Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-07
A DEAR CONTEMPORARY.

There are few newspapers for which
The Journal has so great an admiration
and so high a regard as 1t cherishes for
The Macon Telegraph.
Therefore we regret very much to find
in it's issue Of Wednesday the following
editorial under the caption, VERY Fun
N.Y."
'The Atlanta Journal, for some reason
that we cannot comprehend, or explain
upon any sane hypothesis, has been engag.
ed for some time in the unneighbOrly and
unethcal task Of thrusting at Macon
and at The Telegraph. In a recent issue
1t remarked that even Macon was go
ing to get a new 'depot-as though Macon
was unworthy of even this good fortune.
In its issue of Monday IL says:
Candidate Query appears to feel
easier now that he has succeeded In max
ing 1t impossible for The Macon Tele-
graph to support him.
1.-THE Telegraph might with equal jus
tice and fairness and neighborly love-
with equal devotion to- that feeling and
sentiment which prompts men who en-
gage in the same calling to regard GER
tain established ethics of the profession
retort that by this same sign The Tele-
graph is fortunate in arousing the jeal-
ousy and ill-will of it's former friend; but
It will not. IT would prefer to have The
Journals friendship and good will, even
at the cost of overlooking some things
and we may mention a communication
published in its columns on Saturday COM
pairing The Telegraph to that inpurity in
nature which is used I'm the cutters as
synonym for all that is most foul and
repulsive within the range of human con-
ception. There is no man great enough
or with bank account big enough to in
duce The Telegraph to print such a thing
about The Journal.
1.-THE Telegraph regrets that The Jour
nal has chosen with evident elaboration
such course"
We could hardly believe that The Tele-
graph was serious In making either of it's
two points IN this bin Of indictment, but
for the Enthusiastically solemn tone in
which they are set forth and we hasten
to assure The Telegraph that nothing
could be further from The Journals in
tention or wish than to intimate either
that Macon is unworthy of the good for
tune of new depot or that, In our opsn-
ion, The Telegraph deserved the very
hard and not very elegant things that
Candidate Guerry has said about It.
If Atlanta cannot have a new depot
we shall not complain or grow envious
If Macon should get one. Nothing can
happen for the improvement Of any part
of Georgia that Will not be gratifying to
The Journal. and there is no city in the
state outside of Atlanta for which we
cherish friendlier feeling than that
which we hold for Macon, where The
Journal enjoys such large and increas-
ing patronage.
With the controversies that have occur
red or may occur between The Telegraph
and Mr.. Query we have nothing what
ever to DO. Even if our sympathies in
clined either way we would be restrained
from giving them expression both by our
love of fair play and the well-grounded
conviction that the parties are so we'll
matched that there need be no concern
anywhere that either of them will fail to
take care of himeslf.
The Telegraph has said some severe
things about Mr.. Query and The Jour
nal printed them.
Mr.. Query, In turn, has administered
some hard raps upon The Telegraph and
The Journal gave its readers an account
of these also.
The Journal is a newspaper and Is
read by many persons who are inter
ested in knowing just what these two
valiant and well-skilled disputants think
of each other.
We admit that they have both inter
ested The Journal frequently. Our only
regret is that they both did not keep in
better humor. but that is their affair.
We have taken what they said about each
other as we get it from first hands and
we could not assume the responsibility
of modifying the remarks of either.
We trust that we shall not be called
upon again to publish anything from eth
er Mr.. Guerry or The Telegraph which
could offend the most fastidious taste, but
however that may be, we shall insist
upon treating them both with perfect
fairness and judicial impartiality.
Hoping that this will be completely sat
isfactory to all concerned, The Journal
begs leave to protest the kindest feel
ing toward the newspaper and the can
didate whom we would gladly see dwell
together peacefully in the beautiful city
that is enthroned amid the blooming
hills of central Georgia.