Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-03-29
AMERICUs. Ca, MARCH 20, 1902
GUERRY AND THE TELEGRAPH,

AAo WaCOA Ao16SEapu is CAuYASSlnS
live proposition with its "home man"
Mr.. Query. The controversy arises
over alleged statements made by the
latter at Gainesville. The following
editorial appearing in yesterdays rele-
graph will doubtless be of interest to
many in Americus, where Mr.. Query
resided sone twenty years ago. Says
the Telegraph:
'In the Atlanta Constitution of
Wednesday, the Goth, there appeared
the following under a Gainesville date
Of the 25th.
In discussing the attitude of the daily
candidacy Mr.. Query said, in speak
Ing particularly of The Macon Tele-
graph:
ut is SO soaked with liquor that
when you open it to read it you can
smell whiskey"
From It's own correspondent and
agent at Gainesville, Mr.. A. 8. Hardy,
formerly of Macon and of this paper,
The Telegraph received on the night of
the 25th, the following:
Gainesville, Ga. March %, 1902 "a
Whiskey soaked Sheet" is what Hon
Dupont Query, prohibition candidate
for governor, pronounees The Macon
Telegraph. Col. Query was in the city
today, but owing to the fact that his
engagement here was not advertised,
he did not speak, although there were
many people in town from the country.
In discussing the attitude of the daily
press of the state toward him and his
candidacy, Mr.. Query said, in speak
ing particularly of The Macon Tele-
graph: cit is 80 soaked with liquor
that when you open it to read it you
can smell whlskey.",
Wednesday night, the Goth, The Tel
egraph received the following unaolici-
ted expression by wire.
Gainesville, Ga. March 96.-Macon
Telegraph, Macon, Ga: Constitution
interview entirely in writing. Tele-
graph not mentioned in it.
DUPONT GUERRY
Mr.. Query meant to say that he
wrote out with his own hand that part
of the interview" in the Constitution
which. did not refer to the Telegraph
The part that did refer to the Tele-
graph was not authorized to be printed
by him. 1t was written down by the
Constitution correspondent.
But while his telegram to us was in
tended to appear in this paper as a
quasi denial for home consumption, no
word in explanation or of quasi denial
appeared in the paper which carried
the charge of moral turpitude against
the Telegraph 20 other sections. The
craftiness which would dodge the re.
sponsibilIty at home lets It's sting re-
main abroad, so far as the Atlanta pa
per. could carry it. We denounce this
as low cunning and unworthy of a self
styled and self-constituted advance
agent of morality and virtue.
Mr.. Query has been going all over
the state making similar remarks about
this paper, and when through no in
strumentality of ours his charge is
made public he rushes IN with an ad
roitly worded telegram intended to APP
pear as denial when really it is not.
Mr.. Query knows that his accusation
is as false as it is malicious He knew
it when he uttered If, and he quails
when it is made public. 1t is charge
that no brave man would make and no
good man defend.
When, IN the early days of his cam
paign Mr.. Query made an unwarranted
and uncalled for attack upon this pa
per, and then sued for "peace if not
amity," eve use his own words) The
Telegraph accepted in good faith his
expressed desire, and we have lived up
to it. Since that date we have printed
a number of cards from him. We have