Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-07-15
BOGUS BUTTER LIBEL SUITS.
Gases that Will Be Watched by the
Farmers in the Land.

WASHINGTON, July 6.-Judge #. J.
Mackney of South Carolina and Attor-
ney Classic of Washington are prepar-
ing the papers in two important libel
suits to be instituted here tomorrow
against the Cincinnati Enquirer and
the Pittsburg Dispatch by Joseph HI.
Reall, president of the American Agri-
cultural and Dairy Association, for
defamation of character. These suits
will be of special interest to dairymen
and farmers throughout the country, as
President Reall has incurred the hos
tility of these papers by reason of his
persistent and successful prosecution
of the dairyman's war on bogus butter
this session. General B. F. Butler and
Major Foster of Leesburg, Va, have
been retained as associate counsel.
The Enquirer publication complain
ed ofas libelous is a Washington dis
patch reading as follows:
From the falling out of the butter
brigadea a very entertaining expose of
the operations of certain speculative
gentlemen here in the interests of the
Oleomargarine bill is obtained. A
scheme has been worked which in its
plans and details beats any confidence
game ever brought to light. An organi-
cation known as the "American Agri-
cultural and Dairy Association, (Which
has been figuring here as q bona fide
organization, Mr.. Reall president, and
various gentlemen acting for him as
assistant secretaries, appears from the
confession of oneof the latter, James
M. Lob, of Pennsylvania, to be myth.
1t consists of Mr.. Reall, president,
treasurer, board of directors and execu-
tive committee in one and the said
assistant secretaries hired by Mr.. Reall.
The latter has gone off and left his
hired agents in the lurch. The bureau
is closed, and the great organization
which made the bucolic Congressman
crook the pregnant hinges of the knees
but few weeks ago is dissolved. It's
membership, according to Mr.. Lob,
consisted of anybody and everybody
who contributed SIS or upward to Mr..
Realls exchequer. There is something
extremely interesting in the way the
public was worked up to shower money
into the nets of this gang. AS seems to
be necessarily the case in all such
philanthropic enterprises there were
several branches, and the money was
devoted to some of these. Mr.. Reall's
Chicago enterprise took some of it
under the title of the Western Fund
| Association. All of these associations
appear to have been working the
country on their own hook. The "poor
farmer" was the man who was in all
instances relied upon to furnished the
soap. There is no telling how much moE-
ey was received by Mr.. Reall and his
agents, but Assistant Secretary Lob
says they sent out 10, 900 circular letters
at time, and every time they met
with liberal pecuniary responses, from
$5 to $10O. Ten to twenty thousand
dollars would seem to be small esti-
mate. Mr.. Lob is Pennsylvania man
a farmer, and long identified with dairy
interests. He was deceived, worked
hard, got left, and is naturally indig'
nant.
President Reall denies the charges in
this article as infamous. He has beer
here the greater part of the session
working for the Dairy Associations bill
to tax bogus butter, and has followed
up this object with such success tina
the bogus butter people are thorough.
alarmed, and have begun persona
war upon him. The clerk, James H
Lob, served with President Reall, ad
dressing circulars, etc., and was thel
paid for his services and dropped. III,
felt that he had been treated badly, AM
went over to the bogus butter crowt
with his story. Damages are to be lait
at $780, 900 in each case.
Criminal prosecutions are also to be
instituted. A warrant was sworn ou
this afternoon by President Reall TO
the arrest of the clerk, Lob, and to-mor
row warrants will be procured for thu
arrest of the correspondent. Presi
dent Reall is very mad about tn
intimation that he is enriching himsel
at the expense of the dairymen ant
farmers of the country, and he proposes
to see what relief the courts will Civ
him. He said tonight to the Star cor
respondent that, instead of getting il
enough money from contributions t
meet the legitimate expenses of tn
dairymen's bureau here, consisting @
printers bills and the cost of mailin
pamphlets, circulars, etc., he wa
behind over $500, for which he is in
dividually responsible. He says, howev
er, that he has enlisted for the war am
proposes to stay with the bogus butter
| man RI the last ditch