Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-16
CALHOUN'S SERVICES.
The Democrats Dismal Ef-
fort to Use Them as Argu-
ment Against Rhodes.

1t Is we'll known that d. T.. Cal
houn was employed to aid th'
county attorney In the cases agains
Thayer. and was employed as specia
counsel by the city tn have charge o
the cases with the Electric
Water company.
From the Importance of the cases
we believe that the county and city
were both justified in obtaining as
sistancc. and there IL no coub,
whatever but that the aid woulC
have been secured just the same Il
Lyon or any other man had been
county attorney.
In the Thayer cases several
thousand dollars were involved
Lindbergh, Blanchard & LindDergll
are Thayer's attorneys. and Tor
years have done all his business In
the county, which had probably az
gregated more than the legal bust
ness done for any other person or
corporation, yet when this ca Sc ca me
up for consideration Mr.. Thayer
employed the firm of Davis, kellogg
4 severance. OF st. Paul. Of which
Senator Davis IL u member. and
Judge Fish, OF Minneapolis. to assist
Lindbergh, Blanchard 4 Lindbergh.
There is no question us t. the con-
tidence that Thayer has in Lind
bergn, Blanchard & Lindbergh, but
the amount involved in this case
was SO large that the best legal
talent in st. Paul and Minneapolis
was also employed. The board OF
county missioners did as any
individual would have done, regard
less of what Little Falls lawyer he
had, and that was to employ ud-
ditiornl legal help. MIR: Calhoun
was employed by the board OF COM
missiOners without consulting
Rhodes, and Calhoun aided In the
case. The case was won, and sue
cess ia about as good an endorse.
lnent as the con. missioners and at:
tOrnevs could ask for.
The citizens Of Little Falls under
stand Mr.. CalhOun's connection with
the Electric & Water company cases
and it Is we'll known
that All element OF the council that
was making war on the Electric &
Water company secretly employed
Mr.. Calhoun and had the papers
draw and presented To the council
before Mr.. Rhodes or half n dozen
people in the city knew anything
about the proposed action. Mr.. Cal
houn was made special Icounsel for
those cases, and the Transcript Is
not in the, confidence Of
Aldermen Martin, Mecusker, MOeg
lein and Smith sufficiently to ac-
curately discuss their program. One
thing is certain, that here again the
amount Of money and interests in
volved would justify considerable
for legal work. The
Electric 4 Water company has
always employed Lindbergh, Blanch-
ard 4 Lindbergh to do it's local
business. but that firm will certainly
be given the best legal tale mt in the
state to aid them in the contest in
the contracts at issue. 1t
is quite certain that the Electric &
Water company will spend as much
for legal work on this case alone as
the city will pay for all it's extra help
and regular attorney in any year.
From business standpoint the
county and city were prudent in
securing aid for whoever was cOun-
ty or city attorney. And a further
fact is that in neither matter were
Mr.. Rhodes wishes or desires con-
sidered; in both cases Mr.. Calhoun
was employed by the proper repre-
Of the county and city,
and before Mr.. Rhodes knew of their
Mr.. Rhodes has made such a good
county attorney that his record is
above criticism, so i. is attempted
to shoulder on him the acts of Others
of which he was ignorant and had
no responsibility for.
The men who did those acts were
justified in each case by the con-
ditions, but any discussion of that
question should not involve Mr..
Rhodes.