Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1910 — Editor Stonehill’s Honor Tested; Will He Retract Lie About Us? [ARTICLE]

Editor Stonehill’s Honor Tested; Will He Retract Lie About Us?

A lie is a difficult thing to contend with. Usually it is based on the hope of injury and the person responsible for it lacks the manhood to withdraw it and seeks to further it by telling more lies. We are going to make a test of the qualities of the publisher of the Brook Reporter by giving him an opportunity to retract the lie published in his paper last week when he said: “The editor of the Thirty Cent Rensselaer' Republican must be in a hard row of Btumps in his defense of bridge grafters when he addresses letters to neighboring newspapers to help him out in his fight, or at least remain neutral.” To begin with, the Republican has no fight and don’t give a rap what papers, local or adjacent, say about the bridge graft and the men accused of being involved in it. The statement that the Republican or either of its editors have addressed letters to newspapers as above charged is an absolute lie and has no basis whatever. The Republican and neither of its publishers has addressed a single person, either orally or in writing, and Stonehill and his sheet have lied in saying that we have so done. What it expected to accomplish by such methods we do not kiiow, but we wish Stonehill to come to the front with information on which he based his lie. It is natural that Babcock copied the lie and we are wondering if he could not really be at the bottom of it We have addressed no letters to any publishers upon this or any other subject. To make it plain we will say that the. Brook Reporter and its editor has LIED and that Babcock has copied the LIE. Has Stdnehill the manhood to admit that he lied? We don’t think he has, but we shall see when the next issue of his Jokesheet appears.

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