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: T ; .1 People9 THE REVISED j VERSION. Demr&y has a little Ram, : She calls it Billy Bryan, . . And everywhere that Rammy goes, Demmy goes a-rflyin'. She followed him one. sad, ' day To Coin's Financial School; O how Demmy did'laugji and play To see him act the fool." ' ' "' ' ' . I . - ' . 'V But McKinley turned, hi n down, ' But still he lingers nsar, Wandering aimlessly ar und, The Bee still in his ear. i- -v-i :-' What makes Demmy. love Rammy 'Ah! the question may .be vexed; Rammys gro win', done ler know ? He'll be Jackass next - A "NTT' - 1 II li, OXOll JL , Riner, Va. ; '. A FRIEND, Louisa, Ky.j The Yel low Jacket, Dear Sir: I send you a clipping from the Fort G ly Leader, a Democratic newspaper published just across the river f:t)m here, Roosevelt seems to have jot on the editor's "nerves' and he is trying to make him a conservative of con servatives, whereas, we have always considered him a radical, j Knowing 3 ou as a friend of the President, and that you dearly love a scrap when in the interest of the Republican party, and recognizing your ability to carry it through, I am sending you this with thft hope that you will give the aforesaid editor a calling down. If such assertions as these, w hich every one with an ounce of sense knows are untrue, are - allowed to go un challenged, we may expect to hear more from the same sou rce in the future. : Besides I do not Like to see a little two-by-four j country editor attacking the President. It reminds me of a "hoss-fly" trying t6 pester an elephant. r I T GEO. V. CURRIER Tario, Mo. Editor Yellow Jacket, Dear Sir: A recent story in the Yellow Jacket re minds me of a scene of w lich I was an eye-witness. It took place near J Kenesaw Mountain, j My regiment (25th Iowa Inft.) and the rest of our command was lying j in tie breast works. An order was givm for our skirmishers to move forward and either capture or drive bac t the Con federates. As they moved forward, a white flag was seen moving -from the point of a sword, j As soon as this was recognized by our men, a whole company, including Fa I ieutenant, arose and came across to our lines. I need not tell yon that they were re ceived with three hearty cheers from the "Yanks." ! JOHN O. RITCHIE, Bogue Chitto, Miss. Mr. R. Don Laws: " As I am a lone subscriber at this pla :e to your valuable paper I will! write you con cerning this section of our great and growing country; I Mississippi is strongly Democratic, partly from hab- it but mostly because of ignorance. Fully eighty per cent of lie people in the rural districts never read any thing. I can show you hu ndreds, of rock-ribbed Democrats in ISIississippi who are as ignorant of the true mean ing of the so-called present-day Dem ocracy as a wild hog,! is of the plan etary system. Ask one why he is a Democrat, and he will ans wer, "Just because my Daddy was." '.Ask him if he can't see that everything is-100 per cent better now than j 1 2 years ago, and he will raise' up on his hind legs and howl and tell you and swear, to it that he cleared more :iioney un der Cleveland working foil SO cents per day and paying $7.50 per barrel for flour and 20' cents per pound for meat than he can make no w working for $2.25 per day and payi ng 5 per harrel fox flour and 10 bents for Baeat. I have tried to get them to read the Yellow Jacket and the. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, bijt- all to no purpose. ; They claim they can't spare 3 0 : cents to subscrf e: for the Y. J. It lr just -too; hot for them; out when oU f cbrher one of them iththe Y1 f:vana?ead It to him he vr&L ' acknowledge what ;it : says is itru but will tell you that he - won't read such a paper. : But I, hear :lots of them sayiiig they 'doa't jwant Bry an nominated -a third time.bfecauso if he Is nominated he cantjbe elected. and if nominated tbwlll have to J support -him. rOf -such is present day - Mississippi Democracy. ButJ we have, some few Republicans, amVthe number is increasing' slowly; ! :bue surely. . ; 1 ' J. T. -PHILLIPS, Hillsbdro; Texas. -Mr. R. Don Laws; Kind Editor: Having been a reader of your valu able paper for some years, arid hav ing in that time gotten up several I subscriptions, I will again send in a club of ten, so that I; may get - my name on your ten-year list, for we are always glad when f the Yellow Jacket comes. I am doing my best to get your stinger into every home possible in the. Lone Star Stater Am living now in -a ho t Democratic -neighborhood, and it is a very difficult matter to get subscribers faere among so many moss-backs. But since they have been readingyour- paper I think the moss is. beginning to slip. Being a Republican by! birth, I of course have a right to be a "true blue" Re publican. But I am not altogether a Republican because -my father was, f-even if he did suffer and die on the battlefield, fighting- till' the lastr for 'i s. . the' Union,, No one; only 'those who have lived in a Southern State knows the injustice done there. Of course we live in hopes that; in a few more years all of the Southern States will be Republican. x J. R. HARKER, Ute, Iowa,- The Yellow Jacket: Please find $5.25 en closed for 21 yearly subscriptions to the Yellow Jacket, and send me the paper as ier your offer.' I just re ceived your sample copy this morning and started out to get subscribers. These 21 are what I .got in 20 min utes, and they want their paper to start at once. I hope that I may: be able to double- this list , before "next month. ; C. F. LAWS, Irving, HI.