Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-17
AFTER JOHN ALLEN.
Squire M. N. Bryan, An Old
Neighbor. Talks.
It Comes From Jno. Allen Sending Him
Some of His Circular Letters
For Distribution.

The following communication APP
peared in Saturdays issue of the
Guthrie Vidette:
"MR. EDITOR PLEASE allow me
through your par er to give expression
to a few random thoughts, which
have been suggested to Inc by the
receipt of about It's circulars signed
by j. b. Allen and addressed to the
voters OF the Sixth Congressional
District. / must confess my aston
ishment when 1 read these circulars.
/ always thought Allen entertained
the idea that he ought to be called on
to represent Montgomery county in
the Legislature, but / never once
dreamed that he had the
audacity or temerity to attempt
to 60 SO high at single
stride; but it seems that We are
progressing and tive know not what
the morrow will bring forth" There
is peculiar strangeness about all
this, something that is incompre-
hensible to me, mystery which l
am unable to solve. When j. B. AL
len became citizen of District No.
l, about the year 1857, had hardly
reached my majority. j. b. Allen,
J. G. Wilcox and r.. Y. Johnson
carried the vote of the district in
their pocE cts. l placed myself I'M
der their tutelage and they taught
me that it was sacrilegious to even
scratch single name upon the Dem-
ocratic ticket and so we'll did they
bend the twig, the tree is still in
clined that way. Yes was so well
drilled that considered it an unpsr.
donable sin for any man to differ
from me. Now what am / to do?
Allen has deserted tho old true an q
tried party and started an lndepend-
ent party. He says he is going to
Congress and proposes, If he ever gets
there, TO wipe from the statute books
every law that is obnoxious ana
make new set that will exactly suit
evtryb dy, high and low, rich aud
pour. He il for equality in every
thing. | 30 wonder if member OF
Congr 81 possesses so much power.
Gar Reed didn't seem to have quite
so much, but suppose when the
gets into the hands of such
men AS John Buchanan, John Nc
Dowell and John Allen that every
thing will be lovely. Poor old men
like Bate, Harris, Porter, Turney,
etc., will have to take a back
seat, branded as fools and scoundrels.
John says he is patriot, that he
foaght in the Rebel army, and that
henceforWard he intends to discard
any measure he finds to he wrong.
at has taken him twenty-five years
to discover that it was wrong to vote
The Democratic ticket, and if it takes
him rs long to discover the error he
is now making he will have the OPP
of making only one more |
summersault, and that will be from
time to eternity.
81 cannot believe that John has
taken this step of his own volilion.
There certainly has been some great
pressure brought to bear upon him.
What that influence is / cannot say.
| hope he will never be brought to
regret his action but fear he will. l
cannot see how he or any other man
who claims TO have fought in the
rebel army and loves the South, can
vote any other way than for every
Democrat nominee. Hoping that
Allen may repent and return to the
regular party, | leave him, as our
roads lead in different directions.
I'M. N. BRYAN, J. p"
"Dist. No. |. Montgomery Cor