THE COLORED AMERICAN A s 9 r h = a vention proper would have been like casting pearl before swine and that il 11 Gotham iiotes which is holy to the dogs It would NA SAVED MY LIFE not have appreciated such a masterly Writes Mrs W McRoberts C The Hon Elihu Root in his speech stroke at first hand and this is proved IIi day notifying the Hon C W by the wild and demoniacal outbursts lffRS L M GRIFFITH Arco the other Ly Idaho writes am which greeted reception dy- I thirty Fairbanks of his nomination adverted Its In the years old and never had any ing hours of children to the fact in delicate phrase that his the convention when all but since beginning your medicine 1 democratic opponent Mr Henry Gas hope of retaliating upon tine candidate gave birth to a 10pound baby girl I away Davis was living on borrowed had vanished Judge Parker wisely am stronger than I havo been since was quite young and intimated that the old gen ¬ communicated his views to the States¬ I God bless you time and your ¬ medicine forever tleman might not be equal to the de men in that convention and they in turn delivered in MRS L M GKIJTITH mands upon him should he be elected it broken doses to If you do not derive upper ithj fellows who prompt and and succeed to the office He think they are states- satisfactory results from the use of also alluded to the fact that the ven- ¬ men Ben Tillman tried to stand on Peruna write at onto to Dr Hartman erable democratic candidate would his head and spit backward when he giving a full statement of your case soon pass the age limit one hundred- heard the news and when he recovered and ho will be pleased in which event some other democrat his voice said what everybody on to give r you his valu- probably Dave Hill Might find himself earth knows to be true that The dem ¬ party able advice VicePresident or Ben Tillman or ocratic can always be depended gratis Governor Vardmann the executive upon to make a fool of itself at blackguard of Mississippi and then the crucial moment and then he there would be the deuce to pay The collapsed The courtly Senator Dan ¬ Constitution would in alL likelihood be iel was so overcome that he had to be repealed with the fifteenth amendment taken to a Sanitarium Wllie Hearsts bangs ex- smashed into smithereens the colored became disarranged in the t- citizen deported to Africa or the citement of tue moment and his root ¬ ers conscious psychological l Philippines or some others congenial that the I 1 iS dime and have moment had arrived proclaimed him b the white man would l this beautiful country all to himself the man of destiny the logical candi ¬ S date the savior c his party etc Meanwhile Mr William J Bryan was Mr Davis was nominated no doubt I resting his lungs in his room at his because there was no other democrat hotel and reading the story of Joseph willing to take the long and lonely I Do All My and his brethren he l id aside his housework and journey up Salt river which is sched-¬ Bible for a moment and diving into IVIy I uled for him and accomplice Judge Take Care of Baby and his his pocket extracted a package Parker early in November Perhaps of letters picking out one of them Feel So Good if he had been younger man he he a read My was would have balked just as younger dear Danforth It entirely right of you to bring to my A + men did and refused the empty honor t YOUNG MOTHERS LETTER attention the question which the sin ¬ Mrs W McRoberts writes to Dr thrust upon him so suddenly But be ¬ t cere friends of Hr Bryan are press ¬ Hartman from Delano Miss the ing only a few years removed from the ing upon you I can say to you frank- i following century mark he doubtless concluded Delano Miss + ly and sincerely that you can assure B that he could stand the mortification t Dr 8 Hartman Columbus Ohio T them that I voted for the last national Dear Sir of- of defeat with better grace than a 1 I feel perfectly well nominees of the democratic party as t catarrh did as you directed me to I younger man so he cheerfully con- ¬ I I have voted for all of the regular t and took Peruna and Manalin The I- sented to allow party to lead him his democratic nominees since I had a i third of March I gave birth to a ten I as a sheep to the slaughter conscious pound baby girl and we are vote 1 both well i that the executioner will do his duty Yours truly L and happy I am very thankful to f He will t you and Peruns saved life + Alton B Parker iiy I recommend it to everyone and cant T Sept 22 1897 Mr Root further said in his speech praise it enough + 1 send you my own and my to Senator Fairbanks We gave