The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-06-25
DISSECTING A GOOSE
WITHOUT A SCALPEL
Printer Ink the Weapon Used
LETS BUILD A TOWN"
"Ain't That Sight" Said Rev. w.
H. wild BilD Evans.


Now, readers, under the above cap
ton with slight notification there
appeared an article in last weeks issue
of the Union City Commercial, being
the first of a series of articles l have in
store in reply to an editorial which ap-
peared in the Obion Enterprise two
weeks ago and dadied by one Arch
johnson, purporting to enlighten the
Obionites as to the modus operandi of
how to build town, upon which propo-
sition l picked up the glove the afore-
said editor laid down; in other words, l
dared to take issue with his Editorship
upon a question in which the destiny Of
the town of Obion is involved, and in
doing this | will in each of my articles
confine myself to facts and figures,
dates, etc, incontrovertible, and with
no unkind feeling, no matter what the
proyocation may be or has been in the
past.
Now, in my first article, gave warn
ing to those who, for the past thirty
years, have persisted in trying to tear
down as fast as / build up; and in this,
my second article, repeat the warning.
Now, if you continue to harden your
hearts and stiffen your necks in your
aggressiveness, in your efforts to ami
hilate my lifetime earnings, and fall by
the wayside, as your chief and satellites
preceding you have done, do not blame
me with it. 1t has been my misfortune
to be on the defensive all my life, COM
batting jealousy and the thirst for SUI
premacy as the propelling power. 1t
has given me more prominence than |
deserve, or desire to possess.
This is Monday eve and | have no
evidence indicating your intention to
cease your persecution and haul down
the black flag you have been waving
over the people Of Obion longer than
it took Washington and Marion to drive
King George from American soil.
1t is still being reported that gave
to Bro. Ellis the catalogue of crimes
and even the names of the criminals
against the laws of God and man that
the preacher enumerated in his open
ing sermon of the protracted meeting
held by Bro. Ed Watson and himself,
which closed last night. This report is
not believed by any one who knows me,
because | disavowed the authorship of
the information imported to Bro. Ellis.
Those who repeat it do not believe it.
1t may be, as Bro. Whitnell had
preached the first sermon on the stu
alton in Obion, and the fact that he has
for some time been in possession of the
papers made out by my attorney, Judge
A. J. Lawson, in relation to the farce
Called a church triaD enacted in the M.
E. Church, South, at Obion Oct. y,
1902, subsequent to an array of Bro.
w. M. Wilson before committee COM
posed of r. M. Walker, pastor, G. M.
Steele, secretary, and the most valuable
member of the church at Obion, accord
ing to the Gospel preached by the Rev.
George Washington Wilson, and also
in accord with letter the Reverend
Gentleman wrote to the late Rev. w. A.
Cook upon the occasion of the proceed
ings of the first quarterly conference
held in January, 1905 Tor more than
three years after the persecution began),
in which the most valuable member of
the church played a most conspicuous
part in the letter referred to. Bro. Will
son said to Bro. Cook: am afraid
we did wrong in accepting the money
($1O5O0) paid in by the Wilson's; the
most valuable member of the church
told me it was tainted. F."
However in the estimation of Bro
Wilson, if the first money paid by the
Wilson's was tainted, the faint didn't
affect the last $4,000 l gave Bro. Cook
an hour before he left Obion to attend
the General Conference at Mayfield,
Ky, Nov, 1905, from the fact that
after Bro. Cook, in his room and in the
presence of his wife now a widow re-
siding in Obion) related to Bro. Wilson
the circumstances under which | gave
him the money. The Elder said, Give
me ten dollars of that money" and he
pocketed ten dollar gold piece of the
last $4,000 | gave him, saying, Bro.
Cook, | give you this money for your
self and Sister Cook. As matter in
course you will have to report it as