The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-15
OF COURSE mo APOLOGY WAS MADE"

seem 10 nave heen pr1cKed, even though Its con-
science seems not to have been reached as yet.
Replying at some length and with some heat to
the shameful manner in which the Journal
treated the city of Durham and Mayor Brog
Was Made" OF course not. Who expected the
Richmond Euentno Journal to have the decency
to apologize to an official whom it had outraged
in printing. as though upon its own RESPONSE
bllity, a statement furnished by the liquor traf-
fc's campaign managers attributed to Mayor
Erogden, but which the mayor denounced as "a
laid MEASUREMENT OF facts"
The Journal after printing a paragraph from
The Virgtnidn, says:
1.-THE Journal never has confessed to making
n false statement concerning Durham The Jour
nal never has made falss statement concern
ing Durham. The Journal published the facts
concerning Durham"
The Journals memory Is as unreliable as It's
statements 1t has reached that deplorable con-
dition In which 1T cannot be relied upon to even
correctly represent what 1t said itself when the
interests of liquor are involved. In order to
keep the record straight review little his
tory.
On Friday, August a. the Richmond Epening
Journal. or. more correctly. the liquor trafic's
managers, through its news columns without the
use of advertising marks, attacked a statement
made by Bishop Kilgo. one Of the most eminent
men in the Southern Methodist Church. and
quoted Mayor W j. Brogden, of North Carolina,
saying.
1.-THE prohibition law In North Carolina is most
decidedly an unfair one 1t hasn't stopped drink
ing and pas served to take away the respecta-
bnity OF whole lot Of our people"
On Wednesday. August 10. the Richmond
Epening Journal in box printed on Its first
page-not in the two columns reserved for the
liquor interests-in heavy black type, stated that
ii had printed what It believed to be interviews
with Durham citizens but that the authenticity
of these statements had been questioned. and
letter had been received from Mayor Brogden
saving that the interview attributed to him was
a bald misstatement of facts" The Journal, con-
tinuing. said:
since II IL the desire of the Journal to print
the facts concerning the liquor question as In all
ether matters. it makes haste, In justice to Mayor
Brogden and in justice to itself. to print this cor
ieCtion.
The tasanats- submitted to the Jour
nal by men known to be reputable and truthful
and the Journal had every reason to believe
that they were bona fide. The men, who pre-
gented them believed them bona f1de, 1t Is evil
| dent, however certainly as far as Mayor Brog-
denis interview was concerned, that they were
mistaken,
Mayor Brogden. in his letter to the Journal
SAYS that the man who asked him Tor 1ntorna-
on concerning conditions in Durham subse-
uuently wrote, interview. statements winch
were the opposite OF those actually made Since
Nayor Rrogden appears to have been misquoted,
/ 4; is possible that the other intervews which
tho Journal received from the same source. and
which were printed on the same Gay. were ike
wise not authentic"
! Our readers will remember that The Vsr0tn4dn
had already shown that not only Mayor Brogden
hut every citizen of Durham quoted by the
Journal, had absolutely denied the statements
attributed to them. On Thursday. August "a
eight days after the receipt by the Journal OF
| Mayor Rrogden's letter. the liquor interests
loudest mouthed organ printed the letter of
Mayor Brogden, which 1t Acknowledged on
! August 10 that-H-ha received In nicn- Lug
mayor said
After having extended every courtesy TO the
Young man who called upon me, and having
pat myself 10 some trouble 20 place him In pos
session of the facts. i greatly amazed wnen
] read the publication in your paper My IN
tervaewer was either so deficient In principle and
common honesty that he deliberately made up
ar interview to suit his own taste, or he 10 20
,,athetically deficient in mental grasp that IT
h.s head with a trip hammer. The statement
v. hich YOU placed in quotation under my name in
1ur article tn the issue referred to is absolutely
false
The Richmond Epcntno Journal, in It's issue
OF yesterday. said:
The Journal never has confessed to making
a false statement concerning Durham. The Jour-
lal never has made false statement concerning
Durham. The Journal published the facts con-
corning Durham"
This Is the record. The public may Judge
whether OF not The Viranian has erred In stat
ing that the Journal had confessed that the state
n,ents which 1t printed were false.
Truly. the liquor trannc debauches all that Il
touches
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