The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-23
Why DOUBT COOK
And Trust Peary, ASKS Gov. Brown, who
Declines to introduce
.PEARY TO AN AUDIENCE
Both Little Joe and Mayor Maddox
of Atlanta, Refuse to Mix With
Explorer, and the Former Thinks
Cook Moro Eatitled to Credence
Than Peary and Says SO.

Roth Gov. Joe Brown and Mayor
Maddox Of Atlanta declined to intro
duce Pea.y when he lectured IN tha;
c;,- the other night. In discussing
the matte. Governor Brown. who Ii
out,e a student OF north pole explEos'
,ions said that in his opinion /; Dr..
Cook is a fakir. Peary Is al! the more
one. because Peary's description OF
his trip TO the pole is very larsel!
a duplicate OF that given By Cook :
and Peary has been more reticen'
about disclosing the proofs OF his
trip. Gov. Brown said:
The public. while discredions
Cooks story. makes the mistake OF
supposing Pea7y's true. yet PeaFy S
story is the same as Cooks. What
is the bes. proof that Cooks story
is correct? 1t Is that Peary's story
conforms to Cooks. thus confirming
It.
Did Peary fake his astronicai
asures in the Roosevelt? He Weat
alone to the pole. Why?
What proof does PeaTy bring
save his own word? Cook brings
the ssme. and as good. Where was
Cook? Did he spend the time in 4
snow house with his dogs. etc? II
he stayed at one place for months.
it would have gotten out
"Peary. to destroy the value OF
Cooks narrative. must first discoV-
e. the value Of his own. Two horns
OF a dilemma. II Cook has handed
up a gole brick. Peary las handed
US paste diamond, Or for silver
platter, has given US basin made
Of q very cheap grade Of pewter. II
IS UP to Peary to explain how Cook 8
story can be false. and his Identical
story can be true. The American
people will no, accept his smile as
proof that he Is not as great fak'F
as he charges Cook to De.
Fantastic snow shapes. riffs In
the ice. colored ice. the sun soins IN
4 circle. not setting, ice-covered sea.
as described by Peary. are almost
Identical with similar description
from Cooks narrative.
Even II Cook were to assert that
his story was fake. 1t would not
make il false. unless he were forced
20 confess that was false: for the
Two stories are lne same. and. Ike
,he Siamese twins. they must liTe to-
sether or die together. You might
IS we'll say that Chang was a Chin
ese and Eng was an Englishman as
20 say that Cooks story is false and
Peary's true.
The world loves good loser. 1:
condemns an ungenerous winner
Blu: give it time. and It d!scerns be-
tween a winner and pseudo-wio-
aer.
y have 20 interest IN the eontro-
versy. save the right to have the
truth: but when Peary asks me TO
believe the same story false from
Cook and true from him respect
fully decline to be considered so
easy.
Till Representative Macon's e1-
pose OF Peary. I believed that the
stories OF both were true. but that,
Il either was false. both were false
were fakes. Both were heroes. OF
both were champion liars. They are
generally linked together. though II
now appears tha, Peary copied the
story from Cook.
..Barnum said that the people lik,
ed 10 be hum5ugsed Blu, II / am to
he ham bugged. would prefer 70 %
taken ~ by the original humbug
than by the counterfeit humbug
They are both the same IN appear
ance. but Cooks is the original.
Il say these words in :he !nteres
OF the truth. say them with tha
pride in the American goTernmen
which protests against putting il!
seal upon q transparent fraud
fraud in that while depounciaG th'
first story OF Cook as fake. Il ask
| US 70 stamp Peary's after-told identi
| cal story as the truth. fraud which
brands Cock. and lauds. and pro
poses 10 reward Peary for the per
| ta.mance Of the same act.