Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-12
"a SERIOUS CHARGE"
But From an Exceedingly Gausev
Source.

Brother Cause, of the Springfield
Herald, under the head Of ga Seri-
Gus Charge" writes a very loose,
reckless lot OF sloshy, misleading
stuff, baked as he says by GA leading
citizen" which makes us feel sorry
for Robertson county's citizens who
follow. MIR. Boone, the Herald says,
is the responsible gentleman who
furnished the ''paid communi' a.
ton" Mr.. Boone, to begin with, is
agent for Nashville warehouse and
has a dozen hogsheads Of tobacco
promised, which he wants to make
sure of, Mr.. Boone rides a mule,
carries a coon's foot and drinks
crooked liquor fresh from straight
worm and wouldn't know the truth
if he was to meet it in the road.
We take the following extract from
the Herald's article, which goes on
to lecture GAINESVILLE people as to
how they should conduct their bust
ness, etc:
"Just as we were going to press
last week a paid communication was
handed us for publication, signed by
a leading citizen Of this county,
charging that the recent high prices
reported as gwen for tobacco at
GAINESVILLE were in fact no sales at
all, but a fraud gotten up by col
fusion between the WarehOusemen
and a few loose buyers. He men
toned the sale Of two crops Of Crouch
Bros, and one of Brown 4 Sons
The SteWed down facts about the
matter is that Mr.. Boone asserts that
these sales never, in fact occurred a.
absolute sales with the consideration
passing from buyer to seller, but that
the tobacco sold was in fact, owned
by the warehOusemen themselves,
and that they were made to affect the
trade at that place favorably."
Now, the facts are that the Crouches
and Browns are farmers, men of the
highest character and would not be
parties to any such trickery. They
make very fine tobacco, and sold
their crops loose to Emmett Morrow,
a tobacco buyer of this city, as was
published, who is also man of high
character. If any one doubts
this statement he can ad
dress all Of the parties and OBJ
tain a sworn statement of the facts, if
that will help Mr.. BOone's sorry feel
ingS any. AS to the warehouses,
some five or six have sold leaf at $l4
to SIG Three houses we know
Rudolph q Co., Hallums q Edwards
and Kendrick q Runyon-have sold
more than dozen hogsheads at $40
and many at $l4 to SIS and farmers
who have such tobacco could get the
same price by bringing it here.
Buyers will never let them get to the
salesroOm with it. Now let us eX-
anime the sale reports of Mr.. Boone's
Nashville house, published in the
same paper: THE offerings have
been rather light ; we have sold of all
grades, old and new, and common
hurley, 80 Hhds. There has been a
considerable sprinkle of high casein
the new leaf, which buyers are not
wjiljng to risk for export and it has TO
go to reh0ndirS al considerable reduc.
ton. So far, we have not opened
anything above Regje in grade"
Then, after many other apologies
for high order, low grades, etc, goes
on to promise for German wrappers:
"The range for cOmmonest types
will be from 10 to 10 cents, and the
selections from ljc to lSc.o
Every farmer in Robertson and
Chcatham counties knows there are
no buyers amounting TO anything in
Nashville, and there never was and
never will be a sale at Is cents. The
joke of the whole thing is, that these
Nashville people have been writing
to Bremen, trying to engage the en-
tire crop of the GAINESVILLE district.
Attend the Board of Trade.
Every citizen should go to the
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