The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-30
B /, Weld WRITES ANOTHER LETTER
TO EXCONGRESSMAN' sPALD|NG

Surely 1t could not have been be-
cause you were given your fill at the
public trough?
/ read your circular of novels on
Alaska, to which you refer, with much
pleasure and have to thank you q
suppose you) for advance copies but
have taken the pains to inquire about
the writer of the same, and desire to
know whether he is the same REX"
who played in the variety houses of
Alaska?
Does some one claim to carry the
supreme court in his pocket? Certainly
no one ever, hereabouts, heard of it
except, that one of our county papers,
apparently a supporter of yours, used
to tell us what all the courts would
do, put 1t does that no more.
You don't mention whom the courts
have so miserably branded, and can
only guess by inference. But having
been out west once and having be-
come little familiar with mines and
heard about how some of the coast
Judges belong to and own or are own
ed, body and soul, by some of the sky
scrapel" mining syndicates, l am not
surprised at the assertion of ATTORNEY
General Knox, that the San Francisco
court has perpetrated one of the most
nigh handed, outrageous travesties on
Justice, known since the fifteenth CEN
tury, when that court surreptitiously
sent one of our citizens to Jail.
Now, is not this man Winship, whom
you dlsoWn as a member of your
league, the same fellow who runs the
printing outfit at Grand Forks?
Is he not the same fellow, who with
one or two other printers, have mo-
nopollzed the state printing and grab
PED the state for many thousands of
dollars! II l remember Alright, once,
Wnen was at Bismarck, someone was
going to introduce bill to investigate
Winship and the state printing. Is
this the same Winship?
You ask If it is not time, when the
reputation of men become bad, to re-
form men and parties Why, really it
should depend upon who attempts to
blacken the character of the men. If
those who attempt to throw the black
cannot honestly follow the saying of
our divine Savior, viz:
Let MIN who is without sin cast
the first stone" Then think little or
no need should be paid to the rot
given. instead, not many years ago
man, running for Office in this dis
trlct, was besmeared with slime head
ana shoulders above his maligners, for
every mouthful of the filth spewed
at MIN was as false as the calumina-
tors. So, like to find out the char
acter OF him who throws the dye. And
now is not this fellow, Winship, cir
cuIatlng lot OF those Alaska novels?
would you not also explain to me
now If fhnf f,,ct hoe
eress, at which you last attended as n
member, adjourned, you voted for the
congressman's salary grab, after the
united States government had fixed
your salary? Just tell me was this
graft? 1t amounted to something like
$500 or $500 to you, did that influence
you in voting for the graft bill, when
the senate stood as the watchdog" of
the treasury and sounded the death
knell of the bill? 1t appeared to be a
bill prepared to feed a lot of hungry
congressman, not returned by their
party. If am wrong you will tell
me, won't you?
You complain of the capitol COM
mission. Now, really, was this bill not
killed by supreme court of three
members, two of whom were selected
by the republican convention which
turned you down, and as you admitted,
made you sore. Don't the supreme
court constitute part of our state
government?
A great modern building in North
Dakota, might not be wholly needed,
just this year. but believe that you
will not regret that our western state
is RAPIDLY reaching a point in its de-