The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-10-22
LETTER FROM BILKINS.
More Excitement in the Western
Part of the State-Circus Adver-
tising-Why Some Preachers Go
to Circuses-Politician Are Busy
and Why.

and Why.
Correspondence Of the Caucasian
Enterprise.
Bilkinsville, N. c., Oct. IL, 1908.
Well, they liz CRATE excitement in
this part ov the moral vineyard once
more We air goin' ter hev another
circus in Statesville. Hit will be
thar termorrer in awl hits glory. Hit
will be the gratest ever seen, will
take ''five CRATE long trains" ter pull
hit erlong, an they will be eight
hundred employees" an fifty ov the
funniest clowns" in the world"
The exsitement we had a few weeks
ergo won't touch this at awl. Then
only few ov the preachers an dea-
cons an erbout ninety-nine out ov
hundred ov the people went ter see
the circus. The preachers jist went
ter see that none ov their f1ocks wuz
thar lookin' at the immoral bare
back ridin'" an sich, an the folks
they went ter see if their preacher,
Bro. Jones or Bro. Smith wuz thar,
an so the whole outfit got thar an
seed the circus frum the unloadin'
ov the trains till they wuz loaded er-
gin, an lot ov the deacons an sich
like stood rite up close ter the rings
ter see that nothin' wrong went on.
An the children! Ov course they
wuz thar, even children that wuz
not over six weeks old. They air awl
goin' ergin termorrer-awl exsept
me. I am the only real sinner they
liz in this whole country an / am
goin' ter stay erway frum the circus
an try ter be guide.
An they air awlso havin' picknieks
The last legislature, including the
extra seshun, raised the very dickens
an the pollytishuns don't know ex-
ackly how much devilment wuz done
an they don't know how the boys air
goin' ter vote this time, so they air
havin' awl sorts ov perlitical din
ners erround erbout an air sendin'
printed invitations ter each person in
reach, high an low, old an young,
male an female, tellin' them that
they air especially invited ter the
picknick, an ter cum an bring
everybody else, an hev a guide time.
The solum truth liz that we dyma-
krats air oneazy erbout the outcum
an income ov this eleckshun, an
we air doin' aw1 we kin ter pacify
| ther folks, fer we wish ter fool them
sum more-in fack, whole lot
more. An we air busy rite now doin'
the job, fer hit will be too late after
the 4th of November. If the devil
liz any smarter than we pollytishuns
I don't blame folks fer bein' afeared
ov him, fer we air slick persimmons
an we don't care who knows hit
We air so good that they think we
air not bad. But the real truth IL
that we air so bad that they air fool
ed ter death an they put in awl their
time a-huntin' the holes that we
crawl out ov. II any ov US dymakra'
Ipollytishuns would do rite an carry
out our promises times would be sc
guide that the folks would become
wild an begin ter kill each other fel
amusement. Why, Bill Bryan erlons
hez promised ennuff guide things tel
ruin the country. That liz the rea
sen we dymakrats don't carry out thu
tpromises made before the eleckshun
an' / claim that hit liz reason ennuff
Why ruin the whole country jist te
hev hit sed ov you that you did wha
lyou promised? No, thousand time
ino, we will not blast the future O.