Will, my dear son: Your Pa and I
went down to Welsh's hall to hear Judge McKenny speak. I was very sorry
you were not here to hear him expose the rottenness of the republican
party. I felt guilty when he said that it was carelessness of the
democrats last fall not going to the polls that lost the state of Ohio.
I thought of you and Pa going to the flat Woods and not staying to vote.
He said he was sorry that there was sixty in this town ship that stood
back. Now my own & first born son, I want you to go to the Polls and
vote a full Democratic ticket in Defiance of all men for the man that
would change his Politics would sell his Soul. Do not neglect it, it is
a duty you owe your God, your Country, your Parents and the children
that (is) not born yet. You Pa says if you don't want to vote there to
come home and vote but you must put your mite in & help so I will be
proud to think I have a husband & son that will follow the footsteps of
my Noble Father, God be with (him) dead or alive.
