The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1915-08-20
PITT HENsIEE REPLIES
TO C. scdMIrTOU. :

Last werk there appeared ID the
Home Enterprise. an article hesded
"A Plea for Bonds and signed by
!G. Schmiitou. Cumberland Fur
mace. II was apparent to eYeryons
reading this that ii was not % much
for bonds as against Pitt Henslee,
Several Of my friends have told ms
that In their opinion. this Cumber-
land Furnace letter was written in
Dickson and not by u. Schmittou.
bat by personal and political
enemy Of mine, whose practice Ia
10 vent the bitterness Of his gall on
|eyeryone who opposes him.
The individual who will hide be-
hind another mans name Ia as
mean and cowardly as the assassin
who, from the dark, shoots bis ene-
my in the back. Ii one would go
to the vicinity where this hide
behind-G. -Schmittou," writer was
raised, they viii find his disposition
(has always been 10 fGfe or uins
aud the only way TO please this man
is to let him do all the riding and
Others do all the pulling. Had |
approved the special road law, and
nave favored the bond election in
stead OF opposing it, this enemy of
mine would have abused me Just
the same, under some borrowed
name. He attributes my criticism
to the road law and opposition TO
more bonds, to seltishness.
Ia my open letter published in
the Dickson County Herald. over
two weeks before the bond election.
| tried to be fair and truthful, az in
the same issue in which my attack
on the road law appeared. was pub
Iished Il complete and certified copy
Of the road law, so that the readers
could compare my criticisms With
the law and Judge for themselves
whether my reasons were we'll
founded. and the returns from Sat
urday's election proves that the
voters endorsed my position by
oyer Two Thousand majority,
As TO the statemetn that haye
a pike by my great farm, and do
not want other people 10 have good
roads. will say, that had the voters,
saturday. authorized an issuance Of
$3.50, 10000 more road bonds that
only one new road would haYe been
built out OF Dickson. This road,
No. IL, goes out by V. B. Miller's
and had been altogether selfish.
| could have favored this, as | own
iS0 acres Of land two miles OF Dick
son on. this road. Had the bond cleo.
ton carried, the new road law pro-
vided for the county buying the
turnpike between Dickson and
Charlotte. | own $4,000 stock in
this turnpike, which to-day | am
unable to sell. but had ! been alto
gether selfish, I might have favored
the bond election. so that l could
have unloaded my turnpike stock
on the county.
| am either fortunate or untor-
tnnate in owning an automobile,
and to get good service out OF an
automobile one needs good roads,
but / feel il would be poor business
an my part as a property owner, TO
Dickson County, by hav-
ing the highest tax.rate OF any
county in the state, that / might
have pixies over which to run my
automobile.
The much discussed road law pro-
yides that all funds from the sale OF
bonds, be deposited in county
banks, in proportion to the size Of
the capital stock Of each bank, and
no provision ia made for the banks
paying interest. As the First
National Bank, OF which am Presi-
dent. has the largest capital Of any
bank in the county, this bank would
have gotten about two-fifths Of the
total deposit. There would likely
bave been profit to us OF from
$1,000 90 to $3000.00, yet again IL
appeared to me that it would be
bad business in order TO make this
profit, TO favor burdening the county
with bonded debt OF one-sixth os
the taxable value Of the county,
which undoubtedly would have de-
creased the value Of all property.
) The statement Mr.. G.. Schmittou
made as to my great farm, was in
tended as ridicule to those acqusint-
ed with the property own on the
Yellow Greek Road. ard misguiding
to those not familiar with this tract
of unimproved land, ON which there
is not q single building or a loot OF
land in cultivation.
As to replying to argument made
by C. Schuiittou' iassiiying the
new road law and advocating more