Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-04-09
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EQiJOf NeWSs
We have started the Socialist party
in Marion county for the benefit of the
workingmen TO try to unite them at
the ballot box. The two old parties
have kept them divided ever since the
civil war, and that is the reason they
are in the shape they are in, and such
traitors to the workers as Bill White
would like to keep them divided. l
have known Bill White for some 20
years or more, and am glad he is in
one of the two old parties instead of
the Socialist party, for we want work
ingmen.
Now, Mr.. White, you say you
won't debate with E. B. Station be-
cause he has just come in from Ken
lucky. Mr.. White, if you aud your
two grand old parties stand for so
much, you should meet anybody any
where and tell the workers what the
two grand old parties have done, for
the workers don't know of any good
they have done of them, but they
know of lots of wrongs they have done
to the working people. Mr.. White,
some ten years ago in Colorado, when
the working people were standing for
theil rights, they were beat up
and shot by the state soldiers and ship
ped out of the state under a republl
Can governor and we didn't hear any
thing from the grand old parties. And
in Alabama few years ago, when the
working people of that state were
standing for their lights, the govern
or ordered them to close their conven-
ton and the state soldiers cut tents
from over women and children, and
them sick, and their tents we're their
own private property which the un
ion had leased, and that was under
democratic governor, and the working
people didn't hear anything from the
grand old parties And what have
the soldiers of the grand old parties
been doing to the working people of
Colorado for the last few months?
According to reports they cut tents
from over women and children in a
binding snow storm, and we haven't
old parties about that A few years
ago the men of Whitwell we're shut
out of the mines at that place. There
was traitor to the union men who
would make speeches to them and it
was reported that he wrote notes and
left them at certain house, and COM
pany men would get them. and it was
also reported that this same man met
company men on Poker Hill after dark
and in that way reported everything
that went on in the union hall, and
1t was reported that when the union
men caught up with him that be made
his trips scarce around town Mr.,
White, did you ever hear anything
about this traitor Here you are, Bill
White, ready to call man traitor
and mugwump who revolted against
such treatment which has been carried
on, and forced upon the laboring peo-
Pile under the rule of the two old par.
ties. God pity man who has brass
enough on his face to call party
grand which allows such treatment of
the laboring people. am a mug
wump, If that is what the republi
cans of this county call the working
people who will fight a system that
creates millionaires and paupers, and
gives such treatment as the working
people have got for the last years.
am one who will fight such at the bal
lot box as long as l live, and, Mr..
White, have never been traitor to
my friends or cause that l thought
was right,
Now, if you want to butt into some
thing that don't concern you and want
| to bemean somebody about their be-
lief, I think can give the readers of
the News a little more about the
| chairman of the Republican party
and what the party has stood for. l
don't like any such thru paper, but
| a man should attend to his own busl-
mess and let everybody else's bust
ness alone.
Well, | will close wishing success
to the News and its many readers.
Fl. L. RANKIN,
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