Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Near* by Cities and towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. I numinous Verdict sos Senator Gore. It took the jury just four minutes to organise by electing a foreman and take one ballot and vote, un* animously in favor of U.S. Senator Thomas P. Gore, who had been sued by Mrs. Minnie Bond for $50,000 damages for an attack which she alleged Senator Gore had made upon her in her room in a Washington hotel’ last March, to which she had inveigled the Senator to talk with him about her husband's aspirations for a government appointment, and whom the Senator had turned down. Senator Gore had never been in the i hotel before, and believed she was p leading him to one of the parlors, las she said, instead of a private room. The frame-up was quite well arranged, and the woman let out a scream after they reached the room and a bunch of the blind senator’s political enemies rushed in and found them in what might have seemed a compromising position un« der other circumstances. Seven of the jurors who acquitted him were republicans. The bunch of conspirators who put up this dastardly scheme to blacken and defame the character of this un* fortunate man—Senator Gore is to* tally blind—and kill him off polltl* rally, should be punished to the full limit of the law, if there is any way to reach them. They at least should be scorned by all honest men. i