Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-10-06
TWO SPECIMEN CANAROS
METHODS PUR-
SUED IN BARNES COUNTY TO
DISCREDIT e. T. BURKE.

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This weeks issue of the Valley City
Alliance contains vicious attack
upon States Attorney E. L. Burke
OF Barnes County, The republican
candidate for Judge of this district.
Two articles are printed in the
paper charging Mr.. Burke with
neglect of his official duties as states
attorney, in an attempt to create an
adverse prejudice among people out
side of Barnes county, against Mr..
Burke. Prior to the nomination of
Mr.. Burke at the judicial conven-
tion, and during the campaign in
Barnes county for the county conven-
zion, the Alliance newspaper which
is republican in politics, was friendly
to Mr.. Burke and had no word to say
against either bis character or his
qualifications. What has caused the
sudden change in the attitude Of the
paper is matter of considerable
comment it is said, in Valley City,
for since the nomination and up to
the present week, nothing but an
impartial and friendly spirit has been
manifested towards Mr.. Burke's
candidacy by the paper.
One OF the articles in question is to
the effec; that Mr.. Burke, as states
attorney, advised that the prosecution
of an alleged horse stealing case De
dismissed. The case. as stated: was
that of a Barnes County farmer re-
siding near Valley City who claimed
to have lost by robbery, span of
horses and harness; that the sheriff
of the county had spent money to
apprehend the thieves, and that
after doing SO the states attorney ad-
vised that they be discharged.
The Alert is informed that the
facts in this case are substantially as
follows: Two young fellows, sons Of
prominent antilles, getting more
booze on BOARD than was good for
them. and in a sort of an escapade,
drove the horses away from the own
ers place. Afterwards the boys sober
ed up, seeing their wrong returned
the horses and harness and all the
property belonging to the farmer,
and offered to make what amends
they could. That there was 20 in
tent OF eobbery at that time, and
that a money restitution was offered
the farmer for the annoyance and
expense incurred in the escapade. A
full statement Of the case was made
in the justice court and it was
recommended by the owner, the
complaining witness, that the boys
be discharged from prosecution, and
the records of the justice courts and
the files OF the county substantiate
the above statement.
Another attack on the character
CT Mr.. Burke is that he has allowed q
house OF ill-fame to run in Barnes
county during the past year and that
it's keeper had one Of the Valley City
merchants deliver to Mr.. Burke an
overcoat for which garment she is
said to have paid. The inference
in this is that, as States Attorney,
Mr.. Burke is protecting illegal places
of that kind for pecuniary con-
sideration.
The Alert is also Informed that this
statement is made out OF whole cloth
this time overcoat cloth-and that
the merchant who sold the ove1coat
has given friends of Mr.. Burke an
affidavit to the effect that Mr.. Burke
bought the coat. and that no other
person or persons ordered the same,
and no other person than Mr.. Burke
paid for the same. Also that the
house above referred to was closed at
one time by the states attorney and
the fact that it had again started up
was not known.
AS a campaign canard. it IS PROB
ably the intention to give as wide a
CIRCULATION as possible to the articles
in the Alliance throughout the dis
trict. to injure the candidacy of MIR.
Burke, and in the manifest interests
of his opponent on the democratic
ticket: but when the facts become
known the attack will fail of its OBJ
iect and rebound, in the views OF all
reasonable and fair minded men. to
the credit of the person so attacked