Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-03-19
Third District

Well, noticed in the News that sew
eral correspondents are writing on the
TICK dog and game, school and regis
tratlon laws of Tennessee and all seem
very much dissatisfied with the same.
NOW. to one and all in my fioterial
district, | have been thinking about
becoming a candidate to the lower
mouse of representatives, on the Citi-
zen platform, after receiving twenty
good letters of satisfaction from good
citizens of my county and the adjoin-
ing neighborhood asking me to become
candidate, but / will explain myself
ON this subject later on in the News as
to what will decide on. There is a
vast difference between candidate
running just himself alone or getting
the endorsement of the people.
won run myself, but if the people
run me, it's goodby Liza Jane.
Well you want to know, guess, just
what kind of man | am. / was
brought up poor by honorable parents
and have cracked many chestnut burr
barefooted in my childhood and boy
hood days | am what is considered in
my country as one of the worst men in
1t by some of the high-toned gilt-edg
ed, silk-stocking element Now, vo-
tiers, you have had fair type of what
is sO-called good men that have been
before the good, honest people of our
tioterial district, and what have they
done for the poor They promised ev-
erythlng that was good and bad to gull
you to support them, and after they
got in, they said, depart from me, We
accursed, | never knew you. One of
the good things they gave you was this
internal registration law, and this
cursed game law and darned dog and
tick law. Now, is this not what these
good honey-cOolers and ugar-coated
good men have done for the poor2
Now, let us one and all try bad
man to the vice versa of those. We
have had those good men and glorious
angels that we have trusted elected
and sent down to Nashville to repres-
ent our cause, but they have sunk the
poor class of people down so low that
no poor man will ever return. Don t
forget the one hundred and fifty thous-
and dollar bond issue that was COB
bled up in Marion county, that we
good for nothing scalawags up here III
the Bird district never derived dol
lars benefit out Of. We poor, bad fell
lows ought to file a bill of injunction
and enlOin this extra assessment of
this bond issue off OF us, as we new
er got any of the amount that was APP
propriated to our section of road, and
yet by the honest toll aGd the sweat of
our face we have to labor and pay in
terest and taxes on this very bond bill
for the next thirty years. It's taking
from US for nothing and we are tired,
worn out, disguised and taxed to
death. This is what the good repre-
. sentatives have done for the poor
One more step and then what2 We
will all be placed where the negroes
were, in bondage in the dark days Of
1861. All the difference | can see was
the negroes were sold as stock as per
sonal property by master and we now
t cant handle our personal property
our cattle. without a master, which il
called tick inspector. You can't
hunt without getting hunter licens
from the game master You can
+ have few dogs without getting you
, registration papers fixed up by the doI
master You can't vote without 70,
possess educational qualifications an
y get your registration certificate signe
:. and approved by the registration mas
tiers.
! I noticed in the Chattanooga Time
where poor old, decrepit man, Y
: years years of age. was rejected fro1
r hauling on the streets on account c
: his poverty, his horse being an oil
plug. The poor old fellow went bitter
! ly and said that was his only supper
for bread. With his head as white q
snow, in a free country he had to qui
driving his horse because he was poe
# and it was all he had and that was tn
a only kind of labor he could perform
and society masters forced this poe
T. old man to quit earning an honest liz
"a ing on account Of his poverty. tn
). society masters sent him down in rae
never to rise in this life again, yet til
s fine dude that never bore the heat {
"a the day or ever toiled by the sweat {
the face to obtain an honest living ws
- to go free, drive fine horses and ride j
=, fine carriages with finely dressed PEE
y pie. How proud l am to know and
:, J. realize that the great judge of the Ul
iverse has promised and prepared
n place for the poor
i The citizens platform is where
stand and am against any kind {
registration, game, tick or dog law
q and against the redistricting busine
~ and the present uniform school systel
q laws of Tennessee, and against an
4 man that is for the above named law
| denounce them from the beginning
q the end. Put this in your pipe an
o smoke it. We all will vote alike and
guess they will vote for me.
Representative.