Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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The Brook Reporter charges the Republican with having taken “a mean shot at Fred Longwell” because of his non-appearance to prosecute the Bader cases. The paper states that the writer of this paper knew that Mr. Longwell’s little child was hovering I between life and death, and his mother in the same condition in the hospital. The Reporter lies when it says that we knew these things. We did not. We stated that he assigned as the reason for his absence the illness of his mother. We do not believe that his mother was taken to the hospital until later and even the Brook Reportgr,.right on the ground, evidently did not know these things, because the Reporter last week stated that Mr. Longwell was in Rensselaer looking after the “bridge graft” cases. The Republican has always been fair With Mr. Longwell. We stated that Longwell’s prosecution of the commissioners was not right. And we know that it was an assault on honest men. Longwell fortified his prejudices and his suspicions with the testimony of a vindictive competitive bridge contractor, who is so deaf that he could not have heard a statement in the commissioners’, court room unless it

was made through a megaphone, and discrediting the action of two grand juries and the advise of friends, he set out to ruin the reputations of men whose private and public lives are of the highest order. He made a pitiful attempt in court and there was not a man who heard his fiasco in the court room that did not realize that the prosecution of the commissioners was a personal matter with th§ prosecutor inspired by democratic hopes. Mr. Longwell contributed to the hope of democrats by preferring against the commissioners a charge wholly false. You can not start a.He about any person that does not result in an injury to them. The commissioners were injured. The Injury extended so far that it defeated Robert Drake, one of the best men in Jasper county and who was not an office holder. That is what Longwell’s false prosecution done. We have never taken a “riiean shot” at Longwell, but he took a “mean shot” at the county commissioners. He libeled them with a charge (that he could not prove, that he would have known he could not prove if he had been any sort of a lawyer, and that made him a prosecutor of the commissioners and a political conspirator with the democratic bosses of Jasper county.

Had we ever decided to have taken a “mean shot” we would have said that he has always been touted as a great friend of temperance and that th 6 Brook Reporter proclaimed from the house top what he would do to violators of the liquor laws, but he has been prosecutor for almost two years and during that time both Newton and Jasper counties have been legally -dry” about all the 1 time, but it is openly charged that liquor is sold in many places in both counties and even In the town of Brook, but we have not heard that Prosecutor Longwell has made good at breaking up any “blind tigers.” During the fall Mr. Longwell’s personal organ, the Brook Reporter, published an article claiming that he had turned down an offer from the saloon league of SSO a day to work for the liquor interests, but this statement was taken throughout Jasper county as a hugh joke, for so long as he is doing absolutely nothing to correct apparent violations of liquor laws, people can not see any reason why he would be needed by the liquor interests. And then they can not see any indication that anything Mr. Longwell has ever accomplished would justify an offer of SSO a day for his services.

The Republican has been more than fair with Prosecutor Longwell. He has accomplished nothing in the two years that he has been prosecuting attorney except a collusion with the democratic party in Jasper county, resulting; in the defeat of twp republican candidates for county commissioner and the republican candidate for sheriff. If there is any cause for him to “swell up” about his record we don’t know what it is. There is time yet for Mr. Longwell to “make good” in his office and he will find the Republican “fair” to him whenever his prosecutions are against real evils and not directed against good men and for purely spiteful reasons. As it stands now Longwell has not made good and he has not been vindicated. Sufficient voters were detracted by his false prosecutions to defeat John F. Pettit, Robert Drake and L. P. Shiver, but that is to his discredit and not in his*honor. Just received, car of Jackson Hill egg coal. J. u BRADY.