Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-20
sOUIMBY MELTON WROTE
REPLY TO BISCHOFF.

The newspaper referred to was the
Florida Metropolis, of Jacksonville,
of which Quimby Melton, formerly
of Americus, is vice-president and
general manager. The letter refer
red to was published in the Metrop-
oils Saturday and was accompanied
by a letter signed by Mr.. Melton,
the tarring of Bischoff followed
Sunday night. The Bischoff letter
labelled Herr Bischoff's letter, and
Mr.. Melton's reply follows:
Since you have been with the Me-
tropolis, | have given you some ad-
vertising matters, which the paper
would not have gotten otherwise, on
ly on your account that | have done
is and would have continued to do
# but the Metropolis seems to still
carry on the war that has closed two
years ago, and is. still preaching the
Songs of hate and calling the Ger
mans by the name of ''Huns" as per
enclosed ad, cannot see how | could
feed the hand that would turn
around and bite me. This enclosed
ad appeared with the Objectionable
headline on the 18th of this month,
although published by the Times
gUnion on about the 30th of Novem-
Der and is nothing but seemingly
copied from the Times-Union, with
the exception of the headline. In
the first place, l do not think that
there is even one man with your pa
per that could explain the reason
why they persist in calling the Ger
mans Huns, except the yellow strcaks
that the Metropolis has always car
ried with them in past years and does
mot seem to have left them with the
change of ownership. Further, / do
not think that there is one man in
your office who can explain the
origination of the word Hun, nor do
they know the history of the Hun
garian Tribe called by the name of
Hun and who gave them that name.
Unless that the Metropolis can see
a way by leaving out this calling
names, and if it still wants to carry
on the war of hate and keep it go
ing, we will have to take it up in a
fight. l can do without the Metrop-
oils, and so can they do without me,
but l have lots of friends in this city
and will make strictly business af-
fair out of it to go to each and ev-
cry one of them and to get them to
Quit advertising in your paper. 1t
will be up to the paper to have a
clean sheet, but if they want to run
ia dirty yellow undertaking sheet,
seeking publicity from the same kind
of news as they have been running,
it is up to them, and you will kindly
not call for any business from this
nf %h0A
the paper will take different course
than what it has been pursueing, try
ing to sow discord and hate amongst
the people in this country.
Yours very truly,
(Signed:) JOHN D. BISHCOFF.
Reply to Bischoff.
First, before continuing further,
the advertising columns Of the Flori-
da Metropolis do not cater to John
ID. Bischoff henceforth and the cir
culation department is anxious TO
drop his name from the subscrip-
ton lists.
We would remind Herr Bischoff
that the United States ie still at war
Germany, that the Huns are
4sssd regarded as enemies by the gov
|ernment of this country and wheth-
er defense of them is reasonable
IS a question to be settled by the
United States officials.
Practically every member of the
editorial staff of the Metropolis is
an ex-service man and faced the dast-
fardly Huns on the fields of France.
lf we had no reason to call them
Huns" than that the word to the
French is the expression of every
thing that is filthy, rapacious, un-
gspeakable in the language, that would
zoe reason enough. We would re-
mind Her Bischoff that we know
ftne meaning of the word as it was
occurred by the looting, cowardly,
knnleving, numbering soldiers of the
fIerman army.
Here it might be well for this fact
Eo be mentioned. Recently the man.
fgement of the Metropolis was offer