Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-09-05
HE SAYS HE DID NOT SAY 1T.

Judge Houk has been interviewed
in Washington, at the Ebbitt House
mot the Calaboose), and the inter-s
view has been published in the
Washington Republican-the organ
of the Congressional clique, who
assess clerks to re-elect themselves.
Among other things, the reporter of
his Washington organ publishes the
following utterances from him, in
response to reportorial inquiry:
Have you seen the dispatches to
the Northern papers-notably the
dispatch to the New York Tribune,
in it's issue of the 29th of August -
Eyes; friend called my attention
to it. | made no such speech as that
ascribed to me or anything like it.
| have the hatred
of set of bad men, | know, but l
have the respect of the good men
who have known me all my life. This
proud consciousness makes me calm
and contented, while my enemies are
as ravening wolves.
Our curiosity became excited, and
we wondered what dispatch had
been published in the New York Tri-
bune of the 18th ult, to which Houk' s
attention had been particularly
called by frienS, and which he had
read, and which aseribed speech to
him, which speech he never made,
noI anything akin to it.
We felt sympathy for our "calm
and contented" Congressman, with
such fine suit of proud conscious
ness" covering him all over like a
garment, as it were; for we feared
that some of that +" set of bad men, y
whose hatred he bad, who respected
not even his 'sproud consciousness,
had caused to be published some
bad story in that bad paper,
which would cause him
to feel bad for himself and bad for
his constituents. And so we searched
for that number of the Tribune, the
one published on the 29thFof August,
and we find our worst fears con-
irmed. The "ravening wolves are
on the track of our ravemng- no,
"calm and contented" Congressman,
and would despoil him of his proud
consciousness" which would enrich
them not, and make him poor, in
deed SANDER is in the air Libel
stalketh abroad Defamation with
her forked tongue seeketh after and
followeth our noble Congress
man, and cOnstraineth him-aye
constraine!h him to deny. Deny
what Why, that dispatch to the
New York Tribune of the 29th uh.
Ald that our readers, Judge HOAX s
constituents, may see how he has
been slandered, and how proudly he
tells the truth even in Washington
and to a reporter, this ''calm and
contented Congressman of ours,
we here reproduce from the
New York Tribune of the 29th
of August, that very dispatch
which Congressman Houk read, we
give the speech therein ascribed to
him, and by him fatty denied, verba
tim and literatim it is entirely new,
as our readers will see;
/ ut is possibly true, fellow~citi
zens, that l was IN the calaboose, but
t Il you, before God, l have no rea
collection of it. l got poisoned, and
fof ten hours | did not know any
thing under the sun, and it may be
that some of the rascals who pois
oled me put me IN the calaboose
| while | was unconscious. [ would
have made this poisoning business
public long since, but | had de-
tee yes after the murderous villains
VINO attempted to take Lay life, and
I feared that if 1 made it public, the
assass' ms would escape. They
slipped into n room and put-poison
IN m.y watereglass, and upon taking
| it [ became VI conscious, and it that
coedition I was put III the calaboos9,
if put there at all
| Judge Houk says boldIy--we adj
mire boldness, and remember Ans
anias-"I made no such speech, nor
anything akin to it" He also says :
81 bear the respect of good men and
a proud Consciousness Z also he is
"calm and contented."
HOuk = calm = contented -
proud consciousness - calabOose-
pizened- murderous villains detec-
tives-didn't make it-no kin to it
ravening wolves-life policy-pen~
sion-pizen - Houk. So We go!