The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-23

l that are introduced in such bodies The indisputable fact stares Mir Crawford and all his aiders and ahet- tors in the face that the Carmack res- olutions were not suppressed by The Advertiser, but appeared in practically their entirety in its columns and that they appeared the morning after they were adopted which was the soonest moment possible to give them pubIici- ty. One definition of the word sup- press and the proper one in this con nection is "to keep back or hinder from circulation"
 MT Crawford. in the face of an tm- movable. ineradicable fact has aban- doned the main contention of his first letter-that The Advertiser did sup press the Carmack resolutions. In that letter MT. Crawford says:
 "In this card I shall have to do | only with that part of Mir Smiths statement which says that last Decem- ter you gent reporter to the Ala boro. with instructions from his su- perior to suppress Interesting action of the conference. which was done, and your reply thereto"
 (Which was done" These words in the article which he quotes, MT. Craw. ford makes his own words. The Ad- vertsser. according to MT. Crawford's letter of endorsement, did suppress interesting action" which 'interest ing action" was the adoption of the Carmack resolutions. The republica tion Of these resolutions. as they ap- peared in the columns of The Adver tiser on December 12. and as they were sent in by The Advertiser correspond ent, was so convincing that even M- Crawford virtually admits the irresist- ible force of the answer by ignoring his main charge as first made.
 MT. Crawford falls back on his memory of a conversation. in which he says MT. Collier told him that O Mir. Glass did not want the carmack resolutions. as Bishop floss had them introduced at every conference he at- tended. To this slender footing MT. Crawford retires to keep up the con- troversy. The Advertiser again says as emphatically as the English language can make it that 1t gave no instruc- tions whatever to MT. Collier to sup press the !Carmack resolutions or any other action of the conference. No man. connected in any way with The Advertiser instructed MT. Collier to suppress the Carmack resolutions. M-. Collier Is equally emphatic in stating that no man connected in any way with The Advertiser instructed him to suppress any action whatever at the conference.
 In support of this is the irrefutable fact that The Advertiser did not sup press the resolutions. MT. Collier could not have been instructed to sup press the resolutions, because he rel- egraphed them in. The Advertiser could not have intended to suppress them. because they were printed fully and under attractive headlines. Can any reasonable man. in the face of this ask for further proof of The Ad- vertiser's innocence of the serious charge aimed at its good name? Even Mr. Crawford should be satisfied. The ridiculous matter concerning Mir. Glass which Mir Crawford intro- duces through the medium of an un- known and unnamed source Is too It. tie to be dignihed with any extended notice. If gentlemen of MT. Crawford's persuasion desire to leave the field of practical and useful life and go into the intricacies of mind reading that Is his business, not ours. Whoever un- dertook to read Mir. Glass's mind in this matter ought to have confined | himself to the truth in stating concIu- sions. MT. Glass is absent from the State and has been for the past five weeks. If here possibly he would deal with this sIander in more positive terms
 And how Is this islander made? In an unsigned letter, letter that Is anonymous so far as The Advertiser and the world are concerned No newspaper publishes them and The Advertiser prints the one contained in MT. Crawford's communication. for 1t Is anonymous to all except MT Craw- ford, as an evidence Of the extremes into which a good man-and MT Crawford is good man-will allow a hot zeal to sweep him. When a man of MT. Crawford's character and standing has his sense of justice SO blinded, his spirit of fairness so dulled as to level an attack on the good name of a fellow being. through sn anonymous letter, even though 1t be | signed by a mysterious and unknown preacher, we have deplorable ex- ample of the intolerance which has brought on the present unfortunate era in Alabdma, against which The | Advertiser has raised It's voice, and | against which 1t will continue to pro- test. notwithstanding letters signed