The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-08
DrscoRDANr NOTES FROM
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 It has been striking fact that the bulk of the State papers have emphaticaily condemned Secretary Rountree's conduct of the Alabama Press excursion and have cordially upheld The Advertiser in Its course in this matter. The array of State press utterances in yesterdays Adver- tiser alone was remarkable.
 Nevertheless there are few discordant notes. Strange to say two of these come from one town-Greensboro They are from The Greensboro Record and The Greensboro Beacon. Both articles appear in full on this page It will be readily seen that both papers are In a very bad humor with The Advertiser.
 The Record speaks of our ''auill dipped in the venom of the adder" and proposes to stand by Rountree-"right or wrong, we prefer to stick up to a man rather than take fayors from him with one hand while we stab him with the other" The Bea- con characterizes The Advertisers course as vicious attack" and says that this paper is not in position to throw stones. Both of these articles convey the in- timation that The Advertiser is under obligations to Rountree and has violated them. There is no sort of foundation for any such intimaton. The Advertiser has not had any illegal representatives on any one of Rountree's tours. We have frequently refused to avail ourselves of that opportunity. This year it's City Editor, Mir. Kennedy, went with his wife on the Canadian trip, and he paid his good s5s in money for one berth only. and long time in advance of the trip. The Adver- tiser was entitled under the rules of the Association to that privilege and does not regard itself as under the slightest obliga- ton to MT. Rountree for it.
 The Record and The Beacon, however, seem to have been favored by him con- siderably this year. Captain Falkner states to The Advertiser that he Issued passes to the following persons for those papers: For The Record, MT. Lee M. Otis and wife. and Mir. o. M. Otis and wife. For The Beacon, MT. Edwin s. Jack, Mrs. Jack. Miss Annie Gray and Mrs. A. F. stollenwerck. Our Greensboro correspondent states that the following persons actually went on the trip on account of those papers: The Record: Mir. Louis otts. Mrs. Lee Otis. Mrs. Claudia Wood. Miss Ger trude Locke and Miss Redus.
 The Beacon: MT. and Mrs. E. s. Jack, Mss Jack, Mrs. A. E. stollenwerck. The Record, according to this. had five representatives on the trip. Two of them only appear to have come under the rules of the Association But passes were not issued by Captain Falkner to three of the five who went.
 The Beacon, according to this. had four representatives, to three of whom Captain Falkner issued passes. In its case, how ever, none of the four seem to be con- nected with the paper. The Advertiser Is informed that Mir. Jack is Tax Assessor of Hale County. His name does not ap- pear on The Beacon's masthead. and it is the paper as editor or business manager.
 It seems to be clear. therefore. why The Record and The Beacon have so lit- tie sympathy with The Advertisers course toward their very kind friend, Secretary Rountree.
 The most extraordinary thing in either article. however, is The Records attempt to figure MT. Rountree safely out of that margin of ss.5OO. It looks as if any person who understood the English language could not have misconstrued the telegram from the General Superintendent of Ehe Pullman Company which The Record copied. The Advertiser did not go of 'half-cocked" in its construction of that message, nor has any other papers in Alabama, that we have seen, except The Record. The best answer to those ludi- crous figures is this telegram received yesterday from the Pullman office at Chi cago:
 Chicago, III, Aug. z. The Advertiser, Montgomery, Ala: Message received. Our charges for four | cars used by Alabama Press were $3O per day per car for twelve days. amount ing to $1,440. which covered entire time | absent from Birmingham, including United States and Canada, and was all we charged or received. w. H. Reed. General Superintendent. We doubt whether with these facts be- fore them. the Press of the State will take much stock with The Record and The Beacon in their arraignment of The Advertiser. This paper has not been criticising Secretary Rountree, right or wrong" It has been standing up for the dignity and decency of Alabama journal ism, and is inspired absolutely by unsel- fish motives. It Is doing disagreeable duty. and is very sorry that The Record