The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
CLARK SAYS THAT COMER USED REMARK Did Not Want Catholic Flood In
 Alabama FULL CORRESPONDENCE Selma Journal Publishes Letter From L. D. Clark, to Whom Governor
 ls Said to Have Made
 the Assertion.
CORRESPONDENCE

Selma, May 25.-(Special.) .)-The Selma Journal will publish the following in tho morning with regerad to the controversy between that paper and Governor Conner anent the Journal having quoted the Governor as having said We don't want any Catholic flood tide in Alabama:"
 Selma, May r, 1907. MT. Lyndly D. Clark, Bureau of Labor. Washington, D. e.:
 Dear MT. Clark-I feel sure you will re- call your visit to Selma In February when In Alabama investigating the sentiment as to immigration In this section, and 1 hope you will recall me as having called on you at the Hotel Albert, at your request, and your visit to my office the following morning. If you have ever made up your report and the same has been published, or Is in condition to be sent out. won't you forward me copy of same?
 l want also to ask if you recall having quoted Governor Conner as saying: We don't want any Catholic flood tide in Ala bama," or something similar. Won't you please write me just what the Governor did say along that line. I assure you l will greatly appreciate an early reply to liiiS anu 1T any tune l can serve you l shall be glad so to do. Very truly,
 R. E. L. NEIL,
 Editor Selma Journal
 Bureau of Labor
 Washington. D. C., May 22. 19O7 R. E. l.. Neil Selma. Ala:
 Dear Slr-Replying to yours of the 17th inst I have to say that owing to con- dition in the office requiring immediate action in order to get out the annual re- port within the fiscal year, I have not been able as yet to prepare my portion of the bureaus report on the subject of immigration. I hope to be able to do so shortly, however, though I can not tell as to the date of publication at the pres ent time.
 As to the quotation from Governor Corners remarks, my notes-read back to him-contain the following:
 My platform, and that of every other candidate during the recent campaign was restricted to immigration. We want no Catholic flood"
 As you will see, he was frank and main tained his position on the reading back. Yours very truly L. D. CLARK. The Journal. in replying to letter from Governor Conner to the Morning Times of this city, denying foundation for the statement in The Journal that the Governor had said to visito to his office We don't want any Catholic flood | tue III AlaDdnla, concluueu as IolloWs. l The Governor in his letter to the Morn ing Times does not specifically deny that he said to MT. Clark: We don't want any Catholic flood tide in Alabama He does say, I have never said to anyone that I objected to a Catholic whether immigrant or any one else and here The 1 Journal will let the matter rest for the | present"
 The declaration of some of the Governors partisan organs in headlines and otherwise that the letter to the Morning Times was a complete and emphatic denial from the chief executive, and his regret that | 1t should be the policy of any news organ l to send out libelous statements" impels the publication of the above letters In l justice to the Journal.
 | If the quotation made in the Selma Journal be libelous, favorite species of seeming intimidation from MT. Conner in the past, this paper says make the most | of 1t. The Governor declared: '"The | Selma Journal had no foundation what ever for the statement" The Selma Jour- nal begs leave to differ in this instance, as it does in many others from the Gov ernor's opinions. policies and beliefs.