Judge — October 6, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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oe OS Sa LC DAD $ LIST.CAMPAINER. 4zSuxth Browntown, Ill, Sept. 12, 1900. Well, im ridin on. 32 miles sene wensday thru as fine country as i ever see. Big mectins at Niles Grove, Sterns Siding, an Danburg. Luke Lizer who plays on the accordeum just ketches everybody. You cant help laffin at the way he sings them komical campain songs. a fellee got off the cars yesterday there at Sterns Sid- ing an sed he heerd bout the big meetins i wus gettin up an heed like fer to tend a few onem. he sed he ort to get a leetle posted up on the muney question. i didn’t like the looks of the feller but i told him, jokin like, thet they want no law agin tendin meetins as i knowd of. He follerd us to Danburg. Wellsir it peers he wus just one of them sneek pickpokets. Amos Bennitt whos runnin fer county tresury on populist tiket got skind outen $11. Bennitt seys if he ketches him heel tan his hide fer him, i send a photograft of me an 2 leedin populists of this county Lime Wescott an Josh Hinkley. Wescott is a grate stump specker—most of the fellers round here think he ort to be secretury of state or spechul embasse- der to sum furrin land when the populist tiket is lected. He dresses tony an can git om Kotnieal jokes, "The only thibg ive beard : Wethers cool, am feelin better all but agin him is cut‘in up with the wimmin. Bicdishia bed oats Renal bees Josh Hinkley is likely to git sum big Ce ba eorcntes: offic, hes a popler feller, fot with old Gen- ; Borns clost to eat i. —— \ (To be continued.) ril Sherman, 21 Illenoy volunteers, has a : good army record an one car shot off at Shiloh, Mel Morse thinks he'd make a fust rate secretury of war. It does beat all how sum fellers cant campain thout actin up like wild indeins, take it there at Bellvill tuesday night when i got ketched in a big Republikan per- ceshun sum ruf hoodlums with torches burnt the hair clean off the horses tail. ‘Thets carryin things too fer. Yurs truly = HIRAM PENNICK. A CITY FELLOW JOINS THE PROCESSION. P. s.—Joel Peabody wants me fer to ast you if youl take good dried apples er plums fer subscribin to yur paper he wants to git a picter paper for his daugh- ters boy. The percesshun sets out fer Cherry AMOS BENNITT WAS SKIND OUT OF ville to-day. JOSH HINKLEY. HIRAM PENNICK. ELEVEN DOLLARS. v4; ES cae SS Yh 4 4 i} iy RAN <\\ UTHTTLTINQAN ANN WAG CAUGHT IN A REPUBLICAN: PARADE. comicbooks.com