People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — A General Explanation. [ARTICLE]

A General Explanation.

M,\.y article in last week’s piLOT, in reference to statements made by the Republican, was written hastily, in a spirit of anger, and without sufficient investigation as to the facts. After investigation I am convinced that the statement did great injustice to all parties therein mentioned. I wish now to say that I am fully satisfied that all the allusions in that article, to any alleged occurrences in. Mr. Ralph Marshall’s law office, so far as they reflect in any manner upon either Mr. Marshall or Mr. Mills, were entirely untrue and uncalled for, and that whatever may have occurred in their law office, of a questionable nature, was entirely without the knowledge or consent of either Mr. Marshall or Mr. Mills. In reference to certain events said to have taken place in the office of the Republican, I now state that I know that if the alleged occurrence did take place in the office of that paper, it was entirely without the knowledge or consent of G. E. Marshall, the editor of that paper, nor did I intend in my article to convey the impression that I thought Mr. Marshall was a party to, or had any knowledge of the alleged occurrence and I believe he never even heard a rumor of such occurrences until the publication of last week’s Pilot, In my many years acquaintance with Mr. G. E. Marshall I have always found him,fin all respects, a man of strict integrity, and I now witbdpavr all assertions to the contrary.

LESLIE CLARK.