Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-12-15
DENIES INTENTION
TO ISLANDER

dSCuSou ny ~ W 1dbe, VI casper, last
week, through the columns of the
News of making slanderous state
ment regarding his daughter, Mrs. J.
r. Hudson makes the following state
ment for publication. Mr.. White is
due space to give his authority for the
statement, and the News has no inter-
est in the matter other than to give
him as much justice as Mr. Tate:
The following is Mr.. Whites state
ment:
Editor News:
I'm reply to Mr.. Tate's article that
appeared over his signature in the
News, relative to my article, | will
state that | am led to believe from the
sounding and the diction of that letter
it was written by some other member
of the family other than Dave, and at
the time it was dictated ne was in the
state of Alabama. Now, in answer to
your request asking me to make apollo
| gies through the columns of the News
as to Charge of my slauuering your
daughter and the rising generation,
and also being mad and enraged over
politics, l will state that am too nice
a man to suffer myself to become en-
| ragged over politics. | always treated
that as a joke and thing of the past,
and the party had reference to in my
article was Third District party who
stayed over night at Jasper and made
the charge against me being Taylor
lite lived sixteen miles from Mr.. Tate,
and his charge of me being enraged
over politics against his family is alb
solutely without foundation. | never
got offended at anything you ever did
politics, Mr.. Tate, even WHEN you
told ME you defeated Bill Patton, re-
| publican nominee for County Judge.
OF course l regretted very much to
find you up here the day before the
election in behalf Of the opposite party
but l never became enraged over poll
tics as stated in your letter to the
News last week. | deny the charge,
and why would l become ENGAGED
against you when the proof shows the
party to be living up here who charg-
ed me being in the recent campaign
for Taylor | only defended myself
and contradicted the charge. | still
say | was Hooper man and my box
shows as a matter of record, 3 to for
Hooper and the party l had reference
to is not Mr.. Tate, and therefore it is
incon >istent to say | became enraged
against man l bad no reference to-
Now comes the SANDER case in
which | am requested to deny and
make good my apologies for so doing.
l have always made point in my
correspondence to the papers to state
facts as gathered from others, aud then
give the author, which l did in the
case of J. r. Hodsons wife. Mrs.
Sarah Tate, daughterin law of Mr..
Tate, told me while at her house that
the party in question did knock out
her glass windows and waved a large
knife, as stated by me, and her hus-
! band put her in log wagon and took
her home at midnight, and they both
stated to me that she would be more
reconciled at home than abroad If
there is anything wrong or anybody
hurt it was done by the husband If
| the party in question, and your own
| daughter and son-in-law, j.
| r. Hudson, for they are responsible for
the paragraph. j. R Hudson and Sa-
rah Tate, my informants, are your
son-in-law and daughter-inlaw. They
are my own nephew and neice, my
two dead sisters children. Why should
/ doubt their statement made to me. l
was very sorry indeed to learn of such.
If true, no man regrets to hear of that
more than myself, with all due respect
to Mr.. Tate. The proof shows your
daughter to be my niece by marriage
and j. r. Hudson to be my own blood
neuhew and Sarah Tate to be my own
blood neice. Now if J. r. Hudson
and Sarah Tate will both sign up GER
ticfiates that they never gave out such
a statement to me as appeared in the
paper by me, then, sir, | will make
apologies that / trumped up that
charge on my own responsibility.
The editor of the News had nothing
whatever to do with the writing of
that article. 1t was written by me,
not for the purpose of slandering any
one or anyone of MI. Tate's family.
J. r. Hudson is past 81 years old, the
husband of the party You speak Of the
author of the statement in the paper,
the proper person to prosecute in
case of Islander, if his wife is really
slandered. 1t looks strange that he
would attempt to make false state |
ment concerning the mental condition
of his own wife. 1t don't look reason
able My statement was not done in |
any attempt to SANDER Mr.. Tate or his |
family, for the facts and proof set |
forth in the case show beyond a ques- |
ton of doubt that the parties are all
my own kinsfolk, and l would be far |
from attempting to injure or SANDER
any of my own people. only made
of this matter from the very
facts in question. 1t touched me to
learn of such a misfortune as that to
befall one of my relatives, so from
these grounds and others l didn't see
any wrong could be done anybody, or
injure any person or gener-
alton of people, for the same would
apply to me as well as Mr.. Tate, SO
no man on earth would be more thank
full to learn of this being untrue.
in the world hate is a no.
torious liar, and all will say in con-
clusion is that am very sorry indeed
you jumped on the wrong man and to
make apologies and acknowl-
edge that wrote up falsehood of nv
own get up, over being enraged over
politics, SO you see, brother, it was
the other fellow and not you. So it
was the other party gave out the state.
ment to me and was mot trumped up
by me enraged over politics, as stated
by You for the purpose of injuring you
Or any of your family. I wish them
all well, long and prosperous lives,
and also wish the good blessing be-
slowed on my dear neice and nephew
a nd oil tho roSf ~ INV |