Judge — September 8, 1900 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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€ MilLLenum” cx BY HIRAM PENNICK*/ =" PoPULIsSt= It, ee Willard Ohio Aug. 12 1900. i help along. i left Davis Junction last tuesday as i calc’lated Jim Weaver post master the Musser boys and the wimmin folks giv mea send off, as they say, wishin of me good luck” and throwin in sum dried beef, peserves and biled eggs. When i rid into Willards yesterday the fellers cum out of their stores and locked at my banner and seed what,i stand fer and heerd that i wus goin to speak the news wont long in gettin round thet therd be,“‘a hot time in the old town” as the childern say. i put up at Sarah Winchells my wifes haf sister. ive been talkin sum to the citzens feelin of the public puls as the fellers say and i swow it just looks to me as if the Hee eiacious: Republikan party might just as well pull out now and lev the hull field to us. Henry Lincicum Ieedin citzen and town lamp liter Republikan last time says heel vote the Millenum ticket strate. Henry is a vetran of the civil war 26 Ohio and he says he feels so darn ag- itated thet hed sholder a musket himself if the rest of the populists wuld and fite the trust Octipust till it bellered like a cow with her tale keched in a gait. Henry says he has a friend out in the poor house who feels the same way bout it. im switched if it dont looks if weed carry evry state in the union at this writin, | Well i got yur letter sayin youd print my letters and I of course you meet sum fel- lers who says Mckinly dun well with the war and weed ort to give him another chanct but most onem tell me thet us middle of the road fellers stands fer more things thet the people wants speshully the muney question then any party'thets popped its hed up sine the days of Andrew Jackson, imade a speech last night at free Library hall owin to the hot wether most of the citzens stade to home and set out on their stoops. Henry Lincicum cum and he said it was as good a speech as he ever herd fer settin out plane facts. Followin is the concludin end of my speech Now feller citzens the na- shun is runnin blind into the slew of greed the best thing we kin do is to bust the chanes thet fasens us to the wheels of this here charyot thets all made out of gold when one wheel ort to be made out of silver, What use is it. to rase wheat potatoes er childern, must snatch the flag of Depotism frum the young army fellers who want what use fer to work er pray, if the fellers yer workin and prayin fer gets to tramp the constitooshun under the iron heel of blud shed. wors evry year. Tomorrow i go to Twin grove i writ the editer of the Grove /tem i Feller citzens the times cum when we must’ yank the underpinnin out wus comin and likely heel stir em up. yurs truly of the hull structur of our present goyment.the times at hand when we HIRAM PENNICK. HIRAM SAYS GOOD-BYE TO DAVIS JUNCTION. ¥ THE THREE,.WISE BOYS. AAVIZIIERE were three wise nien of Gotham of old Po ges f) Who went'to sea in a bowl, we're told ; REA And nobody knows what became of the men, Yay Not one of them ever was heard of again. But three wise little-boys did better than that, They went to sea in an old straw hat; And of course they knew they couldn't drown, For they sat on the brim with their feet in the crown, Now the wind was as strong as a roaring bear, f i 5 \) Ali! And blew their boat 'most everywhere ; And the boys werevhaving a splendid sail Till they chanced to’ meet a passing whale. < Now this whale was awfully old and fat, = And he thought he'd like to wear a hat; VERY AGGRAVATING. 4 So he quickly dumped the sailors out, Wire —* Oh, doctor! will John pull through?” i pig ‘Then put on the hat and swam about. Doctor—" Can't say, ma'am, The crisis will not arrive for at least a week.” carourn weits — WIFE—""Oh, dear! And that bargain.sale of mourning goods ends to-morro comicbooks.com