Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1893-06-02

pay or deliver any money or property for
any purpose intended to promote the
election of any candidate etc. The
jury also brought IN an indictment
against John Miller for receiving money
for election purposes--which seems to an
outsider to be about stand-of The
cases rent Oper, and of course that is the
last that uiH be heard of en-"
Our readers will remember that when
number of duly-elected officers Of this
county were making fight against the
returning board, last winter, the Bis
marck Tribune was as unfriendly to right
and justice as the above article proves
it to be now. 1t is generally understood
that justice ls blind but the citizens of
this county who have made hard and
80 far successful fight for a fair ballot
and an honest count, when they contem-
plate certain Bismarck influences that
have stealthily worked against them.
are led to belisve that some folks in
the Capital City would fam have the
goddess wear spectacles with only one
glass, and use scales with a one.sided
droop.
The citizens Of this county had thought
that they were spending time and money
to the end that no rascal would in fu.
turs attempt to bribe voters or throw out
votes, and they wanted the guilty pun.
lshed and the innocent to go free but
the youthful Jimmy Fresh who is "learn.
ing his trade" in the local columns of the
Slopes only daily seems to know all
about it. and tells US that ''of course tina,
is the last that will be heard of en-" II
the local editor Of the Bisharck Tribune
Lis q mind-reader, why not establish .
psychological court in the Capital City
with the young egotist as sole and only
Judge, and with no right Of appeal given
The Record would ask from wha
source did the Tribune obtain Its informa
tion regarding the alleged indictments
Section 8418 of the Compiled Laws 1S87
reads as follows: every grand juror
district attorney, clerk, judge or othe
officer who, excepting by lssuing or il
executing warrant to arrest the defend
ant, wlllfully discloses the fact of pre-
sentiment Or indictment having beer
made for felony, until the defendan
has been arrested, Is guilty of mlsde
meanor." Now, the editor Of this pape
is clerk of the district court and the Gus
todian Of all true bills found by grane
jury, and be has given the Tribune no in
formation whatever. Verify, the loca
editor Of that paper must be mind
reader.
As to the statement about stand. of.
We believe the Tribuge will agree witt
1s that there Is vast difference betwee,
the man who enters into d Conspiracy t,
brlbe voters and the man who takes tn
bribers' money, calls in his neighbors
makes the matter public and informs th,
proper officers2 Does not the Tribun,
know that there are numerous precedent.
showing that the question of intent GOV
erns?
As to the assertion that there was
"bare quorum" Of the grand jury present
the Record will state that only twenty
grand jurors were called that one wa
absent, two were not full citizens, anG
one was in court with case of hi
own. If the local editor of the Tribune
knows anything, he must know that al
indictment can be found only by th,
votes of twelve grand jurors, and that th'
smaller the grand jury the stronger mus
be the evidence to procure an indictment
The misstatements and bias of tn
Tribune will have no effect in Emmon
county. The newspaper that will attemp
to influence public opinion in a case be
fore the court, by false and misleading
statement and implication, Is beneath con
tempt.
| There is no desire among the people o
this county to oppress or unduly punisl
any one but they have had marrow
escape from the clutches of an unprinci
pied ring--a ring which, if bribery ant
the disfranchising of precincts had pre-
vailed, they never could have overthrown
And, believing as they do that those win
are responsible for the trouble and ex
pense outgrowlng from the bribery AM
the returning board incidents will here
after be closely watched by the voters
they will not wish to see one man undul,
punished as the scapegoat for half
dozen Of consplraters. What the people
of this county want 10 a guarantee tha
their right to free ballot aud fai
count--without which popular govern
ment is farce--shall never again be ieep
ardized. This guarantee, rather tha'
the excessive punishment of any man.
what thy ask.
| If th' Tribune local"
hgur'' Kindly !