Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-26
SGTON LETTER.
kLINGS OF A OHAPTEE
|NESSEE POLITICS.


,vnIow-A Queer story of
|,1~S uefo. m--The Grand Al
~ the Administration.
IespondeHce of the Gazette.
|9kon, July 20.-Your cor
cnlled to see an editor of
|b) Register. / asked
kould object to telling all
xbout efforts recently
col. Jno. b. Brownlow
70 in the postoflice de-
y Is answered: "Be seated,
e story will be told
esq The editor con-
remember that Mr..
4 Tennessee, when he
miner u candidate for
tainst Rule, both
fidressed a note to Col.
r. low, telling him
were not silent he
ed from his clerksh;p
into the hills and hol-
ennessee to hoe corn and
33rownlow inherits the
bier, the old parson, and
fear of Houk before his
D Houk's letter in the
Herald and by way OF
M lave a sort of biographi-
m Houk. He told how
|ceda hornpipe on top of a
r&f1d piano at his boarding
that the jig cost Houk $500.
bW Houk was chucked out
lon army at Murfreesboro,
bd of the service" as the rec
War Office state. Brownlow
DxbHshed the facts stated
heu and by the records of the
~ in this city that Houk
elHted for drunkenness, and
the peace on the Lords
I6 profanity" and that when
ttaorning he registered his
|the culprit's book as 81.
Divers other stories
kf8ctcr did Brownlow publish
|{k6 eonduct and character of
hi referred to Houk's oceu-
XII apartment at the Ebbitt
6Alfemale stranger, and told
|9ckl ess pair went forth from
Hin despair like Adam and
|paradise. Despite these pub
hide in the New York Her
IA Hdrpcr's Weekly and in
(which gave charming IL
8 of Houk's adventures in
Il DTivate life.
|5ik WAS REFLECTED.
b Boasts of 5000 Republican
This majority, a paper be-
|Jts, was lessened by Houk's
more than one-half; but the
|ocrats, thinking that they
Eber disgrace Houk's party,
dly for him. His Republi-
counterbalanced by
10 gains. Then Houk, hav.
lincongress, has become a
BIT, md two thirds Of the peo-
Union district are directly
tIysinterested in claims of
mother sort against
ernunent. Houk makes
BIZ Relieves that his own re-
only needful to answer the
y 0fthe claim by congress or
ktments. One county in
|etrict demands at this hour,
kotlk, SO this same newspa-
moro money from the fed
Bury than the county was
IA when negroes were prop
these Ignorant claimants are
|lIents. His fees are their
their loyalty to Houk is
Fheir simple greed and cred
lis not the. man they respect
but the claim and pension
bulk, who has bought them
fnment gold or bribed them
hope of securing it.
SUBSTANTIALLY, WERE
sALIENT FACTS,
lime recited by Col. Brown
By this newspaper, before me,
several publications having
to the worth and deeds OF
Der from Fact Tennessee. /
He, personally, OF Mr.. Houk
Ions have always beeu kindly
Ind I would do him, volun-
|injustice. But | tell of these
y show how Brownlow is af-
Them.
ban eighteen months ago ]
ID article which / sold
paper published here
World. The, leading facts
Il learned from Col. Brown
III i discussed the injustice
Onion soldiers whose accounts
bvered over by Gen. Ferris
Ind every small sum over,
\ soldiers or overcharged by
brs is sued for or the soldier Is
Bersistently. Soldiers rarely
Jared what they signed. They
|W that the proper sums were
b. The difference between
Int specified on the book they
bid the amount they received
led the paymaster clear profits
En-. Ferris is growing TO
bits. Meanwhile when thi
ID. Ferris was a member o
lust after the war, a law wa
|exempting pay-masters from
prosecutions. They were al
Bsphews and kinsmen of con
i or of high government dig
and being OF the nobilit,
Mto be held accountable 10
N piccadillos. Therefore Gen
4 congress enacted a la,
teleased the pay-master'
bYer II common, vulga
koting, ditch-digging soldie
bw abused the law, but spok
|0f General Ferris whom b
|orsonally. Brownlow, aft'
|1te q letter to Ferris and in
eentence, adopting my vel
Ia taken from the ed