The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
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 In the last issue of The sheffeid Stand ard there appeared the following extra ordinary editorial paragraph:
 The Montgomery Advertisers bounding of Rountree reminds one of the Gonzales Tillman affair with the tragic features himself in popular confidence. let him proceed at once to vaccinate Editor Glass with sixteen bucksot.
 The newspapers of Alabama are some- times very plain spoken. but The Stand, ard is the first one, so far as our knowl- edge extends. to deliberately counsel as- sassination. Tn all our reading of the papers of this State. while they may be impolitic and fmprudent in some of their utterances, they are invariably in favor of law and order. It remained for Shef- field paper to deliberately advise the mur- der of a newspaper man for doing what he conceived to be his duty.
 In all this controversy regarding Mir. Rountree and his acts, The Advertiser has confined itself within the bounds of parliamentary discussion. This paper has criticised him for taking what it believed an indefensible advantage of his posi- tion. and has denounced his acts in plain terms. because 1t considered those acts to be wrong in law and morals, calcu- lated to reflect discredit on the Press Association and on the newspaper fra ternity of the State. It has not indulged in personal abuse of him, as man.
 If we had cut out and published all the bitter things that have been said and printed about him in some of the news papers of the State the public would have been surprised. A number of the language rarely used in an Alabama newspaper. and have denounced him in such terms and such plain words as we are acustomed to see in some of the newspapers of the North and West, but rarely in the South. The Advertiser has not spoken of MT. Rountree as others have done, nor has 1t copied their de- nunciations. It has printed their denials of his charges and their condemnation of his course. but 1t has refrained from personal abuse.
 The language of The Standard tells Mir. Rountree. In words as plain as the Eng fish tongue affords, to proceed at once'' to assassinate one of the editors of The Advertiser. There is no double mean ing or whipping around the stump about it. It Is a positive advice to commit mur- der. It is hard to believe that the editor of any Alabama newspaper would stoop so far as to counsel a murder.
 At first 1t was determined to take no notice of this venomous utterance. The gentleman who Is booked for buckshot treatment is under no apprehension. He has no fear that MT. Rountree will at- tempt to wreak personal violence on any member of the Alabama press. or that he will undertake to play the role of Guiteau or a Czolgosz even at the com- mand or on the advice of The Sheffield Standard. It was thought that the silent contempt which should an utterance de- serves was the proper course to pursue, but on reflection, we have decided to let tho public know that there is one news- paper in Alabama that would give utter ance to such suggestions as are above quoted. We want it's language to be made public and We await to see how our Alabama contemporaries will regard The Standards code of conduct.