- R. Don Laws, Dear Sir: j I've been reading the stinger for some distance, and think it the hottest wad ever, pushed out of a pop-gun. I'm a Republican by birth and principle, even if my ancestors were born and raised in old tfortlT Carolina. Until I received your paper it never occurred to me that a Republican of good judgment and who thought' anything of his hide, would have the nerve to edit a Republican paper in the South. Though as the old Colonel said, ,Where bullets fly thickest you fight the hardest." Find enclosed a list of some of my friends. I think the Jacket will help them some. A. J. BORDEAUX, Colly, N. C. Editor of the Yellow Jacket: I have been reading the Yellow Jacket "for a year, and every issue has hit the rot tenness of the Democratic party square from the shoulder. But I must confess that the article headed "See Here, Mr. Laboring Man," pub lished In the paper on August 8, also tells the truth and nothing but the truth about the principles and the good the Republican party has done for the- poor laboring man of this" country, and" I can't see to save my life how any ; working man can vote for any. other party. I believe we have several good men who, if nominated without a split in the Re publican party; can be elected In 1908 to the Presidency, and I believe that any good Republican "will vote for any one or them, but I believe that Secretary Taft can he i elected by the greatest majority of any of them; and I am in favor of his nom ination' in case Roosevelt "will hot allow his name to go before the Con vention. And I sometimes think It would be wise in himnot to allow It to go, from the very fact that theie Is a great number of people in this country" that are opposed to a third term for any man, especially for, one as popular as he is, for fear - that he might attempt to - set himself up as King. . And -you know I ".believe it would tickle the Democrats in their sleeves for the Republicans to nom inate tet Roosevelt again. - They Lwolild make that their-mala issne in the nex campaign agaimn tho JRe pttoUcanarfy, I fceUfo::-- - - Ik j. BALES, Birchtree, 2Xo Ed itor of tho Yellow JscMt: Please C2S& yont ctingcr ;tD Birchtree,- llo and'bblige. The Old llan, as" I am called, i3 star en deck, and X don't think I can keep; still any longer and have good health. -I am mad, and I neverihave been, so madia aR my,life I am on the political'- rack of tinK certainty. - r don't know if I' am a Democrat or not. If I knew what it takes to ; make one I; would know.' bet ter flian I do, but I can't find oit:' I have been -voting the Republican ticket long- tinted but'if the-Demo-" crts nominate" Roosevelt for ' president-1 will vote' the TDembcratic1 tick et;f orI must an&; will' vote for Robse veltJ Rut, MrEditorI "am at a loss to find out what it takes to make; a Democrat. I 'have r asked a great many," and about ' the only answer I get is: "A Democrat is one who votes the Democrat ticketr. ; - No ; one seems to know what a man has to be lieve or advocator to be vgood Demo crat. Mr, Editor, what does it take to constitute a,- Democrat? Are the principles taught by Thomas Jeff er- son and Andrew Jackson Democratic principles? If so, what are the prin ciples taught by W. J. Bryan? Why is it one half of our party rotes a lie and the other half believes the lie? Jf Democrats were honest when they said they were in favor of free silver why did they not vote-for it? If the McKinley bill was robbing the people like the Democratic speaker said it was, .why did they not repeal it as soon as t'hey got in power? If the Democrats are in favor of reducing expenses, why did they vote to in crease their own "salaries? If Bryan is a Democrat, why don't he work at the trade? How long, oh, how long will the people of Oklahoma have to I wait before they can become a State They have found out that there are some rats under the barn. I know some of the Republicans are as mean as the devil but I never found one mean enough to shoot at our great American flag and call the Constitu tion a lie. It may have been a Re publican that shot Goebel, but who killed Lincoln, Garfield, and William McKinley? And how has it been down in Arkansas? Who killed the ex-Governor of Idaho? Can't blame it all on the Socialists, but they are mean enough to do it if " it takes meanness to do the like. Some of the Dems are as mad as wet hens, and some have been voting with the Republicans in poor old Missouri. Mr. Editor, I am too mad, and it is no use trying any longer to be a Christian and a : Democrat, for they are not in the same boat. They have lied so often. They have promised good, times if we would vote for Cleveland. That was a lie.. They promised free, silver, and that was a lie. They said elect us and get state-, hood, and that is a lie. Mrs: Nation and other women I could mention could do so much better that I am willing to turn it over to them and let 'them frame a Constitution and submit the two to the people to vote on. They said elect Cleveland and get a change. We got the ehange. Now they want us to elect Bryan and get another change, but will the peo ple do it? . Such changes are hard on old clothes and I empty; stomachs: They put out ,our: lights, shut . up our shops and close our banks. So please don't give us any, more such" changes. Mr. Editor, how long since the people of this country sowed their Democrat ic wild oats, and then they had four years of heavy crops, of burs ted for tunes, "of blasted hopes, starvation and patched pants. Yon cast hatch protection for our, people out of free trade eggs. Let us plant our feet in patched shoes and stamp out free trade forever in this country. Plant a Democrat in the White House, and what comes up? Bonded indebted ness, disappointment, hard times, low prices" for farm products0 But plant Roosevelt or somother ood Republican In the Whit&OTise and get prosperity, protections and plenty. That is what takes the . patches . off your pants and puts shoes on your feet. Plant Democracy and reap a cydoner Plant Republicanism and get Sound Money: The- man that grows wheat is as much entitled to 16 to 1 as the man that digs his bul lion out of the mountain side. Eng land about 60,000 paupers. Plant free trade In this country If you want to raise paupers. In' 1S9 5 we paid f out $85,000,000 of our gold for wool, and our American laborers and their families Wore shoddy goods made In England; and-patched, pants. , Giro us plenty of good money and the -Now Missouri " and the old-fashioned R-i pnblfcahisxn and Rooevelt for Pres ident. Ainen. V. j. -W. PLOWS, GuysvUle, OMoUp potScsciq; -Hen. Elftor Yclloir Dear Sir: In order to conrlnco ycatacli cf ycrT nc i2i that tha lOksz d oke Insect causes one to rermjsnb ex one's "contact there with, I send yoa 'fifty cents for two snbs. . Will get ; more anti-Foxaker j jnen on your Jacket list : as' soon ' als I can. '''may-as well ay to ytm now. that Iuim! ; writing - tnat there' are many meft who come 7 to iny office to-trans-aculegali business, and all -are' for Roosevelt 'first iand Taft second, and all are for Roosevelt - and Tafc for President 5 and Vice President. Yes, my Southern .Yankee; we now" believe that .Teddy will be nominated if he don't want it, and how will he help himself? We have him where the hair is short and ; it will . hurt T like blazes to pull back. Whoop" em up, old boy. : j. c. w. b. We suppose that everybody and the cook aave heard of the Hon. Jaekleg Columbus Windjammer Beckham. ailas Governor Beckham, of " Ken tucky. He's the fellow upon whose Demosthenic shoulders fell the man tle, of Governor Goebel. Well, Becky thinks that he's -been governor long enough, and as a matter of change he aspires to become a United States Senator. Of -course you understand that Beckham is a Democrat. He couldn't be Governor if he were any thing else. - They don't permit a man to hold down the Governor's chair in Kentucky unless he favors -hanging Caleb Powers and damning the state. But it was about Beck ham's stock of n consistency that we wanted to say a few words. Well, J. C. W. B. opened his Sen atorial campaign at Columbia, Ken tucky, a few days - ago, and the way he sugar-coated and whitewashed the Democratic party was a caution to political sinners.- He actually had the supreme gall to declare that the Democrats, yes, the Goebel gang of Kentucky, were,. to be credited for all the material and industrial Prosper ity and Peace and Happiness in the Blue Grass State. Now get your breath and well give you the next pellet. He further declares that. Kentucky Democracy was a Great Temperance Party. Ye god, did you hear that? The idea of Kentucky Democracy being a Prohibition par ty, when it was proven that the Whiskey Trust contributed" a check for $3,500 to the gubernatorial cam paign of Governor Beckham. And W. O. Blackerby, a- Democrat who represents .his county . in the Legis lature, has let the Cat out of the bag to the effect , that Hagar, the Demo cratic candidate to succeed J. C W. B. has receivxed a check for $3,500 from the brewery people for cam paign purposes. Now does anybody with sense enough to get in shelter from a hail storm believe that the .Whiskey Trust, and the brewery people are going to shell but their inoneyc by ther thousands of dollars to a party t&at is after putting them .out of busi ness? If Governor Beckham be lieved such . nonsense, let him go to Louisville and say so, where "they want open saloons and the Sunday laws repealed. Louisville is the! huh of Democratic thought in Kentfcy,' ani why dant he preach his prohi bition