The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-16
A LAME DEFENSE.
Another Feeble Attempt to Rescue
 Secretary Rountree.

Greensboro Record.
 The Montgomery Advertiser in its issue of Saturday, August sth. reproduces our article in last weeks issue on "The Advertiser vs. Rountree." and comments editorially on same. This comment is reproduced in another column. It casts a few swords in the sides of The Beacon. jointly with The Record, and rudely drags into prominence the names of some ladies who took in the Canadian excursion. The gist of The Advertisers article is that these outside
 parties are guilty of some great wrong done the greatly abused @ Alabama Press Association.
 We have no apologies to make to the Press Association or to The Advertiser for the fact that persons not connected with this paper went on the Canadian trip,
 using transportation issued to representa- lives of The Record. This transportation
 was given to these same parties free, gratis and for nothing. That these tickets could have been sold at a profit, We know.
 Was this same transportation given to
 The Record free? If the use of our ] columns for week after week, devoted to the advertising and exploiting of the
 Royal Muskoka." etc. ,etc.. is to be
 were free. Does The Advertiser con-
 slider that the transportation used by its Mir. Kennedy and lady was given to them without due compensation? Hardly. Tn KOOu Idlln dppllCdllOH was IldQS lOE transportation for Messrs Lee NJ. and O.
 M. Otis and their wives. Twenty-nine dollars each was put up by them at that time for sleeping car accommodation, boat trips, hack hire and other expenses of the trip. Illness prevented the proper parties from using their transportation to take the trip, and. as it had been paid for fully, the tickets were given to the ladies who used them with great pleasure to themselves and at no further cost to thA railroads
 If the railroads are satisfied that value received was constituted in the advertis- ing given them, and are raising no kick, of what right does The Advertiser, self elect guardian of right, attempt to show that fraud was perpetrated upon these same railroads? Oh, Pharisee!
 The old lady, in her dotage, the self appointed champion of that awfully abused CD institution, the Alabama Press Association. has found seconds for vicious attack on MT. Rountree. mainly In those papers not members of the Asso- ciation, who want to start little asso- citation of their own.
 The Advertiser raises the point that our figures as given last week are ex- traordinary and not based on facts, (We did not claim that they were either cor rect or accurate.) That these same figures have served the purpose for which intended-to show that there is always another side-is evidenced by the date of the telegram from the Pullman Company. stating that $1 1,4OO was all that was paid them for the use of four cars, twelve days, in both United States and Canada That telegram is dated August 7th.
 Our last issue was August 9th.
 The Advertiser quite caustically re- marks that We were decidedly favored" by MT. ROuntree in the issuing of passes, and claims that it has never been the recipient of any favors from him. If the issuing of transportation to parties not members of the association constitutes favors Is not The Advertiser off in it's statement that The Advertiser has not had any Illegal representatives on any of Rountree's tours. We have frequently refused to avail ourselves of that oppor- tunity."
 On the Colorado trip of the Alabama