Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-10-23
WHENCE THE APPOINTMENT,
WHATS THE IDEA2

am not in the habit of writing
to newspapers but am so full |
can't help it.
First, want to ask Walter
Cameron WIN he cannot explain
himself more to the point on the
question of Marion county's rep
resentative.
The lower house gave us, the
people of Marion county, a rep
resentative. We were enacted
back into the Union, or as one of
the 90 counties, by the lower
house of the General Assembly
and Mr.. Travis climbed a long
ladder and tiptoed and handled
the same bill that put me and you
and the good people of Marion,
both democrats and republicans,
back into the Volunteer state, as
we were out of the state, had no
representation. Mr.. Travis, the
representative from Franklin,
did his duty, why did you not do
yours as the representative of the
people of both Marion and Frank
lin in that August body up so high
like a diamond in the sky? Both
democrats and republicans voted
for you to do this. Oh, Walter,
Walter, why did you nip this in
the bud? Just stop and think
what your duty was. 1t could
not have been on account of poll
tics, for you certainly are not
not as partisan as that, knowing
that democrats have been elected
from Marion when we were in
side of the state as often as the
republicans, buff the republicans
have had the majority every time
don't you know that the better
element of your party would say
that's fair. They have the votes,
let them have the representative.
But you say you are not partisan.
You know, Mr.. Cameron, when
I read in the Hustler your big pat
riotic idea of the Roosevelt cam
paign | slipped and fell. Your
patriotism knocked me down. |
am still down, never to get up
again. | have always been a
Roosevelt follower, but | placed
the flowers that you are pretend
ing to bestow in the path, while
he, the greatest American, lived,
but had you opened up and said
this before the White Horse"
and his Rider" came, you would
never have let the Hustler know
it, would you? Now. this is only |
askinga question if you would
just say so, and then if you had
you would have let the Hustler
known your heart secret. We will
be so proud to know that your last
few hours of heart growth have
been great. | must say that
there is lots of room for growth.
lam very much elated over the
campaign committees of your ap'
pointing. Not one speck of par
tisanism in that. One of them
writes democrat" on every box
of "Up-to-Date" baking powder
he sells. That's nothing, of
course. Please write note ex-
planning your little bait. Is
this little bait put out to catch
the few republicans that have
been voting for John A. Moon?
If it is, you have missed the bait.
Try another kind of bait.
We people of Marion county
know you so well. The people
speak almost every hour of your
good acts-the road law, putting
80 year old men back on the road
Why, of course, you are a non
partisan fellow, You are the on
ly friend Marion has ever had.
You keep US out of the state but
in at the time taxes are due. We
are in the union and when that is
over we are out of the state-un-
til tax time again -disfranchised
as to representatives. And We
felt like that little chin, up in the