The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-10
MCINTOSH MAKES REPLY.
.ABS0LUTELY AND UEQUALI-
FIEDLY FALSE"
Says He of ANY Ins1nuation That he Has
Been Influenced by Money in
the Campaia

Editor Mcintosh devoted three columns
of last Fridays Albany Herald to Colo
mel Jesse Walters and that gentleman's
charge that the former had said to him
that ''the Herald could make 81 900 by
supporting either of the other candi-
dates'-Griggs or Bower. This
statement, as reported by THE
News, was made by Colonel Walters in
his speech at Sasser ana repeated at Ca
milla. The article in which Editor Nc
Intosh pays his respects to the congress
sional candidate who made the charge is
too lengthy to be reproduced in full in
these columns, and we can only place be-
fore our readers the following extract
from it:
sit is possible that there may be an
honest misunderstanding between Mr..
Walters and myself with reference to
the inference which he draws from nv
having said that it would be worth
81 900 to the Herald to support either of
the other candidates for congress. have
no recollection of ever having said as
much to Mr.. Walters, but it is true that
| said to others In discussing the con-
greSsional canvass that it would be
worth 81, 900 to the Herald if it could be
unhampered by the candidacy of Mr..
Walters as local man and placed in a
position to make vigorous campaign
for either of the other candidates. But
in this | did not mean tO.intimate that
had ever been offered $1,000 or any 9th
er amount to eSpOuse the cause of either
of the other candidates. What | meant,
and what fair construction of one less
suspicious and more fair aud charitable
than Mr. Walters seems to have been to-
ward me, was that the Herald's support
OF either of the other candidates would
at once put the paper in greater demand
for campaign purposes, and that in a
legitimate way its circulation and bust
ness would be increased. And the de-
velopments of the two weeks that have
elapsed since the 'private caucus" was
held and the Herald placed itself in line
with those who were more concerned
about the success of the cause of free
coinage in the second district than for
the political preferment of any man or
particular candidate, have gone a good
taken in my assertion. Within the last
two weeks we have enrolled between 700
and 800 new subscribers to the weekly
Herald and nearly 100 to the daily Her
aid. And free coinage democrats all
over the district who felt no particular
interest in the Herald before are today
doing all they can to extend its circula-
ton. 1t is true, too, that both of the
other gentlemen who are candidates for
congress approached" me and told me
that they would like to have the support
of the Herald, but neither of them ever
| insulted me by offering me 81 900 or any
other amount for the papers support;
and any statement or any insulation that
l have ever said any such offer had been
made, or that my action or the conduct
of the Herald in connection with the
| free silver conference on the 10Th of
May, and the subsequent support given
to the candidacy of Judge Griggs by the
Herald was influenced by any money
consideration whatever, is absolutely
and unqualifedly false. In newspaper
career extending oyer a quarter of a
century have never before had such
an aspersion cast upon me even by i'm
plication.