The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-10-10
THAT OMAHA LETTER.
John Houk Denounced by other
Honest NeWr apers.

Last week we gave what the NOISY !
Creek Visitor thought Of the Omaha
Letter. Here are other opinions.
The Clinton Gazette copies the ar
ticle from the Messy Creek Visitor,
endorses it and adds that it received
the same letter from the same place.
The Kingston Republican after copy i
ing the same letter adds the following.
The above letter was received at
this office and the same letter seems I
to have been written to every Repub- /
lican newspaper in thus district, and
this is the letter that John Houk re-.
fered to in his speeches when he says
he could buy the Republican. This /
kind of scheming and lying may do |
in some places but it won't do in East
Tennessee and when John Houk says
he could buy the Republican or the !
lockwood Times at any price he
simply lies. maliciously and know
ingly. ef "of ''''h .
The lockwood Times has the fol- |
lowing to say me i
"Ihe above letter is verbatim
copyof one received at this office in
the month of June 1894. We believ-
ing il to be purely business propo-
sition answered Mr.. Glider according
ly. But Mr.. Glider turns out to be
no other parsonage than John Houk.
And now Houk is claiming that we
offered to sell the influence of the
Times to him. This is an unmitigated
falsehood and only shows how low
John Houk can get when he tries.
This same letter was written to every
republican paper in this district and
now he (Houk) is claiming that he
could have bought them all, and that
they were offered to him. All we
have to say is that when John Houk
says he could have bought the Rock
wood Times or that such thing was
ever mentioned he lies and willfully
and maliciously lies" if
The Knoxville Republican has our
thanks for the following:
The conduct of John Houk at
Maryville, last week, i..s.nuating that
the Maryville TINES man had offered
to sell out, and that he could have
bought him if he had had the money,
caunot be too severely condemned.
Such conduct cannot fail to lower
John Houk in the g. ton of good
citizens. Mr.. Goddard, the propri-
etor of the TIMES, is good citizen, an
honest man, was brave union sol.
der, and his influence has always
been on the side of law and order.
His son, the editor, is young man
of good habits, good character and
splendid talents. The TINES has
been and is constant friend of
Blount county. and any attempt to
, iniure it owners or lessen its influence
: for good will be rebuked, or should
be.
The Jelhco Advance-Sentinel thu:
skins the degenerate son of worthy
Sire:
"There is no lake deep enough mol
hell hot enough for man who will
sneakingly and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
character. This is what John Houk
little, dwarf, measly minded midget
when compared with honest men, il
now doing in his campaign. How d.
we know? Listen, and we will tel
you. Read the following letter
which sounds like straight out bust
ness proposition"
Here the same letter which appear
ed in last weeks TINES is quoted.
This contemplate cur who is now
asking you to return HIM 10 congress,
a charges every newspaper man in tht
2 district with having sold out to Henry
r r. Gibson. He further charges tina
3 he has in his possession letters from
a every one of them offering to sell GU
A to hun (Houk.)
Now this scoundrel in his speeche
(?) win faunt before the people tn,
replies from the different papers to tn,
; abovs letters and say "that is an offe
to sell out only the paper but its In
fuence." He has been asked to rea,
I these letters, but refuses to do so
knowing it would give away his ltd