Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-03-26
Third District.


of Marion county. E B. Station. in
which he issues sweeping challenge
for an open debate at the court house
at Jasper with me on his socialist doc
trine. Well, to satisfy him and him
alone, who is an offcast and bolter,
and all his followers either from the
democratic or republican parties, and
as yet have no place of recognition in
either of our political parties,
will say to him as no such party is at
this date on record or organi Zed in
my county, ueem it my duty as
chairman of the Marion county Execu-
tive Committee to state, that as no
such party exists, it would be- a type
of ignorance gone to seed for me to
take up any time to discuss dead is
sue not before or confronting my peo-
pie, with a man just dropped in here
from Kentucky, and further he is not
legalized or qualified voter of our
county, but will say after the baby is
born, and the patty he represents can
scour the woods and scrape up enough
of the weak kneed and mugwumps out
of the republican and democratic par
ties of Marion to organize and set up
a recognized socialist party, and be
placed on record as such, then and not
before would agree to accept chal-
lege in joint debate with such party.
Let the baby first be born and 1 will
properly take care of its daddy later
on, and If that great socialist you rep
resent should happen to organize and
become party Of record in my coun-
ty, and set mp socialist party worth
my attention and it should be absol-
utely necessary for attention to be
called to your political factions newly
set mp, then will meet just such a
chairman in any kind of open debate,
either on land or water, but at present |
as no such party exists, will keep a |
sharp lookout and when discover
anything on the track of democracy
that looks like socialism l will at once
blow the whistle and sound the bell of
warning and hoist high in the air a
danger signal. AS my business affairs
at present are such that my attention
and time is employed in matters more
legitimate and more important to me
and my people as whole than sitting
around and whiting of goods boxes
and depending on socialist distribu-
tions for living, and abusing the re-
publican and democratic parties of the
country for not putting them in power
in this great republic. The socialists
in Marion county remind me of O
Young soldier during the civil war,
who was court martialled and SEN
fenced to be shot to death on a certain
date. He was the only son of poor
widow and the only support she had.
Two days prior to the execution of
her son, she and her daughter went to
to have personal inter
view with President Lincoln, and
while the poor heart broken mother
was pleading to save the life of her
sou, the daughter took a seat at the
piano and her fingers ran over the
keys and she began to play "Gentle
Annie, which, no doubt, bad been
arranged beforehand. AS the daugh-
ter played the heart of the great
sst man of the history of the nation {
melted as you know he was at one
time engaged to Annie Rutledge.
While this piece was being played, the !
president strobe across the room and
ooked out the north bay window of {
The capitol building He looked to- {
ward the cemetery where his sweet
Annie Rutledge lay sleeping. and no !
ioubt, his very soul was filed with
owe and affection, as he thought of
he by gone days of his childhood, and
t was more than his heart could bear -.
lie quickly turned and took his hand
Ierchief from his pocket and wiped
lis weeping eyes as the tears dripped
Town his cheeks, and said to the lady {
who played "Sweet Annie," "Wheth- {
r this is put up job on me or not, {
and piece has accom-
,lished it's purpose. Let me have your
papers, Madam He took them and
wrote across the papers the order to
ct the young man go home to his
mother, and further said live man
IN top of the ground was worth more
% his mother and this nation than a
lead one would be under the ground.
30 the young man was not shot to
leath but permitted to come home to {
lis mother. If am to be court mar {
tailed and put to death by the social
SITS, keep the above paragraph in view !
Ind see if it does not accomplish the
purpose as it did in the above in 6
stance.
I noticed Mr.. Mccormack, of H. s
inois, is another socialist, who alleges {
le was driven out of the state on &C.
count of his stand relative to social G
SIN. | don't know about that, but I 9
I'M very reliably informed that he was {
lriven out of the T. G. l. mines for G
socialist literature and t
Ieeping up hell roaring and general J
disturbance among the men, to such t
IN extent, SO it is alleged, that he be- /
anne public nuisance to the mining s
interests, and his own statement is 6