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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1910)
griffin herald continues TO ATTACK JUDGE REAGAN. HAS M\DE THREE ATTACKS. ALL FALSE. Juilj.e Reagan Answers and All. Editor Henry County Weekly, McDonough, Ga. Dear Sir: As the Griffin Herald persists in attacking me and misrepresenting me in its editorial columns4ind ab solutely refuses to publish my reply to its attacks, 1 have rtf) means ol answering these unjust attacks except through the columns oi other newspapers. The Herald has already attacked me three times in the editorial col - umns of its paper, and in the last article says that it not publisn my reply .1 - The first attack upon me has .already been published in >oui paper. The second one he claims appeared on the 11th instant. 1 have never seen the paper and only have what purports to be a clipping. This clipping purports to be a correction of the former article. In fact it is no correction or retraction at all, but is really another attack upon me. The third article is an excuse for not publishing my reply. This is what he said he pub lished on the 11th instant: “A CORRECHON. “A few days ago the Herald criticised Judge E. J. Reagan for having postponed the regular ses sion of the superior court from the first Monday in August to the first Monday in September. “The editorial mention was prompted by reports coming to this office stating that Judge Rea gan, in his partisan attitude in the district judicial campaign, had postponed court in order to devote his time to the interest of Judge Dupree’s candidacy. . . “Since publishing the article m question the Herald has been in formed that the act on the part of Judge Reagan was done at the re quest of members of the local bar. In view of this fpet the Herald gladly retracts its statement to the effect that the entire calendar was ordered carried over to Septem ber. . “The petition of the local bar called for a postponement of the bonded cases, and not the jail cases.” Can any sane man call this a correction or retraction of any of the slanderous charges in the first article: It oniyadds insult to injury. If he had inquired of RELIABLE persons at McDonough, he would have learned that, instead of de voting the time in which Spalding court was to be held to Judge Du pree’s candidacy, 1 was spending the same with my family in Na coochee Valley, over 100 miles trom the circuit. I was there on the first Monday in August and had been for two weeks. The editor of the Herald wrote me on the 12th instant, that this clipping had already been pub lished when he received my reply to the first article. In his last ed itorial he says that it was in type when my reply was received. This contradiction condemns him. This cannot be the truth about either proposition, for my reply to his first editorial was mailed to him Monday afternoon, August and must have reached him at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday morning, August 9th. What he calls his correction did not appear until Thursday afternoon, August 11th. The truth is he never thought of any correction until he received my reply, and then no doubt’ con sulted with his candidate and his friends before publishing anything. In his last editorial he gives two reasons why he did not publish my reply. As the first reason, he says, “A few days ago the Herald corrected whqjt Judge Reagan claims was a false statement.” This is not the truth. The Her ald nev4*r corrected a single thing that I claimed was a false staeinent. Read the original attack, then read his so-called correction, and then decide for yourself, whether he has corrected any thing material. 1 claimed that every word in his first editorial except the statement that 1 was opposing his candidate was a false statement, and I so brand them all now. His second reason is that he claims that a majority of my reply was an attack upon his candidate and bouquets for his opponent, only a fraction of it being devoted the attack upon me. This statement is also false. Read my reply in last week’s issue of the Weekly, and judge for yourselves. Just see hew recklessly this partisan editor deals with the truth. Here is his real reason for not publishing my reply. I quote his exact words from his last article. “In refusing to publish the reply, the Herald has taken the stand that any partisan paper would take. The Herald has always sup ported Judge Daniel for the office he seeks, and to reproduce Judge Reagan’s communication would be committing a traitor’s act. The Herald is indeed sorry that Judge Reagan could not fide unmolested into the aevertising columns of the Herald with a campaign document to which a check was not at tached.” Here you have his real reasons. His is a partisan paper. He is loyal to his candidate. He can slander any man, even public officials, in his paper by publishing any falsehood about them he