The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-13
SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE MO.
 BILE HERALD.

The Mobile Herald of late has dipped It's pen into vitrioi. timing its first assault upon Judge Jones to back up the now dead crusade which was begun at Luverne.
 The Herald endeavors to convey to its readers the impression that Judge Jones was a part of "the carpet bag admins tration" in the '70s: that he was mot a mere puppet. if newspaper accounts of the day may be accepted, but one of the most prominent figures in the inaugural parade of one of the ,carpet-bag Govern ors." A meaner thing could not have been said or on less foundation. There is absolutely no excuse for 1t. There are no newspaper accounts of any sucN affair.", and nobody ever read them. The only inaugural of a Republican Governor in which Judge Jones figured, was when Governor Smith tried to hold over by force against Governor Lindsay in 1870. Judge Jones was then one of the posse at the Capitol under command of Ed mund W. Pettus, to protect Governor Lindsay, and was so earnest that Lieu tenant Governor McKinstry demanded of Judge Peck to remove Judge Jones from the non-partisan position of Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State. A Republican court had appoint ed Judge Jones at the instance of Demo- crats, because he was a Democrat, to create better feeling on the part of the Bar to that court. See the letter of Ehe late Chief Justice E. w. Peck, to the Hon. Thomas J. Judge printed else- where in this paper. which was written in 1874
 There was no newspaper accounts of the day." to which The Herald affects to refer. If it saw any. 1t saw an attempt made eighteen years after the incident 10 pervert the attendance of Judge Jones, as an officer of the court. with the court, on a Fourth of July celebration in 1870, ahirty-three years ago. When Judge Jones became a candidate for Governor in 1889. the present charge was first made and there promptly snuffed out. Judge Jones was appointed Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court at the in- IA. J. Walker, w. P. Chiffon, George W. Stone, Thomas J. Judge. General James 1T. Clsnton. General James T. Holtzclaw and others. He was at that time mem ber of the County Democratic Executive Committee. No political sacrifices were asked or expected of him, nor did he make any. He continued one of the sturdiest of the baiid who in the dark days struggled for good government. In 1874, at ana fnsfonoa If naraacraf ha u,as clha ro, ed with the preservation of the peace in this city, when several thousand negroes came to the county seat to vote. He pre- served the peace, although the town was set on fire in five different places, and there were many disturbances. All this has been gone over on the stump and in prominent newspapers time and time again, and there is no earthly excuse for ignorance about it or for misrepresenting him now.
 The convention of 1890 has passed into history. Judge Jones. as Is well known, was the second choice of a great maJori- ty of all the delegates, and his nomina- tion was accepted as a happy solution at the time. He had ceased to desire the nomination at the time it was made. and wished to withdraw from the contest. The delegates to that convention and thou sands of people in Alabama now living. who know its history, will be amazed at the brazen charge that he captured the nomination for Governor by manipulation and threats" We have not space in this article to go over the figures of the elec- tion in 1892. No one who foots up the extraordinary majoritles for Governor Jones's opponent. in over half of the ton machinery-the majority sometimes reaching twenty-five or thirty per cent more than the entire number of voters of the eounties--ean fail to perceive that after all the fraudulent votes were elimi-