The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-06-27
REPLIES TO T. W. SIMS.
Hon. John II. Trice still Believes the Con-
gresham Should Come TO the District.

Henderson, Tenn, June 10, 1902.
Hon. T. w. Sims, House of Representa-
tives, Washington, d. O.
Dear Sir :-Inasmuch as you see proper
to make public your reply to a joint letter
by Messrs. Trout, Lewis and myself and
which was a private correspondence,
courteously asking you to make a list of
appointments for public discussion, 1
trust you will pardon me for likewise re-
plying.
You decline to even consider our re-
quest on the ground that your public du-
ties require your presence at Washington
until Congress adjourns. You crihcise
our suggestion that you might pair with
a Republican, and refer to pairing as a
method of avoiding a vote.
The record shows that you have been
paired many times since you have been
in Congress, and it has only been few
weeks since you found it not only con-
venient, but highly proper to desert your
now so important post in Congress to
come to Nashvilleto the State Democratic
convention to prosecute your campaign
for reelection.
You express surprise that we should
suggest that you might pair with a Re-
publican. You have done that so often
since you have been in Congress, or to
accommodate some Republican, or to suit
your own convenience, that I had no idea
that the suggestion would put such a
strain on your sense Of propriety as it
seems to have done.
You have not hesitated to send your
private secretary here to manage your
campaign for you and fight your compet-
itOrs for you, and, is he not paid by the
tax payers, Shopper month, for public SER
vices, and have you not unhesitatingly
signed a certificate on your honor that
you paid the 500 per month of the peo-
ple's money for clerical services to aid
you in the performance of your work as a
member of Congress?
What are we to think of your sense OF
propriety in view of these facts? Do you
not think 1t would be more in accord with
the proprieties, more in accord with the
resolution providing a private secretary
for you, to let your private secretary stay
in Washington and represent the district
while you come here and take his place
and fight your own battles and face your
own record?
He can send out speeches that were
never delivered, and treatises on "Pint
Apple Culture" that so much interest the
people Of this district, as we'll as anyone
The resolutions to which you refer
would not lose their place on the calen
dar and would 90 to the next session i
they were reached, but you know that to
ward the close of a session no attention
is paid to any business except appropria
tons and conference reports.
You say, "Suppose we all should PAL
with Republicans and leave9 AS the,
have an overwhelming majority and yol
are powerless to hold them in check
would say that would be the best thing yol
could do, for if they were fools enough t,
let you do it, they would not have quo
rum and could do no further harm.
You say, GAS my constituents, asl
you, must leave here and let these res
5 olutiOns fail Of passage in order to joil
. you in an unseemly personal scrambl
far denomination p ask you was Their
l ever an "unseemly personal scramble
9 in this district before you appeared in th
political arena as a candidate for Con
E gress?
"Unseemly scrambles" in this distriC
have caused it to be stigmatized all owe
the State as the "boodle and fraud dis
trict." Who is the cause2 Who LA
! given it this unenviable reputation?
In recently published speech you sa
you can do nothing on account of tn
s rules, but look wise, come when you an
called and go where you are told and
good,
Come home and be good and let L
cleanse the Aug@n Stables.
Very respectfully,
JOHN H. TRIoE.