Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-10-27
ANOTHER CAMPAIGN
HOAX IS EXPOSED
Desperate Ends Which the GlaspeIl Managers Resort
to.---They Make Extensive Circulation of
False Report that e. T. Burke Had
Resigned as Candidate

Thursday the jamestown Capital
exceeded all its previous efforts tC
bunco its readers and misrepresent
the republican judicial candidate in
this campaign, by printing story in
loaded type with large head letters,
stating that e. T. Burke had resigned
as candidate for judge. The paper
also printed false and malicious
statement that Mr.. Burke had at
tended a meeting in Valley City in
which he admitted the fur coat
charges, and announced that he in
tended to withdraw from the race.
The story is false from beginning to
end and was started for the express
purpose of spreading such report
around the district in the hopes Of
discouraging and deceiving the
friends Of Mr.. Burke.
The only foundation for the story
is that Mr.. Burke and mis- friends
were informed in Valley City, by
parties who claimed to know that the
judicial committee desired Mr..
Burke's resignation, and that the
meeting of the judicial committee
was to be held at Jamestown yester-
day at which his resignation was to
be asked for, and new man placed
upon the ticket.
Without stopping to inquire more
closely into the probable truth Of
this fake, Mr.. Burke, accompanied
By his friends, Mayor Westcrgaard,
Of Valley City, who is chairman of
the republican county committee of
Barnes county; Attorney Zuger, who
is the republican candidate for
States Attorney, without opposition,
and Attorney E. W. Wright came to
jamestown yesterday morning. They
we're astounded to find that no meet
ing of the judicial committee had
been called, that none had ever been
considered, that the chairman and
secretary of the committee knew
nothing about the matter whatever,
and that the whole affair was cam
paign hoax.
Mr.. Burke had stated to friends
in Valley City that if the commit
tee desired his resignation, he Of
course felt in duty bound, to give it,
but when he learned Of the buDco
game that had been put up, he and
his friends were "hot under the
collar''
As to the meeting in Valley City
alleged BY the Capital there was no
meeting at all, and the whole yarn
as to acknowledging the truth about
the :ur coat story is simply ''bot
air." The Capital, in order to give
tho appearance OF truth to the story
printed the names of the judicial
committee Of the district in the
article, and deliberately stated that
the special meeting OF the committee
was called to act upon Mr.. Bdrke's
alleged resignation. For downright
nerve, this Is the limit.
The gentlemen returned to Valley
City last night and it is safe to say
they viii from now on redopble their
Efforts in Mr.. Burke's behalf and
look out for the campaign lie.
The scheme to bunco the voters
Of the district was hatched in Valley
City BY the political enemies OF Mr..
Burke, in the interests Of Glaspell.
the democratic candidate. The
public must remember that Mr..
Burke has bitter fight with men in
Barnes county, whom he has defeat
ed at the polls, who are older and
have had more experience in politics
and who are naturally sore at having
honors wrested from them by a
younger man.
To show that this scheme was
known to certain Glaspell supporters
long before it vas known to anybody
else, teleglams were sent yesterday
morning to various towns along the
500 and Northern Pacific and an
agent vas also sent along the 500
and the Northern Pacific to circulate
the story Of Burke's alleged with
drawal. 1t is reported that tins
messenger, with great gusto, made
the announcement from the steps ol
the car at New Rockford yesterday
afternoon.
The main trouble with the scheme
ana utter falsehood, is the fact tina,
it was sprong too early. People VIII
have plenty Of time 70 inform them