chooses, and then refuse to publish their denials because it would injure his candidate, unless the party defamed accompanies Tiis reply with a check to pay him for the space used. Did you ever hear of such a proposition! This rule would allow any newspaper like the Herald to defame any per son for the purpose of compelling him to pay it for publishing his defense. A regular hold-up game. It would be just as honest to hold up a man on the highway and take his money by physical force. How does this strike reputable newspaper men who believe that when any one is attacked in the | columns of a newspaper, that newspaper is bound to publish his reply without charge. I have been unjustly attacked in this news paper, and denied the right to de fend myself imits columns —all of which it admits was done because it is a partisan paper, and done in the interest of its candidate for Judge. These attacks were inspired solely for the purpose of injuring Judge Dupree and helping his can didate for Judge by attempting to arouse prejudice against me, and then to deprive me of an oppor tunity to reply, unless I pay him for the privilege. I will see to it that the last part of his scheme fails, for, while I am willing to pay reputable newspa pers to publish my reply, not one dollar of my money shall be wrung from me by such a paper as the Herald. Whether the first part of his scheme shall succeed or not de pends on the fair-minded voters of the circuit. They can reward A FEW BARGAINS IN FARMS That Will Never Be Any Cheap er. They Will Go Higher. A good 500-acre farm on railroad abont GO itiilos south of Atlanta. Large 5-room house, 5 3-roon houses, barn and ether outbuild ings. Lays well and produces well. Price $15.00 per acre. Worth $25. Will give terms. GOO-ttcres good land on public road, 2 mill s from railroad station. Four 4-room bouses with barn to each, situated so it can be cut into four farms. This is cheap at $15.00 per acre ; worth $25. Will give terms. 100-acre farm just in the edge of a nice little town on the Southern Railway, about GO miles south of Atlanta. Has a nice little home of sor G rooms. Good well improved land. Cheap at $2500.00; worth $3500.00. A valuable farm just outside the little manufacturing and educa tional city of Barnesville, Ga. Has. 100 acres, 2 good residences, large barn, goial land that lays well. 1 Here’s a sure bargain. Can be bought for $5500.00 now on terms ; worth SIOO per acre. I have two of the nicest dairy farms in the state, near Macon Only the farm and improvements for sale. No stock. Chancds here to build a little fortune. I have some valuable small and large farms in South Georgia. Some unimproved land in South Georgia cheap. Some handsome little garden farms of 5 and If) acres close in to the hustling city of Jacksonville, Florida. These farms will make one independent for life. Easy Terms. Address, E. A. PARKER, Barnesville, Ga. Mr. Sidney Smith of, Savannah, was in our city Tuesday. Miss Kate Bruce, of LaGrange, is the guest of Mrs.. Alex Brown. Hon. O. 11. B. Bloodworih meas ures up to the Jeffersoian stand ard. He is able, he is worthy, he is honest. Vote for him, and show your approval of clean politics.— adv. Mrs. Annie Nolan is attending the camp meeting at Indian Spring this week. the editor of this paper and in dorse his unfair methods by elect ing his candidate for judge, or f hey can disapprove of them by electing the other man. This editor would deprive me of the. privilege of espousing the cause of any man who may be running for office, because I am on the bench. So far as I am advised all my predecessors have exercised this privilege. Judge Hall advocated the election of Judge Speer, Judge Speer advocated the election of Judge Stewart, Judge Stewart ad vocated the election of Judge Boynton and Judge Boynton ad- Vocated the election of Judge Hunt. No one ever thought of criticis ing these pure and noble men for exercising their privilege of ex pressing their choice for this office. But in the eyes of the editor of the Herald it is an unpardonable sin in me to advocate the election of any one but his candidate. It is hard upon a Judge, who has tried to do his duty for twelve long years to be compelled to pay newspapers to publish-my answers to slanders published against me in other newspapers who are so unfair as to deny me the use of their columns for this purpose; but I will do it in order that the people may know the truth. Very truly yours, F,. J. REAGAN. locals. ' Miss Margaret Francis Turner was missed by the census man. She has just arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Turner. Mr. Hard Elliott is partaking of ihe fine air and water of Borden Wheeler Springs, Alabama. Vote for W. J. Speer for State Treasurer. —adv. Miss Ora Head was the guest of Miss Liteile Tolleson last week. Professor L. M. Laundrum as sistant superintendent of the At lanta public schools, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. J. G. Smith. Vote for W. J. Speer for State Treasurer. —adv. Miss Bertha Bunn is attending the camp meeting at Indian Spr ing. