Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — EDITORS MISLED BY WILY LAWYER [ARTICLE]

EDITORS MISLED BY WILY LAWYER

Pure Food Law Violators Use Taggart Bureau. VICIOTS ATTACK ON OFFICER Counsel For Interests Which Beek to Break Down Pure Food Laws Works Partisan Bureau and Impose on Honest Papers of Btate—Bureau Writer Later Lands on Law’s Side of Pure Food Cases. In a letter sent out to Democratic papers the other day, the Democratic publicity bureau attacked Attorney General Bingham viciously for traveling In search of testimony, depositions, witnesses and material with which to make the state’s cases against pore food law violators. In effect the Democratic bureau, apparently at the suggestion of the Democratic governor, but really in response to arguments from cunning counsel for the pure food law violators, declared against any effort by the state of Indiana to defend its position or to 13 uphold the Important laws against food frauds and adulterants. Attorneys for the pure food law violators, having failed to induce any reputable newspaper In Indianapolis or elsewhere to übo their underhanded and crooked attacks on the attorney general’s office, rightly figured that the Democratic press bureau, In its blind partisanship, and in Its Taggart antipathy against the Republican attorney general, would snap at the tainted “dope.” The bureau accepted the bait and swallowed the adulterated stuff greedily, and used all the Democratic editors it could influence, in furthering the evil designs of the poisoners who sell rotten foods to the public. The trick worked. A few days later, when the Republican attorney general of Indiana met obstacles interposed by tricky lawyers at Washington, and was forced to make a fight in court for testimony needed to complete Indiana’s case, the Democratic press bureau sent out a story attacking some supposed Washington officers who were “trying to hamper the attorney general” and block the enforcement of the pure food laws. Now the Democratic press bureau attacked the Republican attorney general of Indiana because he was a Republican, and because Thomas Taggart does not love him personally, since the Casino suits. And the same bureau turned about within a week and' attacked someone else at Washington on the ground that the same attorney general was being "hampered.” In one letter the Democratic bureau lampooned the attorney general for going after evidence to enforce the pure food laws. In Its next letter it lambasted men who apparently were trying to keep that evidence from the attorney general. What Is the public to believe?