Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — THAT “WARNING.” [ARTICLE]

THAT “WARNING.”

The Journal published an article this week to the effect that The Democrat contained a lying statement last week about C. M Blue, trustee of Marion tp , and that Blue called at The Democrat sanctum Saturday and "warned” the editor that he would give him a threshing if he ever said anything further about him. Now, in the first place, The Democrat never lies. Remember this. And, as the Journal man was in Indianapolis all day last Saturday, he of course knows all about “what Blue done”— according to Blue’s own statement. As a matter of fact, about 11 o’clock Saturday morning a wildly disheveled individual, waving a copy of The Democrat, and carrying with him a strong aroma of barrel-house booze, did call at this office, and, in a rather high pitched voice, asked us to explain the meaning of an article in the paper headed, “Office-Holding By Proxy.” He never said anything about “wanting to whip the editor,” and, as we Realized that the whiskey in his belly rather than the scraped potato in his head was not setting right, refused to make any explanation whatever. By this time the fumes of bad whiskey had filled the room and the ulual serenity of the sanctum was profaned by the high-pitched tones of the intruder. We requested him to leave the office. He replied that he would get out when lie got ready. We then stepped to the door, opened it and reached fora column rule, when the “gentleman" looking for trouble slid out of the opening so quick that he forgot to take the borrowed copy of The Democrat which he had brought in with him. At his request we passed it out to him

and he went away. That was all. Never a word about “threshing the editor!” In fact such talk would be beneath the dignity of the township trustee of Marion, and, besides that is the way' dogs settle fancied wrongs -get out in the street and fight. We considered the whiskey to blame for the lapse of dignity find paid no attention to it, and would not now refer to the matter had not he broken into print by personally instigating the grossly false version of the matter that appeared in the Journal.