The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-11-05

A half truth is more dangerous than an
outright falsehood. The Globe while tell
ing the truth about the supreme court de-
cision in which William Henry Eustis
figured as stakeholder and director Of
the Guaranty Loan and emitting to give
the subsequent history of that case, was
as guilty of a deliberate attempt to falsify
as If there had not been particle of truth
In the whole story. The whole campaign.
against Mr.. Eustis has been marked by
the same insincerity Where it has not
been campaign of deliberate lying it
has been a campaign of garbled, jumbled
and distorted facts. Conclusions that
would be absolutely unwarranted if the
whole truth was told have been made to.
appear incontrovertibly established upon
a basis of a part of the truth
E With reference to the suit in which the
Globe quotes the decision of the supreme.
court and rolls it as sweet morsel under
slanderous tongue, it deliberately sup
presses the most important part of the:
case so far as it affects Mr.. Eustis. The
facts may be briefly stated. suit was
brought against the men whose names
appeared of record as directors Of the
Guaranty Loan, in the district court of
I1eulucpl1l county,. MI. EuSllS WAS d III
rector Of record. He has never attempted
to deny it, but has given an adequate
explanation of his connection with that,
company and the people are entirely IA
miliar with it. In this suit he was named
as a stockholder. The parties who brought
the suit so designated him. Mr.. Eustis
has denied in positive terms that he ever
owned dollar of stock in the Guaranty
Loan and the mere fact that, he was
named in suit for recovery as a stock
holder does not weigh against his word.
To the complaint in this action the de-
PENDANTS demurred and the lower court
sustained the demurrer. From this order
the plaintiffs appealed and the supreme
court decision was had upon this appeal.
The supreme court sustained the appeal
and sent the case back for trial on it's
merits. There is absolutely nothing in
the decision that establishes any of the
facts alleged by the Globe.
Elk Parte Statements.
The decision is full of the expression
cit is alleged' referring to the statements
in the complaint and the decision of the
court practically amounted to a declara-
ton that if what the plaintiffs said was
true they had grounds for an action: Mr.
Eustis' name is not mentioned, except in
quoting the title of the action.
The case went back for trial. and the
Globe, if it had desired to tell the whole
truth, would have followed the case
through this stage, for it was only upon
a trial in the lower court that the allie,
cations of the complaint or any of them
could be established. AS matter Of fact
the case, at least SO far as Mr.. Eustis
was concerned, was never tried. The
plaintiffs concluded that they could not
make out a case against him as stock
holder or director in the lower court, the
only place where the real facts could be
made to appear, and it was dismissed.
Instead of his having been declared by
the supreme court a director and stock
holder in the Guaranty Loan, either or
both, the supreme court decided nothing
at all about it, and the plaintiffs who cited
him as director and stockholder never
cared to try the question on it's merits.
This is the truth and the whole truth
about this case, and Mr.. Eustis state
ments that he never owned Stock in the
Guaranty Loan and that he was never
willingly a director in the company are
left absolutely unimpeached.