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Show TILLMAN VIEWS LIBEL CASE WITH ALARM, Washington. Jan. 23. Declaring that "No patriot can contemplate without with-out great alarm the possibility of tha President's success in the Panama It bel cases now being investigated by grand jurors in this city and In, New York." Senator Tillman of South Car-cllna Car-cllna Issued a statement last night, lie says: . "The issue is a momentous one Jefferson declared that 'As between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government he would choose the latter,' because when properly informed the people would protect themselves even without a government, through the Instrumen tality of public opinion. The pecMle cannot guard too jeAlously the right r.f freedom of speech and the right to print whatever is in tlie public inter est. The newspapers now under fire for their efforts to expose corruption ir high places should have the acllvt sunport of every true American Jor their cause is tJio cause, of us all. |