Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-08-29
TINE FARGO OUTRAGE.

the monumental fraud; the other indi-
viduals concerned, including a majority
Of the jury, . merely the witless tools
Of these two characters.
One of the two principal characters
sought to silence the INrER-OcEAN bat
terry by having its editor indicted, that
he might hereafter hold the fraudulent
Judicial document rs q club over our
head should we continue to c%riticise his
corrupt conduct. The other principal
character has aspirations for congress on
the Edwards ticket and lent himself to
the disreptuable scheme because Ed
wards assured him that the newspaper
men summoned IN that grand jury
would assist him in securing the con-
gressional nomination in September,
1886.
Thus Character No. 2 sought to start
q little political boom for himself by de-
ferring to certain "moulders Of public
opinion" whom Character No. / prom
ised to control in the next Republican
Territorial convention, and at the same
time gave his pal(No. 4 an opportunity
to revenge himself upon an editor whom
the political banditti of Dakota are sat
isfied they cannot control.
This pair Of desperate political knaves
conspired between themselves to use the
judicial machinery to further their pri-
yate personal ends, and by the aid of
pliable men whose minds are Iadened
with prejudice and whose tongues are
charged with the poison of f~alsehood,
succeeded in convincing Judge McCon-
nell that a henious crime had been COM
mitted. The Judge fell an easy victim
to their wicked wiles. He instructed
the grand jury to make an investigation,
and the two desperate characters, know
ing the stuff the jury was made Of, turned
their attention to preparing the public
mind for an indictment of the victims of
their foul plot. Edwards, in his Argus, ar
raigned the Devils Lake land officers and
the editor Of this paper, and misquoted
the judges remarks to the juryto make
his case good and strong.
The scheme failed. The district at
torney found that there had been no IL.
fraction Of the law, and Edwards turned
upon the district attorney with the
ferocity of a venomous rattlesnake dis
appointed in its failure to sink its poi
soned fangs into an innocent prey.
What of the two characters who have
thus conspired to disgrace the tribunal
Of iustice7 Are they fit men for public
placer Is any man, whom their re-
venge and greed may mark as an obstacle
to the successful manipulation OF their
schemes, secure in his liberty or his good
name? Should they be encouraged in
their political ambitions by respectable
men3 The character, conduct and, tao.
tics of the man Edwards are well
known, and the people of Dakota are
warned against Character No. 2, whom
Edwards now stands pledged to support
for congress n year hence. The judi.
cial machinery of Dakota must not be
dragged in the murky mlre of polluted
politics, and if the people would keep
their courts pure they will refuse to
choose a man for congress, or any other
position, who starts his political boom
under the guidance and advice of such
man IS Edwards and corrupts the
provisions of the statutes to help the
thing along.
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