Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-29
In Memory of Ballard 0dell and J. W.
Stanton.

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After spending many lonely moments
in prayer and meditation, | find my
self still at a loss as to what l must
say in regard to the Democratic manu-
script writer whose writing appeared
in q recent number of the Tribune.
This man l find ia .also an inhahitapt
Of the land of the Baylessits and more
over | find him to be a very slothful,
good for nothing kind of a citizen:
Il man who is capable of doing any
and everything only hat which is
right in the sight of man, to say moth
ing of God. Ballard Odell, the great
newspaper correspondent of the Second
District is a very illiterate sort of q
fellow, he will not stoop SO low as to
dress lawns, chop stove wood, or even
drive the herds from the pasture for
a respectable farmer of his neighbor-
hood, but l will tell you what gossip
says of him. He is a member Of church
and is also q member of the DEVILS
family; as you can readily see he is a
man who depends on the good people
Of Washington County for an allow
ance by its courts for the support of
his children and he is also a moderate
dram drinker. AS you are aware of
the part that this 10 the only thing
that it takes to make up a man of good
morality and qualities him for an in
dependent voter. There is still an
other character in this life's drama in
the shape of John W. Stanton; he is no
handy shanked innocent dwarf, neither
is Ballard Odell; the latter is q natural
born pigmy who is ashamed of his ex-
istence. While the former, John
stanton, is a great big overgrown
shanghigh, who can neither read nor
write intelligently, but stands and
looks over the fence ana cries for
buttermilk. He is also such n person
who will tell or do anything to make
a dollar in money, herd a cow or
he hasn't any manly principles con,
nected with his morality; he is inoa-
pable Of writing the autopsy of G. w.
Stone. II | could not write an article
to a newspaper l would commit suicide
by taking a bride to stuff a jury box as
has been the case with n of the loyal
independent voters of the Second
District, neither has the good peo-
pie of the upper end of said district
ever been on the jury bench that
acquitted a man who was indicted
for cold blooded murder, as some of
the independent voters have been, and
after the acquittal been sent out of
town to their respective homes in q
fine carriage with lots of money In
their pockets and a goodly amount of
pop skull liquor in their bottles. This
is the real light on the subject. j. w.
Stanton, it is said, has been riding in
the First District for the small pittanoe
of n dollar circulating the news that
he was not going to vote for a certain
county officer, as said Stanton had
spread the news that il Mr.. officer was
elected that he was promised q
deputy place, and now in order that
Mr.. Officer may get there in the First
Stanton must take the dollar and GO
and tell the people that he is against
said officer being elected and that he
will not support him on the 9th of
August. Napoleon may have lost his
soepter and the modern Benedict Ar
mold possibly may be silenced on or
before the 9th Of August, but Alexan-
der the great, who conquered the
world, will still be in existence.
Yours for good luck,
G. w. STONE.
Telford, Tenn, July rs, 1896.