The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-12
ABOUT MUp-sLINGINo.

STInKIng IN AIaDdfIiA pUTTtTCS. w
thus attacked see fit to retort in kind, 1t
is but the result of such an Industrious CD
example.
paper published in Birmingham In Gov.
Johnston's in terest and generally Under
stood to be largely owned by him. Is 1T
mud singing to seek to show from the
| records that Joseph F. Johnston in his
| speeches and writings under rates every
Governor and seeks to belittle the dead
| Governor Sanford and the living Gov
| ernor Jelks who have followed him? His
claims have been punctured and disproven
and this in the Johnston vernacular is
mud singing
Is 1t mud singing to take him UP on
his assertion that when he went into Of
flee Dec. /. 1896 that there was in the
State Treasury only SS6,373,5 IS? The report
| of the State Treasurer shows on the LIST of
December, 1896 the amount in the vault
| subject to payment of warrants was $685.
| Is and that there was in the vault in
| addition to the credit of the interest ac-
count $10,4S2. SO, making total of sl49.-
1913 .N. This exposure of Johnston's misuse
of figures may, in the language of his
supporters, be mud singing. but in the
| minds of fair minded, Alabama loving
men 1t is simply the plain naked truth
against the reckless assertion of man
run mad from intense desire to hold Of
flee.
| Is it mud singing to remind Governor
Johnston that Mr.. Boyd the bookkeeper
| in the Office of the State Treasurer has
published a caro- stating that the figures
used by Governor Johnston were in fact
those of Dec. S1st, and that he Boyd
| made a mistake, in his note to Governor
Johnston in dating them December
LIST This statement is fully verified by
the books of the Treasurer for December
LIST 1896.
Is it mud singing to call public atten-
ton to the fact that Governor Johnston
continues to assert that $4,000 was the
amount in the Treasury when official
records open to all the world show the
amount to have been over $4,000 when
and when Governor Oates in speech and
letter proves the falsity of the state
ment? The mud singing it will strike
the average man is done by the speaker
and the papers which continue to mis-
lead and deceive the public in order to
bolster up Johnston and pull down others
Is it mud singing to prove that Gov
ernor Johnston at an inopportune time
in Democratic State Convention in 1888!
sought to commit the Party to a Con
stitutionaI Convention, that he urged ii
in his canvass of 1896 repeated and rein
forced it in his message to the Legisla-
ture; that he approved the act in 1898
which called a convention and insisted or
making if a Party measure; that after
wards in the Spring of 1899 when he dis
| covered that the men selected for dele
| gates by the Democrats of the State were
not such as he could handle for his own
purposes, he assembled a subservient
Legislature and by patronage and other
powers which he used secured the repeal
of the act? In his message to that Legis-
lture in special session he threw mao by
the bucket full at the Democratic Stats
Committee and at the Democrats Stats
Convention for seeking to make the calt q
Party question and at the kWn Emitted
States Senators for coming 40 the Eapitn,
City at that time.
Is it mud singing to shove Ghax M bit
terly fought the call for n Constitutional
Convention in 1901 with pen and konguel
that he canvassed large pazk q CHS
State against the ratification a DIP naN
Constitution, which elimipatsa che negrx
from the suffrage and declared hia pre'
ference for the old Constitution u ES7.
under which the negro by his right 4.
vote was a menace to peace and goot
order and the occasion for strife between
different sections of the State?
Is it mud singing to contend that he !:
still opposed to the Constitution, and tina
if he could secure a legislature of lik,
mind with himself that it would be tori
all to pieces and twisted beyond recog
milton by amendments which would have
to be submitted to popular vote and thu
peace and harmony of the State agail
disturbed?
Is it mud singing to controvert hi
statement that he found the State bank
rupt and left it with overlooking treasur!
and to show according to the Auditor
report for fiscal year ending Septembe
SOth, 1895, that at that time there wa
a deficit of $lS4, 900 and that of the amour
of money on hand over 100000 was due Il
schools and old soldiers.
Is 1t mud Singing to prove that h
made or caused to be made a bad trad
for the University in the sale of certain
lands? That the University trustee
brought suit to rescind the transaction
and that it was rescinded to the immens
, benefit of the University?
Is it mud singing to deny his state
ment that he had to go at once to pun
chasing supplies for the penitentiary i
, 1896, when Governor Oates's messag
shows that there was on hand severe
thousand bushels of corn, large quaint
ty of cotton, hogs, cattle and othe
articles?
, Is it mud singing to show that in seven
teen months the management of the Con
vict Board of the Jelks administratio
has netted by several thousand dollar
t more than the four years OF Johnston ad
: ministration; that expenses are less, cor
| u,