Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-08-01
"BOSS HOUK" INDIGNANT.
Something More About the Letter Of
Col. BrOWnlOw.

Congressman Houk furnishes the
following to the New York Herald:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 25, 1882.
To TIE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:
1t may not be improper in. reply
to your editorial in the Herald of the
21st inst i'll which you attack Mr..
Hubbell, the Congressional commit
tee and myself, to admit to notice
the son of the late Senator Brown
low WAS Of questionable propriety,
He sprang from a noble sire, but to
hold controversy with him would
degrade any gentleman in the com
munity where ne is known. L wish
1t understood this is not intended as
a reply to him, but as he has imposed
on you, and you have editorially ass
sumed that he has told the truth
in his letter, [ simply wish
say that the only statement
made by him bearing the semblance
Of truth as regards myself is that [
committed the indiscretion of MOTTO
ing being who is regarded by those
who know him more as a fiction than
fact. Mr.. Hubbell nor anybody else
has assessed clerks for my benefit.
There has never word passed be
tween Mr.. Hubbell or any member
of the Congressional committee and
myself touching my canvass for a
denomination, nor has any of them
taken any part or aided me either
directly or Indirectly, ''There is no
serious division among the republi-
cans of the Second Congressional
district of Tennessee. they are Ca
pable of taking care of the interests
of the Republican party in that dis
trict, and are doing it. [ will be re
nominated and reelected. Publish
this as a matter of justice to the
persons assailed in your editorial.
Respectfully, &c, L, G. HoUk
Here is what Cordell, a clerk in
the Post-office department at Wash
ington says about the contributions
collected for Houk's campaign. His
letter is published in Houks Loudon
organ:
[ happen to be one who gave
money freely for the purpose of de-
feating the man that would rather
see Republican defeat than that
Hon. L. c. Houk should be returned
to Congress-; and [ suppose l gave
as much as any one did, would be
willing to give a hundred dollars
more, before | would sit still and see
the Second Congressional District of
Tennessee represented by man who
would on any terms vote for Dem
ocratic Greenback candidate; for who
knows but he might take freak to
vote with the Democrats in the
House of Representatives
I have carefully inquired of every
gentleman who contributed to the
fund in opposition to the old ''Cus-
tom House Ring" and not single
one said that they did not contribute
it freely.
Noticing Houk's feeble reply to
Brownlow's letter, the Herald says
in an editorial
is IT A SURPRISE PARTY
Representative Leonidas Caesar
Houk, whose reply to Mr.. John B.
Brownlow's letter was published
the Herald yesterday, makes denials
so distinct as to provoke wonder
whether all the work being done for
him in his district was not started
and carried forward by Houk's
friends, with the intention of giving
the gentleman a pleasant surprise
AS Mr.. Houk says that neither
Hubbell nor any one else
has assessed clerks for his
benefit 1T must be that
the Hubbell committee, with deli
cacy that no one would have expected
to crop out III such body of men,
have been doing it unknown to their
associate, and as he Says that none
of them have aided him directly or
indirectly he is probably ignorant of
the hard work that revenue officers
and postmasters are doing for him
and against another Republican IN
the Second District of Tennessee. 1t
is just too lovely for anything to
have such friends, even if for while
they leave man in such ignorance
what is being done for him that he
can write such letter as the Herald
published yesterday over Mr.. Houk' S
signature.
Lewis G.. Folger, Esq, Is Elizabeth
street, Cincinnati, says he was cured by St.