The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-05-03
FAMILY FIGHT.
Father.in.law and Son Fall Out and
Fight over Bob Taylor.

DEAR SIR-It's meseli that felt shurs
yea wud Civ me space in the columns
OF yer illigant paper to detail sum con.
versation I've had lately wild me faith
er-in-law, Tim Ryan, in connixion wild
Bob Taylor's claims for renomina-
tior.
Now, me fsther-in-law, bad cess to
him, is All inemy of Beb's because the
Governor failed to appoint him coal
lie inspector in the town where he be-
longs, and he vows that he will go
back on Taylor. and iverything dim
mycratic--even the thraditiops OF the
Iathers--in order to have his revinge
Shure I've endivered to reasin wild the
man, but he's as mulish as the widow
Maloney's pig, which TUX on himself
20 die, rather than live two months
longer and pay the old woman's rint.
He towld me the other day that the
Knoxville Tribune fully indorsed his
coorse, and Dragged that he was sus.
tanned by the leadin dimmycratic pa
per Of East Tnnissee. Well thisrous-
I'D me Irish blood and towld him he
was as badly mistaken as Jimmie
Rooney WAS when he stole the jug of
hax-oil from old Father Burke think
in it contained a good gallon OF
mountain poteen."
"The leadin' paper is it?" sec l,
faith it may have been before the
war, but sence the Knoxville Sentinel
Star hath set it's watch in the sky, and
the Johnson City COMET has been
Aending its bright scintillations over
upper East Tennessee, may the divil
git away wild me if the Tribune hasn't
fallen from grace, for the dimmycrats
ginerally don't like to rsde the vile
and unealied for abuse that it hapes
ON man that lid the dimmocracy in
90 many gallant fights, and has done
DOthiNg 10 merit be same" "You
-, 'therjD Spaipesh,7 Sez Tim, sis it
,r, ''es 0F y0u that Wud BIZ blamin
:, T,, when two eliver jintlcmen
. 4 Summers see tit to
.,..,;,. "''' >Ss.y Incompetent
",a.i as Taylor and pint ev"n Laa,
cicncies 10 the people?" s. :. ~,
your mouth shet, pap" sez /, "i,.
meself that has any disloike to bea.. !
and summers, shure don't they run
together AND its meself that's fond of
beans, for its good dimmycratic dish I
but | don't ike so much pepper in hot
weather and besides Bob will not take
his safe agin till inauguration day and
thin beans and summer will both be
gone-down cellar to eat crow. And
as to the guvner's incompetence and
dehciences--faith, want you to put
the tip Of Of your finger Oh anything
81 importance in the discharge OF his
duty he has failed to perform. Fwhat
did the Tribune have to say about Bob
when, years, ago, he laid dOwn his I'D
die and played tune on the Michigan
(Pet,i) bones that waited him in tri-
umph to Washington? Didn't it
carry the news to Betty that won OF
the ablest and bist OF Our mountaIhj
bys hadgone vida big majorityto the
capitol to assist in maxim the laws for |
us and where WAS the charge OF in
competence thin? Shure its taken |
the Tribune u long time to find Bob
out but it will take still longer time
for that paper to convince min OF
since that the mon can't white who
can make knife -" "Ye crazy gos-
Noon," broke in me father-in-lsw, "the
wltN.lins fwhat the matter with Han
nah tivRt's all that Taylor's been doin
sence he went to Nashville, and, be-
gcrra. whittlin's only pastime."
Faith, ats there you're mistaken
,%xisl sez I, "ior accordin to good old
d;, ~myGsasic customs, its wild that
sarne <aife ths4 Bob's bin cuttin Ten
,pessee ts ,,is and because the pie isn't
srearas h;no >SDis aRaSt, Inc divils to
NAV A1Ioth, 'StTjeaas e0aldnt get a
liar. srd -, w. saieAs dist fell to
East Tennessee the. Wa" ' t''v
WAS stamped wild the l'pCus.s ,,. "%eN
mark and, bedad, its kicA y NJ no,,lS ia
mule iver sencc. Now il WY %0~~
sell out the state and give the .'.''s
q six column ad, shure the chasn. 80 ~.
be bridged over and 'butther wolo
milt in its mouth'.p
Wild that me father in.law hauled
oil and struck me lick wild his fsht
that made me see more stars in
minute than me grandfather, God rist
his sowl, iver saw in \ twelve month,
and he was an almanac maker at that.
"Be the shade of st. Patrick, and
that is your gameis itH" seq +, thin
givin Donnybrook yell, spit on my
hands, doubled me fishts, and in less
that wan minute aid half, he was as
badly laid out as Mcconnell was whin
the Knoxville convention last Satur-
dav wake, sat down ON him and |