Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — KNOCKED OUT AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

KNOCKED OUT AGAIN.

The Appellate Court Dismisses the Appeal la Auditor Murray’s Libel Salt Against ••The Democrat” Editor.

The first final adjudication of any of the numerous libel suits instituted by the scoundrel by gang who are frantically endeavoring to wipe out the The Democrat, was made last Friday, when the Appellate court dismissed the appeal in the Auditor Murray case. This case is familiar to most of our readers, and we will refer to it but briefly. The indictment was returned against us in January by a republican grand jury, but* the instrument was quashed as faulty. Then Mr. Murray filed an affidavit and information in the circuit court on the same charge. Motion was made by defendant’s attorneys to quash both the affidavit and information. Judge Thompson held that there was nothing libelous in the article referred to and sustained the motion and threw the case out of court. By this time the gang was furious, and Baby George of the Apologist, it is said, privately condemned Judge Thompson in no unmeasured terms for not standing in with the gang in its prosecution of a dangerous foe —dangerous because intimidation nor bribery could be used on its editor—and publicly, through the Apologist, scored the judge for his action. Prosecution Chizum was then prevailed upon, and an appeal taken to the Appellate court from Judge Thompson’s decision. As there were several saloons in this circuit and a few quart shops which must be “looked after” quite often, the appeal was not filed until several weeks after the case was thrown out of court here. The action of the Apellate court in dismissing the case is, of course, a source of great sadness to the gang, but there is considerable more of the same sort in store for it, and if its members are wise they will heed the handwriting on the wall. Dr. I. B. Washburn tests eyes for glasses l y the latest methods. The best lenses put in any desired frame. It does not pay to ruin \our eyes with improper and cheap lenses. Satisfaction guaranteed whtn possible.