The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-07-22
JOSH TALKS ABOUT REUBIN'S
LETTER. 81

Somewhere-in-Ce County,
July 10, 1921.
Deer Mr.. Eddytur:
Reubin, Reubin, I've been thinking,
What fine Primary this will be,
When the grating politicians,
All are buried at the bottom of
the sea.
Reubin, you hev two more guesses,
and then you are out. I amt Tom
and I amt Dave, and they amt me.
I amt got no reason to be ashamed
of my name, and assure all the
honest peepul, and the Gang too,
that my name has newer bin on
amy Dimmycrat or Republican tick
ct in this or amy other county, at a
Primary or amy other eleckshun,
and I am wonderin if Reubin kin
say as mulch. Livin around here
al my life I cant help but see and
hear a fue things what is goin on,
pollyticks and the taxpayers.
My feelins are so hurt that he'd a
big noshun not to rite amy more
letturs. After me workin the way
hev bin dom, trying to help my
pOllytishun trends, then fer this fell
Ter Reubin, to come out and try to
Spite the hole thing by givin Tom
and Dave the credit fer my work.
Its enuff to diskurridge me. But on
tother hand I'm mighty glad to no
it is Tom who is causin all this ex-
pense in the offus of the Clerk of
the Court and the Register of Wills,
and the Sherif's offus. My friend
Bill hes bin putin al the blame on
Yves and Rufe and that Their little
Teller Seth, and you al no as how
hev alters took up for them, special
ly Yves, as he is pertickler friend
of mine, and a special portygee of
Cecil County. A Teller was talkin
to me tother day and he referred to
Yves as the King Bee of the polly
tickle hive, but Reubin's lettur
shows as how Tom is the head of the
hole Gang at Elkton, when every
body thot he was jest auditin the
books. I cant understand how Tom
could make out al them Their big bills
fer the sheriff, and I'm wantin to NO
If he made out tibet bill fe1s four hun
dred and thirty dollars fer books
tibet Rufe sent in from the Register
of Wills offus. I reckon tibet was
al due to him auditin the books.
Next thing we'll hear of Tom bein
up at the Clerks offus maxim out
marriage licenses and directin of the
couples to the Mormon preacher,
and perhaps he kin graft fue dol
lars tellin the young peepul how
to keep Their names out of the
papers.
Tom, how in thunder did you git
in with the Gang and keep it so
quiet like? / alters thot you be-
longed with Bill and the rest of the
Mugwamps, but tibet jest shows how
easy | kin be fuled. l got my in
formation frum Elkton and it seems
like al the reports frum Their is sent
out to fule the peepul and mislead
them, and now they are up to Their
usual tricks.
When see the county comishun-
ers ] want to ak them what made
them hold up tibet bill OF four hun
dred and thirty dollars fer so long.
Pears like they cuddent quite swal-
Ter it at fust, but bi and hi it went
thru, like SO many others hev done.
l see wher the Budget the county
com1shuners made up hes four hun
\dred dollars on it fer the Register
of Wills offus, and 1 reckon as how
tibet must be it, Purity durn ex-
pensive books, think.
Reubin, you are a writin about
me tendin to the taxpayers bizness.
Thets jest what I amt dom. Yves
and Rufe are tendin to the tax
payers bizness and hev bin fur the
past thirty years. Pears like no.
body else kin git chants, no differ
ence how bad they want ter. No
body kin find out exactly how long
Rufe hes bin tendin to the tax
payers bizness, and nobody noes
how mulch money has passed thru
his hands in tibet time, as no report
hes ever bin published of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the offus
of the Register of Wills or the Clerk
of the Court either. Everybody
noes as how Rufe hes bin Register
fur six years, and he admits as how
he was deputy fur Tom Miller fur
twelve years, but rite there his
memory fails him. He cant reck-
leckt how long he was in with RUDE
lamar, though some peepul say it
was eighteen years, but Rufe cant
r.