Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-10-27
Houk and Company at Andersonville.


ANDERsoNvILLE, Tenn, October "a
Mr.. EDITOR: To-day L. c. Houk and COM
pany made their advent in Andersonville.
They were escorted into town by the beat
ing of drums and the blowing of pipes, they
were escorted by about fifty or sixty per-
sons, some of whom were mere boys, and
others not old enough to vote, and a few
Rule men that happened to get with the
crowd on their way to the speaking. The
company came into town about IL o'clock,
and Houk drove to the upper end of the
town and stopped at the postoffice and took
dinner with the postmaster, after which he
drove back down into town, and the crowd
assembled in the Sout hern Church yard
where A. M. Hughes, being introduced by
DR.. Price, made a speech of about
20 minutes, after which the ''slandered"
Congressman began his speech by saying
that he was not drunk, nor had he read
to-day's CHRONICLE He went on and tried
to show that he was the regular nominee of
the Republican party, and in abusing the
men that nominated Capt. Rule. Houk
took up the county conventions and run
the official screen, brought out a few of the
ex-United States officials, and their offended
relations or the disappointed in getting Of
fee and the 'loft rats" for Mr.. Rule. He
abused the Knoxville courthouse CONVEX
ton and the members of said convention
Said that Judge Andrews was thief and a
drunkard that V. F. Gossett was drunk
ard and gambler, that no man that had
been at Knoxville in the last six months
but what might have seen him drunk; that
E. j. Sanford was an Atheist, and that he
had tried to get large sum of money off
of the people of Knox County wrongfully,
and that the Coopers had no sense; that
Capt. VIM. Rule was going round with
stolen letters in his pockets; that Rule or
the man that stole letters, had to break two
locks to get them. Houk did not say any
thing about Meek and Austin's reward of
5000 or why they did not go to the CHRoN-
IoLE Office to get the man that stole the let
ters. Houk said that the Hon. Perez Dick
inson was not in the convention that NOM
mated Captain Rule. That he just went to
the door and looked in and saw the filthy
crowd and went off holding his nose, not
| withstanding he was one of the
committee to notify Capt. Rule of his
nomination and escort him to
the stand Now all this was done to mis-
I6du Tie pSOpl0, duO huOuIu Uo COuu0huSu
by the people The rest of Houks speech
was in trying to defend his course in Con
gress by holding up his list of claims and
pensions that he has secured the payment
of and his experience with the police and
the calaboose. He said that they had
10 calaboose in Washington, and him or
Hughes, in defending his character, said
that the constitution of the United States
prohibited the arrest of Congressman ex-
cest for felony. Great Caesar did not
prs*e to the entire satisfaction of the peo-
pie that he was not drunk or in the Gala
boose, although he said that he had not
drank drop of whisky, or any strong
drink In twelve years, except for medical
purposes Wonder if it was not for ''disa-
bility received while in the army" Judge
Houk seems to be elated with the ''official
pressure that he has brought to beal" in the
removal of the postmaster at this and other
places. All that he has to regret in the re-
moval at this place is that the post-ofice is
at the upper end of town. We will recon-
mend that it be moved down near the center
of town. Now, it will not do to move the
office without somebody for postmaster, and
it will not be in keeping with the admins
tration to put Rule man in, and there is
no place for the present postmas
ter of town. We are of the opinion
that Houk knew where he was taking
the Office to before he made the charge
from the fact that before the change was
made, he passed by on his way to May
nardville, and stopped and had few words
with the present postmaster and others, no
doubt about the change. Houk spoke out
in the open air, for reasons best known to
some of his friends, the majority of the
trustees of the M. E. Church, South, de-
eide tnat they would not have any more
political speaking in the church, and one of
the trustees locked the doors and took the
keys and he was not in town to-day, and
they did not ask permission to speak in the
M. E. Church or they could have gotten
permission, as majority of the trustees
would have given it, but we suppose they
will say that the Rule men locked them
out, and try to make capital
out of it, but these are the facts. Nearly
half the counties in the district WAS repre-
sented in the crowd to day; men from Knox
ville Clinton, Coal Creek, Careyville, Jacks
boro, and Union Comfy, and then the as
semblage was not larger than the crowd was
to hear Captain Rule will say that Rules
friends are confident of success. Houk said
that if he did not beat Kule 9, 76O votes he
weuld go to Mexico well, we will send him
there, and it may be that he can take Isham
G. Harris place in Mexico. We are glad
to see W. II. Edwards speak out on the pen
sion business Let others do likewise,
although Houk denounced Edwards to-day,
let the people speak for the right, and the
right will win. Yours,
ANDERSON