Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-20
BENNETT vs.. WOODY.
The Former Says He Is Thr0ugh-The
Controversy Getting Personal.

To the Editor of the ledger.
AUxvAssE, Mo-, Aug. 19.-DEAR
SIR: I see in your columns of re-
cent date an article purporting to
be from one S. L. Woody, who
rises to a question of privilege.
VIII he, while on the floor, please
state specifically what has become
of "Citizen?"
I'm sorry this Rev. gentleman,
while undertaking under an as
sumed name, as it were, ''to feed
fat the ancient grudge he bears"
against our Prosecuting Attorney,
County Court, etc., and at the
same time create such a sympathy
for the glaring manner in which
this banking corporation is trying
to take his property for their own
benefit, has broken completely
down, got mad and says the whole
thing is a batch of lies. am very
much reminded OF the small boy
who thought himself to be a wrest-
Ter and On being thrown down
(Which means to fight or quit and
somewhat hurt, got up half crying
and said, ST amt much to wrestle
but I'm h to fight" But would
say if the Rev. Woody wants to
fight he has struck the wrong man.
I met a man fromAudrain and at the
Fulton fair last week, and while he
was somewhat laden with corn
Juice, vowed he could just clean
up any man OF the grounds. Then
addressing himself to me he said,
81 can clean old Woody, too"
So If nothing but a fight viii do !
can refer Woody to him, for /
haven't forgotten Rev. Woodys
telling me about three big men
mounting him at a Fourth of July
picnic and him cleaning the whole
business out. But then Rev. Woody
landed just where L thought he
would, but sooner than l expected.
This is just exactly the way he
did when we had the suit at Fulton
IN which the postal card cut such
a figure. He left the witness stand
very indignant and when out doors
denounced Thurmond as being the
most Infamous liar that ever lived.
When, as a matter of fact, Thur
mond had done nothing but intero-
gate him. S. l.. seems to think !
was making a personal assault up
on him. But let me assure you l
didn't intendi it that way. tried to
answer his questions as ~'sspecific-
ally" as possible. l never said
one single word about his obtain
ing money under false pretences at
Calwood, the scrape with the hired
girl, and didn't even as much as
think about how he got cut of the
Methodist conference. But sup
posed, from all accounts, the
Bishop Fat flat down on him, as it
were, without any breeches on.
Woody talked of bringing suit
against Bishop for maladministra-
ton but the good Bishop let him
know he could go into Galloway
county and pile as much hedge
brush in the public road as he
pleased and law the county to his
hearts content, but he couldn't
run that conference. And by the
way these Methodists are a dear
good people, but don't deny that
they dote more on numbers than
on election and 900 times out of a
1000, where you pick up a man
they have dropped, you have rot
ten apple.
And now, Mr.. Editor, as "Citi-
zen" has turned out to be s. l..
Woody himself and he has moth.
ing to say but that the whole thing
is a batch of lies, I'm ready to drop
this controversy. But as l have
been censured to some extent by
some of my friends for even MOTTO
ing such a nan as Woody, let me
assure you If Woody had signed
his own name instead of "Citizen"
it would have passed by unnoticed.
For you know there are some peo-
pie, whose glaring egotism, togeth-
er with a large amount of cold
blooded fool, are ready on all oc-
casions to sally forth to express
themselves in newspapers, and on
being assaulted, are 70 closely allied
to the brute, that 1t is perfectly
natural for them to get mad and
want to fight and since / am Meth
er a bully nor a prize fighter, Will
be compelled to drop this contro-
versy, and as this is my last effort
at setting forth the facts in connec.
Z ton with this notorious road case,
will close with q quotation from
the pen of the truthful Sammy