Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1909 — A CASE-OF UNPARALLELED NERVE. [ARTICLE]

A CASE-OF UNPARALLELED NERVE.

Republican Denies That Jasper Guy’s Name Has Appeared In That Sheet In Last Four Years. While The Democrat is not carrying a brief for Jasper Guy, the well known Remington attorney, it did feel that a denial should be made of the slurring mention made of him in last Friday’s Republican, which accused him of having, as attorney for Myers, brought the suit for false imprisonment against W. E. Holland, -the Remington nightwatch, a case which was not looked upon with any favor by the public in general and not calculated to add any to the standing of an attorney wtyo would advise the bringing of any such suit, considering the circumstances. Mr. Guy was and had been for nearly 20 years the town attorney of Remington, and was the principal attorney for Holland in this case, being assisted by Frank Foltz of Rensselaer. In reply to The Democrat’s statement of the matter the Republican admits In a few words that It was mistaken, and that Guy was on the other side. It says the mistake was but a natural one, yet the case had been mentioned several times by the Republican, the papers had been on file here for months and no one who knew anything at all of the case would have made a "mistake*’ of that kind. That the Republican has an unlimited amount of nerve, to publish the following, any reader of that paper who has noted its numerous slurs at Mr. Guy during the past few years, or since its principal editor became abusive in Mr. Guy’s office at Remington a few years ago and wqs ordered out of his office, will freely admit. Here is what It says: “We feel certain that the name or Jasper Guy has not been used |n the columns of the Republican, unless by a Remington correspondent, during the four years that

the writer has been connected with this paper. Not a line discrediting him has been used by the writer nor by either publisher of the Republican, and we defy the Democrat or any other person to show a line printed in this paper during our editorial control of it, that could be constructed (construed is evidently meant) as derogatory to Mr. Guy. • • * We would not misrepresent Jasper Guy for anything in this world. • • * “Probably The Democrat may be able to enlighten the public about its statement that the Republican never neglects an opportunity to give Mr. Guy a rap, against whom it seems to have conceived a most bitter personal dislike.” Certainly The Democrat could enlighten the public, but the public already knows that the name of Jasper Guy has appeared in that sheet a score or more of times during the past few years—not in the Remington correspondence, but in its jiome columns, and in every instance, so far as we now recall, the remarks have been Intended to injure and vlllify him. We have not the time nor space to refer to all these “squibs,” but will mention one or two: In the Republican of Jan. 14, 190&, first page, top of fifth column, in an article headed "A Warning to Creditors” (this referred to the Parker bank creditors who were about to elect a trustee for said bank estate) Mrs- Guy’s name is mentioned several times. He (Guy) was being pushed by several of the best men in Remington and Carpenter township for trustee, men who had no personal Interest in having him appointed except they thought him the best man for the placeIn this “warning” against the election of Mr. Guy the following is one of the references. “Jasper Guy within the past four years has been adjudged guilty of an effort to kill his brother-in-law, Tip Kenyon, and the creditors of the bank have the right to have a man of clean past record.” The circumstances surrounding the case referred to are familiar, and also the fact that Ralph Marshall was the special judge in the case. The verdict was condemned by practically all the best people of Remington. In the Republican of Jan. 21, 1908, first page, first column, that paper jubilated over the defeat of Mr. Guy for trustee, and his name was mentioned several times. And so we might go on and mention many other like utterances of the Republican toward Mr. Guy that were not Intended (?) to prejudice public opinion against him. But what’s the use? A newspaper that will deny the evidence of its own columns is unworthy of the dignity of a reply. Its readers know, the people of Remington know, and Jasper Guy knows, that the statement of The Democrat was true.