The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-09-07
HARDEMAN FREE PRESS NOTES.
BY COMMERCIAL APPEAL.

The Free Press is fer prohibition and |
agin Ticker, and now is the time to sub
scribe Ye editor is again prohibition
and fer Ticker, and now is the time to
subscribe some more.
A prophet is not without honor save
in his own country. We can't leave
this here bum town because they say |
they air going to quarantine agin us as
q suspected character. But we have |
property rights here and we air coming |
back if we have to swear out super
seedeas additum.
We have refused Ticker ads fer sever
al years, but we amt never been what
is termed a prohibitionist. That is to
say we have never refused the whiskey
) and we have never published any lick
er ads because we amt never got any.
Down with the booze.
We was over to the Springs last Sun
day and we lost all we had in a game of
freeze-out to Dock DUNCAN, the tavern
keeper. We think it is an outrage that
: the Sunday law amt no better enforced
) than it is in this county.
We want to notify the authorities of
8 this here town that we expect to carry
{ package from now till frost, and they
needn't go arresting us no more. They
: skeered the whole town by calling our
( jag suspicious case, and started the
( report that we must have been bit by
: muskeeter, They put us under mus
4 keeter bar, and didn't know no better
{ till we woke up and cussed the man
what stole our flask.
When we was to Memphis last week
to see the game, we tried to get drink
! of ice water NOW laugh, darn YOU but
\ them fans were setting up nothing but
? root-hog -or-die beer, and after we
= drunk it we come so near dying that
we couldn't root at all.
\ The anti-licker people have give us
- our release. They say tdat editor
what boozrs up whenever he gets q
= chanel and has to be sent home twict q
= week on a dray amt no genuwine ene-
= my of Ticker; and yet we have fit more
= booze an any of 'em.
= We have been asst to run fer guvnol
y of Tennessee agin Cox and Patterson
y but we have got ourself in hole OF
this Ticker question. If we run as
= Ticker candidate the prohibitionists will
? fight us, and if we run as prohibition
- lists the Ticker men will make us drinl
= the bitter pill of defeat to the dregs
- And we can't run on no red raven bro
mo-selzer platform; so we guess w
- will have to pass it up.
Is this here q free country or is
n Rooshia? The tin-horn board of healtl
\ of this bum town come around to ou
idiotorial sanctum the other day, an
- said they had reason to believe that on
he nose was full of yaller fever muskeeter
or and they would have to pour coal O.
o,v- over 1t, and then screen us until th
my danger had past. We amt never bee
lid 80 insulted since barkeep down I
tes Memphis refused to extend us the coul
Tvs tesies OF press and credit us with
oie "handle" of red Ticker.
lat We air fer the peepul all the TIM
Wv W and believe in honest elections but OF
md side must be allowed to run 'em.
wn there is to be any ballot-box stuffin
$: we air the boys to do it. If we don
ian - git three-fourths of the election Office
|, to that little cloud in the sky no bigger
high ball will turn into regular G.
- clone.
- A measly trick was played on lis Il
I'LL other night at an anti-licker meet ing
I===5E this here bum town. A sign was nailC
&c up at the front door as follows see
.=% s% tlemen will please leave their fiasl
-ssss - with the doorkeeper until the mentil
:s%.15 adjourns. Of course we ware not g
- ::: ing to be searched and let go of o
..@; flask, and so they said we was t,1rrait
-. to the cause and wouldn't let us in.
sss ss@s We was insulted the last time we WI
- - to Memphis We was glued to Ian
..ss ..:.s post on the corner when one Of the
.;sss here carts what spits water on Il
20 streets came along. 1t slowed up ju
- afore it got to us and then turned loo
- and squlrtted water all over us. A /
- of darn fools seed it and set UP la
- but it amt no Joke to have water flu
- at you that way. When we compliant
..sz to policeman he said he guest '
~ needed bath all right.
-==-==" The report that we air on the wat
-ss :s=@ wagon is base attempt to assassina
-=sn -..sS our reputation and queer us with ii
-sss - Ticker element. Our paper is fer pr
=s@s. -s. hibition, but we take the liberty of d
- ing all the drinking we want to on Il