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Farrar at tended Indian Spring campmeet ing Wednesday. Vote for W. J. Speer for State Treasurer. —adv. The Rev. Horace Smith, of La- Fayette, spent Friday in our city, en-route to Indian Spring. He is one of the editor’s fellows in tue trials and joys of school days at Emory College and an excellent gentleman. His father and moth er, of Milner, accompanied him and were the guests of the Rev. J. E. England. Miss Ruth Turner is visiting Miss Daisy LeCraw at her summer home in Clayton. Vote for W. J. Speer for State Treasurer. —adv. Mrs. Ida C. Doe, of LaGrange, who has for several days been the guest of Mrs. B. F. Doe and Mrs. J. li. Newmdn, went to McDon ough yesterday, where she will spend several days with her par ents before returning home. —Wednesday’s Griffin News. Vote for W. J. Speer for State Treasurer. —ady. Mr. H. S. Elliott returned Mon day from Borden-Wheeler Springs Alabama. Mr. C. A. McKibben, of Atlanta, visited these familiar shores for several days this week. Vote for W. J. Speer for State Treasurer. —adv. Miss Estelle Stroud is visiting the family of Mr. Walter Stroud in Butts county. Mrs. J. F. Bowden is very ill, but somewhat better than last week. Vote for W. J. Speer for State Treasurer. —adv. Mrs. Fields visited in Atlanta last week. Mr. Jim Bowden has returned from Borden-Wheeler Springs, much improved in health. Miss Mary Lin, of Chattanooga, is visiting Miss Kate Reagan. Vote for W. J. Speer for State Treasurer. —adv. Miss Lemmie Simms, of Atlanta, has been the attractive guest of Miss Hattie Lowe this week. Stoves and Ranges must be used, Copeland-Turner Mercantile Co. buy these goods in large quant ities and buy direct from the man ufacturers, thereby being able to give standard goods at better prices. Mrs. John D. Rowan’s friends throughout the county regret that she continues very ill, with only slight chances for recovery. (communicated.) For State Treasurer. N ote For P. M. HAWES. OF FLBF.KT COUNTY. “His record as a banker is peerless.” —Butler Her ald. “We wish for him a smooth campaign and landslide vote.” Vidalia Advance. “He is an able man and has hundreds of friends throughout the State, who are anxious for him to be elected to this office.” — Commerce Observer. “Mr. Hawes is a noble Christian gentleman, and, with his long ex perience and unquestioned ability, is the right man for the place. You can safely vote for Mr. Hawes.” — DeKalb New Era. He is one of the State’s best men in every respect, full of pat riotism, able and conservative. He is worthy of the support of the people for State treasurer. —” Pike County Journal. “He is a splendid citizen and an able financier. Green county will give him a warm and cordial sup port.” —Greensboro Journal. “He is a safe and conservative business man, and is highly re commended by his neighbors.” — Nashville Herald. “From our intimate knowledge of him would be pleased to see him elected. —”Lawrence vi 11 e News-Herald. “Mr. Hawes is opposed by Col. W. J. Speer, but will doubt less be elected by an overwhelm ing majority. —’’Cedertown Stan dard. “He is widely known and en dorsed throughout tue State, and he is uoquestionably a strong candidate.” —Barnesville News Gazette. It is customary for a candidate to receive the endorsement of his home people, but the heartfelt and enthusiastic support he is given by all the people of Elbert county means more than the perfunctory loyalty to a local aspirant for high position, and is an omen for suc cess.” —Comer News. “Besides being well fitted to discharge the duties of this non political office by being a man ex-, perienced of business affairs, thoroughly honest and active, he is a home man who is personally popular and who would go farther out of his way to help a poor fel low than most any man we could name. —’’Elberton Star. Messrs. W. E. Parr and Charles Watkins, of Locust Grove, visited McDonough Wednesday. Painting becomes a necessity, the Copeland-Turner Mercantile Co. carry a tremendous line of paints in stains, vanishes, oils, floor paints, house roof and barn paints. Miss Minnie Harper is spending a while at Indian Spring. Agency for Ladies Home Jour nal Patterns, these patterns can delivered to you on reasonable notice, illustrated monthly style books just received. They are free, get one. Copeland-Turner Merc. Co. Miss Ellene Neal is visiting in Indian Spring for several days. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Knight spent Wednesday at Flippen as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Dailey. Hon. O. H. B. Bloodworth has stronger endorsements from his “home-folks” than has any othei 4 candidate for Congress. They are for him, because they know him. —adv.
