Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-07-02
Reply to Representative"


phy Of his life that he has put the eul-
tor of the News to the trouble TO print,
would have been beneath my notice. II
IL had not been for the personal side
swipes, filings and insinuations made
that had made untrue statements.
Where 'Representive' first got wrong
was in his imperfect understanding OF
the English language When ! said IN
reply to his question as TO whom L
should help, said verbatim eft litera-
tim, "a man that had not worked at
any period Of his life was not under
obligations to be helped. dld not
say Representative. ] used the in
definite article to modify man, because
it defines or restricts in general man
ner, as go book or "a table. Ii
saw a man went TO town, no sensible
person would understand me to mean
any particular man. The indefinite
article is used to show that no partlcu-
lar one or class is meant, the lasting
idea being ANY or zone, = as a man,
i. Q. any man or one man. "A picture
hangs on the wall j. g., one picture
Bring me book: i. e., any book. A
little study of the English language
would have saved Representative
from 50 much worry and would have
prevented him from being so much like
a blind steer in corn field when he Is
turned loose in the columns OF the
News.
Representative said he went to
the same school and worked in adjoin-
ing fields and when / and Rev. Il. W.
White got to be 10 years old, we were
based and put on a cash salary as pas
tors of few Baptist churches There
is not word of truth in the above
statement as to myself There is $50
to YOU for a certificate from the church
that pastored.
"Representative" lodges off onto
the question of Saines' cork leg, when
he positively said might be uphold
ingg some lazy, idle person by paying
the minister and that as he was
worthy sbiect of charity there was as
much christianity in helping him as
minister and for me to pass it over to
him. You need not try to dodge and
skip out like bullfrog.
When Representative handed out
to us in his biography about being
| elected to county Office about % years
ago, thought Of our Senator Bob Tay-
| lor. Upon investigation found
Representative was elected consta-
| BILE there by the people and later to tho
| Office of school director These are all
| the county Offices to which he was
elected by the people that can find on
| the records at Jasper. | found, how
ever, he had been elected by the coun-
| ty court road commissioner and few
| other Offices l guess if / had been in
his place I would have thought they
were very prominent. :.
| Now, Representative, you stated
| in your article that Rev. g. W. White
| and myself stated over our own sigma
| lures that we did not care to discuss
the preachers salary question further,
| except with a regularly ordained min
ister AS to myself this is not true.
You shot wild of the mark. Now, sir,
| ask you TO get those minister's GER
tifcates certifying that you paid your
| wife S dues, witnessed by two credita-
| BILE witnesses that you did pay as yon
say. The reason | ask this, personal
| " know the minister that baptized
your wife and know he was her pastor
| two years and no dues came his way.
| You said | recommended some lodges
| that if you would become member of
they might be benefit to you. Wrong
again I said If not a member of the
church you were not entitled to church
benefits and il not member of these
lodges not entitled to their benefits
You say | absolutely failed to ans
wer you on any point and my article
was the worst slobbered up piece you
| ~. 4l,o rao a. ncr r,,,11sc oxyar ,ool T frnf
the answer all the same as to what the
public thought Judge that it was
all right, from letters from the cores
pondents and readers, stating it was
timely and went home and could not
be answered So | am not the judge.
You say left the subject as did q
few years ago and made personal at
tack on you and your family by saying
you never did work. Not a word OF
it. Never said it. You say there was
never slave that worked harder than
you up until you were 81 years old
then you ran for office, the district
office of constable. You say You work
ed half naked and barefooted. There
was no ragged boy by the name Of
Representative that knew. OF al
the boys that worked that l was ac'
quainted with none worked with Just
a shirt on. All were reasonably wei
clothed. | guess you worked just
about like I did--at the end of you
pap's rod. I remember a boy who
might have been Representative
that slept many hours on saddle
blanket on the river while and my
dead brother were at work You say
because you endorsed Joe Hackworth'
article jumped on you. Wrong again
| only asked you and Joe to show m,
where the Bible said it was wrong Il
pay preacher Then you turned
loose on me and in the windup said i
could not be shown. Right there you
ought to have stopped and went M
further. but you asked me lot o
questions and when | attempted t
answer them, as | understood tn
teaching of Christ, because | drove t,
the center You turned loose on mi
with lot Of Interpretations and mis-
Representations You said when
J wrote piece on the exemption laws
did not touch the subject, but sustain
ed your argument to ''t'' when
said this ought To he left to vote o
the people. Never said it. | said III,
law should he more rigid
When I said you were the oldest bu
| was born first meant what | said
1t was not untrue rs you supposed.
was born Of the spirit first Now
who Is impeacbed and discredited on
lot of points You say | dodge th,
money issue and YOU said, salvation
when il came to show down. was on