The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-24
A Card from MT. Nunnelee.

Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma, Oct. 23. Editor The Advertiser:
 The publication of the little item in last Saturdays Advertiser about the Mccoy Councilman bribery case. in which a cer- tain councilman is said to have demanded of Mccoy three hundred dollars as blood money" to protect him in his chance hornets nest in this city. Mccoy sent telegram from Alexander City to The Advertiser denying that there was any truth in what had stated. then deem- ed it my duty to state where I got my Information. l went to MT. Felix Wood on Monday. who had told me what I had published. gram and he said that he had. then asked him to repeat exactly what had occurred between him and Mccoy and he not dreaming that MT. Wood would ob- 5cct to my sing his name. l did not tell him was going to use his name. but had l thought he would have objected would not have used it. have never, in all of my newspaper career of twenty-three years. ever taken advantage of but one man and published what he said without telling him was going to dc so, and had l thought for a moment that MT. Wood was going to object to the use of his name 1 certainly would not have used 1t. If I made a mistake in using his name in connection with the matter can only
 
 pardon for having done so.
 In this mornings Times MT. Wood is out in a card over his own signature. in which he says that his name was made prominent ito sustain a disgusting and highly improper news article" l am can did to confess that I think a news arti- cle" is perfectly proper when the fair name of our city is besmirched by the open charge that one of our city fathers has offered to take 'bribe money to pro- tect a man in a questionable device to make money during the street fair As newspaper man claim the right to know what is proper to be put in the columns of a newspaper. The best people of Sel- ma will all agree with MT, Wood in stat and I will go further and state that 1t seems that somebody has been guilty of very improper" conduct. if the charges are true.
 shown some feeling in his card. am candid to confess that I have no unkind feeling toward him. He alludes to the great sorrow. under which he is bowed never had a more loyal friend than l. I supported him for Probate Judge each tune that he ran in Dallas. after ! moved here. It is more than likely that I would have been found following his leadership had he lived and been can d!date at the next election. Felix Wood has always been my friend and I am grateful to him for kindnesses in the past. Had it been in my power to have heIped him I would have done so. It was only yesterday morning that l was in consultation with friend of his. try ing to devise plan by which to aid him if 1t were possible. Little did dream that at the moment I was consulting his friend about his future, that he had un- kind feelings in his heart because had used his name in an interview.
 l have reached an age where l have long since ceased to harbor ill-feelings against my fellowman without a lust ft.t yn- ing down on my wrath. I recognize the fact that the best part of my life is be- hind me. From this time forward I ex- pect to do as much good as l can and as little harm as possible, and l take this public way of stating that 1t was an error of the head and not of the heart. if error it was that caused me to use MT. Woods name and thus unintention- ally hurt his feelings
 Respectfully.
 J. H. Nunnelee.