The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-11
JACKAssICAL AND NONsENsICAL

JACkASSItAI AMI NONoA1-'N
Some of our contemporaries nave
felt called upon to resent the sian
derous insinuation OF the Atlanta
Journal and two or three other dis
gruntled Wilson organs that the
influence of the country press was
bought for Underwood. In hand
ing them a roast for their low ana
baseless charge the Albany Herald
says among other things:
Several newspapers, in their
comment upon the result and It's
significance, have taken occasion to
cast unkind and unjust asperslons
upon the country newspapers. we
assume that the Underwood cam
paign managers dealt with all 9TH
er newspapers as they did with The
Herald, and that was by arranging
for the publication of the matter
desired published without reference
to which of the presidential candl-
dates the editors or publishers ia
vored, and without ever mining at
such a thing as buying the 'lntu-
ence" of the papers. Anyhow, the
editors of The Herald did not feel
that because this paper carried IN
derwood advertising they were un-
der any sort of obligation to vote
for the Albanian in the primary,
and, as a matter of fact, they did
not vote for him.
Having charged, in effect, that the
votes of the people of Georgia-the
honest farmers, who gave Mr.. I'm
derwood his splendid majority
were controlled by Wall street mon
ey their slam at the rural press of
the state is not altogether surpris-
ing. Contemptuous silence would
have been the best way to have
treated the slime speWed from the
sanctums of these bilious city papers
as one O. the effects of an over
abundant dish of crow. What they
have said is too jackassical and non
sensical to deserve notice, but mas
much as the subject is up it had
Just as we'll be said that the amount
paid the country newspapers for
their advertising space is infinitesi-
NAL in comparison with the large
sums that went into the Golfers of
the Journal and other daily papers
for campaign advertising. OF course,
in their sight, it is all right for them
and other city papers to receive vast
sums from campaign managers for
political advertising, but the few pal
try dollars that happen to escape
them and reach the country papers
are corrupting.
The weekly newspapers of Georgia
owe Mr.. Underworld campaign man
ayers a debt of gratitude for the
recognition given them and the es-
Enlistment of a new precedent, the
result of which will he that they
will never again allow the politicians
to dead beat them, but will require
aspirants for office who use their la
Dor, capital and advertising space to
pay for it at just as do the merchant,
the manufacturer, the professional
man and the farmer. Their method,
too, of paying the newspapers for
publicity is much more commendable
than was the plan of the Wilson
managers to ''bribe" the country pa
pers by furnishing them for publica-
ton campaign matter in the shape
of free Ito the newspaper plates
for which they paid the plate houses
large sums of money and other large
sums to the express companies for
hauling them.
The country newspapers must give
their space-their stock in trade
to the Wilson managers without
charge, and let the plate corpora
lions and the express trust reap all
the profits of a campaign waged in
behalf of an alleged champion of the
pee-pul, say these immaculate city
sheets. 1t beats bob-tail.