Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-15
Third District.
SpodaI 10 TIE NrUs.

Of Tracy City. and from some aus
fail TO comprehend 1 was denied the
privilege to answer his false charge
against me. The only privilege, Mr..
Editor. | most sincerely ask of you as
a citizen of u county. is 20 beg
enough space in your paper to answer
a few paragraphs that appeared in the
columns of the News over the sigma
ture of Mr.. Brannan. He said / charg-
ed Mr.. Isaac Turner in the first case
with being a Socialist, and wanted to
rejoice at the downfall of Mr.. Turner.
Now, / want to state to the full salts
faction Of the reading public and those
concerned, that l never did state to
any living person at any time, or wen
intimated such a thing as Mr.. Turner
being a Socialist, and further certify
that either Mr.. Brannan or his in
formant over here who wrote him
such, did for some purpose state a
f~alsehood, and / am led to believe that
the same party who wrote that to MI.
Brannan is the same party that fought
the mine workers during the strike
over here to q finish, and one of the
same parties that asked the editor of
the News to suspend my articles to the
News for publication, and further said
the News wasn't fit 10 be read in a de-
cent home, and l doubt very much
whether be is a subscriber even until
this day, and he thought perhaps he
could fall on this method and use Mr..
Brannan as a target, and get him to
shoot at me with a small field piece of
artillery With a few slugs of personali-
ties, and sideWipes, and the general
public would think l was a devil of a
fellow, and, oh, how he would snigger
and laugh. Mr.. Brannan in his charge
further insinuated that | would sell
out for a few pieces of silver the
principles Of unionism. Now, sir, /
will be so honest and fair with you
that / will bind myself in the presence
of all who know me that you can't
procure even one certificate from an
honorable and intelligent and respect
able person who knows me over here,
union or non-union, will sign up a
certificate that l aver laid down or
weakened or sold out, or attempted to
do so, or even got as much as five
cents to advocate such a thing, and no
living man can charge me with such
and tell the truth, and the author of
such false accusations at me is wholly
without foundation, aud all / do ask
is justice be done, and that will stand
when f~alsehoods will go down. / have
nothing personally against Mr.. Bran
nan and have no legal objection ITO
him being a Socialist. / am about to
come to the point of issue to sidestep
for the lack Of information and under
standing at present. Mr.. Brannan
clipping of Mine Workers
convention, and says heretofore where
they failed to make the link of connec-
tion to Socialist party they are united,
80 what is ~puzzling me now Is if all
Mine Workers, as above stat
ed, are now attached to the Socialist
party, which mine workers it is true
are nc more non. political, naturally
under that movement it makes our
Sheriff Of Marion County a Socialist,
as he is a member of the Mine Work.
ers' Union. Would it not? Here is
where l have side stepped in the, dark.
Mr.. Cary, Socialist, and a member
of the Mine Worker Union, also said
that he had contemplated running for
on the Socialist ticket against
w. A. Cantrell, the present sheriff
and Mine Worker, but said they were
not strong enough to elect, but be
distribute their literature over
the county. Here is where I sidestep.
the connection of both socialism and
mine union is complete, please lead
in the light. l will honestly con-
Tess l am completely left in the dark
nut will hand in a true copy to the
of the Socialist vote of Whitwell
the August election, and fear
hat some one will have to side step
again, so keep in mind what / say and
,ome sweet day l will show up in fig
Tres what / have heretofore said. ,
These few answers to Brannan is all
The space l beg, to repudiate a few
paragraphs Of his article, so
goodbye to all the Socialists of Ten
lesee. Win if you can is all l have to +,
Jay. Shoe fly, don't bother me, so /
will turn my attention to locals. 9
Powell Bros. beerstand was burned |
the ground Friday night by some
unknown person and all the beer and :
fixtures consumed. There was no in
urance on the property. Total loss l
bout 800.
Francis M. Powell got about three
asses of beer stolen by thieves last
Thursday night on the side of the .
mountain, and came down to Holo-
court to get a search warrant. ]
The out groupings of the force of that
writ we failed to learn.
Frank, Willie and Clay White, sons
f w. Fl. White. are contemplating
to the west in about three i
weeks, somewhere near the Boston :
!
We notice that the Hon. P. H. y
'hach, of Jasper, has gone to Chatta- "
to form u law firm, composed of '
bach, Tatum and Others We regret O.
With profound sorrow to Fave to give .
p Mr.. Thach, but wish him great =
uccess over in Hamilton county. =
John Burnett, brother of Rev. Will !.
formerly Of Jasper. will leave "
Or some part of Texas this week. He a
J the grandson of the late Robt. N. !,
White. !
Local politics up here are now be- y
inning to warm up and seem to be
retty we'll divided up into several a
factions. Each campaign Z
manager of his faction will make a .
ght to a finish to land his candidate. .
he Whitwell public school seems to
o a dividing issue as to which faction n
ill get the controlling power of that \
Ii
The great sale of Sam II. Pryor of G