The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-04-01

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THE GLETELANDi REPUBLE.
:e CAN As. IN ADVISOR. sea
OF an the good shinss in this good world around
| |at ma s@t@ ss +-iGs f.'t. 54 9-}f3 ai'-f4 Is
The one most abuhdAntly furnished and found t6.
Ana which, for that reason, ~o least care shout,
And can best spare our friends. IL good counsel.
/ a. no doubt" to-, III, a-ss .,.,.l,
These lines were recalled 70 on.
memory by an advisory article in
thee lastw numbeF, OF the Cleve-
land Republican, ssmi-civiIized rad
| icall paper published at leveland, and
edited BY Judge N. A. Patterson.
We thank our friend for the interest
he has displayed in our welfare. and
assure him that his anxiety that we
should not q remain unadyised" is
highly appreciated but after q care
ful perusal of the aforesaid aetUise,
we have calmly and deliberately con.
cluded that the editor of the Repub.
lieaa may possess the faculty OF
hearing TO perfection. but his bump
of understanding is lamentably de.
ficient. The source whence sprang
this tender solicitude for US, and
o.
which prompted the effusion, was an
article, published some time since
by us, in which we commented on the
fact that only one of the papers in
East Tennessee, the editors Of which
carry Railroad dead-head passes in
their pockets, had published the fact
Of the compromise Of the damage
suits of Pryde vs.. the East Tennes.
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
Company, upon the payment of q
considerable sum Of money by the
Railroad Company. Bro. Patterson
takes it upon himself to pay US an
exceedingly doubtful compliment.
by saying that we are too good
and clover to remain unadYised,"
and then proceeds to expatiate
thusly:
First: lie undertakes to defend,
upon their merits, the suits institut.
ed against the Company-a thing
which the regularly employed attOr-
neys OF the Road (who. by the way,
are among the best in the Statel.
considered themselves unable to do,
and therefore accomplished com.
promise.
Second : He Informs the pablo at
large, and us in particular, that he is
not the happy POssessOr of a free
dedd-hedd ! ass, lowing TO the gre;t
success OF his convex.ccncavo-fu
ter wheel or some other =" helicoidar'
''greatexpectatiOn.") For this we
extend to him Ghe right hand Of fel.
lowship and devoutly pray that he
may ever remain in the true faith,
that his shadow may never grow
less, nor his ability to pay az he goes
ever become diminished. 1f-2@-
Third: lie CALAMITY comes to. the
rescue Of his erring brethren in de-
tense Of the free pass system, which
truth conpels us to say. it's 80
exceedingly "tliin' rs to need no
reply. ,. 49, ...-,..
This is the substance of the ar
ticle in question, and now we will
explain why we are forced to con-
clude that bro. Patterson lacks the
ability to comprehend. The article
we published was no argument upon
the merits of the cases of Fryde VS..
the Railroad, nor did we charge the
editor OF the Repablicda with accept
ing q free pass.-neither did we
make an attack upon those editors
who do have, dead-head tickets which
should have called for such a de-
Tense. We simply asked why twas
that those editors who are under OBJ
legations to the Road for deqd-head
tickets suppressed this valuable and
interesting news? This question
our friend utterly fails to answer or
even notice at all. lie not only
ignores it but lodges the question
deliberately by arguing the points re-
ferred to above, Why this thusness.
Judge? Why try to creep out of q
loep7hole to escape the fire, when
everybody can see and comment on
the cowardice? We cannot and will |
not believe that yOU thought your
article an answer. or that it really
any qdrise. We are de-
terminetl, is possible, not to consider |
you as stupid as yOa Neuld have
people think!
, 1.-THE above was prepared for last |
weeks paper, but was crowded out |
by, more important matter.
~ Iceland will celebrated her