The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-22
|KOLB VIGOROUS IN
 REPLY ID JONES Says Statements Recently Made Are Untrue SORRY FOR RENEWAL Had Hoped That the Famous Contest of Long Ago Would Be Al
 lowed to Rest Undis-
 turbed
 
SORRY FOR RENEWAL

1 Capt, Reuben F. Kolb. commissioner oi agriculture, who spent yesterday in Sir; minghsm, in reference 10 his brief con tribtuion to the long drawn out contro- versy between ex-Gov B. B. Conner and Judge Thomas G. Jones. intimates. with serious shake of his head that he has not yet given an example of just how ''hot" he can express himself.
 It was with regret stated Captain 1 kolb, that l reached the conclusion | following the action of Judge Jones in afford to permit posterity to believe the fabrications concerning the period of lssz in the political histories of the state.
 The statements of Judge Jones to the effect that he was nominated in 1892 by a large majority of the white voters of this state are untrue, and everybody who re- members that period knows that they are untrue. l was nominated over Jones by a majority ranging from 5000 to sooeo, and as is generally admitted, was count ed out. Twenty years have passed. l have seldom in recent years thought of those days. and had imagined them dead forever and regretted them not, in view of the fact that our party has again come together in friendship and harmony. But if Tom Jones sees proper to reply to my card In answer to his statements, his 'accidency will learn that l can ex- press myself in terms of warmth equal to his own. l have preserved the facts or those days, and can publish original rec ords. So if 1t happens that 1 am com pelled to ask the indulgence of the public second time in order to keep the po- litical records of the state in proper or der. l will take pains to review with ut most care every detail of the memorable days of 1S92-and these details, as every one knows, can reflect very little credit on the aforementioned Thomas G. Jones. Kolb's Formal Statement
 The formal statement issued by Captain Kolb yesterday is as follows:
 | "I do not propose to infict long let ter, such as Judge Thomas G. Jones and Gov B. B. Conner indulged in. on the peo- | pie of Alabama, or by a recital of the outrageous frauds perpetrated in this state during the memorable campaign in 1892 between Judge Thomas G. Jones and myself It is all still fresh in the minds of those who took part in that contest and it is to be deeply deplored that now 1 Judge Thomas G. Jones. nearly O years later and when all our people are re- ! united and living in peace and harmony, | should see fit, in order to vent his spleen on Governor B. B. Conner to open up old sores and in order to carry out his our poses undertake to convince the people of Alabama that he was honestly elected governor of this state in. 1892. Judge Jones is fooling nobody but himself and it will be a hard matter for him to convince any one who is at all familiar with the political history of this state during those stormy days that his statements in this
 last letter are true.
 After the legislature of 1892 convened Senator A. T. Goodwin introduced a con- test bill in the senate which passed that body by a good majority. The next day the friends of Governor Jones had the bill reconsidered and killed Why was this done? Because Governor Jones said if the bill passed the House he would sign
 1t and then resign. Senator Goodwin aft erward asked him if he had said so and he admitted that he had Senator Good win then had protest spread upon the minutes of the senate and it is recorded in the journal. The fourth section of said protest read as follows
 Quotes From Journal
 Honestly believing that stupendous fro i,, ment and returns of the election held in August, 1892. by which the result of that election was changed, we have felt con- strained by duty to the people and obli- gation to honest government to insist upon the passage of this measure, and most solemnly protest in the name of honesty. justice and the fair name of our beloved state against permitting this foul blot upon it's escutcheon to remain with out a fair and just adjudication of the questions involved in the issue made by the respective parties or factions in this state
 At the election in August previous carried the white counties of the state and most of them by overwhelming ma jorities. In the black belt counties I re- ceived as many white votes, if they had
 
 did. The colored people as rule did not vote. l was accorded no manag ger at the poles in any of the black belt counties, and yet 1t is well known and long since admitted how the returns from the black belt counties were held back for ten days after the election and doctored and falsely added to until large majorities running up into the thousands from most of those counties were given to my opponent Judge Jones served as governor of this state for two terms. During his first term, from l8S0-92, he was generally known as His Accidentcy.' During his second term from fs92-S4. he was known as His Fraudnlentcy' He enjoyed the honors of his last term and drew the salary, neither os which he was any more entitled to than the king of the Fijl Islands would have been Every well in- formed citizen of this state knows that this is absolutely true and no one knows it better than Judge Thomas G. Jones him. self He has been told SO time and time again by his former friends and support CTS and thousands Of his former friends have told me that the part they took in perpetrating the frauds has been the re- gret of their lives and they would like tc ease up their consciences by having an opportunity of voting for me for gov ernor Many of his old friends and sup porters have made this acknowledgment over their own signatures which I have in my possession. Thokands more of his friends have so expresBed themselves.
 Now, in conclusion I want to repeat and emphasize 1t that I very much regret that old political sores have been opened up and that. too. by a man occupying a high judicial position. even if he was ap- pointed by republican President. I am