The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-02
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
GEN. h. N. HOOD MARES A STATE
MENT
In Answer 10 The Knoxville Amer.
lean" and the Knoxville "Trib-
une," Is Very SensR-
tiOnaI.
IsPEoIAL To THE APPEALJ

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RKNoXvILLE, TENN, November L.
Gen. r. N. Hood will publish a letter
in tomorrow's Journal which will create
a sensation in this section. 1t WAS
shown to your correspondent too late
to transmit it in full. 1t is an answer
to reiterated statements published in
the Nashville American and Knoxville
Tribune that an attempt was made to
wreck a train on which Bob Taylor
wss coming from Maryville to Knox.
vile last Monday night, and in answer
to charges OF personal nature made
against the General by the same sheets.
The following is an extract from the
letter:
The AMERICAN of the 30th ultimo
says that my denial of an attempt to
wreck the train is not TO be believed,
because, forsooth, l am sorry, Robert
N. Hood, who is secretly and treach-
erously an ally of the Republican
party, and who in August last came as
q delepate to the Democratic Ju-
dicisl Convention, aided in the Sc
lection of its nominees, and
then secretly and trsacherously
had printed and distributed spurious
Democratic ticket, which bore upon it
the name Of his Republican railroad
master, VIM. M. Baxter, who was
Republican nominee for the Supreme
Bench. Think Of it. Dune Cooper
charges me with having "bottled"
part Of the Democratic ticket.
l plead guilty to having done
so and to having had tick
cts printed with Mr.. Baxter's
name on them, but Mr.. Baxter is not
my master, never was and hardly
think he will ever be. Tickets were
not secretly or treacherously circu-
lated. 1t was well known by the local
Democratic papers here before the
election. Does Dune Cooper, the al
legged editor of the american, ever re-
member TO have "bottled" the nomi-
nees of a Democratic convention
Did be not "bolt" in 1882
and secretly and treacherous-
ly" have printed and circulated
tickets that did not have the names OF
the Democratic nominees on them
that he assisted in the nomination as
a delegate, the gentleman whose name
| once Scratched" who is referred TO
as this same Dunc Cooper. Cooper
ones "bolted" the nomination
of a Democratic convention, when
he, as a delegate, aided in
the selection of it's nominees.
He refused to support John
V. Wright for Governor in 1880.
If such "heavy weights" and illustri-
oUs men as Dune Cooper and the
gentleman he refers to can refuse to
support the nominees OF Democratic
Convention, why may not an hum
bic individual like myself do like
wise?
Now, as 10 the alleged outrage, the
american asserts that the conductor
who removed the obstruction declared
at the time, and in the presence of a
number of witnesses, that it was a
crosstis that was on the track. Dune
Cooper and you and your informant
are able and statesmanlike falsiflers,
who put these false words in your
mouth are both wilful, malicious and
deliberate fslsifers, to use no stronger
language.
In the first place the conductor did
not remove the obstruction. He
never saw it. In the second place
the conductor made no such state
ment and neither you or your in
formsnt, or any other person ever
heard him say so, and you knew this
was false when you penned and print
ed it.
Gen. Hood then devotes considera-
BILE space to other false statements
published in the american, to the
effect that several people were injured
by stones being thrown into the Demo
cratic procession at Maryville on the
same occasion.