The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1922-03-31
A LETTER WORTH READING.

The following letter appeared in
the Commercial Appeal few days
ago, signed rs. F. Wilson" and we
wonder if it is from the pen of good
Judge Frank Wilson, the Presiding
Justice Of the Court of Civil Appeals;
Jackson, Tenn, March II, 1922.
To The Commercial Appeal,
1t is said that the great Homer on
one or more occasions nodded when
preparing and transcribing his i'm
mortal ideas from the enlightenment
Of the human species. If this be so,
able, versatile, learned and most US
ually accurate editor Of the CONNER
cial Appeal, especially when writing
about historical incident may be ex-
cused when sitting on his editorial tri-
pod indicting editorials for the delecta-
ton of the readers of his paper, for
wandering into the land Of nod, after
wearisome day Of mental travail ov-
er the famine in Russia, fake soldier
bonuses, the cussedness of the delay
of Congress in disposing of the Mus
Gle Shoals project, and disposing of
the tariff question, and the readiness
with which that body can appoint its
members on junketing committees to
investigate things that they will know
less about after they go through any
imaginary investigation than they did
before, and its utter disregard of the
limitations of the federal constitution
when it desires to raid the federal
treasury, that must be supplied with
money extracted from the pockets and
earnings of the bedeviled and harass-
ed people.
refer to the editorial in this morn
ing's issue of The Commercial Appeal,
wherein the able editor speaks Of a
joint debate between Hon. Andrew
Johnson and Hon. G. A. Henry, the
eagle orator of the old Wing party, in
a canvass for Congress from the state
at large.
The said Johnson and the said Hen
ry never made race or joint can
vass for Congress from the state at
large. The incident referred to is said
to have occurred when they were can
didates for governor of the State, one
the nominee of the Democratic sparty
and the other of the Wing party,
then masquerading under what was
call ed "The Know Nothing Party"
The only time said Johnson ever
ran for congress from the state at
large wa safer the war, when he ran
as an independent candidate against
the regular Democratic nominee, Gen.
Frank Cheatham and Horace May
nard, in which Maynard was elected,
and this was some five or six years
after the close of the war between the
states.
1t was rumored by loyal Wings at
the period of the contest between
Johnson and Henry for governor Of
the state, that on the occasion referr-
ed to in the editorial, the willy old
Commoner absolutely pulled the wool
over the eyes of Henry when the lat
ter charged him with voting against
an appropriation in Congress to re-
lieve suffering lrishmen in ireland,
He pulled out paper, as il it were a
receipt, when il was not, showing that
he had contributed $500 out of his own
personal means to relieve such suffer
ing Irishmen, and asked Henry how
much he would personally contribute
for that purpose.
Henry, of course, could not reply
that he had contributed anything, and
the result was that johnson captured
the large Irish audience.
But, Mr.. Editor, why talk about
constitutional limitations when Con-
gress wants to spend money that the
people pay in taxes?
S. F. WILSON.