Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-30

or knowingly published a fdlsehood. IL !
is for them to say which. !
FALsEROODS FROM BEGINNING
TO END. !
The malicious and silly attack on
the Mexico LEDGER by Hon. Sam b.
Cook, Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, has been . tissue OF
falsehoods from beginning to end. BY
falsehoods he procured his resolu-
tions. Democrats publicly through
the LEDGER, publicly on the streets
even those who signed the original
petition-say that false statements
were made to them. No resolutions
were intended to be passed against
the LEDGER at all. After being cor
nered in his falsehoods the editor OF
the Intelligencer admits in his paper
that it is 'simmaterial" whether he
publishes a falsehood or not. This is
exactly the opinion this community
has of the gentleman. In a column OF
misstatements yesterday the Intelti-
gencer, among other equally false
assertions, after admitting that he had
been cornered and could not even
falsify out of it, says:
"We also understand that at an
earlier hour the editor OF the LEDGER
was at Robertson's office with parties
who knitted the Democracy all through
the last campaign"
Now that statement is q falsehood.
The same issue of the Inteuigencer
!, contained the following:
"The InteIligencer in reply to an
attack of the LEDGER on the Mexico
Bryan Club"
We v attacked the Bryan Club.
: No such idea entered the head Of the
: editor of this paper. Then the fol-
8 lowing:
"Mr. John Abbay, a business mai
y of high standing, q citizen OF universal
!, respect, and q Democrat, who has
! never faltered IN party loyalty, told
r the editor of the LEDGER, as he told
8 the editor of the Intelligencer, what
Q he saw on the night of the meeting OF
A the Bryan Club"
Now, as to the above, Mr.. Abbay
! never told the editor of the LEDGE
anything of the kind until Saturday
night, when he found out that the
editor of this paper could prove where
q he was; then he stated to us that he
= could have been mistaken and that hi
y had also told MIR. Cook, in the frs
r place, that he could have been mis-
taken. The InteIligencer Of yesterday
. also referring to Mr.. Abbay, says tina
nj "He (Mr. John Abbay) saw two
reporters OF the LEDGER direcI Iron
V, the Bryan Club enter Robertson
t office. At the same time he saw
10 man who he was thoroughly convinced
was the editor of the LEDGER enter thu
office with the member of the Golt
10 Bug State Committee"
oi Mr.. Abbay, in his card to the Mexico
LEDGER of yesterday, locates himsel
u at George Robertson's office at s:3
p. m. No LEDGER reporters coul'
i have been in George Robertson
IN Office at any time during the meetin'
of the Bryan Club, from z to II o'clocI
p. m. Mr.. Jouett Shouse and MI
10 Will G. Hutton, the two LEDGE.
reporters, were in the Court Hous
during the entire meeting, reportin
Mr.. Avery's speech, which appeare
exclusively in the LEDGER. No tw
d linen, or one man, woman or child, q
d. far al the writer can learn, connecte
with the Mexico LEDGER in an
u capacity, was in George Robertson
office at any time during the meetin
VI of the Bryan Club on the night RI
ferred to, and Mr.. John Abbay or M
81 anybody else who says they were,
" either mistaken or is a falsifer. tt
oi' whole fight made by Mr.. Cook on tt
U LEDGER from start to finish has bee
dirty, unprincipled, malicious al
us based on untruths, and the windup
ny it is a fair sample. There is just
VIZ much truth in other statements Whit
III have been made in reference to th
ia' paper and its editor as there is in Il
OF falsehoods, which now lie betwe'
Mr.. John Abbay and Hon. 8. B. Coo
The editor of this paper tod
, called on Mr.. John Abbay in pers'
nc and in the presence of Mr.. Jam
Wilkins stated to him how he icou
find u whether he was mistaken
not. The editor of this paper to
him where our reporters were, whe
the editor of this paper was, and il
exactly how he could satisfy hims'
in reference to this matter.