Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-11-23
OPEN LETTER

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To the voters of Cumberland County
Just a word as the end draweth
nigh. The storm is raging but after
a storm we always have calm. |
am not appealing to your sympathies
neither to your prejudices. | am but
plain blunt man. If l carried sack
OF meal home on my shoulder to feed
the starving populace, / did my duty
If | went to school and studied | did
no more than all the boys and girls
are doing to day. You owe it to
If / were the only man in the county
who could read and write the county
would be in a bad fix for l would have
to try to hold all the offices and
transact all the business by myself.
| am glad that others have prepared
themselves for the responsibilities of
life. | we'll remember when J. w.
Dorton, S. c. Brown, T. S. Parham
and others drove through the country
in a wagon to Athens, Tennessee, to
enter college. Their success is herald
ed the country over. One of the men
above mentioned, whose father fell
by maurauders bullet is one of Our
best and respected citizens to-day
One occupies position of dignity and
honor, one is a wel-to-d do farmer and
bears the name of being the cleverest
man in the county They all did the
best they could, but we have before
us to day young lochinvar just out
of the West, who claims to have been
kicked by a mule. | take it that it
unbalanced him as he told me tina
he would carry I8 precincts out of 22. |
l offered to bet him $4,000 he would |
not but he would not do that then
| Offered hat and he would not, so
he consoled himself by saying he
would beat me worse than he did
old man Keyes, and Keyes was one |
Of the best men in the county. Mr.. I
keyes was honest, upright and truth
full. Now l have nothing to say de-
rogative of my opponent except that
he believes that all who are de1in-
quent in paying their dog tax should
pay the maximum fine and that the
papers in certain cases are some
times lost. l am s8 years old and
have made two races for Circuit
Court Clerk and was defeated by
small margin each time. | always
supported the man who beat me- and
will do so again. This young Lochin-
var told me if I had waited four years
more he would have supported me.
do not think the time required would
nave justified the benefits received.
have always supported the nominees
If the party, have voted for SO years.
He ran when Fl years old cast his
irst vote for himself. / say this be-
;ause he was mad at Mr.. Keyes and
don't think he voted for him. I
promise you if am elected to serve
'ou the best can, will try to keep
he papers from getting lost, won't
louble up on your dog tax, nor knock '
'ou out of any cost Why should a
nan wait for you to claim your costs,
he clerk issues the subpoenas, the
herif sumons you and returns sub
'oena to the clerk and he has them
'efore his eyes. Why not give him '
lis cost? Perhaps he has been in at 1
or 4 days, IS or 20 miles I
ioiii Hoilc, anu IL lIle WltHcSS uO1l
want the money he can give it back. (
He says | am not running in my /
wH interest. | ask every candidate /
1 the field if | have ever promised S
ne Of them to vote for them? If i
have, go to the poles and tell the {
oters. I ask your support on prin- '
ipal and right | am not asking your |
upport because | learned to read and Y
rite, | am not asking your support
ecause l worked and helped raise t
he family when I was a boy or be- e
ause my bcys and girls are striving v
} be men and women. Give us h
how, give my boy and girl an equal b
hance, don't plead the baby act. d
Yours truly, Il
r RpOUN