The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
CHALONER WANTS
TO Be HISTORIAN
Will Publish a Quarterly to De-
fend Truth From Mendacious
Assaults.
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Charlottesville. Va. october 9.-For
three hours, John Armstrong Chaloner.
reclining in his Marros chair. In an
upper room of the Colonial Hotel, gave
his Views of American newspapers in
very caustic language. He was sur
rounded practically by the same group
of interested persons who have for
week heard him telling the story of
his life. and outlining his plan for
rindication. The windows were closed
because Mr.. Chaloner has strong dis
like to draughts.
Over one eye was a bandage to pro-
tect it from the light. He spoke flu
entity from beginning to end. knowing
apparently what he had to say and
saying 1t forcibly and at times wildly.
Chaloner feels that he holds II brief
against the American newspapers be-
cause ne declares it does not cdito-
rally or In Its news columns habitu
ally tell tho truth. and because II is
not free and independent Il have
found 1t absolutely impossible to get
truthful treatment at the hands of
certain papers, particularly New York
papers
81 have eight libel suits I'm progress.
totaling .sl.5oo,OOo against Journals
scattered from Washington to Boston.
OF these suits. two are already sure
winners. l have won on demurrers.
One is against Town Topics for $4,000.
and another against the New York
Evening Post. for S25O,o0o. 1 do no:
want to be bored by suing newspapers
for the rest of my life. 1 want the
truth told about me or nothing said.
Makes Bid for Peace.
The fact that my case is notorious
Is not my fault did not NIT myself
In Bloomingdale, SO 1 have felt deter
mined to make a bid for peace. which
surrounds newspaper editors"
Therefore Mr.. Chaloner proposes TO
resume the publication of 1.-The Con-
federacy and Solid South" the first
issue of which appeared n year ago
ut Roanoke Rapids. n. C. This publi-
cation is to .be quarterly, and It's pur-
pose is to protect tho citizen. includ-
ing himself. from encroachment at
the hands of trusts or any comblna-
ton, more powerful than the indi-
vidual"
One of the objects OF my nfe"
Mr.. Chaloner confessed, rs to be
historian of my own time. My hook,
-Four Years In Bloomingdale" is n
history OF life in New York and an
absolutely uncomfortable account OF
facts. l will defend the truth from
editorial, mcndacious assaults. and
make 1t my business to fool-killer and
lie-n mailer as regards editorial gladia-
tors. I know the size of the job l have
on hand, and with that end in view.
have limited my battles to four year
Mr.. Chaloner approved "Thc extreme
~ just criticism by the brilliant Marsc
Henry Watterson. of the Louisville
Courier journal. who said of the 400
that one could not throw brick into
ii without hitting either an Injured
husband. or n recreant Wife"
Such criticisms were scorned because
they We're from the outside Mr.. Chal-
oner, however. said he was horn In the
100 and ibis criticisms would havc TO
be listened to. His quarterly, which Is
TO constitute the history OF these
times. is 10 be written in the manner
of Addisons' Spectator, and in the
style which charact erized Vol,aire.
not that he expected to do as we'll as
Addison or was to be In religious mat
tiers identified with the Frenchman.
only the greatest offenders will be
treated as ! have already treated JOS
eph Choate, Sr. individuals of prom
inence who do wrong and who are a
menace to liberty are my meat I shall
be safe from libel suits. because shall
tell the truth. In New York, Virginia,
and North Carolina, the truth is an
absolute defense to libel suit, but it
is not so in Texas and Pennsylvania
In Texas, one cannot tell sharps and
rogucs the truth without being shot
down. The same villianous libel laws
hold good in the State of the late Sem
ator Quay, of Sainted Memory. For
these reasons The Confederacy VIII
not circulate in Texas or Pennsyl-
vania.'