The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06
Secretary Woods Statement.

The editorial Of Mr.. WIN II. Woods
Secretary Of the Mississippi Division,
Southern Cotton Growers Association,
which appeared in a recent issue of
the Bulletin, calling attention to the
danger of exorbitant freight rates TO
and from non-competitive points, as
operating against the success of fac
tories 50 situated, has been garbled,
misconstrued, and misquoted by va
rious newspapers so as to do that gen
tIeman injustice.
Whether the articles We're written
with that design, or whether they
We're conceived in a desire to benefit
or to prejudice some candidates
chances for office, or dashed off in
ignorance, Will become clearer as
their writer's are heard from again.
To quote from a candidates plat
form, no matter how wen the quota
ton serves to strengthen or Illustrate
the idea to be conveyed, IL an uncer-
tain practice, and lays the perpetra-
tor, if he be public man, liable to
all manner of criticisms and accusa-
specially with certain news
papers during election year.
The Weekly, however, holds that
any man, public or private, has the
right to voice his opinion affecting
the public veal, and to quote in sup
port thereof the views of others, ir-
respective of whether they are can
didates, authors or ordinary men, and
that such action in no way means the
endorsement of the men quoted, but
merely an agreement with them, pos
sibly, in one view only. However,
concerning the disputed Cotton Assoc
citation Bulletin editorial, Mr.. Woods,
in letter to this paper, makes the
following statement:
Jackson, Miss, June 30, 1906.
EDITOR ABERDEEN WEEKLY, Aber-
deem, Mississippi.
Dear Sir want to thank YOU for
the editorial in your issue Of June %,
concerning the disputed Cotton Assoc
ton Bulletin editorial. ! take pleas
ure in making to you the following
plain statement:
First, | have never, in my editorial
expression in the Bulletin, taken is
sue with any expression in the plat
forms of any of the gubernatorial
candidates.
Second. The article in question
simply called the attention of my
readers to the danger Of exorbitant
freight rates to and from nOn-cOm-
petitive points, as initiating against
the success of factories SO situated.
1t has been a great surprise to me
that this article has been SO misquOt-
ed and garbled, until now | am ac-
cused of being opposed to a parucu-
lar candidates platform; and if this
were so, or should / enter into a dis
cussion OF the respective merits of
the platforms of the candidates, |
should be exceeding my authority /
and would be the first to condemn
such an act.
Under separate cover | am sending /
you marked copy of the Bulletin /
containing the editorial in question;
and you will see that the statement /
which is being circulated that | have /
come out in favor of any particular /
candidates platform, or part thereof, /
is wholly without foundation, and +
that my editorial which has been used /
and misquoted. in all of these articles /
in the different papers has either been I
COTTON second hand or has been ma +
hciously misrepresented.
| write this letter in order TO put +
myself and the misquoted article in a .
proper light before you, and to assure /
you that the Cotton Association viii .
never get into politics through its /
Secretary. Yours very truly,
WILL H. WOODS.
Sec. Miss. Div. Sou. Cotton Assn.
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