Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-07-02
Third District.

traitor controversy and charges alleg-
ed against me after fully satisfying
the reading public as to where l stood
relative to labor organizations Of my
country, but one Tom Carrick, alias
"Uncle Tom" of Tracy City, who
doesn't know me personally. keeps up
his bowling and barking at me in our
county paper for some cause or poll
teal purpose, in which he absolutely
fails to accomplish anything. He as
serts that it is nothing to me and he
further says he has me and Morrison
! by the wrist. You may hold Morrison
by the wrist and he may stand and let
you do so, but let me call your special
attention to the fact that you will
never this side of the grave remember
holding me, regardless of what you
charge, and if have worse record
than you have got, then sir, / will
blow my head off and give up the.
ghost and pray the laboring men and
the republican party to shoot me dead
on the spot. Branuan may have
letter written by Mr.. Morrison rela-
tive to me, dated about the time you
meution. At that time l and Mr.
Morrison were fighting one another
personally to finish and were in the
courts over our fight, but let me state
to you while man is mad he will
write very salty letter to such fell
low as you if be really thought he
could get you to work little for him
and bring his charges second handed
back at me through the press and you
then would rejoice and say. "Glory,
halleluiah, didn't l shoot him dead
ner. a" No doubt in my mind but that
you have received letters from other
parties who at that time were at en-
nifty to me on certain issues, but
care nothing about what a person
charges and it doesn't make them facts
by iugful. was fully vindicated
by the general public and the coults.
and since Mr.. Morrison wrote those
salty charges You speak about, he
has since protested religion at the tab
ernacle under A. I. Founders, the
same spot that you attended while ov-
or here. He ought to be your brother
in your church if your church record
in and around Tracy City can be iden-
titled, but will say to you when Mr.. |
Morrison proclaimed heartfelt religion |
the very next day he came to me on |
the streets of Whitwell and said he |
had made change in life and asked |
me to forgive him of all the wrongs he |
had ever done me in the past and said |
he had done many wrongs and extend |
ed me his hand in recognition of my |
forgiveness to him, which l publicly |
ackno wledged and accepted, as / was
taught from infancy to do, and since
at no time have I found Jim doing me |
any wrong and | do not wish to take
up any more space or worry the editor |
to further dig up and another sensa-
tion with man whom God has par
doned and with a man whom / have
forgiven, and with whom I am at |
peace, and if he really did me a
wrong and at that time sought to in
jure me by grapevine telephone, as
you heretofore called it, then he
comes clear by the grace of God like
an honest christian and asked to be
forgiven, and have done my duty.
SO long AS he lives in the world and |
lives up to his covenant with me / de-
cline to write up anything of the past
or stir up big fog on dead issue,
on a thing which has been adjusted.
Now, l will say to Mr.. Carrick that |
am republican and never bolted my
party in life. DON hold or would
Mt attempt to belong to but one
church, and will say, if | was mem
Der or friend to the union and the
body of labor, l am the same
today as l was twenty years ago. l am
proud of any past record along this
line. All the Tracy City Tom Carricks
in the world can't shake me in the
least. Now, Tom Carrick, while you
perhaps. have received from political
enemies of mine, as you say, very sal
ty letters, l, perhaps, have received
some of the same kind relative to you,
which do not sound good over your
telephone, but will not go
INTO that part of the record just now,
md won't unless your repeat your
,harge. If am rightly informed you
preached and shouted for prohibition
md later on you were for somebody
who was assailed fol selling whiskey.
can't say whether he was guilty or
Tot. Some time back you were for
Hooper, and at later date you were
or Rye and at one time you were a
member of one church, and at later
late while you were attending Rev.
meeting you posed as a
No longer than last week
'ou shouted in the News at the top of
our voice and said the holiness people
nd their creed and socialism combin-
d was the thing for you. In this
weeks issue you are shouting at the
op of your voice repudiating what
ou formerly said and said there W as
It anything in the holiness people,
nd IL hava q oorroot record Of Won