The South western news., 1888-10-03
"HONEST JOHN.


defraud creditors. That it was q
plan crested solely for the purpose
o! swindling. He made a malicious
and unwarrantcd attack upon our
moral and business character, He
says that we have failed four or five
times, full handed every time. .
aod that we thought we had the
dead wood" on our creditors ov
having three OF the best lawyers in
town employed two or three weeks
prior 10 the sale. After being
shown this article by friend, L
proceeded to interview the Capt.
thinking that he had been misin-
! formed and that # he could ascer.
certain the truth in the matter he
would give it to the public.
When ! asked that if he bad
made these statements on his own
personal knowledge, he said that
he did not; that it was the general
gossip of the town. | then asked him
who informed him as to the num-
( Der of times we had failed &c. Hon
eat Johns reply was that Mr.. An
thony from Shellman said that Eds
itor Jack Powell counted it up
! in Shellman and said that it was
six times, but that he was consid>
crate in modifying it by saying that
| it was four or five. ] then furnished
him the facts and referred him to
three Of our best citizens to verify
my statements with his promise to
see the parties and make the cor
/ rection in the next issue of the
! Recorder. 1t has now been two
weeks and he has not $50 | am in
formed said one word to either
OF the gentlemen | referred him to.
These statements OF his are the
bascst lies given to the public to
give his unfortunate neighbors a
kick down hill, and as he thinks to
elevate himself in the estimation
of the commercial worll and the
public generally, When pressed for
other names from whom he got his
information he could not remember
any aud acknowledged that he
did not know any of the statements
to be true OF his own knowledge.
But far from seeking the truth in
the matter by seeing the parties l
referred him to, as he promised he
would do, be comes out again on
the 2Sth ult. by adding an insult to
injury, and says that it is the duty
of newspaper men and ministers of
the gospel to condemn the evil in
their communities. / think and
perhaps several Of tae older bust
ness houses of Macon and elsewhere
does that it is great pity that he
did not belong to that class Of citi-
zens several years ago when he sets
tied off with his creditors with the
bankrupt law for fifty or sixty
thousand dollars and saved a good
deal of real estate which he now
controls and the public perhaps
will never know how much cash by
that TRANSACTION. Perhaps he
thought that time had obliterated
this from the memory of our people.
But not 50, it is srill fresh in the
minds Of a great many OF our older
and best citizens.
+ If he is the "Honest John" that
ne seems 80 eager to impress the
| pubic tibet he is, why is it that he
does not now say to the bows that
holds those old claims against him
walk in and take this large stock
of goods, these two stores and that
handsome residence that / recently
erected and pay yourselves? What
does he say You can't touch it,
as ! paid you of with the bankrupt
law.
l pronounce John A. Fulton a
liar because he has lied in both ar
tlcles almost from beginning to end
and when he had an opportunity
of getting the facts, but prefers a
lie instead.
He is hypocrite be he pre-
tends 20 be friend while he max IS
a samge stab at his neighbors char.
acter
He is worse thin thiel of goods
and chattles because he tries to rob
his neighbors of their COCO name.
Of course be is coward, because
he is not going to resent this un-
less the resentment be in the shape
of a sickly production of his SOFT
ened brain in newspaper article.
One Of our city editors was inter
viewed by Commercial Angel
with an article very much like the
production of Honest Johns"
and tried to hire him to publish it,
but this man of the press was a
gentleman, and refused to take
such bundle of falsehoods into his
columns for love or money.
| was never connected with a
mercantile business, as every one
that knows me is aware, except the
one sold to 4. P. Hatcher, and the
Capt. could have got the facts il
he had made any effort to do so.
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