Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1898-03-04

h6 AOIOWluS cAtTW:t ~ thkcu IEOIn II.
NJ. Tuttle's Mandan Pioneer. The chief
points Of Tuttle's screed we print in
iralic. Read the paragraph over care
fully, ye taxpayers Of Emmons and Kid.
der counties. And, while reading it, re.
member that it was written by man
who is one of the principal tax-eaters of
the Sixth district-a man to whom, with
out any voice in his selection, the tax
payers and ltigants Of this district are
compelled each year to pay thousands of
dollars. Remember. too, that the man
who wrote the extract is the official Ste
nographer Of our district court, and tha,
we shall be entirely dependent upon his
shorthand notes for the record to be
taken to the state supreme court by the
party losing in the lower court. The
man who shows such venom against q
stranger, simply because such stranger
represents the people of two counties who
are at law with the Northern Pacific, is
not legally competent to act as stenogra-
pher in the case at ISSUE If Mr.. Baker
doesn't protest against Tuttle acting as
stenographer, it will be because Tuttle is
not as we'll known to Mr.. Baker az he IS
to the people of the Missouri Slope. Fol-
lowing is what the Mandan miser and
blood-sucker has to say Of Mr.. Baker:
Many people have been watching with
good deal Oe interest the initial steps in
the proceedings by which man named
Fred Baker. of Detroit, Mich, was to &C,
as attorney for Kidder and Emmons
counties in their fight against the North
ern Pacific in the matter Of back taxes
alleged to be due. Detroit is big place,
and has the reputation for possessing
some excellent and level-headed lawyers
The assumption has been, until recently,
that Baker was one of these. But, alas
Ue must change our views. The papers
tell US that Baker holds mortgage on
property belonging to one Baldwin, on
which there is due the sum of 1894
Baldwin rendered Baker 384 silver dollars
in payment. 1t appears that Baker ia
chairman OF the democratic state commit
tee: He wanted gold for bis mortgage.
for decree to make Baker take the
great white dollars and cancel the mort
gage. The incident also teaches
No good lawyer secke trouble. No man
who is fairly sane. looks for lawsuits.
The inference is that Baker is not uH0zlY
sane. The good people of Emmons and
Kidder counties are not to be c0nQrQtu-
lated on the kind of man fheY haze ch0-
sen to conduct their litigation. They are
TO be c0mmise1ated:' and before they get
through they wiH probably realize that it
pays better to hire a good lawyer and pan
$4XE GHE1P J0HT x w1o - IS sN1a uiitiag lii Il 10
uOrk for nothing. :
Emmons county people know but little
and care less-sbout Mr.. Bakers sui,
in Michigan. All we care about is his
standing as an attorney, and that is Oh
too firm a foundation to be shaken by
Tuttle or any other striker for the N. P.
And the fact that he 10 chairman of the
state committee of one of the two promi-
nent parties in Michigan does not seem
to show that he is the nobody which q
divorce:colopy steerer states he is. As to
refusing dollar-of any kind for any
thing-it is not strange that such thing
is incomprehensible to the Mandan Chi
naman who has profound respect for at
least one American institutiou-the Dol
lar,