Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-03-05
B. ". FULLER.
Our Prominent (?) State Sena-
tor in the Role of Thug.
His Bluff Called.
Methods of His Associates in
Defending the Archibald
Management.
Fuller'S Evidence Turns Out
to be His Word
Only.

Saturday evening last in the Office of
the Gladstone Hotel, during an ap-
parently friendly conversation. b. W.
Fuller suddenly and without provcation
began applying an assortment OF vile
terms of personal abuse to the editor of
this paper. The epithets, unfit for pub
licatlon, were accompanied by torrent
of oaths and slanderous language, and
false accusations, one Of which was that
the Alert publisher was blackmailer
and that he, Fuller, had the evidence Of
the same.
AS be has seen fit to express his opin-
ion in public attack of this kind, in re-
ply to the same, it Is the opinion of The
Alert that B. w. Fuller is 6-foot bully
and coward; briber of men, and de-
famer of the good character of women; a
man unfit morally, mentally or socially
to represent any decent community, in
any Office of honor or trust; an envlous,
malicious, and vindictive man, who Is
welcome to make public any "evidence"
OF his charge, and any truthful state
ment concerning it.
THEIR METHODS.
Since the beginning of the hospital
investigation the public has had several
exhibitions of the tactics employed by
several parties prominent ip the investl-
CATION and representing the Archibald
interests. They not only have attempted
to conduct one.sided investigation, but
to bulldoze and intimidate if possible
any person who endeavored to give any
information of facts which reflected in
any manner upon the conduct OF the old
management of the asylum. This state
ment is warranted by events that have
occurred during the process Of the in
vestigation and since.
The first instance of an antagonistlc
feeling was shown in Examiner Langlie's
refusal t. allow Mr.. Bur1ster, The Alert
city editor, access to the public type writ
ten testimony which had been taken in
his absence; which refusal was on the
alleged grounds that The Alert had not
been treating them, referring to the in
vestigation and the asylum, fairly. The
Alert had simply been taking the testi-
mony as gwen, and publishing it in de-
tail, with an occasional temperate COM
ment.
On the same day another instance
occurred in the threat of Trustee Nc
Ginnis to throw Mr.. e. p. Wells out OF
the window, on the grounds OF interfer'
ing with the action of a witness, while
the fact was that MIR. Wells had simply
suggested the advisability of reading
testimony before signing. Another in-
stance was the attack of Sheriff Eddy on
Mr.. Burgster at the court house, on the
pretext of objecting 10 small compile
mentary notice of the wedding OF Mr.
Eddy's daughter, published in The Alert
the day previous. It is believed by
many that Mr.. Eddy has been acting in
sympathy and cooperation with the old
asylum management and the excuse
given was not the real motive for the
attack. The last instance Of this sort of
conduct was seen Saturday evening in
the uncalled for abuse OF the publisher
of The Alert in the Gladstone hotel
The public can form its own conclu-
- ~ ~ hok
needs this kind OF methods to uphold
and defend it.
ALL ARE UNTRUE.
In The Alert of Monday, e. w. Full
ler was challenged to publish any evi-
dence OF his charge that The Alert pub.
Usher was guilty Of blackmail, which
evidence be, Fuller, publicly claimed to
have in his safe. He has failed to pro-
duce it because be has none to produce,
and further, because there is no founda-
ton for the charge and therefore stands
self convicted OF lying. His statement
that The Alert some years ago took $500,
from elevator companies to cease show
ing up their we'll known methods Of do
ing business, is based on his mere word,
and is utterly false; and the further as
sertion that The Alert has printed moth
ing against the elevators since 10 also
false, as every reader knows and as the
files Of the paper from year to year show.
His further statement that we asked
for any sum Of money, to support him
as candidate against Frey in 1889, is
also unqualiiedly untrue.
His charge that We made an insulting
remark about a member OF the Salvation
army Is again false. At the time OF bis
attack Saturday last there was not the