The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-09
Atincl1 ON Ynilcr

tne 5GouIt teIlS SOlI must be given VAS
compensatory damage. malice or no
malice.
Attack OH YOdcr.
What caused all this? a sneaR.ug
lifpocrttc from Lynchburg, paradlng
and masqucradng us n preacher, who
stands in court to-day unable to JUS
thy his action, though backed by ablo
counsel. Men may come and men may
go, but tho ISLANDER goes on forever.
Long after the verdict Of this court
has become part of tho musty ar
chives, that libel Will be remembered
and brought up again and again here
AFTER. Flow many men in this COM
ln ,llty have had their faith in him
many, will hereafter vote against him
or fail to patronize him? Beaides dam.
age for compensation, / ask punish-
nent for the outrage of which they
have been guilty appeal 10 your
sense of Justice and right to bring
the ielons to the bar OF Justice. and
ask that an adequate punishment be
inflicted. propose to Show that NIL
llams and iodcr are equally guilty uf
malicious libel
Who is. Yoder? For two years, lie
tells us. he was pamphleteer in
Lynchburs. What he did there we
know little Of. About the time or be-
lore he came here, one John Marshall
Atkinson, who conducted bar at
Ninth and Capitol Streets, in the old
valentine House. or Park Hotel, went
to see him We know that this At
kinson was convicted of wrongdoing
and his license taken from him by
due process of law. for selling, pols-
oned liquor to young girl and 1,
young boy until they were carried
drunk from the Capitol Square to a
police station. Next to this concerted
libei there has been no greater crime
than the hellish act for which the H.
cense of Marshall Atkinson was re-
voked.
Atkinson Invited Him.
That man went to Lynchnu,s and there
Yoder came to Richmond and set UP a shop
on money furnished by Atkinson This man,
whose license had been revoked, furnished
the money and provided the place for the
conduct of this business, and there in At
kinson's hotel Yoder established himself
and announced himself as a moral reform
err. Here he commences his attack the
powers that be- especially those who had
mad q part In tho revocation OF that license
NO head was too high. reputation too
sacred. Coming here a crusader to fight
whiskey, he tells us on the witness stand
that he declined to Inquire into the facts
OF Marshall Atkinsons case that he de-
cl!ned to learn the truth. This crusader
was a,s, then guilty OF a baser act OF trcachcry.
cense under another name. This preacher
or morality ana cleanliness was summoned
by the commemorative Attorney to give
his testimony against whiskey in the name
OF the State OF Virginia and In the name
Of morality and honesty What does he do !?
Like viper he turns and swears that that
is proper place for the sale OF liquor.
Atkinson and Yotlcr.
rs there no connection between Atkinson
and Yoder? Would the Commonwealth's
Attorney put a man on the stand IL he
hadn't believed him to be working to re-
form the evils of the whiskey traffic? II
he had been fair and honest wouldn't he
have told the Commemorative Attorney,
instead of coming there witness for
the Commonwealth and then deliberately
selling out TO the other side? / take this
from Yoder's statement on the stand.
In the name of an outraged decency--in tho
name OF the Commonwealth OF virginia and
Its law-abdng citizens. ] ask punishment
for this criminal. My friend Mr.. Meredith.
couldn't suggest to you one word of excuse
for Yoder. There Isn't any. But that ism
all. Day after day he has violated the law.
Commencing with the first libel. he has as-
gravatcd 1t as in this article the day
OF election. He came here without dollar.
save what furnished by Atkinson. lie
has made a living by defaming mon. He
has made of himself pirate on this com
munity. Kidd who scoursed the seas of
the South was merciful, for ne slew with
out torture.
This man has put his victims en- the rack
and pressed the burning iron INTO their
souls not caring about his rights SO his