Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1878 — Bismarck Sued for Libel. [ARTICLE]

Bismarck Sued for Libel.

Few public men have more determined enemies than the iron-and-blood Chancellor of Germany. A few months ago one of his stanchest political allies, Baron Diest, turned against him, and accused him of having very questionable dealings with certain financiers. Failing to substantiatehischargesin a low court the Baron was imprisoned; but it was not long before he reiterated his accusations in a pamphlet, with evidence which had not been produced at the trial. On an appeal to a higher court the public prosecutor read, in confirmation of the indictment, a letter which he said had emanated from a very high source, and in which various assertions of the accused were denounced as infamous lies. The Baron, incensed at having his honor impugned by a person whose name the prosecutor refused to give, although it could be no other than the Chancellor, arraigned Bismarck for libel.