The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-08-16
LETTER FROM BIG IKE.
WHICH, HAVLYG SOME FUN, A
LITTLE. SATIRE. AND NO NAL
ICE, rs GIVEN WTTH0 UT NOTES.


WHICH, HA VTNG SOME FUN, A
LITTLE SATIRE AND NO NAL
ICE, rs GIVEN WTTH0 UT NOTES
TATE SPRINGS. August 5, 1876
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
As the elections are over and the
public mind has become calmer, /
will drop you few lines. As have
not wrote you in a good while. per-
haps the people of the country think
/ am dead. But intend for them
to know that am not "dead, but
speeches. We have had a pow
erful excitement for the last week,
yet all went off quietly at the cleo
ton. hear of no fights. This 1
think is easily accounted for, on the
ground that there is no s. bust-head y
allowed to be sold on the election
grounds. The man that introduced
that bill ought to have pension
| would vote for him for President
if he was no sharper than Tilden. |
am in favor of a "local option !"
whisky law. It is said that money
is the root of all evil think this
is a mistake, for whisky seems to be
at the bottom of all meanness, and
circulates all through it, just as the
sap does in a tree. | will venture
the assertion that whisky. high liv-
ing, and one excess or another are,
and have been, at the bottom Of ev-
cry swindle that has been perpetrat-
ed in this government since the war,
and. until we get rid of so much dis
tilling, selling and drinking of whis-
ky, we will have corruption in the
government, and crime of every hue
will abound in the land.
The election in this county has
gone Republican, and no mistake,
Uncle John. Now don't get mad
because am glad and you are sorry.
Your folks has had the Sheriff for
two years, and tried to get him this
time. aud little nearer their notion,
but the thing soured, and would
not fuse worth AIRED. Jones friends
didn't "ante," and swear they won't
the next time you hear from them.
Mr.. Editor, you said in former
issue of the GAZETTE that E. o. Tate
was a clever gentleman, but stands
no chance of election in the coming
race. Now, Uncle John, I am salts
fed there are some things you do
not know in regard to the matter. or
you would not talk in the manner
you do about it. Yon certainly have
never heard our speech that we have
over here. tits known as the Sam
sci Speech" It was first gotten up
for the Conservative side of the ques-
ton against DR.. Thornburg, and was
voted a failure; yet it was still
thought by some to contain some
thing. and was, therefore practiced
in the courts of the country, at the
same time was subjected to many re-
amendments and transposi-
tions, until finally it was attended
with success over Brooks for the
Legislature, and has now become the
property of a joint stock company,
with copyright secured by act of
Congress This speech is a very
elastic production, indeed, and is
of no less than six trans
and innumerable imper-
,eptible variations and metamor-
)histical transmutations. 1t is q
ocular worlds wonder in the 2nd !
district of this county. You noticed |
low eager Brooks was to take stock
n this company at the Convention.
t was on account of this speech-he
bought he would get to use it. But
lie does not understand transposi-
ion well enough for that Crozier
aid the other day that he WAS tie
he only Democrat that could beat
Tate in this civil district. He was
old that this speech would be used
gainst him, and his feathers fell i'm
nediately. "A burnt child breads
he fire; - he has been bored with it
n the Courthouse when the trans.
osition was by flats. What shall I
ay of Speck? If he takes the track
e will wish that he had stayed at
ONE, because the transpositions
ill be by sharps all the time. and
he cords will therefore be painfully
arsh and excruciating to the Dem
cratic idea of harmony. However,
Mr.. Speck runs he can get the
peech by applying 70 Esquire Ben.
eek, at Rutledge. | know he has
!, for 1 heard him make it at the last
srm Of the County Court on the
infect Of - we'll, / don't know
hat. and don't suppose he does
ither, judging from the speech. 1t
IN make no difference as to the sub
ct. The speech is regular fexi-
lity, and no mistake. and is, there
IRE applicable to any subject, from
)unty politics to United States the
ogy. Yours, respectfully,
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