The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
EDITOR DECLARES K|LbY WANTED ID
 BUY HIS SUPPORT
Montgomery Journal Replies to Governors Attack and Says Executive Offered $2,500
 to UnderWrite Contract

Montgomery, April 27.--(Special.)-- Answering the charge of Governor KiIby in public statement Tuesday night that the Montgomery Journal offered to support him in his cam paign for $5 900 spent in advertising, the newspaper Wednesday afternoon denied 1t agreed to support the gover- that as he represented the prohibition faction, as did the Journal, it agreed to support him provided he would protect 1t against loss of an ad- vertising contract which was worth $5, 900 a year.
 The Journal said it did not ask Gov ernor kilby for advertising but when he brought up the matter of support, it informed him that he represented it's views and it would be pleased to support him but for the loss of the advertising contract, and that if he would underwrite this amount, it would lend him its assistance. The same editorial also charged that Gov ernor kilby proposed that the amoun. be made $2,500, which was declined. It also declared that during the con- yersation Governor Kilby was told tha, the editorial opinion of the Journal could not be purchased.
 Regarding the letter which the gov ernor also published in which Horace Hood, editor of the Journal requested that his son, Horace, be named in- surance commissioner, Colonel Hood acknowledged writing 1t and said he felt he had a right to make the re- quest in view of the support which hls son gave the governor. when he was candidate. MT. Hood also criti- cized the governor severely for pub fishing the letter, which should have been regarded, according to his state ment, as private and privileged com munication about a personal matter.
 MT. Hood charged that Governor Kilby throughout his admlnistr:ti sought to make the Journal sui~erv- tent to his will and that his office and other state officials have withheld news from 1t in the carrying out of this policy.
 JOURNALS STATEMENT
 The following is the Journals state- ment in full:
 Thomas E. Kilby. Alabama's prohibl- tion governor, stung and smarting un- der the rising tide-o indignation in this state over excessive taxation and in- solent taxation methods, published a card In Wednesdays papers (which is reproduced below) in which he thinks he has fired 75-centimeter shell into inc Montgomery Journal
 This is the big threat the governor in grave innuendo has been holding over the head of the Journal in an attempt to make it be good or in other words keep silent about tax matters. The gov ernor was assured several days ago by this paper that it would publish his card or hnf "a not 1. ia, time, choosing, as he thought, the best psychological moment to publish t-that is, the eve of the assembly of the Alabama Taxpayers league.
 Boiled down, the statement of the governor is a charge that the Montgom- cry Journal offered to support him in his race for governor if he would give this paper s5e00 in paid advertising. There is a partial truth in what the governor says, although he does not tell the whole truth. As every one knows a half truth is often worse than d whole lie.
 The facts are that the governor, with his political advisor MT. Harry Ayers, came to the office of the Journal during his campaign seeking it's support in his race for governor. He was informed by MT Frank Harvey Miller. general man. ager, and Mir Frame Hood advertising manager of the Journal (these four. being the only ones presenD that the Journal would be willing to support him as he was running as prohibitionist, which was in line with the Journals policies, but that there was another candidate in the race who spent in commercial ad- vertis;ng with the Journal about 5000 a year That if the Journal supported Kilby in all probability this candidate would withdraw this advertising from the Journal, causing it a loss of s5.o0o The Journal, however. stated that it was anxious to have a good prohiDitionst
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