The Green Forest tribune., 1900-06-28
REFUSE TO RECOUNT.
Prof. Burney Pays Respects to
 Goude1Ock and Fancher Again.

Green Forest, June 25, 1900.
 EDITOR TRIBUNE - In last weeks Progress, Reid Goudelock abandons his defense of the Gen. tral Committee, himself, and Fancher, and in a lengthy article headed Entirely Personal, ," proves that I ought to be in the penitentiary. As I have promised not again to follow him in his wanderings from the question at issue, this of course, closes the controversy so far as the news- papers are concerned. When a lawyer has proven his case noth- ing remains but for the jury to act.
 Why Mir. Goudelock should so zealously seek to draw a cloud over me can be accounted for in only two ways. First, because feeling the truth of my charges and realizing his utter inability to refute them, he became angry and desired to be insulting. This idea, however, is vetoed by the fact, that, though he is not SUD- posed to know many things, he ought to know that a counter charge, however grave, is not an insult. In his first article he says I have charged him with all man. ner of wrong doing, fraud, etc. Until he has cleared himself of these charges, nothing he can say, can reflect on his accuser. This principle is recognized both by the "code of honor" and by the law of the land. The courts will not allow the testimony of felons.
 The second possible solution is, that, admitting his guilt, he hopes yet to preserve some respectabil- ity by proving that he and I are "hale fellows we'll met" He may have whatever solace he can get from this delusiOn.
 The affidavit of B. c. Kirkham is answered by sworn denial. This is the only reply MT. Goude- lock would permit to go into the Progress. I would have been willing to have answered this affi- davit with a simple denial, but MT. Goudelock appealed to the courts, and to the courts it must go. I made my sworn denial so broad that MT. Goudelock will not be limited to Kirkham but will have the whole human family from which to draw his witnesses. With little industry he can find several hundred witnesses who have heard me talk about "bal- lot box stuffing" in Mississippi i; but. out of this vast number, Kirkham seems to have been the only one that heard me connect myself with it.
 Now, a few words about the object of these articles and what they have accomplished. I knew that the great masses of the party, honest and patriotic as these June days are lovely, did not know how they had been betrayed and sold out by those to whom they had intrusted the machinery of the party. I wrote that they might learn this, and learning it, might. at the first opportunity, hurl from power those who had abused the trust. That I have accomplished this object is amply proven by the messages and letters that l have received from all parts of the county thanking me for writ ing them, and for exposing the "methods of the ring" These came from parties whose Democ- racy not even the Progress, with all his temerity, would dare to question.
 As to what would be it's effect on the September election, l have not stopped to consider. If 1 had known that it would defeat some of the so-called Democratic nom- inees, 1 still would have written. The party is greater and more im- portant than any of it's candi- l so11 +I h