The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-08
OLD PAP PINKHAM.
He and Jericho Stin Continue to
Rejoice.


He and Jericho stin Continue to
Rejoice.
My Dear william:
I have now occupied the postoffice
at Jericho for one week.
The bounced back is as one born
over again.
The welkin still continues to ring
and Jericho to stand on her hind legs.
II the country hasn't been saved,
which I contend she has, then there's
no need of your burning sulphur
In bouncing me back into the post
nastership again you have shown Mr..
Roosevelt that YOU intend to break
sTay from his his policies wherever and
interests of the country. and that
ne can get putchy and be burned to
MIN. The whole country was watch
ing, and now it must be satisfied.
During the week have received tel
egrams from all over the country, and
from England and France, from which
I make the following extracts:
Bully for Old Pap and Mrs. Pink
'The president could do no less and
save his administration"
Teddy will be mad about it, but
who cares?"
The President has thereby made
Defeat stared the Republican party
IN the face. but has been averted.''
THE country expects you to run a
soda fountain in connection with the
nostoffice.''
'Will you accept the vice presidency
four years Lence?''
Make that old postoffice hum, Pap
the country is looking at YOU
THE governor of Missouri congrat-
Senator Bailey says it beats Tex
as"
Senator Depew says he will buy all
his stamps from you. He intended to
| self when his term in congress expired,
but bears you no hard feelings"
I wrote you, William, in regard to
the first days proceedings here when it
became known that had been bounc-
| ed back. Every subsequent day and
night has been like it. Crowds have
rushed in for stamps and to shake my
hands by day, and bonfires, bands and
oarades at night. I have had to make
| % different speeches, but tell the post
lected the public business. While I
have been speaking Mrs. Pinkham has
| been handing out the stamps. making
| change and hustling the mail carrier.
There were A barrels of hard cider
| in Jericho week ago today; now there
| IS not one. However, things will begin
70 cool off pretty soon, and then Jer-
icho will get right down to laying
| planks for your second term.
You see the postmaster gen.
eral almost every day, and I wish you'd
ask him a few questions for me. I
want to show this country how a post
| office ought to be run so as not to
| make any mistakes.
Rats and puffs are going out of
style. Had Mrs. Pinkham better drop
them or show those Frenchmen that
| they can't work no rackets on her :?
| Shall continue to let people adj
dress me as Pap. or insist on my Off
cial title?
Does the government expect me to
| attend all corn huskins and spelling
Lees within a radius of 20 miles?
If the mail carrier between this place
and Dobb's Ferry is an hour late, and
| and he has been almost every day
| during the past year, can I jump on
him when he arrives and wallop more
ginger into him. or must 1 make an
/ official report to Washington and have
| them?
Elder Roseberry is one of the old
pioneers of this town. He has never
patronized any postoffice but this, and
fas always had his two cents ready
Tor stamp. He now thinks he ought
| 20 be allowed to read all postal cards
coming to the office. Would it be agin
the rules?
| L have started in with shaking hands
with everybody that mails letter, and
inquiring about his family and all that,
and shall keep it up if there is no OBJ
lection. 1t makes 'em feel that you
are glad they are on earth.
The postoffice boxes here rent for
/ 10 cents quarter, and there's a gen.
eral feeling that the price is too stiff.
| Our people read the advertisements of
department stores that sell II towels
Cor nine cents and they say the Gov
eminent ought to give bargains as WELL
think if could hang out sign of:
Up. o. boxes which were formerly 40
cents year now going for 38" it
would at once swell the income and
! please all. 1t wouldn't be SO much to
save the two cents a year as to satisfy
the public that this was a beneficent
9nd wideawake Government and didn't
propose to Let any department store
| get ahead of it.
have plenty of room in the cor
ridor of the postoff1ce to put in three
or four rocking chairs, at my own ex-
pense of course. We have a number
of old ladies in Jericho who never go
to the postoffice because there Is no
believe four old ladies sitting in
row and rocking in unison will draw
customers, and shall give 1t a trial I'M
less instructed otherwise.
During the term Of the last incun-
bent many drunken men visited the
nostoff1ce. Shall I continue to allow
this, or keep bouncer? Will hand
ing mail out to a drunken man en-
and almost got a dozen lawsuits on
or will it have the opposite effect?
When a man enters saloon in Jer-
icho he finds grateful fire in the
stove. plenty of chairs and a table to
sit down at while he reads the news
paper. Can't q postofice do as well
by its customers as a saloon?
During the ineumbency of the late
postmaster he refused to lick a single
stamp for anyone. He said the Gov
eminent didn't require it and he want
ed his tongue for other uses. cannot
find in the postal regulations whether
it is required or not, but 1 started in
1-licking and shall keep it up. The
people around here have got an idea
that if the postmaster ticks the stamp
en- it will be answered sooner.
About two-thirds of our citizens
write I'm Haste, on the envelopes of