The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-13
LETTER FROM BILKIss.
Bryan stock Running Low-BiIkins
Predicts Politically - Historical
Facts About the Democratic Party
johnson County Republican,
The Major May Move BilkinsviIIe
to Alexander County Where Bran
dy Flows.

| !" ALEXANDER County Where Bran
dy Flows.
Correspondence OF the Caucasian
Enterprise.
Bilkinsville, n. c., Aug. 10. 1908.
| Well, you may think what you
please about hit, but / hain't hearn
the name oy Billy J. Bryan men
shioned in a week, an | hev bin
mixin' up rite mutch with the pee
pie, too. | may not be mutch oy a
prphet, though | think | am, and |
don't mind sayin' that in my ester
mashun Bryan stock liz runnin' nifty
low-not over 20 cents on the dollar
an no biddin' goin' on. | never
seed anything fall az fat az hiz nom
ernashun did. The Convention that
nomernated Billy Bryan a few weeks
ergo must hev bin made up oy 10
year old boys, or ov 75-year old
cranks or else hit wuz like / rit you
sum time ergo-made up ov Repub-
| likins who wuZ lookin' fer easy
money. Why. Bill Bryan won't make
greazy spot in the bottom ov the
perlitical pot. He will be lucky il
| he carries few small townships. l
hev bin powerful strong dymakrat,
an 1 can't git the pizen out ov my
blood, but l am bound ter say that
the usual axident iz erbout ter hap
pen-our party liz goin' ter be buried
so deep next November that we will
never be able ter skratch out. If
We do happen ter git our noses out,
we won't be able ter recognize any
body nor be recognized.
Fer forty years hit haZ bin the
same; except when Cleveland wuz
President, an we wuz so sick then
that the docktors refused ter visit
US, fearin' that we'd die before we
could swoller the medisin'. What
sort ov game air we playin' anyhow.
az l kin see, awl we do every four
years, iZ ter git more or less existed
an play game of blind mans bluff
an git licked every time. We orter
hev gardeen appinted an hav sum-
body ter look after us or first thing
we know we will git lost clear out
ov site. l hope awl guide people will
pray fer us an that awl bad people
will abuse us, fer we stand in need
ov everything we kin git free ov
cost. We holler an howl erbout the
greatness ov the dymakrat party an
try ter make people think we air
more important than the Christian
religion an byjingo we really amt
nothin' but a naborhood disturb
ance. No, sir, we don't ermount
| ter a drop in the bucket when
hit Gums ter elecktin' Preserdent
Why, my mule Bob kin git out in
the wheat stubble pasture any day
in the week an bray like a jackass
two or three times an carry more
States than we kin with Bill Bryan
runnin' fer Preserdent on a cast-iron
platform carryin' a flag made ov an
artists shirts an escorted by a spe-
cial delegashun made up ov disor-
derby persons an long-haired fugi-
tives from justis.
/ notis in one ov the papers that
a Republican county convention hez
hit IL claimed that at least fifteen
hundred persons attended the con-
vention. Ov course, aWl them people
wuz not Republicans. 1 expeckt that
| a guide many ov them wuZ thar to
see what was goin' on. An sum
| that wuZ there cafryln' Republican
| flag will not turn up on eleckshun
| wi
dymakrat ticket-not awl ov them,
but some ov them. But the fact that
any considerable number of persons
can openly assemble at Smithf1eld in
daylight at a publick place like the
county court house an modestly ad-
NIT that they air Republicans, trans
ack the business usually done at a
county convention an not git killed
shows a wonderful change in pub
lick sentiment Why, l kin remem-
Der the day, an hit wuz not many
years ergo, when if man stated that
he wuz in sympathy with Republican
principles an policies in Johnson
county, he had ter git in a rifie-pit
three months before the eleckshun
| an stay IudF SIX IuOuIuS dllSE lAS
eleckshun ter escape with hiZ life,
an he didn't git ter vote at all. Ten
lchances ter one hiz house or barn
would be burned before the year wuZ
out an skulls an cross-bones would
be painted on hiz front door every
mite in the week. In fack, the guide
citizens ov Johnson county didn't
know anything that they would not
do in defense ov the CRATE party
that sum feller discovered a guide
many years ergo an which started
out with Sunday school songs fer
, musick an fer hits many mottos, an
Scriptural quotations fer the main
planks in hits platform; party
, which, even in it's dotage f1irts with
the Deck1arashun ov independence
an makes Thomas Jefferson turn
over in hiz grave an say things tel
clothe hit in respecktab bility; party
that hez had much trouble durin
hits fitful existence an that heZ, il
> sum seckshuns, gone ter the polls
i marchin' ter the musick ov guns an
pistols because hits deluded rank an
: l. file had got hit In their heads tina
d failure ment ruin an they did no
mean ter fail ter carry the eleckshuI
h