Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-11-02
WhITWELl.

Whll WELL.
Special TO HE Ne7Us.
Here comes Morning Glory's Bro. " 5
cooked and primed, and well loaded,
but sociable and willing to try to an J
swer any question which may be pro- {
pounded. l
Nip & Tuck's Pap" in last week S
issue said he came to Whitwell and {
saw me which was true, but he absol-
utely failed to state the object of his {
visit. 1t was to tell me that he had
assumed the correspondence of his son,
NIP & Tuck, and would appear UNI
der fictitious name of Nip 81 Tuck's
Pap, ia the future and also to inform
me that he had given me little jolt
in the News and not to get offended at
what he said. Now, dear ''Pap," you
know | am union and you are non un-
ion, though what for I don't know,
and you say you want to discuss the
great question with me through the
News. All right, that just suits me.
Pap wants me to tell him what
more Gov. Cox could do than he did. |
have never said anything over my
signature regarding Gov. Cox's official
duties or as to what he should have
! done at Tracy. But will answer the
question by asking what did he accom-
plish by ordering the militia on the
scene? Nothing except to calm lot
of scared and excited citizens and sat
isfy the requests of few private indi-
viduals and preiudiced coal operators
that seem to have lost all confidence in
their fellow men. When Gov. Cox
came in person and viewed the situa-
tion and learned that there was COM
plants against Sheriff Meeks deputies
he decided that he had better leave
Grundy county under some authorita-
tative power for short while until
!; the Marshall of the Middle Division
of Tennessee could get some deputies
appointed and take the reins of power.
Thus he maintained exclusive juris-
diction over the county. In doing this
7 the Governor realized that the Sheriff
of Grundy County had failed in his
duty, either personally or through his
deputies.
| Then Gov Cox made sure that the
e county was safe in the hands of good,
e law abiding men and executive Off
cials-men who would not toot their
horns for state soldiers every time an
owl hooted or some one got drunk.
j. They were officials with backbone ano
e nerve to execute the law, and wher
l. Gov. Cox got the management OF things
j. in the hands Of these men he restores
l. confidence. If that was all he went t.
is Tracy City for to restore peace which
W should have been restored by Sheriff
10 Meeks, he left the job in an unfnish
is ed condition for he has not removes
s. the primary cause of the trouble-th
fact that labor troubles are still on
When he asks for an arbitration of tn
strike, he will have done his Who'll
duty, and not till then.
If the governor had left it in tn
a hands of the toughs and thugs style
ed DEPUTIES, it would have been in
at worse fix now. This is one way tn
le- Governor could have done more.
~ have been reliably informed that SON
Ne of those deputies had come in fro
to parts unknown and were charged wit
If crimes, and the county was not sa
IN in their hands. This is why he turn'
me the whole shooting match out, al
ali marched his soldiers in.
me Well, Pap, we could have had t
IN soldiers at Whitwell if our people hi
So rot unnerved at 800 or 1000 shots +
ac- ed in the course of few hours, b
o.. af YOU see we have got nerve here in M
ne rion County. Our Sheriff might j.
ces as we'll have footed his horn for troo
TO, as the Sheriff of Grundy county, b
yea he WASH t built that way. He has ms
ail eyed the situation very well consider
Owe all that had to be done. He has ma
ID l mistakes in appointing company DEP
If ties. as other sheriff's have done
other mining camps. Some men
oAs nointed here have endeavored to ia
cor the town by storm by getting p
Iclv drunk and shooting in all dire
5. ions. No one can dispute this ia
but the Sheriff has in most cases,
far as we have learned, demanded
0oL resignation of the party as soon as
, ,cH, learned the facts Hope this will
ear " Nip & Tuck's Pap at ease sol
else what.
'uff- am for E. E. johnson for Cou
lo S Court Clerk from the word go
nus Want to give the candidates pc
err. Don't forget that 1 am in 7
,ited tics and when you dream, dream
ews. me me Morning Glory's Br