The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-02-13
MAKES FLAT DENIAL.
NJ ajor Bacon squarely Contradicts. News
paper Charge.


Macon Ga February 10.-(Special)-A
few DAYS ago l called Major Bacons at
tention to a recent article orlSlnany puo-
lished in The Atlanta Journal, ana aller-
wards copied into other newspapers sta'-
ign that he had written letter at the
| close of the gubernatorial campaign III 1885,
| saving that he would thereafter "eXe<lse
| his own pleasure in voting; that II 1t sulteu
| him to vote the democratic ticket ne "ouio
| do So and if not he would not.
The major replied that the statement was
entirely without foundation; that he was
| very busy then, but that he would hunt
| up the letter which his denial would De
| verified, and that he would see me l'ter,
Today [ called him again and asked
! him if he had found the letter YES
| said he. here it is in print. 1t IS just as
! / said to you the other DAY. There IS no
! truth in the charge. l am reluctant at
this time to give out anything lor publ
cation which is personal to myself even
though it be only denial OF an unlouhoeu
accusation. l have long since learned TO
bear personal Misrepresentation ana oe-
traction in silence. But in the lace Oh d
published charge Of disloyalty to my party
failure on my part to pupilclE "ehS ~
might be construed by some into a tdclt
| admission of the truth of the charge. L,
therefore. authorize you to say that II IS
| utterly untrue, that neither in Inc letter
| referred to, in any other puoilcatoh'
have [ ever said, either literally or in sub
| democratic ticket L would 10 so. anu IL hol
| l would not"
| Handing me the printed copy OF the let
| ter. he added III my denial is not True
| The Journal can disprove 1t py lepupll9I-
| ing the entire letter, which 1t IS Weicolhc "
| do so far as [ am concerned. mat paper
| says it would make interesting reading at
this time .
[ read the letter through and sald 10
! him. "ThatS Il pretty tart document.
Voc, I, ,l;a1
| charge that it was incorporate IN tone,
and also perhaps impolitic. BUT II VIII De
remembered that it was written al tIe
| close of a most heated personal caInpdi8I'
in which had Contended with greater OuuS
and stronger ADVERSE influences than amy
other man had faced in Georgia IN Almost
a generation. The result of that campaign
| then appeared to me to be- the hnal over
throw of the hopes and ambitions OF me-
| But whether the letter then written uHuel
| those circumstances was temperate or IN
| temperate it is utterly untrue that 1t con-
! tanned the expression OF any such senu-
ment or intention as is alleged in The Jour
nal. On the contrary, in that letter, al
though written when in the very depths OF
| personal defeat, the duty of the democratic
! minority, including myself to be bound by
| the action of the majority is repeatedly
| recognized and asserted
II want to say he added, cas- that let
| ter is now again brought forward that
| many who opposed me IN INdL tdIlpdi7ii
| are now my friends, and that there are
| some harsh expressions in it that | would
| not now repeat But so far concerns any
! thing in that letter expressing an intention
! to vote the democratic ticket or not, as
! pleased, there is nothing to explain, ana l
| have only to Squarely deny that there Is
| any such thing in it.
you viii notice." he further said, that
the article in The Journal criticises another
letter of mine, which it says does not
Ill
| Well. I will be ready to meet
that question at the proper time and place
l will only give one extract from that
letter, which is as follows:
g L believe that both on the ground of the
public policy and of constitutional Jaw
| the tariff law should be for the purpose of
! raising a revenue for the support Of the
! government; that it should be limited to the
! amount necessary for such support the
it should be SO adjusted to be most sure
ly productive of the needed revenue and
should never be prohibitOry in its opera
ton and that in such adjustment the bur
! dens of customs duties should he taken of
those articles which are recognized as be-
| longing to the necesSaries and ordinary
| comforts of life. and that such burdens
! should be laid as far as practicable ar
| ticleS classed luXuries'
Il think that it VIII be recognized that
| whatever the foregoing fails to jingle
with. it is sound democratic doctrine
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