The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-06
SAM JONES ATTACKED.
Rev. Massey, of Richmond, Accuses
Him of Making Misstatements.s

Him of Making Misstatements.s
Atlanta, Ga. Dec. Rev. John f.
Massey, Of Richmond, Va, publishes a
card here replying to some criticisms
made by the Rev. Sam Jones.
Mr. Jones wrote some salty things
I about Parson Massey recently. and now
the latter hits back in peppery style.
! Were they not gentlemen of the cloth the
correspondence could reasonably be eX-
/ pected to lead to hostilitles. Mr.. Massey
and Mr. Jones met on the stumI, in the
recent Virginia campaign. Mr.. Jones
confined himself chiefly to the neighbor-
hood of Stanton, where a prohibition
fight was on.
Mr.. Massey says. Il care but little
about Mr.. Jones hypocritical can't, his
. self laudatiOns or his bombastic boast
/ ing. They are part and parcel of him.
He would not be Sam Jones without
them. 1t is as natural for him 10 sound his
. own praise as il is for sparks 10 ascend
Referring TO certain statements made
| by Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Massey remarks: 7
viii not characterize these mis- state
, ments as SANDERS, as that would be
| equivalent to charging the Rev
Sam Jones with making false statements
maliciOuslY, but | will say il requires
the exercise of an unusual degree of
charity to believe he did not know these
did great injustice to those of whom he
wrote
THE CAUSE HURT By JONES
Mr.. Massey goes on to say: The city
Of Staunton contains nearly. if not quite
10000 inhabitants. The temperance peo-
pie Of Stanton were defeated in their
election under the local option law by.
think, only ninety majority. ] spoke
there in their behalf The night before
! C0Okp Mr. tnnpS Cnnlra tho
stand, and on the same side. Some of the
J best temperance men who heard him
! believe he did the cause more harm than
good. His Incorporate language, his
| eXaggerations, his stale and questionable
! anecdotes his low slang and his bitter
| denunciations disguised many friends of
| temperance aud chilled the ardor of 9th
| ers, while they thoroughly aroused its
| opponents and furnished them arguments
which they used eifectually. The cause
of temperance suffered from Incorporate
advocacy.
THE CANDIDATES GOOD MEN.
Mr.. j. w. Bodley. the prohibition
candidate for the Senate, is, so far as I
know good citizen. He has resided in
| Staunton but few years and been a
voter about two years.
Edward Echols. the democratic candi-
date for the Senate. is a native of Staun-
ton, and never resided anywhere else.
He has represented Augusta county, in
! GLIDING Stanton, in both the House and
| Senate. and while doing so helped to
pass the local option law. He is a
temperance man Of the most practical
| type. He totally abstains from the use
of any intOXicants and never tasted
| whisky in his life. | dislike to speak Of
myself, and, even when the necessity for
| doing so is forced upon me, will restrict
| myself TO the narrOwest limits compatible
| with a proper VindicatiOn of myself from
Mr. Jones.
A TEMPERANCE LEADER.
From my boyhood, have not only alb
stained from the use of intOXicants but
have been an enthusiastic advocate of
temperance. 1 have made many temper
ance addresses and have gone to differ
ent parts of the state to assist in local on
ton elections. l was largely ipstrumen-
tai in the passage of the local option law
and the Sunday liqour law
which prevents liquor dealers from
opening their places of business
on Sunday: of the minor liquor law.
which fOrbids giving or selling intoxicants
to minors without the consent Of their
parents or guardians, and I am now pres
ident of the State Temperance Ass0cia-
tiOn of Virginia, / beg pardon for saying
so much Of myself, but Mr. jones' Wauton
attack has rendered it necessary. ! I'M
derstand that he repeats his calumnies
even in his sO-called sermons If these
calumnios had been uttered in Virginia
where | am known, it would be
unnecessary from me to contradict them.
and am COnsOled by the thought that
though they are made in a state in which
| am not personally known, the fact that
Mr.. Jones is known will render them pow
erlesS to do Inc much harm His repeated
preference to me and to our discussion in
| nj hAi 10 "A Ii
Stanton CXcOriatiOn.
THE REPUBLICAN VOTE
when republicans have no candidate of
their own, and they had none in Augusta
county, they generally vote for the can
dldate of any party which opposes the
democratic nominee. As Mr. Bodley had
been republican and was opposing the
+ democratic nominee, the republicans
were doQ5ly Interested in his
> facts, aud the further facts that
Mr.. Bodley employed Messrs. Sam Jones,
Sam Small. Rev. Mr.. Stewart of Tennes-
see, aud a quartette band from New
York, and took them and big tent ia
every district in the county, MIR. Echols
majority over him was about 600-I
do not know the exact vote.
Why this result in temperance
county Because the best Temperance
men there, as in other parts of the state.
believe that making temperance politi
cal issue will retard its progress aud
cause it to retrograde. Hence, they
voted for Mr.. Echols, and both demo
crat and d practical temperance man.
Virginia VIII soon be practically a TEN
perance state, but this desideratum
wilt never be gained by denouncing the
whole Democratic party as Sam Jones
did, as being in league with beer wagons.
red nosed whisky bummers and hell
Mr. Jones boasts of having handled me
very tenderly. l cannot claim to have re
ciprOcated the 'tenderly' part of the
handling. l think the audience thought
} l might have been a little more tender
than ! was.
, II eschew boasting and will not draw
= a comparison between Mr.. Jones and my
l self as debaters, but will say that. as
5 compared with Others whom have met in
= debate, he is the hghtest weight ever
: met among those who had the reputation
of being even average debaters He has
} the pretensions of a giant but the per.
, Torrance of pigmy."