The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-06-14
RANK ATTACK.



Tsh,naefife sheet Makes dnofher Ticiot,s and
UHprorokcd assault On Local Latcyers.
The Capital has IL again. About ev-
cry 80 cften IL breaks out on every |
thing and everybody This time It. has
focused its old worn blunderbuss on |
Judges Da'e, Bierer and Keaton On /
the gentle men 10 makes shameful |
and ineXcusablc attack Not only |
that, IL comments on case pending, |
which should cause the supreme court |
TO put the elongated assailer OF good |
mems characters in jail awhile TO let |
him sweat out.
The LEADER knows the cause OF the |
people Is just-that it will triumph. |
II was opposed TO re hearing. IL be.
lieves the supreme court should not |
have granted il. But we know the |
honor OF the judges too we'll to believe |
them herwise than perfectly honest |
in their action. We do not think, |
aside from the befogged, Ishmaelitish |
noodle-doodle OF the State Capital, |
there is a man in Guthrie who will say
Judges Dale, Bierer and Keaton would
do dishonorable act. There is no
tarnish upon their records. They
have lived irreproachable lives in
Guthrie and came here with the com.
mandatory endorsement of the people
whore they had previously lived.
The record Of these men in public
| life has been as upright as IN private.
No lawyer who ever practiccd before
them accused any one Of them OF ulte-
rior decisions. They went from the
bar 10 the bench with the good will Of
all, and came from the judiciary with
the strongest endorsement, spread
upon record, OF their public acts and
these endorsements from men who
know most about it, the lawyers who
had practiced before them.
The charge that these men were in
terested, while on the bench in any
contingent fee in these townsite cases
is peurile. When Bierer sold out to
Keaton, he sold his entire interest.
| When Keaton sold to c. c. Horner, he
sold his entire interest No contn.
gents were reserved. Dale dropped
Fitzgerald when he went on the
bench. These facts are known to all.
The acss OF these men are impair ial.
They were as conscientious in these
judgments as in any others, and Greer
Is the first one to accuse them OF inn
partiality in anything.
1t was but natural for these litigants
to go to these men fresh from the ac-
tivities Of the bench. Paine and Bock-
finger are not the only ones to do this.
The partnership OF Dale & Bierer
was pronounced from the first a very
strong Legal combination. Business
has gone to them, large cases in great
numbers, without the least solicita
tion. II was but recognition OF legal
merit. These townsite cases are of
great Importance. While the people
are eternally right and no talent can
beat them, surely no one will deny the
right Of Paine to fight for what he be-
lieves to be his rights. No one but a
bundle like Greer would dispute this.
Law is not made for one side. The
law and the courts are open alike to
all. Neither would any but a gam
grened poltog question the right OF
Z Paine to hire good lawyers, such as
, Cotteral, Dale q Bierer and Keaton.
! No one, either, not stepped in preiu-
dice would deny the right, in these en-
lightened and law respecting days, of
lawyer to accept the case o; ..ly
A client who had a right worthy OF legal
3 recognition.
5 There is mu h personal prejudice in
this assault of the State Capital Greer
has had it in for Dale for many years.
= He never gave him a word OF justice
And he feels about the same toward
, Bierer and Keaton. The STATE Capital
p has no use for men OF firm prominence
and merited popularity. There is pol
itics in it, too. Greer win stoop "a
I anything TO get political advantage
2 The people should call the State Cap
a ital down. Its fool action will iniure
r irretrlevably the cause it hypocritically
2 pretends to be championing