Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-08-18

sistency of the half disability ex-judge was
shown the laughter was anything but COM
Portable to Leonidas, who sat at a table In
| front of the speaker with the glumest of
! faces.
The appointments at Kingston, Clinton
| and Maynardville are Houks, and Mr. Rule
knew nothing of them until quite recently. 1t
was evidently Houk's intention to have as
many of his own friends present here to-
day as possible and as few of Rules friends.
There were not more than $50 persons
present. the majority of them presumed to
be Houk supporters. The respectful at
tention which was given to Mr. Rule was
marked, and there is little doubt that he
made friends. His manner of speech was
calm and without embarrassment Several
gentlemen remarked that Rules speech was
terrible a,raignment of Houk, and the
judge had some big stones to remove from
his pathway.
WHAT HoUK HAD TO SAY
Judge Houk began his reply to Mr..
Rule by sayino that his competitor
had been parading him as having
been, upon divers occasions, bedStig drunk.
(The ex- judge here made terrible face by
way of emphasis.) He went on to say that
he had lived in Anderson County Is years
when young, and the people knew his faults
He declared that he had not taken drink
IN a 6Gr-roon for taoeloe gears, and that he
had aoeger taken drink eGcept aohe7s he arGs
sicki
The ex judge then proceeded to pay his
respects to the Knoxville CHRONICLE, say
ing that he ''never read the dirty thing"
After considerable abuse of the paper he
got off the greatest effort of life by saying
hot flaa Il. H.,
ton to a respectable newspaper that a
bawdy house on Water street does TO a pala-
tlal residence In the best portion of Knox
Vile"
just here, returning to the subject of
John Barleycorn, the ex-judge with the
blandest of smiles-such sweet, winsome
smile, something like this Gust imagine it,,
"please don't be hard on me this time p
admitted that he did sometimes take a glass
too much
He then as an offset to his besetting sin
CHATS putting it rather mild, perhaps
charged Rule with being a common dram
drinker and a beer guzzler; that he was
notorious frequenter of bar-rooms In Knox
vile, Nashville, and Washington. He
charged that Rule was drunk at the Max
well House in Nashville, and called upon
him to say if he did not remember leaning
against the wall Dust here an attempt at
mlmicry.) He further said that Rule was
the associate of common drunkards liars
and carpet-baggers. He mentioned E. J.
Sanford as one of the latter, ''who had
made his money swindling the people by
selling them poke-berry juice as medi-
cinen
The ex. judge then referred to Rules
charge touching bis revilement of
Garfield, denying in toto the entire charge.
He had never even entertained in his heart
the sentiment attributed to him.
The old custom-house ring" came in for
the usual amount of abuse He boosted
how he had cut off the heads of Cooper and
Rule and MINIS. O. he just played HI
with that old custom house ring. He said
he had been bounded by hyenas in human
form. The bones of the dead had been ex-
humed and shaken before his eyes, 81
baye had" he said, more devils to light
than Paul at Ephesus." He spoke of his
pension, but omitted the life insurance
policy.
After speaking of his Invaluable services
to the people, he returned again to John
Barleycorn. He said he had not been
drunk for taoo soeeks, and wanted Rule to
attest it. with the recollections
of Maryville in his mind
Rule could not accommodate the hon.
dodger)
When his hour was about exhausted, the
ex- judge concluded by predicting how mad
Rule would be when he arose again. 80
how he will rant and rave and tear his hair.
just notice how mad he will be 1t re-
minds me of song heard when 1 was a
boy. 1t was like this
A bull-frog tied by his tail to stump,
And he r'ared and he plunged,
And he couldn't make jump.
That's the way Bill Rule will do He
will rear and plunge but he won't get