Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-11-18
LATE VICTORY
PLEASES SOVEY
Former Aberdeen Newspaper
Man Writes Interesting
Letter From Missouri
IN TOUCH WITH ABERDEEN
An Epistle Of Contentment
Congratulating Local
Democrats

OOWn MISSOURI way, IN the good
old state Of corn, prosperity and con.
tentment, comes an epistle of con.
graduation to the Democrats of Aber.
deem. It's from Kansas City and pen
ned by P. S. Sovey, a former news.
paper man of this city. Although alb
sent from the city for a number OF
years his many friends here are kept
in constant touch with him through
occasional newspaper articles. What
Sovey thinks Of this political situation
generally is made clear in letter re-
Gently received by one of his many
warm friends here. A portion OF tic
letter follows:
"Now that the battle is over and
we, the great unterrified and unwash-
ed, have won, our duty to our good
friends prompts us to settle such cor
respondence obligations as We may
nave occurred; hence this tender and
Intelligent missive."
Let us glory for Just a moment in
The splendid victory which we have
achieved around Armageddon. There
was time when Sam Bowes, John J.
Carney and were the only democrats
in Washington state. The returns
from your state would seei to indi.
cate that, since l moved a. ", the
democratic vote has fallen OF Just
|one-third. However, that makes 1t all
he softer for Sam and John. Sam
lean be postmaster, collector of Gus
toms, ETC., while John can be U. 8.
marshall, Indian agent, and whatever
,else Sam isn't. Politics set me back
Jail my life, but I really believe even
+ could find q job in Washington un.
sder the beniflcient administration of
iWoody old boy. and pull down the
! fat salary as provided by generous
government as Ed. Dooley would ex-
lpress it."
About a year ago, when I was
!writing an occasional article for the
lWorld, l ventured the opinion the de-
lmocrats would carry Kansas. Just for
that I received two unsigned letters
i'm which the writer's suggested that
p was crazier in Kansas City than in
aberdeen; that l was full of hop. as
Well as of hope, and q lot more stuff
caculated to disturb my peace Of mind
l-or piece Of mind, as one Of them
declared. Well, you will note by the
feturns that we have carried the said
kansas and in addition elected Ave
of eight congressman, to say nothing
pf one perfectly good United States
senator. This town was supposed to
be strong for the Bull Moose, because
a local sheet, the Star, was behind
the movement. Well, the democrats
got their customary plurality Of 5000
or 10000, but the Moosers certainly
slipped 1t to the regulars. have nev.
er been unable to understand the pop
ular affection for Roosevelt, but yes
terday thing l got onto the drift
of public opinion, SO far as he 10 con-
cerned. A woman who rents from us
came in to pay her rent. She said
she liked Teddy because he was out
for social Justice Questioning devel.
oped the entertaining fact that the
woman expected to be invited out to
all the neighborhood parties, dances
and teas If Teddy won! Now, that's
what l call faith. do hope you didn't
vote for the Man of Blood. My guess
is that you voted for poor Taft. Well.
l can forgive you for that, because
he was a decent foeman. What's the
matter with Washington? That state
must have gone mad to roll up the
record plurality for Roosevelt. Mind
you, old friend, Teddy was the sport
who conserved about half the states
area in the interests Of posterity."s