you babys I Mr Bryan smiled as he replaced the V picture She is so sweet and good + formal notice of your nomination- letter and resumed his reading Then i she is a Peruna baby I have such I- It was not made for the purpose good now do my house- he turned to the story of Judas who health I all T of conciliating possible malcontents- t work and take care ol my baby betrayed our Lord for thirty pieces of and or of swelling campaign fund of t feel so good T the silver When he had finished friends thp party No bargains or intrigues it i There are three or four of my T interrupted him to say Judge neighbors + contributed to it No suppression of that t using Peruna now since it Parker had revered himself and was did me so much good They were g the truth or misleading of the conven- ¬ i bowing to the Golden Calf that he was just run down and they think it is l + tion as to your principles or opinions I Address Dr no longer in favor of free silver if he 4 fine it is so good to gUe strength Hartmac President of j were necessary t Mrs W McRoberts 7 The Hartman Sanitarium Coljimbus f ever was but had surrendered uncon- ¬ I And II e Ohio hen Mr Root at down and ditionally to Wall Street Mr Bryan fF fanned use I himself pulled out the letter to My Dear sensible view as to the of the self whisper for vicepresident But words Negro Negress which they have got to even Danforth scanned it hastily put it and make a bluff if many white and some race papers are hopes of winning are below zero Did he mean to insinuate that the back into his pocket and got real sick their employing to describe people of Afri ¬ or the freezing point They havent I contrary is true in respect of nomina ¬ The jig is up he muttered to him- ¬ can descent I am heartily in accord ghost of a chance to win and they tion of Parker and Davis What self in a stage whisper there is yet the with the view lie expresses concern ¬ know it There are thousands of dem- ¬ on earth Iii he mean in saying No work for me to do I must do the ing inappropriateness of bas ¬ who in suppression of or misleading- huckleberries who are doing me the the ocrats their hearts believe that the truth Judge of the convention as to your principles tard term AfroAmerican affected the eminent Parker otherwise by BO many Negro publishers wise prudent and becomingly cr opinions were necessary to bring it It will be remembered that in the and and others As Mr Post wisely says silent made a tactical mistake when r about Does the honorable gentleman two Bryan campaigns the Gold demo ¬ AfroAmerican an affected term he sent famous telegram to Billy wish to have the public understand crats styled themselves regulars so is the Negro is a full round strong word Sheehan the blueeyed statesman of that because Judge Parker sent a tele ¬ that Judge Parkers statement he that And I might add Negro stands Buffalo renouncing his faith in the gram to thp St Louis Convention de- voted with the regulars is correct that for one race while AfroAmerican two platforms for which he had voted n nghis views on the money quest- ¬ stands for two and there never as he said in his letter to My dear ion that 5ie suppressed the truth Our old friend G Grant Williams that was will be or can be an Afro Danforth Those who think they aee r and misled the delegates most of whom one of the handsomest men in the American race Negro is good enough straight and Judge Parker is one of seieved that up to that moment he press gang has been selected by the for me because it means something them do not see a democratic victory f- Was all right and does Mr Root ima- ¬ National Committee to do campaign I will never be ashamed it- in campaign now shaping The gine Judge in of New York New and of the that Parker would have work the States S S- been Judge has already made arrangements J t so indiscreet as to have sent that Jersey and Pennsylvania this fall ° It seems to me that the democrats- to enter upon the practice of the law telegram to Williams is a ana worthily de ¬ the convention when it hustler ¬ was are burning daylight gas and electri after the campaign is over Herein a in session What did the ma- ¬ serves the honors vhich have come to ¬ I city a effort to elect a wob he is a wise a serpent Ther will jority of those delegates know or care him in fruitless at rams par i c bling candidate for president and an be other ls not so wish about the Gold Standard anyhow To wko ean kardly kl Yaps SRtFGE SUIT fcave seat tkat telegram t fta liter Tort tf kl aje takes a truest ectoseaarian hear if i +

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