Evening journal., 1919-05-14
Bill Jones, SandtoWn Statesman,
Visits HITed |. at Nemours

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| OF yOre regret that the Republicans
hain't TUX kindly to Billy Tayler's kan
d.dasy fer Mayor Wen | empty a bot
til down in the dry belt at SandtOwn.
! don't stick 10 up on my frunt yard
fence. ! drap hit down the we'll an
leave II fer posterity TO wunder how
in-hell 10 ever got there. Hit hain't ser
prism roorel Moo Kassell Kounty
went dry with all them bustd likker
bottlls a-stlckin' up an remindln' the
peepil that you never asked emmy
boldly In 10 take a drink. You're a llv-
in answer Aiferd, TO the question why
rooral Moo Kassell went dry" He sez.
seq he; "Blll. yu mlsiudge me. bought
them bottils r Full. or empty2" ! sez
"Bustld, Bill; bustedr he yells. can
put 'em up there TO keep peepil frum
climbln' over that wall" ! sez, sez /,
you sertenly don't think as how
Guyner Townsend an Jim Price an
their trends wuG du ennylhing like
that, Alferd?" "There halnt no tel
lin" sez he. l had gone too far TO
back out, Mary Ann, an so / sez, sez
II: "Alferd, what makes yu want TO
make KneemoOrs look like a pennyten-
sherry or an insane asylum by putin
up that there wall all around 10? Hit
haint'in keepln' with yore Oft-repeated
decklarashuns as how yu are a friend Of
the publick and Of wurld dimockrisy.
l nOtis, Alferd. as how yOO have plant
ID trees, an shrubs an creepin' vines
on the inside Of that there derned wall
TO keep 700 frum havin' to look at
barf eNa nttf 1-af nj
pollytiks thataway. III yoO had bin
the right kind Of a pollytshun. Alferd,
y00 wud have plantid them things on
the outside Of the wall fer the pub
llok 10 LUX at an then saved up to
buy sum more to put on the inside fer
yu TO look at. Anuther thing, ef /
wuz 700 I'd plant few hunderd
pounds OF Irish moss al the base Of
that wall, bekaws hit wud climb up
to the top an reech them bustid wis
key botiils inside Of a week. or korse,
the Irish moss, Ike the Fislshens an
Serilns Hospital, willie be disappointed
wen 10 gifts TO the top, but I'm hopin'
as how II will git so mad that it'll
rap Itself around them bustid wiskey
bottils an hide them frum the publiek
eye.
"a man KANT bid stone wall
around hlsself here in Ameriky an
eft away with It iR pOllytiks. or kOrs,
ef after yu are thrOO with kneem0Ors
yu are goin' to give it to the Stait fer
a penny.enshiary, that's different; but
vi ought to make the fakt publlck that
The ultimate obiick Of them bustid bot
ills an Of that stone wall Is to keep
peepil in an not TO keep peepil out.
This derned place gives me the willies.
/ begin to feel like a life-termer, al
ready. Ef j wuz to put things like that
around my pl9se in SandtOwn, / kudnt
be eleckted dOg-katcher, an all the fell
lers down there hoo wanted Otilc wud
be invltin' my liveliest Oppysishun as
their best kampane asset. Hit haint
no wunder that Billy Tayler's havin
sech a hard time Of Il fer Mayer wen
he hain't got nuthin behind him but
You an yOre Hate Distillery. a mile
or two Of stone wall and few hun
derd thousand bustid likker bottils
stuck up where everybody kin see
them. My advice 20 yu, ef yu want
10 elect Billy Tayler mayer, Is to sur
render them there bustld bottils to
the Anii-Saloon League an give that
there stone wall TO Tee Allin Hilles,
Jedge Ball an them uther fellers TO
put around the new k0unty Wurk-
house farm out there neer Greenbank." ."
He sez, sez he. "Hit's too late-Im
afeerd the damldge alreddy is dun"
felt sorry fer the poor feller, Mary
Ann. There before me wuz a man
with millyuns OF dollars at his dis