The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-10-24
Sells DYING Hard.

OSllS Lying 11dIO.
Every day furnishes additiona
proof that Sells is reduced 10 deepest
despair and doowed 10 hopeless defeat
In addition, the reason underlying
his failure to make good is more ar
parant, essentially inherent in the
man, so plain and unmistakeable that
that even he who runs may read.
Events are preparing in which he no
longer has n place, Abraham Lincoln
once said that you could not fool all
he people all the time, but this phil
,sophical truth seems never to have
yet found Iout that the people have
found him out. A bird never flies so
far that its tail does not follow. What
soever II all soweth that shall he also
reap; and by their fruits yc shall know
them
The first assault made upon DR..
Massey was that he was whiskey
man, addicted to all the evils and vices
that the flesh is heir TO, but this charge
was hurled back with thunderpus
orce upon the heads of those who
would blacken the good name OF a
sober man and stigmAtize his wife and
children with the sinister hope uf poll
ticul gain. MIR. Sells was straightwsy
;ouvictcd of double dealing and play
tng Il shifting game, in That only two
years ago he represented Massey as a
sober man, clean and able, urging his
friends to give Massey their support
The people hate quirker, a twister,
double crosser, a man who blows hot
and cold just as he thinks his own sell
fish interests may profit thereby. They
love firmness, consistency, square deal
ing, and above all they detest politi-
cal grass hooper, jumping from place
to place and from proposition proposi,
tion, cursing and praising the same
man with alternate breaths. The peo-
pie will not stand for il. They are in
no mood to tolerate the blind fury of
a CZolgosc ora Schrans, no matter
the attempt be to shoot down
the foremost man in all the wide wide
world, the friend Of the helpless and
oppressed, or whether it be the humb-
est of all human creatures. They are
win vultures from the same egg, and
itfor N, hol nc frnro tho co mo fO,1l 1,ocf |
The man who strikes in the dark with
Talsehood and slander to wreck and
'uin the good name of any man, is no
better, ay not so good, as the bold as
.acian who shoots in the open with
nurderous intent to strike down his {
lnarmed and unsuspecting victim. i
Every candidate for the legislature,
ar and near, who has espOused the t
ause of DR.. Massey, has been denounc-
d by Sells as a traitor and the secret 7
lily Of the saloon. Not one is exempt. i
70 matter whether he has been q life t
ong christian and sober man or not.
be black mark OF Cain is put upon C
i'm if he has even harbored in his 9
cart kindly thought for DR.. Mas +
ey. And now the cry goes forth that
)r. Massey and his fricnks have trad S
d off governor Hooper in return for b
upport for Massey. Under it all and r.
trough it all Massey has pursued the a
ven tenor of his way, running his h
wn race, turning neither to the right e
or to the left Weep, Samuel, weep; Il
ut your crocodile tears can not OBJ n
cure the remembrance of that famous |,
tier wherein you began, 'Dear Dick. a
nd then proceeded TO say there was Il
o one in Washington county for b
Iooper, except A. l.. Shipley, and, d
remarked that the troub- d
with Hooper was "he had too d--n tt
Iuch sense fer one man, but not quite c
nough for Lwo." You are ever at D
our old tricks. playing at your old lie
anne. You curse awhile and praise fc