The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-10-31

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would have been for him yet had mol
his sins found him out and had not
caught him red handed in the most in
delenSible violation of the solemn and
word and promise and in the betrayal
of friendships true and tried. The man
docs not live who can say that | de-
serted him III The hour of trial or when
his car>e WAS nj its ebb; but l will
not stand for treachery high or low,
and told Mr.. Sells that | would cast
my lot with the boys whom he had be-
trayed.
Mr.. Sells says that my quitting his
cause was in some way connected with
having gotten into communication
with Major Paul T.. Divine, and this
| brand AS deliberate and wIlful
lasehund. never had amy commune
cation with Major Devine, except in
1910, when lie was II candidate for at
torney general over hi, protest and be-
cause Mr.. Sells demanded that he
make th'.t tighL and then my cores
pOndeuce was IT the special request of
Mr.. sells ia an effort 10 BROW beat and
scare NJ jor Deyine Off the track at
The iine Mr. ;'ells was pretending to
| Ge his frIeLH. | ind not iheu know
all | COW know and did not c)mpre-
bend Mr.. Sells rs | know him LOW.
The truth is Sells had dem tndtd Ma
jDr Devine to be Candidate, was pre-
tending 10 be his fIiend am,i yet Az The
Same time, was sticking knife deep
into his back IN an effort to carry out
u Counter deal later make vita Major
UeVine'G opp 'nent,
Hrhe whole Country is familiar with
Tie letter MI Sells wrote denouncing
Governor Hooper whom he now
pharisee like, pretends To worship so
lovingly and SO well. | will not re-
ieat. But have another letter from
this san delectahle gentleman which
tells II tale OF purpose to deceive and
furnishes an unanswerable answer TO
the reason ASSIGNED by him fJt bis ao
ton In the Danford Postotlicei in john
son county. The letter is as follows!
"'Washingion, July "a, 1911.
Hon. II. r. D, Wills,
Shouns, Tenn,
Dear Dick:
Another order has gone &" IA dis
continuing the postollice a, Dan
fprd. | have written to all the people
who have enqnred as Ia this situation
that The matter had been referred to a
ncstoflice insp ctor and that the reco-
mendatIon would settle the matter
al am of tho opinion that no in
spector went there, but in as much as
ynu can lie pretty viii. when neGeS-
sary, would Ike COR il 10 lie under.
81 'od that An inspector did visit the
place and recommend the disconti"-
uanct of the office. You will under
stand very readily why l make this
request.
am, Your Friend,
SAM r. SELLS'n
This Sparks for itself. Here we
have high public official who writes
officially that lac Nas doing and had
dpue spmelhing Officially, Dli was
writing 10 tht p'or'e his constituents
q deliberate ialschuod iu connection
with it aah Was calling ui0n his
friend to bear false witness along with
him. How can man hope 70 have
friends under such circumstances, how
can they have faith. ani how can any
cause or any party prosper while he
is at its head.
" Mr.. Sells further said that he
would have appointed j. {. DDnneiiy,
Jr., as postmaster at Mountain City
had I mol protested against it, This
is deliberate untruth out Of the
whole cloth. Mr., s Ms with uplifted
hand said first that he would appoint
d rnnely, and then after he had
framed up all excuse tn relieve. him
self from this solemn obligation and
promise, appointed another and gave
rs his excuse for not appointing Dom
nelly that Donnelly hal been iptoXi-
Gated in Knoxville, been locked up at
city hally etc. Mr.. Sells not only hal
the audacity to make this complaint
against Mr.. Donnelly privately, but
publicly in speech, and then all of
a sudden never referred to it again, for
he became aware that he had vilely
slandered a good friend without justi-
fication, and yet did not have man
hood enough TO apologize. Mr. Sells
became aware that Donnellys only
trouble at Knoxville was that drunk
Ell ruffian ran over a little girl on Gay
street and Donnel!y gave The gentle
man a good threshing for which the
city officials and all other decent PEG
pie congratulated him and sent him
on his way rejoicing.
Mr.. Sells says that Massey is indebt-
ed to him for political assistance, but
Mr.. Sells is not very consistent along
this line for the reason that he owes
me considerable sum which he has
promised to pay, but which for two
years and more remains unsatisfied.
"I4ife is too short TO take pail the