and I'd told him how Mister Roos<velt D,d sed he hoped he mite have the plashure ov seein me agen some day, he was reel mise and friendly and sed if I'd jist go with him to see SecStary Lobe he thot it could be arranged. I heard after ward as how he was one ov them detectives what gards the President and keeps away anarkists and other | cranks.
 | Mister Lobe was to lunch when we got there but a young feller in his ofiise sed I mite wate. I was hungry myself, so I went to the grocery store down stairs and got some bolona and crackers and I was eatin 'em when Mister Lobe comes in.
 Mister Lobe must be pritty smart or he woodent have the job he's got. but there's several things Ee could Tern from Mister Roosevelt if he'd try rite hard. He mite Tern to shake hands with leetle more enthoosiasm and to make his smile jist a leetle more