The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-14
THE GUYToN soUABBLE.
A Version of it From an Interested
Party.

Party.
Editor Morning Ne,Cs: In your issue of
April 4 there is reportorial article reflect
ing on some of our best citizens. At
citizens meeting the evening of the same
day a resolu ion was unanimously adopted
| condennin2 that article and appoint ing
three Of our intelligent 'anti-denomlna-
tionalists" to interview" the editor and
set this community right before that
| journal.
Many of us, accepting in good faith the
action of that meeting, fondly hoped that
the strong assurances in favor of genuine
peace were well-founded and that the end
| had come.
Alas the budding hopes were born but
to be blasted. Your issue 9th reached
us bringing no beautiful catholic,
exculpatory card from the pen
Of the aforesaid committee In
lieu of that the public sees the orig
inal masked man with manuscript
furnished from unseen hands. He
undergoes second interrie,c, taking
| occasion in what purports to be a
| report OF the citizens meeting to mlnlfy
and anonymously stab men he heartily
despised. The communications of the
| interviewed were worthy of that crea-
| ture-water never rises above its level.
! III the public will put on glasses and search
the nest the eye will detect at the bottom
the action of the committee delegated to
set the NEWS right-it called to request
| the NEWS that the facts be made public
that at a meeting of the citizens of Guyton
all differences were adjusted, and the town
is all harmony and peace" We shall
leave the public to inquire how, in the
! light of their commission, that ANTI
| UNCONVENTIONAL" committee carried out the
action of the meetings Why, all of them
being in Savannah, are they in such close
fellowship with the reporters Why some
thing other than an apparent Endorsement
of manipulated reports and secret stabs did
not suggest itself to this intelligent, peace
pursuing committed?
AS citizen of Guyton, heartily accept
and will abide the action of the public
meeting. AS an individual | am unwilling
to rest under detractions and defamationS
| designed to break down my character,
| destroy my business, and drive me from
the community. Had that committee mani
| tested the f0inteSt desire to protect me |
had kept silent. Failing, as they did,
| shall appeal to my own manhood, a ju,t
God, an impartial public, to see that l am
| not arraigned, tried and executed in the
dark. Should any of my timid friends
deplore this step as 'reopening the wounds"
calculated to hurt my business, y 'depreci-
ate their property" l respectfully submit
that these things, to young man whose
character is at stake, are lighter than
vanity.
1t is true that am Principal of the Sa-
vannah District High School. 1t is true
that | am editor of the Guyton Chronicle
| My school was quite enough to engage me-
| My newspaper connection was forced upon
me. To protect myself and school from the
shot and shell of the ''anti-denominational
lists" | captured the gun.
1t is not true that / have warred against
| other schools, or that my own school has
been deserted by all but Methodists Eff
forts of all sizes and hues have been made
to crush it and me. Its enemies and mine
have spared no pains to make good their
threat, 1.-The school shall never succeed"
Fortunately we are not in land of kings,
lords, dukes, etc. We live. We prosper
never had a better school. For 81 900
pledged (see written contract) by such men
as Judge Elsinger, j. X. Garnett, J. E.
Blackshear, B. R. Armstrong, W. C. Neid-
linger, h. j. Davant, c. d. Rogers, Capt
Stubs, j. H. Morgan, William Spier, j. G.
Lawrence, S. s. Tison, w. N. Davant, J.
S. Baynard, E. L. NeidlInger, w. w. Arden,
A. E. Bird, d. G. Heidi, j. E. Shearouse,
Col. Bird, j. M Lovett, L. l.. Rawls,
George Rogers, j. S. Neidlinger, teach
until 80 and edit afternoon and evening
The trouble with my defamers and the
"antis" is l am succeeding too iUeU That
| cannot help.
The public can put several things together
and see why they hate me with cruel
hatred, and why, in the face of the above
list, several of them not belonging to any
church, some Methodist, some Lutheran,
some Episcopal, some Presbyterian, they
persist in their fruitless effort to kIeak down
my school by parading theirs as ''anti-de-
nOminational." The artful dodge can deceive
| If light be turned on, nobody outside of an
asylum. Considering the other school
bolted from ours, that the bolt was led by
| Baptists, has been taught in the Baptist
church, lives on after two deaths, all be-
cause the citizens four years ago asked the
Savannah district to adopt as and ii did 1t
considering these things the cry of anti"
anti" is just too thin. The Baptists
though renowned on many fields, are not
especially distinguished for running ''anti-
denomnationar enterprises.
l have presented the head and front of
my offending. Situated as | am, there
seems to be but three doors for my escape
Some of my prosecutors would compromise
if | would consent to be burned-others if |
would submit to baptism by immersion
others still demand that go away. Well.
with my convictions, l scarcely know
which is the hardest condition. The best |
can say is, seeing can't accept oil the con-
ditions, let them get together aid agree on
! one. Hard as the hardest might be it may
| be preferable to a death long drawn out by
hands that throw their javelins between
| the suns.
| AS your informant lone or more) is hid
behind the robes of your reporter. I ask
| that, in justice to myself and others. this
article be published in your valuable paper.
j. II. MCGEHEE.
| GUYroN, Ga, April 10, 1SSS.--P. S. Moth
| ing III the above should toe construed into
an attack upon the Baptist denomination.
Against the lives of many in our Guyton
Baptist church we have nothing to say.
They are sincere and Christly. It is to the
manner in which this one is used and mis-
used, led and misled, that we object.
j. II. M.
Weather Indications.