Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-06-28
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ALADINE RUBIN

deer mister edyter:
i've jist had a seance with "old
honest abe and he and have been
taken about the chicago corrupt
shin match. of course he believes
the great republican party has de-
generated into a corruption and
stealen outfit but his heart is
broken, even if he is in paradise.
he was tellin me of the lofty pur-
pose Of the g. o. p. when the great
party was organized, OF its pur-
poses to perpetuate the Union, TO
free the bondman, to establish a
government founded on the great
principles Of a government of the
peepil, for the peepil and by the
believed that the grand old party
peepil. he says he never wood hav
wood degenerate into a scrappen
organization fer the loaves and
fishes. Il cant hardly believe that
the party that loved and died
for, wood ever become the pOliti-
exile agency fer sech fellers as
archibald and rockeyfeller, and the
big fellers who don't care fer the
common peepil that loved, but
cant argufy against my ize, see
fer myself the end of the deerpar-
ty if it don't repent and git hon
est again
''jve had a talk with grant, and
mckinley and garfield and they are
just overcome with emoshin. They
cant understand how men Good be
born who wood steal delegashin af-
ter dclegashin that never was elect
ed and then ask them to vote on
their own crime of sitten in the
cCnyenshin." grant says 1t beats
mi time. when i was down below,
fought fer popular rule, bled
fer popular rule, loved popular
rule, and cant think i ever was
a republican, judging from the way
the standpatters did at chicago. If
W. have been advised right teddy
Roosevelt carried california bi 10000
votes over big bill and yet the taft
committee put in taft delegates.
Of course california will repudiate
him in november in ohio teddy
beat big bill by 10000 majoritie,
md yit the taft masheen put in
taft delegates at large. Of course
the prepil wont stand fer that, the
steem rollOer is all rite if it is
honest, but politickle dishonesty
wont pay. the peepil didn't want !
hill at fisrt and now they wont |
have him because he is the reci- |
pient Of stolen goods, he amt any |
better than the fellers that stole |
the goods garfield is mad, he died |
in the harness, he was shot fer a
principle, and he thinks the deer
old party has gone to senile decay
aud is in mead of a gardean. he's
not surprised at big bill fer he
remembers when he was a candi-
date fer the presidency that big bill
sed she was too lite to be a presi-
DENT, and that he wood not serve
Or a recepshin committee to rec
Give him when he visited his home
3ity. If was too lite fer the Of
flee, big bill is so burdened with
an over supply of intestines that
he is too slushy fer the job, and
he interests have set him down
IN the nashinal toilet, and ordered
ain TO stay there while they pro-
'eed to bunco the peepil." mister
says: i have not forgot
IN that bill made a fuss about me
AIKEN Of the Philippines and sed
{ was a nashinal crime, and how
UT Of respect fer his deer father
Who is here now and Frustrated
With grief, appointed bill to the
-1fice Of governor general of the
illippines and how he took the
oh and then tride to steel the
,lory of setten the Philippines free