The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-16
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ihst week. teL " turns up again sereneiy. notwithstanding 1t says 1t has "a personal request from party in- that we do not get drawn into a controversy with The Advertiser"
 "The party interested was shrewd- CT than The Record. It sounds like 1t Is Secretary Rountree him self. who is giving The Record points He spent several hours in this ofice one night just after that trip. trying to dissuade this paper from its ex- posture of his personally conducted tour. He talked then very much like The Re- cord reads now, and he found then that The Advertiser was pretty well prepared to meet any sort of defense or parry he attempted to make. Very probably that Is the reason he has never printed any statement: there was too strong pros- pect of paving 1t riddled. But it looks as if he vas Ahrewd enough to push The Record into the breach, even though 1t has been warned of the inexpediency of the undertaking.
 The Record makes no effort this time to get around the margin of about $500 between the sum collected by Secretary Rountree and that paid the Pullman Com pany.It admits that its figures were not correct, but does not seem to think that there was anything improper in the Sec retary, as the agent of the. Alabama Press Association, collecting about three times as much money for expenses as he paid out.
 Our contemporary also admits that 1t gave away to outsiders some of the trans portation issued to its representatives. though 1t knew 1t could have sold 1t for a profit. We have heard before ome talk of transportation being sold for profit, and 1t is a matter the Investigat- ing Committee should look into also. It is to be expected that The Record will afford the Committee all the light il can. Who wanted to buy The Records transportation? waas any one acting al a broker in excursion transportation?
 Tn defending it's transfer of ,transporta. tion to outsiders, The Record says:
 If the railroads are satisned that value received was constitutedxin the advertis- ing given them, and areataislng no KICK of what right does The Advertiser, seii, show that fraud was perpetrated upon these railroads?. Oh. Pharisee!
 Here, again, The Record ignores facts right under it's nose. The railroads are not ali satisfied, and some of them are kicking. The L. and N. Road received no advertising in advance, and its District Attorney, Capt. J. M. Falkner, has kicked vigorously at the way his Road was treat; ed. He refused to receive advertising of fered by Rountree after the exposure was made, and said that it was the policy of his road to issue passes to bonafide newspaper people as courtesies, and that these courtssies were not transferable. He declared that he was convinced that nearly half of those who went on the ex- cursion did not have any transportation issued to them over his Road. Mir. Ken nedy has stated that the officials of the Grand Trunk Road also kicked to him vigorously about the fraud perpetrated upon them So The Record Is wide of the mark in the idea that The Advertiser alone is stirred on this subject. y
 The Record again undertakes to prove that The Advertiser has had favors at Mir Rountrees hands and Is an ingrate. Its first allegation is that MT. c. A. Joiner its Talladega correspondent, was so fa- vored on the Colorado trip, and that he had no right to go. This is another case where The Record has suffered itself tc be led into a blunder. MT. Joiner was at that time an honorary mem Der of the Press Association. Section | Article 12 of the Constitution of the Ala bama Press Association expressly says an honorary member shall be entitled to all the privileges and the rights of active members, except that of voting" Fur thermore, if we are not mistaken, his par ticular case was explicitly brought before the Executive Committee, and his right to go on the trip specifically con frmed. Furthermore he went on trans. portation issued in his name on account of The Advertiser. No one ever went on any Press excursion with clearer title tha The Advertisers Talladega core spondent on the Colorado trip.
 Again, The Record argues that The Ad' vertiser Is an ingrate to Secretary Roun- tree because on. this Canadian trip he showed its representative so many ia vors-"'on every public ocasion he was made the it." There were probably sew eral reasons for that pushing forward oi MT. Kennedy: first, his capacity as z newspaper man; second, his connection with one of the leading dailies of the State. The Secretary was doubles! anxious to produce the illusion in the minds of the Canadian hosti that his tourists were all bona fide newspaper workers, and giving MT. Kennedy constant prominence wal not a bad scheme for that purpose. Fur thermore, in his craft. the Secretary prob ably thought he could choke The Adver tiser's representative with so many sweets that he would be hushed into silence al to the secrets of the personally conducted tour. The Secretary is long-headed 1T some things. But, whatever his reason for making Mir. Kennedy 'it," his actior did not place him or The Advertiser un' der any obligation to hide the truth. This paper does not see any such obligation nor will any other fair-thinklng person.
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