The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-10

be as have just stated. You had
this Information from men whose
veracity you could not question.
And vet YOU have permitted these
papers repeatedly to publish these
wicked falsehoods. Is your conduct
in this case in Keeping with your
standards OF honor?
Misrepresentation.
These same papers have also laid
emphasis on the charge that at
one time misrepresented YOU. That
charge is also absolutely false, as
1 you very well know. Here are the
/ simple facts in the case: Years ago
I in the state senate you opposed a
school tax measure to which the
i democratic party was committed in
/ its platform | criticised your course
/ in the Texas School Journal, which
/ | was then editing. You replied in
the Dallas News, using some ugly
language, calling the teachers tax
eaters" etc. I answered you in the
News and the Journal. The result
was a bitter controversy, in which
YOU were pretty BADLY worsted. Why
were you worsted? Simply because
YOU were wrong in that case, as you
are i'm this There was no need for
misrepresentation The facts We're
bad enough Your position was clear
ly indefensibe.sI needed only to be
exposed. and exposed it. But ! did
not misrepresent YOU. Yet these
same papers repeat again and again
the charge that ! did misrepresent
you | suppose YOU authorize them
to do this At least you permit it. Is
that what YOU consider square deal
a fair fight?
Having thus disposed of the false
issues raised by these papers for the
purpose of misleading the people
and saving YOU from dilemma
from which there is no honorable
way of escape, / am now ready to
discuss the
Real Cause of My Removal.
1t must be found in one or more
OF these three facts:
l. | criticised you as stated above. /
2 | am a prohibitionist.
s. | voted against you last July.
An occurrence that heard much .
about in my childhood days in the !.
hills OF Tennessee exactly illustrates
the traits of character that you have /
exhibited in this case so far as my +
YOU years ago influenced /
your action. let me tell you about it. I
The leading facts, as recall them, I
are as follows: 1t was in the old days (
of "log-rullings, 'hou5e-raisings {
and "corn-shuckings,' when the /
neighbors snapped work. all join /
ing in to help each one in turn on .
these special occasions. incidentally,
they often had on the side, such 4
as they could get out Of
foot races, wrestling matches, box
ing bouts, etc. On one Of these occas-
ions a man whom | shall nov call
O'Bee. from some real or fancied
grievance, dared man whom l now
call Teegee TO step into ring and
! settle their differences in fist
fight according to the custom then
in vogue Teegee walked into the
ring and they went at il, Teegee
gave O'Bce what they termed a
sound thrashing." Instead of ad-
hitting his defeat and shaking
+ hands with Teegee, as the custom
I then was, O'Bee walked off home in
a fit of the sulks to brood over his
calamity in private. Years afterward
O'Bce. with his hired man, Mack,
met Teegee alone in the woods, ana
the two fell upon him with rocks
and gave him what they considered
a whipping. O'Bee soon found that
the social atmosphere of that region
was not congenial. and left for parts
unknown. In reciting these occur
Tences to their sons, fathers did not,
so far as l know. ever speak of O'Bee
as a brave man or manly man.
Mack, whose full name was prob
ably Mcdonald, was simply referred
to as O'Bees hired man
This is all IFhave to say about
the matter of my criticising you fiji
teen years ago.
The other two offenses that have
committed in being a prohibitionist
and in voting AGAINST you, may
/ discuss at another time.
With due respect,
r. G. HARRIS.
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