The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-12-24
LETTER sRoM naI.kIxs

ItsSsafnS AeauS Tor S1sFfsfsa2s nf BsI
kinsviii@--The Real Truuhle wiz
the Democratic Parsy--psf Crow.
In Sew RcIc-Ihe TRUSTS and In
Courts.
Correspondence of The Caucasian.
Enterprise.
BiIkinsville. ~ c.. Dec. Il. ises.
We air gfttin' redy fer Christians
In BilkinsvIlie. Betsy she hex bin
shoppia' purity nigh every day an
wearin' out her shoes an speckties
a-lookin' at things Awl wImin need
two pair ov eyes erbout Christmas SO
they could look at both sides oy the
store when they go a-shoppin'. Betsy
nster do her shoppin' In Raleigh whel,
we lived In Wake County. We lived
down on Terrible Creek near Mccui-
lers Station. an she'd purity night
drive Rob ter deth a-goin' backards
an forwards ter Raleigh. She'd be-
gin ter shop fer Christmas erbout
the first of December. go an come
erbout every day. But she wuz list
like awl the other wimin-she
wouldn't buy a thing till the last
mint. the day before Christmas. But
when she did start things a-goin'
she'd make my poor old pocket-book
look like a whole drove ov elephants
had bin danein' on hit fer six months.
Me and Bill Moody an the rest ov
the boys, inciudin' Deacon johnson,
hev not bin lettin' the grass grow
under our feet. But we air doin'
our shoppin' fer Christmas in Ken
lucky. We hev purity nigh worn our
eyes out a-reading' ov the circulars
an letters the ticker fellers send out
an hev bin argyfyin' az ter which liz
the best offer in the way ov Christ
mas cheer. Then Kentucky fellers
may not be much fishermen, but they
know how ter bait a hook ter make
hit look temptin' ter a poor, thirsty
fish trrin' ter exist in dry territory.
Bill Moody he wuZ sorter skittish er-
bout orderin' Ticker frum Kentucky
or anyhar else. He lowed that our
poie tAC 6AoSC dh MA
krat party he'd gone prohibishun, an
ter be consistent we'd hev ter let our
tanks go dry this Christmas ennyway
or hit mite hurt the party. Then
they axed NE what | thought erbout
hit.
Well" sez I, ''hit hez bin my priv
tlige ter be an awl-wool an a yard
wide dymakrat ever since the surren-
der an l kin speak by the book, az
hit liz awl in the family. The dym-
way frum the way hit hollers. If the
party ever does git in favor ov doin'
erway with Ticker hit will put up dis
tillers an bar-keepers fer every offs
from Preserdent down ter road over
seer, fer hit liz party that awlways
hev no doubt but they wuz some
people that really thought We wuz
fightin' Ticker. But, my feller-citi-
zens, durin' the last few years Ticker
had bin sorter scarce an high, an
tn quality wuz poor. We wanted more
ticker an better ticker. Az usual, we
didn't say so; but We come out ergin
ticker, turned probishun, KNOWN full
well that whatever we voted fer
would not come an what we voted
erginst would come. Well, we car
ried the State by over $1,000 major
lty. Nearly awl ov the drunkards
voted on our side bekase they know
ed that somehow or somewhar they
wuz more Ticker, better Ticker, an
cheaper Ticker or we would not be |
movin' heaven an earth ter carry the
State dry. They had unbounded |
faith, you see. Well, here we air |
Even now We kin git hit cheaper
frum Virginia and Kentucky than we
did before. Why, if we buy twelve |
quarts frum one firm here they will |
give us two quarts free. Don't you
see how hit liz? Ov course, hit liz a |
little truble ter be orderin'. But the
peple air gettin' what they voted fer, |
Or, rather, what they voted erginst. |
If we had voted fer Ticker four years
ergo you could not now git drop |
ter save your life. A Ticker famine |
would hev spread over the land in |
three days after the eleckshun an
the country would hev bin ruined. |
That liz the reason we held our noses
an voted fer Bill Bryan fer Preser-
dent no less than three times; we i
guide government, an we had |
ter vote an work hard erginst the
in order ter eleckt them. |
durin' ov the last eampain erbout the
immense campane fund the Repub- |
Iikins had raised ter eleckt Taft |
Well. they didn't use much ov that
exsept fer insidentaI expenses; they
iist raised hit, or pretented to ter
git US ter fife them hard The result
wuz that we did fight them hard an
they carried the country by two mill
lions, or two hundred millions, fer
git which; hit wuz a guide, safe ma
iority, anyway"
We'll, that liz aw1 over now" sed
Bill Moody. I'VE air awl guide pro-
now an we must remain
so in order that we kin git plenty ov
Ticker fer Christmas an awl other
events. Did you say twelve quarts
ov the best old rye? Awl rite. I'll
write out the order an hit will go
ON hits way rejoicin'. They say goods
air shipped the same day order IL re-