The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-28
Mr.. Crawford's Reply to Mr.. Tyson.

Mr.. Crawford's Reply to Mr.. Tyson.
A week or so ago the MORNING NEWS
published statement from Mr.. John L.
Tyson Of Pearson, Ga, relative to an in
terview with him written by Mr.. Remsen
Crawford and published in the Constitution.
MIR. Crawford replied to Mr.. Tyson's card
through the Journal. of Atlanta, and re-
quests the MORNING NEWS to publish his
reply. 1t is as follows:
IF this is an accurate ype-written COPY
Of Mr. Tyson's letter to Mr.. Pendleton, AMI
have no reason to doubt it, then l must
say that it comes in very bad grace and
with poor faith upon its very face.
If Mr.. Tyson really is inspired with such
rightful Indignation at what he terms a
Misrepresentation, it appears to me that
simple honesty and manliness would have
prompted him to write to me of his own
accord immediately after the interview ap-
peared in print demanding correction.
Now, IL is best to be honest and fair in all
things, and l can't understand why Mr..
Tyson has waited nearly q fortnight to
make what he terms correction of my in
terView with him. and makes it then not
of his own impulse but in response to an
inquiry sent him by some one else. aud
makes it to some one else and not directly
to me.
"Such course at once puts Mr.. Tyson ia
the attitude of flirting with sincerity
what about the statements be denies2"
Mr.. Crawford was asked
II have looked over the files Of the Con-
stitutiOn and reread my interview, and
looked up my notes taken while interview
ing Mr.. Tyson, and | do not retract or
modify a single statement that made.
The date of my letter to the Constitution,
it is true. does not tally with the date of my
interview with Mr.. Tyson, but so far as the
correctness Of my statements are concerned,
| firmly declare that they are true in every
particular, and when Mr.. Tyson or any one
else that may have assisted him in the
composition of his so-called denial avow
that l have knowingly misrepresented
him. they tell a willful falsehood.
at seems TO have grown fashionable
among men, and especially politicians, in
this day aud time, TO publish cards of de-
NAL agaiCst newspaper writer's who have
quoted them on statements which they at
forward wish they had not made. 1t seems
to be popular idea that newspaper inter-
viewers have no sense Of honor, and that
they will humoly knuckle to any denials of
their printed reports, but l wish to say here
and now that Mr.. Tyson aud his friends
who have aided In the inspiration OF this
spiteful and unbecoming letter, are very
much mistaken in the man If they for a
moment presumed that would silently al
low them to throw aspersions upon my
name so wildly in the public prints, as they
are seeking to do.
AZ am willing to submit the question to
those who are at all acquainted with me and
my record as a conscientious, truthful
writer, whether l would knowingly mis-
represent any man in the public prints. l
denounce this copied letter that Is being so
widely circulated as nothing more than a
base campaign document Matched up for
use in the race between Atkinson and
Turner-a campaign in which have not
the slightest interest"