sermons there? It is true that there ' is a strong temperance movement on foot in, many- places in Kentucky, but this movement has not been fostered by Kentucky Dem ocracy, but has swn In spite of it. Knowing Republican sentiment to be for temperance, it was a slick trick of Becky to go to Adair county, a Republicaa stronghold, and. talk temperance, But he will get no So pubUe5"1 votes by the operation. Republicans cf Kentucky have heard krifrBecky hefnre. Thsy r can recaii thofsimany incidents of ,, partizan hatred he has shown Repuhlicans of that stata: TKey have not forgotten his wishes In : the Powers case. They have not forgotten manner tn which he tried to land every Demo crat in the State into an office many of which were needless o2&C3. And they havo not forgotten fha severe pnA mercQcsi crirtctsms he Ins: hurl ed at our mntchlers Prcsldcttt. No, the Bptftllcans ot KentacS are not going; to be fooled by the brUowings of Becklrairt r xVjs!; ; "- -: - :: 7 . . . Think cl4tJ Tho crice of two or tlllCA 3 T3?n, C2CSTO r Ci your suh, ta sad try r, for a yctir. . i Stick tLa "ZZ?? i HOLD ON, HILLY , Col. Bryah's Commoner ia skiC. ding around, like . a kangaroo and seems almosttickled to death over" c thought it has thunk out and spill upon its readers. Here is the kernel - - - - . ' of its : cocoanut : ; . : - "When a Republican heighfcea snows you an editoriti irom avKepuD Upon rfoiiv tvo tot ai a ''WnWSaDfYi rr" tariff . revision altosrethftr nr 'instsHner nnoa postponing revision until after tho presidential election, call his fatten - tion to the resolution, adopterd by thts American Newspaper' Publishers Association in which the Republican newspaper owners belonging 'to that association demand that the tariff on- I paoer be immediately repealed:" " Then Mr. Bryan's organ goes- on and exclaims: "There is no Drotectiva tariff in that resolution; it is abso lute free trade."- r-- "Absolute free trade. -Why, cer tainly: We agree with you, Colonel that thftt. TWtnlntinn is as fair a Ram. pie of "free- trade' rot as if it had been "resoluted by a batch of tariff- - J .. x, . . 1 Jl minute, vy ny oian t you go - on ana tell your readers what part of the Republican publishers of the country are identified with the association of which you speak ? You didn't tell your readers that said association is a. JJemocratic auair trom' snout to tail, with a few Republican editors thrown in to flavor the soud. It is no secret that there are a few Re publican editors always flocking With -the Democrats and realv tn rpso- lute" tot anything that promises to- ieatner teeiF- own nests... uut tney don't amount to. a hill of beans when, it comes to formulating a policy for the Republican party. They cut about as much ice with' the masses as a gold-bug Democratic editor did in your ' 1896 campaign. - It is true voice is that of Jacob. Republicanism stands for the greatest good to the greatest number. The tariff on paper creates and pro tects an industry in the United States which employs an army of laborers at good wages. Put paper and every thing that goes to make paper on the free list and allow paper dumped into this country made by the 15 cent labor -of the Old World and our paper mills would be compelled to either shut down entirely or cut wages at least 25 per cent. ' ' Being a user of white paper at the rate of about one hundred tons ai year, the Yellow Jacket knows some t.liinar. i.onrrniQer thf rnst. of naner. But we prefer to pay a little moro for the goods and see our American paner mills pushing almost night and day -with their thousands of employ ees ' than to buy cheaper and do it at the expense of American wage-earners.. That's our ticket. And besides, how many "of tlsese publishers who sell their .publications any .cheaper?, Not one. ' It's seffishness Vpure and simple that ' J&-ies.ythese "tmen to want free trade on paper. . It would no doubt enlarge, their bank! account, but more people would be hurt than helped. , i5;.. . , i Jf the big publishers want" to duceN the ,cost of - white paper, let them cut down the number of pages of their Snndav editions to a sensi ble bisis. What man ,under heaven cares to have- a- Sunday edition of a newspaper with from twenty-four to sixty-eight pages posed unaer nis . nose? It's an insult to a civilized pleasure of his Sunday School lesson. the evening prayer meeting for the sake of wading through two or threo hundred columns of slush that .: 1 A. J . " it..' womsi, u uxsesteo., paralyze . iu lilloric muscle- of a boa constrictor. We are stSH. standing pat on the tar iff, azrd - yon can 'pass the word ' oa down the line if you want to, Billy. We used to have. a very high opin ion of JC3 .Folk, of Missouri, but ho has wallOTBred around with the Dem ocrats of his state until he is getting like the rest cf them. That speech he mado. over at KashviHe, - Tenm, killed Ms deader than' a door-ur.il with xsa. Y7hca a Uttlo iumping issSt cf ' al frernor presnccs to -&tJr.0A- 1' " Icy ho - c
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