Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-30
KNOXVILLE. TENN: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3d. 1874

to write it. He rehashes his false
statements about the late Convention,
which j do not pretend to notice, ex-
cept to reiterate what / have before
stated. They are utterly false without
any sort of foundation i'm fact.
He alludes to the pension of the
orphan children of Rev. w. II.
Dowell, deceased, and tries to make
something Of that, when he knows
that they will get their pension all the
same, whether their father resigned
on account OF i'll health or on account
of his (Houk's) drunkenness. They
are entitled 10 H., aud will continue to
receive it, ! am able TO prove all
have Slid about the cause Of his resig-
nation.
Passing over his defense of his
" moral character his "rpcurd ga a
soldier his defense OF his di-ggaceful
judicial career, his Dr. Hunters Fern
and Ague Neuralgia Specific iOh,
N.Y. ull Of which is too puerile TO re-.
quire notice, will very briefly allude
To what he says i'm reference to an al
IvEcP conversation i'm his office. i'm
which | am made TO say that It was
not the purpose OF the CHRONICLE to
take part i'm the Congressional canvass
prior to convention, aud in which |
made overtures to him TO become a
partner in the CuRt NICLE Office. His
statement in this respect ia three.
tourths false and one-Gourth true,
which is quite an improvement over
his usualstyle, and gives hope that in
the future he may probably arrive at
that point where it is possible for
him to tell the truth. | did
say that It was the purpose of the pa
per with which was connected TO take
no part in the canvass prior 20 a CON
vention The files of the CHRoNICLE
will show that it did not take part in
favor of one man as against another,
until Bouk and his organs had been ira
DUNG Us for months. The CHRONI-
Gle was forced to do what il did do,
aud now has no apologies to offer
Had HOulJ been decent man and had
he pursued a decent course, the course
of the CHRONICLE would have been
different. As TO taking him in as a
partner, ! have never seen the time
that | would not lust as soon make
him present of my interest i'm the of
flee rs TO take him into such relations.
He has failed too often in the newspa-
per business for me to think of such "A
| Thing.
a word rs 10 his innuendoes
Let him come out squarely with
anything he knows. | ask no lavors
of him in that rCspgctuud desire none
For a vindication of any charge he
may make against me, ! have only to
| appeal 60 thOs" who have known me
best all through life. For proof of all
| have charged against him, and
| which he has not denied, | have only
| to appeal to those who have known
! him best Lat him publish what he
chooses aud hc will never hear me
! going about the streets whining for
! sympathy as he and his understrikers
! bave been doing under the severe
castigatiOn | was forced to give him.
! He tries to excite compassion and
| show that he has been sinned against,
when the truth is, he has traduced aud
| slandered me through the columns of
| his filthy organ and all over this Con-
| gressiOnal district i'm public and i'm pri-
vate, until forbaarance ceased to be a
virtue.i
For his epithels | care nothing.
might repeat them all with compound
interest," might fund " thcm-and
apply the whole to him. and yet /
would say nothing that is not strictly
true, hence | do not indulge in them
Epithets ar" neither facts nor argu-
meuts. VIM. RULE.
Knoxville, Sept. 3OJh, 1874.