The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-17
THAT SHOT GUN ADVICE
Is Vigorously condemed By State
 Papers.

| Papers. | The Sheffield Standard advises Secre- The Advertiser with buck shot, because The Advertiser has made 1t rather un- comfortable for MT. Rountree in regard to the Canadian excursion. We do not vice of The Standard, and no doubt now | The Stendard editor Is sorry he got into | the game" if he read The Advertisers c | comments on his foolish advice.-Cleburne News-Era.
 We fail to see wherein the noted Roun- tree is on top of The Advertiser as The Reaper alleges. How is 1t possible for any one to see anything favorable to Rountree in the Canadian trip and his | subsequent conduct is beyond our com- prehension which of course is no proof that 1t can not be seen, but please get us some glasses of sufficient magnificent magnifiying capacity to see 1t and put your cambric needle point right on 1t be | sure you do not put the wrong end of the l needle down too-Dale County News.
 The Sheffield Standard advises Asa Rountree to shoot Editor Glass, of The buckshot, and assures Rountree that such act will re-establish him in popular con fdence, after the style of Ttllman of South Carolina. This incident inclines sorship of the press. The Sheffield editor | breaches assassination, naming the man to be assassinated and the assassin to do the work. If we were Glass we would go after that editor with an indictment Mobile Register
 The Sheffield (Ala.) Standard. in a re- issue is guilty of this astSSndag ut! bounding of Rountree reminds one of The Gonzales -Tillman affair, with the tragic features omitted. If Rountree would re- establish himself in popular confidence, I af Editor Glass with sixteen buckshot." It apears that The Montgomery Advertiser has been engaged in the commendable enterprise of reforming the State Press Association, and in the course of It's activity in that direction 1t found that Secretary Rountree had been using his closures followed. The Advertiser made no personal assaults upon MT. Rountree, but published the facts as 1t found them. The suggestion of the bloodthirsty Stan of The Advertiser from doing his duty and if MT. Rountree should attemp the Tilman assassination act he might find 1t a trile dangerous. Alabama is not South Carolina, and Tillman methods do not go in that State. MT. Rountree would find 1t exceedingly unprohtable to go gunning for Editor Glass, and he'd better inocu- late himself with coat of mall before he goes into the business.-Chattanoog Times.
 The J. Asa Rountree matter has gotten to a warm stage and it behooveth the editors who have had some hot-shot articles to take prominent position on a hill just out of town, where they can view the landscape from the four points of the compass at once. The Sheffield Standard has this to say of the esteemed Montgomery. Advertiser; -
 '"The Montgomery Advertisers hound zaies-Tillman affair with the tragic features omitted. If Rountree would re- establish himself in popular confidence, let him proceed at once to vaccinate Editor Glass with sixteen buckshot."
 If the guilty of the State of Alabama should arise and follow the advice of The Standard, very few newspaper men would be left in the State to tell the news; and those who were left would bee too cowardly to go to the hydrant to get a drink of water, and would sleep during July and August with their heads cover ed with blanket for fear they might see something
 The idea of paper advocating the as- sassination of an editor because he has fraud, is a new one and one that will not be received by the pres sof the State. As for The Rustler, we will say that we honor the stand that The Advertiser takes in exposing frauds of every description, and will say that there is not paper in the South that is truer to the best in terests of the Southern people and one that has more courage to express it's opin- ions of right and wrong.
 Long may Editor Glass live and let his light still continues to shine in dark places, driving out and exposing perpetra- tors of frauds; and should he be the lvictim of some foul assassination-of some lone following the advice of The Shef- field Standard. may his brother editors memory that will touch the clouds and have carved upon it: 'He did his duty and did it wen.."-Bessemer Rustler.
 | .sTba NEont1oroar1, AdyartIaarss hound . ing of Rountree reminds one of the Con zales-Tillman affair with the tragic features omitted. If Rountree would re- establish himself in popular confidence let him proceed at once to vaccinate Editor Glass with sixteen buckshot." !"
 The foregoing is from the pen of Editor Ed Ragland, of The Sheffield Standard It is the most atrocious paragraph we remember ever seeing in an Alabama newspaper. It is the outgrowth of the ex- pose made by The Advertiser of the criminal acts and moral turpitude of J. Asa Rountree in connection with his noto- rious recent Canadian tour. 1t is in plain language. as the reader sees. personal ad- vice to Rountree to deliberately murder
 Assuming that MT. Rountree Is guilty of all that Is charged against him, his l sins combined are not as grave an offense as the single one committed in the above paragraph by Editor Ragland. Murder Is the worst and most heinous crime in the decalogue of sins. If MT. Rountree, dCIlnB unueT tnS duNlCc Ot I4uitOI teaS- land should he be melted to the deliber- ate killing of Editor Glass, MT. Ragland would be in the eyes of the law accessory before the fact and particeps criminis. | Per contra, the failure of MT. Rountree 1 to follow Editor Ragland's advice does not in the least mitigate that editors of fense so far as its moral aspect is con- cerned Hence, in attempting to defend a man who has been informally tried by a jury of his peers. and who acknowl- edged before the Investigating committee that he was guilty as charged, Editor Ragland has committed a graver offense so far as it's moral aspect is concerned. Hence, in attempting to defend a man who has been informally tSied by jury of his peers, and who acknowledged be- fore the Investigating committee that he was guilty as charged, Editor Ragland has committed a graver offense than those committed by Rountree.
 We have always entertained high re- gard for MT. Ragland as an editor and as man. We cannot persuade ourself that he really desires to see Mir. Glass murdered. or that he realized the enor- mity of his sanguinary advice to Roun- tree. He seems to be one of the very few sympathizers among the State Press Of the errtng quondam secretary. He has allowed his sympathy, in this instance to run away with his judgment, and cause him to give utterance to a very foolish and which, if it were adopted criminal piece of advice
 For the sake of your own manhood Editor Ragland, and for the sake of your many friends who stil have faith and confidence in your integrity and de- sire to do the right, retract that foolish make proper amends therefor.-Decatur NaWa