The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-12
TIE TRUE AND THE WRONG.

Wednesdays Age-Herald and written by its staff correspondent, that we feel called upon to expose the way the truth has been tempered with. The part of the report which deals with the few
 remarks made by Mir. R. H. Thacn. when MT. c. c. whitson had completed his presentation of the plan which was adopted by the Committee, is especially
 referred to.
 We print herewith the official report made by the official stenographer, and
 then the report published by The Age
 Herald and written by it's staff corre- spondent Here is the true record filed away with the minutes of the Commit
 tee;
 Mir. Thach--I desire to compliment
 the Committee upon the great amount of work they have done since they were
 common, everyday citizen can take In in the short time consumed in speech.
 and I believe that every member oi this Committee would really like to see the
 plan and read lt.I heard it read. and
 i have listened to the ornate words of eloquence of the gentleman who has
 advocated 1t. but there are some things in there that I would really like to
 ponder, I would really like to consider. iIe has suggested that he was about to perpetrate an innovation in ;he poli- conservative man, and Relieving that
 the members of this Committee are all conservative men, I would like 10 have about three hours to consider thas lnpo1 move that this committee do 1ow E re- cess until s o'clock, to consider tue plan. and I would suggest--I don [ know whether 1t meets the approval or the committee or not-but I would sug- gest that the members of this commit
 tee be furnished with copy Of the in- novation. move that this conhiitt,s m .,, '
 do now recess until 8 o'clock. and if the suggestion meets with the approvai ot the committee, they can have II done. Here is the report of this speech sent
 10 The Age-Herald by it's staff corre- spondent:
 s.Mr. Chairman said Mir. Thach, T have listened with d great deal of in- terest to the voluminous if not lumln,, ous report of the sub- committee ana cannot refrain from expressing my unI | stinted admiration for the wonderiui amount of work it has Succeeded in do- ing in so marvelousiy brief time. Repressed laughter greeted this sally that T the sub.committee had adjourned soon after noon and met at O'CLOCK with ten-page typewriter report l complete. if not satisfactorily in all de- tails. And, MT. Chairman Mir. Thach went on, 'I have listened with unwonted Tn z tercst to the ornate and embelnshed, II not altogether convincing exposltlon of the report that has been made py 1 the distinguished chairman of the sup l committee. I think, sir, that the
 thanks and admiration or a,,a the to ta,e inc l subcommittee for the remarkable III dustry which the latter has displayed T ann inclined. sir, continued MT; MT: I Thach ito say no more-to let Sy | speech rest right there But it occurs I 70 me, MT. Chairman, that the proposi- tions submitted by the sub.committee I are so important, so varied, so iar- i reaching and so manifold. that they need to be considered somewhat before 1 they are wholly adopted. It occurs to
 me that they present to anis on oommtrase innnyse 1 tion and am quite sure, MT. Chairman, | that the conservative members Of this committeeman are not all of us' SIT l conservatiye?--I am quite sure. Slf, | that the conservative members ot this l committee should at least consider II l not ponder. these remarkabie proposi- tions before they unthinkingly 1adopt l them. I therefore move, Mir. Chair
 man, that we now take a recess till 1 o'clock"
 The official report cannot be ques- 1 tioned. It was made by MT. Pat Mo Gauley, who, for many years, has been the official stenographer of the State
 Executive Committee.
 To put it mildly. the report published by The Age-Herald is astonishing
 when it is laid side by side with the official stenographic report. The Age Herald did not print what MT. Thaeh
 said. It only printed what its staff cor respondent wrote. The fine sarcasm of
 MT. Thach, when he said he could not
 refrain from expressing his unstinted admiration for the wonderful amount of work it has succeeded in doing in | so marvelousIy brief a time" was vividIy described by the imaginative staff man of The Age-Herald, nor did he forget to picture the "repressed
 laughter which greeted thaA sally.
 But the official stenographic report fails utterly to reflect the sarcasm of MT.
 Thach in his quoted words. In fact
 from top to bottom, from side to side, 1 the official report is different from the
 distortion which appears in the report
 of The Birmingham staff man. The
 difference is there for every man to
 see.
 It is not right that The Age-Herald
 mans report should ee left without further comment on its unfairness. The primary plan was presented to the Committee by Mir Whitson, in speech
 nearly an hour long. l. IS generally
 agreed that the address was one of the most notable ever delivered before l the State Committee. This address
 The Age-Herald man airily disnlisses
 with a contemptuous sentence.
 1 But Mir. Thach arose to move q post ponement, making q few remarks ard in all. talking less than two minutes. The Age-Herald staff correspondent seizes these few remarks and trans
 forms them into the climax of all the | Committee, the central, 2rowning fea- | ture of the meeting. To suit his pur- MT. Thach
 l Nor is this all. The Age-Herald man
 would have it believed that the primary plan. had not only been "cut-and dried and 'raiIroaded through" but :hat 1t
 was being denounced iu the hotei lob
 bies by all the leading Democrats. A
 matter of fact, not only did foul
 hfths of the members of the Committee favor the plan, but it Was favored by l four hfths of the Democrats who were present and who were nos members oi l the Committee.
 The Age-Herald has heartily en-
 dorsed the Whitson plan. Its staff cor