Show tribulations OF A GREAT grandfather over teddy letter elkins IV va la sept IS 13 1904 dear sonny lve I 1 ve lust just finished teddy 8 9 letter and haven t bad s much babi as fun since I 1 was toss d in a blanket la n ciket muc th h year that grand old rough tough rider andy jack eon on was wa elected for a second term it tosses tosses us up eo so high that it seems as if we d never come down I 1 never did see a paper so full of interrogation ter points as that letter and every berned one of them Is like ike a jolt on the solar plexus that steve Is so fond of or talkie abo t aid said eteve as I 1 hobbled bobbled int breakfast this mornin the abe f first time sine mine I 1 rosed posed as the eho shot str strings out of bis his eyes gays says be h why does teddy a letter remind you of ft a corduroy road because its it s so full of bumps say says 1 there a lothin like a few sharp jolts PRO os the spine to sharpen an old mans man intel lep tuala no wonder you tho it a mile long A short piece of road like that go ROC a lone long dav when yo r wagon haen t any spring springs or straw on the bottom an your old him harat lack fat like mine I 1 tell you alton that a the matter with Us 08 the democratic band wagon habut has t got any springs nor straw for cushion cushions and nj I 1 in gettin all fired tire tired d all the axle grease this letter ofT of teddy eddys s floena t run a rubber tires he ile may mean adl af but wt what richt has be bryin into our bibat business Is it of bis his it if we are like the man a ride on the end of a train who never sees g ui ut til III it passed assed it if be he was as old as I 1 am be 4 eless bless his lits stars if pe be could see anything behind or before this havin foresight Is all a republic republican gift we democrats haven t got it we re always the hind teat tent we never saw anything in infant indus tries till the republicans adopted the th fonn dilia and brought it up oa on I 1 protection milk ile M e never saw that the union bad to t be b preserved it if there were to be enough office offices to go roi rm i d until the republican republicans saved it and filled ailed t the h e office offices for nigh onto forty years IN e never saw that two tl ti ing inge could not occupy the same place at the same tira time u until ti the he cepul leans adopted the gola gold standard and left us holding the bag beg between t w e e n bimetallism and free and i stiver s alv e r I 1 tell yen you we ve oo 00 faculty tor for foresight and as far as a I 1 can 9 ee mighty little for bind tight sight either Is I 1 wonder the tb donkey Is our party emblem do 1001 y 9 al know I 1 ve been bokin in 1 lookin glass lately and I 1 swan if my chin whis kers alo sin t growa grown uke like a goat goal a and ay my ears ear are gettin so 0 o long they droop steve says y its it only an optical hallucination super lib duce d by too much brooding over llepu lican car cartoons toong but say any alton OB on the quiet bave y consulted consulted yo coif IV glass cine inc yoo you md wad tm abal speech to charlie knapp and the tuf tho charlie horses 1 donkeys have this advantage advant ag over mf most they can tan get their ears to the ground without crawlin on their bellies waltin wallin to see you put teddy on oil the tb 6 iron you your old uncle ubbry GASSOWAY |