El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-01


was al + ght.
Ell Pa.o Fdry- & Machine Co,
w. n SMALL, mana ger.
The following ct er, from the pen of
well known Ell Pa-o citizen, appeared
in the r ,und About column of the
D Has News. 1t speaks for Itself:
FL Pasr. Tex. Mach p Col. John
N. Simpson, Dallas, Tex: My dear
colrueI-I 'eader to you my hearty ana
sincere congratula tons upon the hon
or done you in max ng you the first
president Of the Texas association of
| Ten eS> eeans. Indet d. now, [ can but
| wonder that in the years that | have
known you. with ever increasing re-
gard. inst net had not promp ed me TO
a k to look for the straw b Try mark on
your left arm to have recogn zed
brother. Born Of Ten essee parents.
! n ar the beautiful and since historic
| Stones riV r. (while o. a visit. | may
| yet, I am sure, claim d brotherhood
| with the sons of tie volunteer state.
| though not consulted "a to the part of
| the country n whit h h r, to me. i'm
port4nt ev Mt : Orld occur and laying
no ella ms to honor on tn account.
| Had 1t been pnss b e through occult
| psychologist eXperime on TO have
consulted me as to my p -eference. l am
sure that l should have chosen Tenn
| see. but that [ sh Duld have chosen
Rntherford county | am inclin- d to
dOub-. bling urable TO decide post We
! ly whether my leaning toward Robert
Ion ard Lincoln counties : the result
OF prenatal good ia tie or the pos.-natal
/ influences incident to having been
| rea ed in Kentucky. Polk. [ make no
doubt, tough BON in Maury county.
heart of the blue grass will, wi h tie
innate court .sy of a southern gentle
Ina 1nr oil i'm. ho -
want. who e infancy was lu led to sleep
by the ne cd Gus chanting of the hull
| frogs of Wo river. or over w. L. Hall.
| who "pieads gully to the soft i'm
pc lchm Mt of having been born in east
| Tennessee, sonnet m cal ed the god
! forsaken, or over those of US whose
memo Of early DAYS are tinged wi h
sadness, recalling Dubious wrestlirgs
| wi h CHG ers and seed-ticks, in the
land of the celia" Snaqs. We shall all
come to the ground f nOr
1t p 'etses me that pol tics is to have
10 p'ace In our assoc at on. Those of
us who. in the lat guage of orr COM
mon tmost uncommouY friend. B II
Staretf. had Onr pnlit cs shot into
us have for years sat dumb. in demo
c. ate convent Ons, before the spell
binder who ''suc<ed in de mocracy with
his mothe"'s mi k until at last it has
dawned uTO1 US that tn blind ca
thai has succ s-fully and periodically
run over us so long is patent fraud"
not even purb ind 90 II cal maverick.
but 5 on hi nd, measly dogie. He
was brou hit uD in the smpl. ard I'M
ostentatiou- manner of the democratic
fathers-on ahOttle-(ROhertson coun-
ty) aid has nev~r ben weaned. Yes.
by a mans let Us eschew politics.
shall ende avOr t, JOIN you in the
proposed pilgrimage to the homes of
our ancestors, w ere We sna' | me- ct our
klpspenp aga n, and, at the reunion.
shall Cla-p ha" ds-alas, for how many
OF us the last t me!-with that god
lest fellowship If famous knigh,s
whereof this world holds record:' that
glorious company whose rapidly aD-
p"oaching end marks the I'm Der close
of that volnp nous day." ed of that
unique. thai matches civil zatiou. the
old south. God bless orr Tennessee
society. Farewell. Faithfully and sim |
cerely yours.
w. NJ. YANDELL.