The Sunday globe., 1901-06-09
REISOUR ANSWER
To VictOrine Alexander'S Libel Suit
Hiding Castle & Co.
GOVERNMENT DARED TO INDICT.
A Fhed.Up Scheme 10 Bluff and Tho Bluff
Called by The Editor Of The GIobe-Grand
Jury Respectfully Requested 10 Find True
Bill, and The Globe Spelling for a Fight in
Open COun-PubIiO will see who FIukes


Bill, and The Globe Spelling for a Fight i
Open Court Public will see who FIukes.
: Tuesday morning last the editor OF
The Globe was bound over to the
Grand Jury in the sum Of $500, to an
swer the charge of libelling Mrs
Victorine Alexander, a clerk in ex
auditor Castles department. The
Globe cannot believe that Justice Scott
is as ignorant of the law as his judi.
cial decision in this case would indl.
cate, 1t is true the legal talents re-
quired to qualify a man for the police
bench are not necessarily of a high
order, but at least common sense
ought to be one of the requirements.
Here is a woman entirely unknown to
the editor of The Globe, who claims
that the initials V, A. mean her, and
that an article designed, worded and
printed with the express purpose Of
exposing the favoritism prevailing in
the two divisions of the department,
known as A and c, of which a man
named Johnson is chief, was libel on
her because it contained hypo-
thetical question in which Mrs. "
A. was accused CD Of tickling disburs
ing clerk Holman under the chin"
Of course an intelligent public
needs no diagram to see the object Of
the arrest The lady was either CO.
creed, or voluntarily assumed the role
Of the injured party to please her
chief the intention being to secure
the bonding Of the editor to the
| Grand Jury and thus muzzle or in
timidate him from exposing the rotten
ness in Castles department. Neither
! Castle, Johnson, or Holman have the
| remotest idea of securing the indict
ment of the editor, much less his trial
to a jury. In fact, they will now use
their pull to prevent indictment and
! trial, and thus save the mismanage-
ment Of the department from a rak-
ing public exposure. 1t was quite nat
ural that the chattering little tax
eater in whose presence Johnson in
suited with impunity, an officer of his
court, should sympathize with the
gang from the Auditors Department,
and that Mullowney, the coon prose
| cutor, should bray in assinine stu
pidity when a white gentleman ap-
pears in the dock of his black-and-
tan bear garden. But that on such n
himsy pretense Of libel a citizen,
with the titular dignity Of Judge"
should, after fortyeight hours rehec-
ton, bind a man over to the Grand
Jury, is almost beyond belief. Nei-
ther Scott nor Mullowney if they
know little bit of law, believe a con-
viction is possible even in the District
of Columbia on any such a trumped-
up and gauzy case as that presented
by Castle, Johnson & Co, through
their obedient subordinate, Mrs. Vic
torine Alexander. However, now that
Justice Scott has seen fit to torture an
article on Castle and Johnson into a
libel on a woman clerk, the editor Of
The Globe will endeavor to boost the
thing along, and bring it to a speedy
issue. With that intention only and
solely in view, we thus address the
Grand Jury now sitting;
Gentlemen: The editor of The Sun
day Globe deliberately and sincerely
request your honorable body to indict
him on the case sent up from Justice
Scotts court, for the following rea
sons
81, In the interests Of law and or
der, and public morality
"2. That the rottenness in the
Sixth Auditors Department of the
Treasury may be exposed in a court Of
justice, to the end that reformation
in the same may be effected.
90. That the editor Of The Globe
may be given opportunity to establish
not only the truth of the allegations
against Castle and Johnson, but also
present facts in his possession which
have not been published, and which
show beyond a shadow of doubt the
unftness Of these officials for the po-
sitions they hold"
Now il the Grand Jury ignores this
appeal the public will know that its
members have been influenced by per-
sons who do not wish to come into
court, and have their records and his.
tories shown up. The editor Of The
Globe is ready for a fight, and if he
has libeled anybody, he is ready and
willing to pay the penalty. We scorn
mercy, compromise, or any attempt to
dodge the square issue. Either we
have libelled Mrs. Alexander, or we
have not The Grand Jury will bear
in mind that Judge Scott and Prose
cutor Mullowney think we have. If
these two officials know the law they
are paid to administer then the Grand
Jury is morally bound by their opin-
ion to bring in a true bill against the
editor of The Globe. We want no
lodging of this question, and we in
sist on an indictment in yindication
Of Scott and Mullowney's legal
knowledge Of what constitutes a libel,