The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-23
Union Springs. Ala. Sept. 2l. 1903.


 Editor The Advertiser:
 In your reply to Mir. Smiths article you made the following assertion: "The statement that The Advertiser sent a special correspondent to Greensooro to distort or misrepresent facts is abso- my reply to that assertion of yours I was compelled to remind you that MT: Smith had not used the words .distort or presa tss cara erf shan 6s oblgsd to hold you to the charge made in nay former one and not allow you to rele- gate my specihc charge to an unim- portant place. It was as follows: Tn reference to this resolution (the Car: mack resolutton) in the secretaries' room. in the presence 9f several mem the statement that he could not for ward the resolution to your paper. His statement was practically as follows: That the gentlemen wno nad gwen h,m Har Carmack resolutions. That at this time this gentleman ststsd to MT. Coi5 id that he had observed that wherever lsf0RR thaa Re diisss, Hss sp Rad noticed that the Hoss would have the same done at Greensboro; and that he (Glass) want ed no such resolutions reported.
 ' some reference to the Carmack resolu- tion and falsely claim q snall not be as unkind as were you, for In using was, Intentionally that the resolution was published by you more fully than in any other paper of the state" It papers, probably more. one of these be iag Ref it. 0as Then PAis Wits SH rsefIesS Ioso you heedlessly rush into the non sequitur said about the resolution MT. Collier was not instructed to suppress any, thing, nor did he suppress anything. reader that as long as mo preacher was in sight and no pulpit could be seen" that you were as bold as lion ment of the man whom you considered to be friendless, but as soon as the preacher and the pulpit appeared you approach through the mi miseraote n,n sin1 non NO. MT. Collier was not instructed to anything" If I cared to go into that prepared to show that week or two after the adjournment of the conference these Carmack resolutions were still The Advertiser editors in a way that seems to be closely connected with this very idea of actual suppression. But that is not the question and l shall not
 
 The charge that I made in my former card is the one that I propose to main quoted above. It makes no. difference to me If Mir. Collier, disobeying his tn- structions, slipped In notice of this mission to send 1t in after he was so sharply taken to task in the secretao got t i,n 1t rs makes n1bsSaS nG e The Hd vertiser In full in small type or In box car letters; such fact even 1T estap- lished would have to be explained on some other hypothesis, 1t would not controvert the plain evidence that MT. Collier left Montgomery with instruc- tions to report no Carmack resolutto said. Something Is said in The. Adver- tiser's editorial about genera! instruc, tions as to resolutions not being wred in full etc; know t5n y.stsnsn nUtntn m made sS by MT Collier was a candid. frank, clear statement In reference to specific Car mack resolutions, and the reasons him, and so clear and frank were they that I repeat the statement here that made in my other card, The Whole the statement as made by MT. Collier precluded any doubt as to It's veracity
 snail now confirm this statement concImsiyeiy to every fair minded man. In a business letter from Rev. c. H. Motley of Centreville. to me written marks: T see in Advertiser that Smit tn of your town has gotten hold rha Gi taae aa. Sertiser brands it as false. You prob abiy 'Ss saw the article, What will smith do about it?" Let 1t be recalled that Smith had simply referred to the mats ter as instru ctlons given "to suppress interesting conference action bs, ana yet ySs r nnCH referred Later Mir. Motley gave me the following statement: oo ,ooo
 "Rev. E. L. Crawford. Union Springs
 Dear Brother-I was present when the statement was made by MT. Collier that he had been instructed not to send to The Advertiser resolution reference to Senator Carmack. as stated py you in letter which was copied in Advocate this week
 "AIr Collier was sreeial correspond, ent of The Montgomery AdVeruseF ana