Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — BOTH FALSE AND DEFAMATORY. [ARTICLE]

BOTH FALSE AND DEFAMATORY.

We wish, as a matter of justice, to correct the statement made by the Republican in its report of the Myers vs. Holland case, that "he (Myers) got Jap Guy, a Remington lawyer, to bring action against Holland for false imprisonment, asking damages in the sum of $2,000.” The Republican never neglects an opportunity to give Mr. Guy a rap, against whom it seems to have conceived a most bitter personal dislike. But it ought to have enough fairness and decency to refrain from such barefaced falsehoods as this in order to injure a fellowman and gratify a mean, personal spite. Mr. Guy has been the regular city attorney for the town of Remington for the pasj fifteen or eighteen years, and has been retained by both republican and democratic administrations. As such attorney and on direct instructions from the town council, he defended Mr. Holland in this suit, a fact which the Republican most clearly must have known, if a representative of that paper was In the court room at any time during the trial or had it consulted any of the papers in the case. Mr. Guy is a republican and Mr. Holland a democrat, and the present town council of Remington Is democratic, but the latter Informed Mr. Holland that it would back him up in the defense of this suit, HffttHtfT done so.' Mr. Holland, as we understand, will be at no expense whatever In the matter, the council realizing that he was but doing his duty as an officer in making this arrest. He, too, has been retained as nightwatch through both republican and democratic administrations, and has held the position there for almost 20 years. “Jap Guy, a Remington lawyer,” has represented the interests of the Town of Remington in every case it has had in court during the past twenty years. He is and has been the regular appointed town attorney for practically all this time—continuously, at least, since his first appointment—about twenty years ago. The fact that he has been re-ap-pointed by all the. succeeding administrations, no matter what their political complexion, would indicate that the people have some confidence in Mr. Guy even though the Republican has not. We will add, also, from personal knowledge, that he numbers among his clients practically all of the best and most prominent people of Remington and Carpenter township who have any legal business to transact, and they will defend him against all such unjust and wholly false attacks as made by the Republican. The case of Myers vs. Holland was filed by George Kassabaum, a White county attorney, and he was assisted in the trial here by the Republican’s great and good friend “State Senator Abe Halleck,” a fact which the records in the case clearly show. The Republican, it would seem, not only owes an apology to Mr. Guy, but It ought to smooth over “Senator Halleck’s” connection with the prosecution of the case.