Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1918-07-25
RENE MIXERS SOME
BOND HISTORY

Editor News:
We have been very cautious anC
tried hard to live and move with
more or less conservatism ever since
our great nation has become involy
ed in this the bitterest struggle ever
known to the human race. 1t is nc
fit time for the agitation of the MINDS
of the people on any question that
has a tendancy to intiame or disturb
the equinamity of community oil
people. But there has been a few
maneuvers recently in the political
arena that make us almost stagger
We know our president has ad.
monished us that for the present we
allow politics to be adjourned, tits
indeed very greivous pity that this
admonition has not been rigidly ad.
hered to all over this great land of
ours. 1t is not our intention to Gre
ate disturbance of the waves on the
political waters. We have tried
hard to keep out of the controversy.
The good book tells us to cast our
bread upon the waters and after ma
ny days you will find it. That
whatsoever We SOW, that We shall
reap, and just now the harvest SEEM
eth ripe unto the cycle.
Some two years ago gentleman
of the good comfy of Marion, who
is aspiring to high office at the
hands of our voters let fall from his
lips statement that ever since has
been afame in the hearts of the good
people of Jasper and the seventh dis
trict. This gentleman in his eager
ness and his madness to win his point
went so far as to state that so far as
he was concerned he would not care
If the town of Jasper was wiped off
the map.
This occurred in the court house
The honorable gentleman stood with.
in its confines and made his noted
speech In behalf of the bond issue.
We don't blame him "fur being fur
it." but we don't like it because he got
mad at some of us ''fer being agln
the bond ISSUE" At that time his
animosity was SO aroused and his
feelings so bitter that he could not
find words contemplate enough to
describe us. This eulogy still lin
gers in the minds of the people and
the day of the election they are 60
ing to write a fitting epitaph on the
gentleman's political tombstone.
Long will we remember this insult.
There with a wave of his hand and
in that falsetto twang that no
other but Johnnie can get off, ia his
exuberance he let fall in
to the hearts of our people an arrow.
The day of reckoning is at hand;
"The mills of the gods grind slowly
but surely" and Johnnie will be sure
to receive the toll that is due him
from the mill he has been operating.
"Oh, consistency, thou art jewel"
Today he comes to us all wreathed
In smiles, tells us how he loves us;
how we have always been good
friends and how we have always
dwelt in unison together and that he
is extremely glad we are still on the
map. Yes John, we are still on the
map, and sitting mighty steady in
the boat; and are able and will re-
sent any such diabolIcal effrontry.
But we have a man as a candidate
for whom we can vote whose past
record stands before us like an open
book, man who by his gentle deal
ing and fair dispensation of justice
has instilled himself into the hearts
Of the people.
This man did not nominate him
self to make the race. He enjoys
the respect, admiration and conf.
1ence of both political parties, and
.be two have put their heads togeth-
er to seat him despite the malicious
and undetermined on
slaughts that have been made upon
1im t-s.L