Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1910 — WINAMAC EDITORS FIGHT AS A RESULT OF CONTROVERSY. [ARTICLE]

WINAMAC EDITORS FIGHT AS A RESULT OF CONTROVERSY.

Cart W. Riddick Pommels J. J. Gorrell Following Abusive Article in the Latter’s Newspaper. The following account of a fistic encounter between Carl W. Riddick, exsecretary of the republican state central committee, and editor of the Winamac Republican and J. J. Gorrell, publißher_-of_the Winamac Democrat, was printed under a Winamac date line in the Morning Star. They have long been engaged in a newspaper scrap, compared to which the mild differences of thfe Rensselaer papers, have been almost nothing. The dispatch says: “This mgrning Editors J. J. Gorrell and C. W. Riddick, Democrat and Republican, had a fistic encounter over an alleged slanderous editorial in the Democrat directed against the’Republican editor. When the two men met on the street, Mr. Riddick said, “I’ve stood your lies and blackguarding long' enough. I’m going to punish you. Now defend yourself.” Gorrell, who is the smaller in size, threw his arms in front of his face, but could not ward off the blows that were rained thick and fast. When Riddick concluded his opponent had been punished severely endugh he let him up with the admonition that should it occur again the penalty would be more severe. The trouble was the outcome of years of illfeeling.”