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The News rather expected Kerne! Moynihan to urge his friend, Ed Kleindinst. to sue it for libel. Several years ago the News went after an outlaw dive keeper and the kernel with a yell denounced “these carpet baggers who are defaming our honorable business men** and urged the fellow to sue the News for criminal libel. Right in the midst of the fun, however, the federal government stepped in. seized the honorable business man on the eharge of being a fence for * poatoftiee robbers, and sent him to Leavenworth prison.THE VINDICATION OF ED..t♦5. ri* .Kernel Moynihan assumes with considerable noise that because flic News refused to appear* a gainst the notorious Ed Kleindinst in the commissioners* court, it vindicates that gentleman and proves that the Hotel Edwin is a first-class society place. It were vain, perhaps, to attempt to disillusion the kernel of the idea that the Edwin is an eminently respectable family hotel and the News shall not endeavor to achieve the impossible. For one thing Kernel Moynihan*s ideas of the socially correct arc a matter of .supreme indifference to it. Rut its failure to appear before the commissioners does not mean that it could nut have presented very serious object ions to Mr. Kleindinst and his place of business. If it were so inclined, indeed, it might plead with much eloquence that it did not expect any appearance on its part to be necessary, for it had been voluntarily assured by the leading democrat of Allen county that he would see to it that Mr. Ttleindinst received no license this spring. On the day that he resigned from the senate. Stephen B. Fleming, talking in the Claypool hotel at Indianapolis to the manager of the News, the editor of the News, and a prominent citizen of Indianapolis, called attention to the fact that he had driven several undesirables out of the liquor business In Fort Wayne and then proceeded to declare that he intended to drive Ed Kleindinst out this spring. Said he: The fellow runs one of the worst dives in all Indiana and 1 in going to get him when he comes up this spring. Von can make your mind easy on that score for he is going to be put out of business.*’The News might easily declare that it was depending upon Senator Fleming to make good his word, but it has no such plea to offer. It did not appear against Ed Kleindinst for the simple reason that it is not a prosecuting attorney or a policeman. The commissioners could have put the police on the stand to testify had they been so minded, but they were not. They knew of the conditions themselves, however, and they needed no information. They had only to carry out the determination they arrived at sixty days ago.Several years ago the News personally did go into the commissioner *s eourt and put a notorious saloonkeeper out of business, and its action was sanctioned by the whole community. Yet, at the first opportunity this man came slipping back to town, advertised his application on the inside page of a German paper, and was granted license by the commissioners before the public ever knew what Wtm afoot. The News has since that time contented itself with com-ment, and this it proposes to continue despite the bellowings of the underworld and its subsidized organ.GOOD EVENING, MB. SCHWIBB.■to'elt;■ft*.rv**We observe, Mr. Commitmioner Sehwier, that sitting in yourteat of office last Saturday, addresssing the notorious Ed Kleindinst, #ho was then an applicant for liquor license, you gave expresssion to the following declaration:MMr. Kleindinst, sixty days ago we were against yon, lt;and we told you that you would be refused your license, kit since this fellow Grigg came here and tried to tell us business we are going to grant your application.”Well, uow, Mr. Sehwier, that’s a frank and open statement, sorely, and the public is not left in any doubt whatsoever as to your5r •y**-4.;»*Unquestionably, when you told Ed. Kleindinst, sixty days ago, you were opposed to granting him a license you meant that you satisfied your mind, and that your fellow commissioners had fied their minds, that Ed. Kleindinst waa not the right sort of to possess a liquor license; that you had ascertained that his was the bang out for bad men and bad women and that it • spot devoted to the making of assignations. That’s what you t, of course, for otherwise you never would determine to return that whieh you so cheerfully accord to many of at least sari enable antecedents. You told Ed. Kleindinat that you would ghre him license because you regarded him a dangerous man this community—an unfit man to sell liqur.Xfg *ow yap fMf squanty about and «n|Mf M Ml*, ,dV.ar . *=
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Fort Wayne News
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Mon, Apr 05, 1915
Page 12
Full Page
Clipped by
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TX, USA 13 Sep 2019
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