Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-03-15
COME ON, MR.. RAULsToN.


the Goals for certain imagined mat
ters. We have neither the space mol
the time to answer all Of. his letter,
but will keep in mind the balance Of
his argument for future discussion, il
thought necessary.
We are "deelighted, q la Roose'
welt. that the learned jurist has store
loose at us, and driven blow at ouI
solar plexus. 1t is always a pleasure
to as to chat over the affairs Of Ma
rion County, especially with gentle
men who either ale or believe them.
selves leaders in the political, educa-
tional, conditional, hellroaring.
rip-snorting movements of the county.
We repeat, we are ch rmed when their
giape shot comes our way, We always
endeavor to repay 1t with the heaviest
shells at our command. Some Of our
admirers call it the 16-inch variety,
but modesty for bids our believing our
arguments SO powerful "as a that. -
Nj. Raulston's argument reminds
a. Of a a circus performer gyrating on
q hook by his teeth. If you ex-
anime 1t carefully, it will suggest to
you going in circle, and it is liable
to get You dizzy if ''you don't watch
OUT We dislike "mal-de-mer." car
sickness and swing ickness, and after
we read the article, we had to rest a
while to recover
Having done SO We are going to
quote the only things which we ever
said about Mr.. Raulston, using his
actual name. It WAS in the News Of
last week IN connection with the arti-
Gle by w. M. Cameron in the Hustler
Of the week before, which we were
requested to publish. and was as fol-
lows:
"e+S he scores heavily John T.
Raulston for bis part in denying the
people Of Marion the right to vote on
matters concerning their own govern
ment. Mr.. Raulston was very active
in pushing the bond bill upon the citi-
gems Of the county, much to the regret
of hundreds Of his friends who on the
occasion of his running for congress
about eight years ago, gave him their
hearty and loyal support
This is all we ever said about Mr..
Raulston during this bond controver-
sy, outside of reporting What he
CHANGED to say or do In the public
and this little portion of a
paragraph of two sentences is what he
calls q 'tirade." In fact he charges
us with "trades" against bin, for he
says, " and hope you will cease
your 'tirades' against me-"
Right here we want to prove to him
that he does not know what TRADE
is. Webster says TRADE Is "a strain
or fight. especially Of censure; Sc
RIES Of violent declarations. And 4
Mr.. Raulston assuredly does not mean
that our two-senteuce paragraph was
rs grievous as all that, or, that We
have been guilty of SERIES of VIC
lent attacks. when the sentence
is all In the world we have
written against him. And this was
more In sorrow than in censure. for at
one time we admired Mr.. Raulston
and gave him our feeble help with our
ballot. "But times ale changed"
and now for a two sentence censure in
IN editorial, he charges us with Stir
.des" against him, We think the
people Of Marion will see the point,
wen il Mr. Raulston does not,
Now. as to our position on the re-
bill. 1t ia this: II the
districts Of Marion can be changed to
nit the people, we are for redistrict-
ng. but il, on the other hand, there
IS opposition, rather than to stir up
trife, we think 1t best to leave them
We have already noted
everal points we 6isliked. We have
'lso shown In preceding article
hat redistricting would only make
be county court more republican In
Iolitics, and surely Mr.. Raulston does
lot object to that We understand he
Q believed to be republican. Mr..
cameron has not consulted US over
his redistricting movement, nor, in
hCbi Ou uHy VI tue uonsutos AO uuS |
ad passed for Marion County. We
ave suggested several things to him,
ut so far none Of them have been put
n the stage for admiration or con-
emnation AS to for ing Mr.. Cam.
ron to put the re]istricting to vote
the people, after we found out it
'ould make republican county more
epublican as far rs the County Court
,as concerned, we did not think 1t
eedful to ask him for an election
YER the matter, as it did not seem
ecessary. 1t still seems unnecessary,
Mess the democrats are getting nerv-
Us, and Mr.. Raulston, we under
tand, is not democrat. The only
hing WE demanded of Mr.. Cameron
,as that he refrain from putting an
Their bond outrage upon this county.
'itaout first submitting it to the pso-