Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-10-23

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it, he was just as certain to go to his
home and get even by whipping his wife.
He could always rely upon her being at
home to receive a trouncing, and he came
to regard this kind of business as a part
of his domestic duties. He enjoyed him.
self in this peculiar pastime until the
spring of 1884, when, one night, being in
a more sanguinary mood than usual, he
used his pistol instead of his fist, strik-
ing his wife in the face and on the head
with the weapon until the blood flowed
freely. Fearing that her life was in dam
ger, she escaped and went to her parents
home OH Rock Island. The facts in the
case got out, and there was general in
dignation among the law-abiding people.
The night after the brutal affair occurred,
the writer of this article met half a dozen
men on their way to Creel's house. Their
purpose was to give him a coat of tar and
feathers. The party asked us to join
them in the work. We declined to do so,
and after a lengthy argument in favor of
preserving the peace and dignity Of the
town, we induced the party to indefinitely
postpone the job. Creel has whipped his
wife since then, and if he does not now
occasionally indulge his brutal propen-
sity, the rumors we occasionally hear are
incorrect.
The foregoing facts can be substantial
ted by many creditable witnesses in Dew
lis Lake.
ALWAYS SEEKING DISBURSEMENT"
Tuesday afternoon of this week half a
dozen of the delegates, including Creel,
with three or four proxies, who rep
resented the Second commissioners dis
trict in the Republican county V
ton, met at Crazy, a station ten miles
east of this city, for the purpose of decid-
ing who should run for commissioner
from that district. 1t was the general
opinion that Creel, being i'll the field for
the Legislature, would permit some one
else to run for commissioners. 1t was be-
lieved that either Hans Ugland, II. r..
Stevens or Will Crary would be selected
as the candidate for commissioner. But
Creel, fearing that he would be defeated
for the Legislature, decided that he would
take the commissionership, and by the
aid of his W vote and the proxies he
had, he did take it. He is now running
for two Offices. He has violated the prom
iso he made Mr.. Crazy, and proposes to
go for everything in sight.
The duty of the people of the Second
district is plain. Creelshould be beaten
for both offices. The people of that dis
trict have the matter in their WI hands.
If they preferto be dictated to and walked
over by Creel, it is their own funeral.
HISTORICAL.
Last springs court calendar, contain
ing the cases tried at the first term of
court held in Ramsey county, had but
five criminal cases in it, and Crcel was
the defendant in every one o fthem. This
is the mar who wants to go to the legis-
lature to make laws for peaceable citi-
zens and an order-loving people. These
indictments were found in Grand Forks
codnty by a jury whom Creel cannot
claim were prejudiced against him.
SECRETARY CALDERwooD's LETTER.
Following is the letter of Victor Il. CAL
derwood, the faithful and efficient secre-
tary ofthe farmers alliance, who declined
to be used as a catspaw for Creel to pull
out the political chestnuts. 1t is a fair
and impartial statement of facts, and sew
eral members of the alliance have in
formed us that every word OF it is true:
II. e. Hansbrouqh, Editor Intcr-Occon
DEAR SIR: Please allow me, through
your columns, to say a few words to
my friends and to the Farmers Alli-
ance to extricate myself from a false po-
sition into which I have been thrown
mot led by a fellow worker in the Farm
have Just beer informed that a call has
been issued for a Farmers Alliance con-
vention and that my name is attached to
the call. Perhaps 1 ought not to be sur
prised at this, but l confess I am SUR
prised more than a little, for I have had
no intimation that such a movement was
on foot. I have not had the pleasure Of
seeing the %"call." and when I asked my
informant the object of the Convention
he seemed to haye no clear idea further
than that it was probably to get the in
dorsement of the Alliance for Mr.. Creel,
as a candidate for the legislature. I had
not intended to oppose Mr.. Creel, but l
am forced to say l do not consider him q
fit representative of the people after this
act of t%reachery. This is not a personal
matter.
1 will O show wherein he has be-
trayed the Alliance. AS early as June
IA. the Farmers Alliance of Walsh coun-
ty invited the Ramsey county alliance to
send delegates to Park River to meet
them and take part in discussions and
deliberations, with a view to organizing
for concerted action in the political cam
paign this fall. At the time this COM
munlcation came our alliance was
pressed with business and our president
was so lax in holding the meeting to or
der that l could not get an opportunity
to present the matter to the alliance III
open session. But at the earliest oppor-
tunity l laid the matter before Mr.. Creel
and some of the leading members OF the
afford to slight such All invitation,
coming as it did from an older and
more powerful organization than our
selves and in such a kindly manner
Mr.. Creel replied that we ought not to
slight it, but we were 'too young and
weak to think of entering the political
field, and that sit would only create a di-
vision and be a death-blow to our ALI
ance." He also said he would write them
a 'letter of thanks" etc. I found that
this opinion prevailed to some
tent among the members, so I wrote to
the Walsh county alliance %excusing our
inaction as best 1 could. AS to this cow
ardly action I had my own opinion, but
will not discuss the matter now. Other
invitations of the same character have
come from the same source, with the
| same result.
On the first of October the Walsh
ty Farmers Alliance held its convention
and we were not represented, and that
was not their fault. And now our ALI
ance is called to meet in convention, by