The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-01
The Couernor Did Pay His
 Hotel Bill; There Was q Frost

We. thought of accounting for 1t at the time by saying that in ave or 2 foss iss voice aG sorrg now ws didn, say 1t. It would have accented the si- lsnce. if you please. Tor we wanted to make t grominent - .,n,,- cant thing in Alabama for some time And. fellow-c -citiEens and people of Ala bama, there WAS silence. Yes. peo- silence. such silence .s Is properly | called painful"
 The. Ledger continued: Evidently believing that the audience had not CT way by saying that the Governor chief of chief e1esutives. Same result
 The silence, which we called "frost," was q FACT. There was silence .'all around" Wen give three dollars apiece for all the sounds of approval said there was silence.
 The resolutions. indeed. haven't leg claimed. and as we insist that 1t was. then both speakers violated the pro- prieties by making political speeches, the Governor in defending and wanting and Mir. Price in his prodigal eulogy of
 It was within the legitimate prov fnce of The Ledger to lambast both.
 Again: If the occasion was a social one and the gentlemen were distin- Euished guests DID the Governor pay
 The residue of 1t all seems to be that The Ledger is to be made .vicarious sacrifice. It is noble sometimes to ac- cept this sort of thing, but in these po- Is hardly to be expected, and we will therefore be pardoned if we are hard
 DID the Governor pay his own hotel
 Leaving the resolutions. let us do a little explaining Not excuslng, mind you. but explaining. It will be news, and we want the people to know. Be- cause they have not known. they have done much to their injury in the past
 The first knowledge The Ledger had that the Governor had been neglected own hotel biiifUwas % imparsed daB by ms a reputable citizen of Samson. It came about substantially If not literally in
 I'm afraid" he said, "that the Gov ernor left Samson-l"
 with bad taste m his mouth?' we interrupted, thinking he referred to the h the Governors speech indicated by The Ledger as having met with si-
 Yes" said The Ledger's informant; when he left left the ho>ei he paid his
 Was his entertainment not provided
 "Yes"
 Wasn't he so notifed?"
 Yes; but he laid the amount of the bill on the counter and walked out and to the depot, no one going with him think he felt hurt over his treatment. and I'm afraid 1t will snjure Samson"
 And there you are.
 Now, good people of this good town what do you think of it?
 If the people who listened to the Governors speech didn't agree with it at any particular point or points. there plaud. Such refusal was no reflection upon the citizens of Samson, nor was the report of the fact of failure of ap- thereon any reelection upon the people of Samson. It must have been embar- rassing to the Governor. but there was nes1 no dsc0srtssy son S. 6aRsse a1 has ble for t. It merely published the facts in the case.
 We are in full accord with the reso- a social one and that the Governor was entitled to decent treatment; Any charge of the reverse as to The Ledger we oppose with an alibi;
 
 ment, whose fault was 1t? Not the peoples of Samson directly certainly, but through those acting for them. who had the matter of the Gov l ernor's proper entertainment in charge If any Indignation meeting was in order 1t should have been called against them and not against The Ledger THE FACTS. ~ VI '--''
 But see how The Ledger tried to ease off" the natter
 day was the appareAe but CERTAINLY CONVENTIONAL neglect of the Gov ernor" Again: An explanation of the Governors lonesome walk to the de- erybody was at the ball game, and when 1t Is known that 1t was the sort of game that took thirteen innings to make one run maybe the Governor, if ball. will understand right away why nobody paid any attention to anybody, and be ready to excuse everybody" If the matter had remained as 1t was before two citizens walked down the main street ot Samson.
 However. DID the Governor pay his
 It was the Information of the repu- table citizen referred to that induced the introductory of the editorial which
 If the frost which fell on the pres ence and speech of Governor Conner"
 Perhaps we should explain the word frost" It had It's origin in theatrical circles and was applied to a new play over which there had been great prep arations for and expectations of suc- cess. If 1t didn't meet with expecta- tions, If its end was disastrous 1t was "a frost"
 The paramount features of Governor Corners speech and the speech of Mir. Price were those referred to in The Ledger as having met with "a frost' or silence-didn't meet expectations.
 And, good people of Alabama, THE FROST FELL, as stated.