Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1884 — Williams’s Great Disgrace. [ARTICLE]

Williams’s Great Disgrace.

Mournful Recollections of the 'll Time When he Ran for the Legislature. The following letter was stolen from Yissclier’B desk this week: Hudson, Wis., Oct. 10.— My Dear Yissch; If I haye any influence whatever with the authorities in the New Jerusalem you shall pome day have a nice ne ,v harp that has never been ujsed. The best crown and harp on the evergreen shore are »qne too good for you. Softly however’ ! ! You say you are going to ruu for the Legislature. That makes a difference. AYhy do you do that? It has been a Jong time since you stepped aside from the path of rectitude. At least, if you did so you were very discreet about and now, just as the business men of Denver begin to trust yoq, why do you strike out hell-bent for tfie Legislature? I once ran for the Legislature myself. (Please burn thjs' letter-) Yes, I ran for the Legislature in Wyoming, and, though it didn’t get noised around at all, and though the awful secret was hidden m this heaving bospin, it has cursed my whole life. Spinetimes I am almost tempted to go and give myself up to the authorities and let the law' take its course. I would if it were not for my children. 1 don’t want them to suffer from the taunts of other children whose fathers never ran for the legislature. Sometimes I wake in the night with a horrible start, and imagine that I am again in the hands of my frjends, and that I am once more running b@hmd the ticket like a pale-rea steer in the corn. Again the canvassing board count the votes, and myself and Scattering are absent for two hours. It is terrible.

My leg is growing together again all right, and k very soon the doctor will turn me loose on the community again. It’s been a pretty long siege, |and seemed a little tough at times, but I didn’t kick. I couldn’t very well. Many have asked me how the accident occured. I cannot state definitely, but I think I must have stepped on a peal or thunder. People cannot be too careful in peeling their thunder, not to leave the peels around where some one may step on them and get hurt. Yours sincerely, Bill Nye, Cyclonist. —Denver Opinion.