Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-10-18

LEXINGTON, Tenn, Oct. IS, rs.
HeSSrs. Editors
l believe it is customary with all
joul nalists to allow any person in-
terested in the subject matter of
any article published in their col
umns to be allowed to reply TO the
same. Hence l desire to say a few
words in answer to an article find
in your paper, dated September
10Th, 1873, from Miff1in, Tenn and
signed zone Who Knows" In do
ing so l am really guilty of great
| condescension. l know not who
the author may be, yet give him
the credit of being toierably well
informed school boy. He certainly
must have some whisk ers, but will
venture. to say that they are quite
scattering, about as much so as his
article. He starts out by vilIyfying
Maj. Sykes, Mr.. Tilman and Mr..
Polk. His villification of course
amounts to nothing against these
gentlemen, whom we all know to
be as good railroad men as there is
in the country.
He says Maj. Sykes halls from
'.just any where" So far as a rail
road is concerned he docs, we admit,
but he was not a railroad man once,
but all the while, and is not now
like Gone Who Knows" as he has
proves himself to be. Neither has
Mr.. Tilman shown himself to be
Snakish like him, nor mas Mr.. Polk
proven himself to be a "hard-man-
ite', like our worthy friend cone
Who Knows" As to the lasting
obligations that he or we are under
to these gentlemen for their enlight-
eminent as TO what roads we should
build, as he says in his article, we
only want to know who eve" is.
Inquire, it is he; Zone Who Knows
Guess he ought to be made dictator
for our county. From his non de
plane he surely must be aspiring to
that office. Should he get the posi-
ton, we never would have a rail
road without it run through the
flourishing city of Mifiin, or thro'
the old clay hills 1! miles west, on
the Jackson road.
Maj. Sykes, Mr.. Tilman and Mr..
Polk with all due Difference to the
opinion of zone Who Knows to
the contrary came into our county
with the worry best of motives.
They want these roads built as we
do, and this will give to us and their
constituents line of railway direct
from Memphis to Bolivar, connect
ing there with the Mississippi Gen.
trail; at Henderson with the Mobile
& Ohio, and at Huntingdon with
the Nashville & North Western and
at Paris with the Memphis & Louis
Vile Railroads, giving a thorough
inlet and outlet to us-the people of
Henderson county.
They come to US says cone Who
Knows" in Sleeps clothing, when
within they are ravenous wolves,
He must be wearing some of the |
same robes himself, or he could not |
tell in what kind of garments thew
were dressed. 1t seems to US from |
the reading of said article, that the
author is in favor of any road that /
runs by the way of Milflin, but the
starting point must be at Jackson.
He is opposed to any road save it
runs run through his little village,
is quite selfish and penurious.
Ishould guess. The County Court
submitted the proposition to build
the two roads mentioned in his arti-
Gle, and did it without his vote and
over all the opposition he could
rake and scrapc in four months
time one hundred thousand dollars
to the Henderson N Paris road, and
fifty thousand dollars to the Mem
phis Il Knoxville road. NY friend
assumes to take the position that
sara hehuefsOh ~ Barls road starts
from certain point and ends at a
certain point, or some where else.
He is certainly well posted, because
the terminus will be "some where
else besides Mifflin.
To tell The truth, we do not ex-
pect any aid from such Escape
graces" as zone Who Knows" TO
assist in the least in building any
railroad in our county. So far as
his being aud acting for the interest
Of the people of his county, it is all h,
'fal-daEi and is "humbug of the
ouggist sort" to use his own ex- q
preston, and has been concocted in :
he brain alone of him who desires +
10 dictate to the people of our coun- t