The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-06-15

gang caTdS M LalK is ndTuly COLI
sistent in face Of the facts, you
having held Office eight years.
Bartz four years and with two
more years to hold as public adj
ministrator. I find that Bartz is
knocking you over in the east end
and says that you are not the right
man for the place. He is not 60
ing to help you out any over there
All he is interested in is to knock
Waydeman out. He cares for
nothing else and that is the reason
so many of the delegates were
selected from the Martin pre- cinct.
I find now that a lot of these dele
gates are of questionable character
and do not stand we'll in their own
communities where they should be
popular. The Germans are not
going to give us their solid support
and we have only Charley and
O'Hare working up northwest and
around. There are too many old
timers to tell what Snake Greek
Charley is.
Lamb and Mcculloch: I'm
thru with all these issues and fell
lows and from now on will be for
myself. +.
McCulloch to Lamb: Yes, that
is right. We will lay low and put
the other fellows off their guard and
then get out and do business the
last thing. No use trying to hold
up Beck any more than necessary.
He and his fraud and deals are in
juring us. We are in poor COM
pany. That Dan Herman is doing
a lot of blowing and everybody
knows he has been up for burning
hay and shooting stock and that he
is guilty of getting a lot of his
neighbors into trouble on account
of protesting their proofs. He
should have been put off the ticket
or never mentioned. Christ Heer
is another one that has a lot
of trouble with his neighbors. We
have been unable to show up
anything that will stick against the
old gangand we had better center
all our efforts on you and see if we
can't carry you thru,
Lamb to Mcculloch: Yes. They
are. commencing to talk about
your connection with the prosecu-
ton of that box car merchants too
where Attorney Gibson was called
to prosecute.
Beck to McCulloch: I hear that
Waydeman skinned Bartz in all
the school elections upinthe north
east country. The Germans are
commencing to tire of the Good
Government League since you had
the name change to the Roose-
welt club. They are very sensitive
on this and do not like it in the
least bit. When you go to Good
rich Saturday you will have to
straighten this matter out and you
will deny that there has been any
changes made and you will also
have to explain what you done
while states attorney about adj
vising the board to buy those dip
ping tanks and having the taxes Of
the Washburn road reduced. They
will want to know what you &C
complished and did for that
$3,163 you drew as a salary and
what your assistants did for the
$547. You better go prepared for
they will try and get after you and
break you up and make you ap-
pear ridiculous in the eyes of the
people. They will want facts.
You know it looks bad to haye
those anti-gang cards and litera-
ture distributed around with such
men as Lamb and Bartz on the
ticket and with you giving them
active support
McCulloch to Beck: You have
tried to make too much campaign
thunder out of this Larron case
and that gave them a good basis
for a change ofvenue. This change
of<venue is going to make a lot Of
more expenses for the county. The
county will get out with nothing
less than $1,000 additional ex-
penses. The Seivert case a year
ago, cost the county $1,000 by
having a change of venue taken to
Burleigh county. If you had
known enough to keep still about
this until after the trial there
would have been no change and il
convicted it would have been q
feather in your cap. Now it il
going to work differently. You
talked too much about it and toe
early. This change Of venue is
going to make this a mighty ex.
pensive coat for the county which
was worth less than S..
Beck to McCulloch: By all
means when you get to Goodrich
and along the road don't be a talk.
ing about the Roosevelt Club, say