The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-11-04
About nIcCa11,s Freight.

JOHN E. HELMs-Dear Sir: notice
you have been quite silent for several
weeks about extortionate freights, :" and
have not even mentioned the - East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
or the incompatible Patent Railroad
Annunciator. suppose you have got
: your sop" in having your deadhead"
ticket renewed and have hauled of. Such
i has been my expectation and such is my
present belief Clifford only few days
since intimated as much in speaking of
the Mccall freight matter, which he says
he told you was a lie, but which you did
! not correct IF you have got your dead
head ticket again you are right in keep
ing mum to your readers.
Respectfully, &c,
If the fellow who wrote the above ever
sends us another such rude note we will
print his name with it and let our read
ers know just who the ass is who writes
it Without STOPPING to reply to the in
solent and false insinuation that we have
received a & dead-head'' pass we will ex-l
plain the reference made to the Mccall
freight question. Our readers viii re-
collect the complaint and charge in that
case were made by correspondent, and
we published them as his, having conf
dence in his ability to sustain them with
the proof or manliness himself to correct
the error when satisfied it was proper to
do so. A few days after the complaint
was published, while standing at the de-
pot, on the arrival of the train, Mr.. l..
Clifford, an employee of the railroad,
stepped from one of the coaches and APP
preaching us in a very friendly and gen
tlemanly manner informed us that our
correspondent was entirely mistaken in
regard to Mccall having received free
transportation for his stock over the road
from Bristol to Knoxville. Without
a word of reply, we took Mr. Clifford by
the arm and lead him not halt dozen
steps to a company of four gentleman, one
of whom we introduced as the author of
the complaint and charge referred to.
In the few seconds of time the train re-
manned at the depot Mr.. Clifford failed
had made a mistatcment in his pubIica-
tiOn. To us and those who heard the
conversation, it amounted to pretty much
the same issue between them as has for
months past existed between the Vice
President and some of the Directors on
another matter-merely a question of
veracity. When the parties settle that
issue, if we are made acquainted with
the result, and deem it necessary for the
vindication of history, we viii make
the facts known. In the meantime we
take this occasion to suggest to Mr.. Gift
ford that he gOslow in his meanders rel
alive TO the G-lzETTE. 1t is not the first
time we have heard of his criticisms
to our prejudice. The more he canyases
our position through the eyes of his en-
ployers hemore will we look at it throgh
our own and the more will he find that
he has slightly mistaken his man, besides
being badly fooled in his mission We
do not hold onrself responsible for the
opinions or statements of correspondents
If one communicates 4 falsehOOd to us
We will expose him upon proof We |
do not pretend to say I'VE have not made |
in facts and figures ourself, but |
we do assert we have never knowingly |
done so, and have never failed to volun- |
tarily correct a statement when subse- |
seq uently satisfied that we were mistak- !
ell in it In fact, serving an apprentice
ship Of five years under this same Mr.. |
Clifford, as we did, the only thing really |
is that we have so few cor |
rections to make, and that the GAZETTE |
sustains the enviable character it does for |
virtue and veracity!