The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-20

preferred not to publish the name Of
the writer Of the letter. He had pho
tograph copies Of 1t taken. however.
One OF these copies accompanied by
the original letter was shown The Ad-
vertiser reporter. There was no'room
TO doubt the authenticity OF the letter.
MIR. McCants will have the original at
terested person may see 1t. He left
a photograph OF the letter with The
Advertiser, where II was checked or
as accurate with the original.
Mr.. McCants declined the offer in
the letter. He was opposed to consti-
tutionai prohibition from the nrst and
will continue to oppose II.
DE. Williams Interviewed.
While In Montgomery yesterday DR..
Williams Of Dothan said:
Il want IL understood that i never
offered @. Ernest Jones 500 or any
other Sum for his sv editorial column Al
offered to use space in his paper to
the amount Of 500 and to pay him
more II l used more than $1Vo worth
II propose furthermore to buy space
from such other newspapers as have
II for sale. the matter going into the
space being subject to the approval of
s saS sSss ieE s mate advertising
proposal to Jones as ] expect TO make
to other papers, and has been done In
every political campaign for twenty
Zones. to make q grand stand play
and to pose as great moral leader,
jumps in the limelight with q gar
bled copy Of my letter and tries 70
would have the same reason to make
that false play, whenever anyone at
tempted to make an advertising con-
tract with him. Jones. partaking OF
my hospitality at D0snani an mitS fss
campaign against the proposed constr
tutionaI amendment. Then, to smirch
the character and standing. OF q man,
for whom he had pretended , tdiena-
but he appears as snow white
champion OF all that Is pure and NOR
"since this incident have looked up
Jones record. His new role Will sur
prise the people Of Brockton ana Soi-
Zee Springs where he recently lived
People OF Tuskegee. who are familiar
with an unfortunate incident In thar
city, will also be surprised at his I'M
usual role. Before this campaign Is
much older we are going to tear on
acme masks. And IL the prohibittonists
are pleased with such leaders as joiner
they are easily satisfied. We are going
to tell the plain truth and some moral
leaders are going 10 Whlh ieHue ~es
Ing the remainder of the campaign.
Net a Circular Letter.
''It has been blazoned over Ala
barna that the letter to @. Ernest Jones
was a circular letter. That statement
In absolutely false. 1t Is the only let
ter have written and 1t was written.
an a result of many protestations OF
friendship for me by Jones. have
issued no circular letter and state
ments to that effect, even though they
be made by officers OF the Anti-Saioon
League. are false.
II want 1t understood that the Do
than Conservative Club OF which ] am
the organizer, has no connection with
the Safe and Sane Business Mems
League. was a pioneer in this fight.
Before Mr.. McCord and the others got
started. I was moving among my
friends to stop fanaticism In Alabama.
I would not take any credit which be-
longs to the organizers Of the Safe
and Sane Business Mems League. but
we were In the field at Dothan before
they were. Moreover, we are contrib
utinR our own mony. Business men
at Dothan are as much interested In
this fight as business men in Mont
Romery and we are going to make our
share of the hght"