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Show STATESMEN SAW GREAT LIGHT Few Remarks Made by Senator-Elect Convinced Them They Had No Protest Coming. "A mild-mannered and genial Ten-neseean, Ten-neseean, named Galloway, was elected to the state senate from Shelby county." coun-ty." said Secretary Dickinson of the war department, himself from Tennessee, Tennes-see, "but there was a protest over it because, It was claimed, Galloway had been concerned In a duel in his younger young-er days. The time came for swearing swear-ing in the senators and the clerk called the roll by counties. When Shelby county was reached Galloway, wearing a long frock coat, stepped into the aisle. " 'Mistuh president and senatuhs,' he said, 'I have heard of this yere protest against my sitting in this body as a senatuh because I once engaged in an affair of honah. Now, suh, I want to say that I did engage in an affair of honah in my younger days in the state of Mississippi, and latuh in another affair of honah in the state of Arkansaw. Once again I engaged in an affaih of honah as second, not as a principal, in the state of Mississippi. Missis-sippi. " T contend, suh, that the state of Tennessee has no jurisdiction ovuh what is done in other states, and I am here to say, suh, that if any senatuh thinks otherwise and does not vote for me at this time I shall call him out, by gad, suh! call him out and hold him personally responsible to me, suh. That's all.' "And they all voted for him." Sat turday Evening Post. |