Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-10-23
"Still Another.

From The Valley City Patriot.
The author of those false and ma
licions ARTICLES concerning Judge
Rose. which have been appearing
periodically in the Times-Record dur
ing the past few months, had another
one in that paper on Thursday even
ing Oct. 1st, entitled "Still Another
in which he vents his spleen in his
usual manner. He states that Judge
Rose was elected county attorney in
1895. of Stutsman county, and that
the old Wallace case was then pend
ing. This statement is correct. Judge
Rose was elected district attorney of
Stutsman county that year over S. L.
Glaspell, his opponent, and Judge
Rose experienced during that cam
paign just such abuse as he is experi-
cncing the present one. He further
says ''the judge tried the case and
lost" and afterwards tried the case
again in the Territorial Supreme
Court and lost again. These two
statements are true. The case was
tried in the district court and was
decided in favor of Wallace, an ap-
peal was then taken to the Territorial
Supreme Court and the case was
decided in favor of Wallace. Judge
Rose tried the case before the district
court then appealed it to the Terrific
rial Supreme Court.
The case was tried on the part of
Wallace by Dodge & Camp and Jno.
S. Watson in the lower court, and
was assisted in the trial of the case in
the supreme court by two lawyers
from Pennsylvania, one from Pittsburg
and the other from New Castle.
Judge Rose then appealed the case
to the supreme court of the United
States. While the appeal was pend
ing Judge Rose was appointed Asso-
ciate Justice of the Territory of Da-
kota and resigned his Office of county
attorney and recommended to the
county commissioners of Stutman
county that they employ Judge Dillon
of New York City, to attend to the
case in the U. S. Supreme Court. The
board acted upon Judge Roses re-
commentator and authorized him to
employ Judge Dillon, which he did.
The author of this article would
have his readers believe that Judge
Dillon was employed by the board be-
fore the case was appealed and be-
cause Judge Rose was not competent
to attend to the case there.
Judge Dillon won the case and
Stutsman county was saved at least
$4,000 by a favorable decision OF
that case. and each and every county
along the line of the N. r. r. r. was
saved paying for the tax certificates
large amounts.
Notwithstanding the statements
made by the author of that article. ii
was due to the untiring and unceasing
efforts of Judge Rose that the Wal
lace case was won for the county OF
Stutsman, and the people of not only
Stutsman county but of all the coun-
ties interested in the decision Of that
case gave him much credit for the
part he took in the case. It was
estimated at the time that the decision
of the case would save the state from
$500, 600 to s500.000.
The author of the article states that
Judge Rose advised the board to raise
his salary from 81. 100 to 81 800, which
is not true.
He states that the Judge ''had the
effrontery to claim credit for this, but
he went wrong in every move.''
Now. the facts in this case were all
agreed to in a stipulation: and the
question was a purely one, of the con
struction of the statute. and one could
not go wrong. except in the construc
tion of the law. and the fact that the
United States supreme court put tht
same construction upon the statute