Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1908 — A DISCREDITED WRITER. [ARTICLE]

A DISCREDITED WRITER.

Louis Ludlow, the bankrupt Indianapolis Star’s political writer, seems to be gaining a reputation as a very unreliable writer, to put it mildly, and people he has quoted in support of his articles of misrepresentation are coming forward, every day and denying the statements he has ascribed to them. Ludlow’s article on political conditions in Boone county—or the interview on which the article was based —and which has been widely copied by the republican press as tending to show democratic discord in that county, was “secured” during a five-minute talk in the Grand Hotel lobby at Indianapolis with Ben F. McKey, editor of the Lebanon Pioneer, during the late democratic editorial assiciation. Editor McKey, in conversation with The Democrat man the next morning, after Ludlow’s article had appeared, told us that the interview had been grossly misrepre-

sented in said article and he had said nothing to Ludlow that could in any way be construed in the way he had stated. Mr. McKey said there was no democratic disaffection whatever in Boone county. In fact, the party was all united, the candidate for the leglslatuijß stood squarely on the democratic platform and the vote polled there this fall for the democratic candidates would be a record-breaker. He said that he did not know of a democrat in the county who was “off,” and he did know of many republicans who had declared they would vote the democratic state and national tickets. So much for Ludlow. But then, Ludlow is only doing the “bidding of his superiors, who are noted distorters of the truth.