Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — A LITTLE EXPLANATION. [ARTICLE]

A LITTLE EXPLANATION.

In the list of court cases set down for trial, it will be noticed, appears one entitled the "State of Indiana vs. Frank E. Babcock,” and .an explanation of this case we will state that it is a libel case recently instituted by Leslie Clark, one of the present editors and publishers of the Rensselaer Republican, who was charged several years ago by the said Rensselaer Republican while he had charge of the People’s Pilot here, with having turned the Pilot office into an assignation house. . _-r, ; The case above, however, is based on an item that appeared in The Democrat more than a year ago, in reference to shifting the booze burden, wherein it was stated that wfe were told about a couple of Rensselaer gentlemen seeing a republican editor up at Cedar Lake a year or two prior thereto in a beer stall a woman whom they did not know, and that this republican editor was observed! coming out of the stall with empty beer bottles in his hand and passed along .to the bar with them and got some more full ones and went back to the stall. , Now, after more than a year has elapsed, Clarkie swears that he thinks the article referred to him, and a month or so ago filed a criminal libel case against the writer. ■ < The article in question did not say that it was Clarkie that these gentlemen said they saw, and we do not say so now. For his family sake we hope it wasn’t. There are lots of republican editors in the country and. it is up to these two gentlemen rereferred to to say what one it was they saw tip,at Cedar Lake. We don’t believe they will flinch when# the time comes for them to tell it under oath, and the case will be heard in this county, too.