The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-01-22
EXCHANGES OF MUTUAL ADMIR-
ATTON

Mr.. Ewing rose to a personal explana
ton, and asked that an article published
in THE MoRRIsTOwN GAZETTE be read
1t was quite a salty document, reflect
ing on Mr.. Ewing during his connection
with the Board of Railroad Assessors.
Mr.. Ewing said it was his ambition to
go before the people as being support
er of the retrenchment idea. He de-
nOunced the article, wherein it referred
to him using any of the States money
improperly; that it was false in that par
ticular IN t0.-M H. W. Facing, before
the Senate in C0n9naittce Of the Whole to con-
slider THE MoRRIsTOwN GAZETTE.
THE reader will remember that our
charge against Mr.. Ewing was that he
attempted to defraud US out of two dol
lars by the introduction OF a pitiful
spiteful, dishonest and illegal amend
ment cutting down our per demand
this in the name of retrenchment and re-
form moraIs-while at the same time he
showed no compunction of conscience
for carrying in his breeches pocket mo-
ney drawn from the people for mileage
while riding over the State on dead
head tickets. Mr.. Ewing is welcome to
the fame he is ambitious to win as a re-
trencher, but so far as his ideas of re-
form affect popular opinion in our indi-
vidual case, he has only elevated him
self to the dignity of a Senatorial ass
and Seventh day hypocrite.l
Mr. Clapp doubted the propriety of
giving that sort Of prominence to news
paper articles. Men who had lived as
long as himself and the Senator from
Warren were not so sensitive to criti-
cisms, perhaps, for the reason that their
skins had come to be imperVious Such
an article as that read could not hurt
the Senator from Giles with those who
knew him.
Mr.. savage said he entirely concurred
with the Senator from Shelby 1t was
an old adage that the loser in a game
has right to swear loud and long. AL
luding to Ewing, of cOurse.-GAZ. The
Senator from Giles, however, may have
been right in thus noticing the refer
ence to his financial acts as Railroad As
SCISSOR. He had voted for six dollars to
be paid Mr.. Helms, though he had not
voted for him for Clerk.
Mr.. Tolley said he thought the Sena-
tor displayed the proper spirit in motto
ing the scurrilous attack upon him He
declined to notice only 50 much of the
article as intimated an appropriation of
public funds.
Mr. Shearon said he knew of his own
knowledge that Mr. Ewing on that
Board used every eXertion TO save the
State expense.
Mr.. Ewing then expressed his graft
tude to his seniors in the Senate for
their approval of his course. -Ertract
from the proceedings Of tie Senate. an Com
nsittee Of the Whole on The MoRRIsTOwN
GAZETTE, Ttursdaytast
And we, too, would express our graft
tudS that all Of this exhibition of sym.
pathy and affection, mixed as it is with
Senatorial cubsbs and Savage Tolleyra-
lions for a distressed and erring bro
Their, was developed and brought to its
oozing out point through our goodness
of heart, and that it is still our high
privilege to keep to the surface ofpopu-
lar appreciation this bsvy of downward
floating Senatorial apples. Yet, alas
all of these downward floating Senatorial
chunks you see are notapples And for
this We still grisve.