Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-07-02

rotten circular. futile Exposed, .
! is the Identical person who procured
J. from Mr.. Tuttie;s prosecutor the ma
lic;ous screed that Mr.. Patterson pub
iished just before election. knowing
thai il VAS one OF those subjects
which. wherever the right might be,
Icould not be discussed. This is the
man who. you say, wili make = clean
and honorable record in the Iegisla-
ture. And you, yourself. told Col.
Tuttle in Bismarck. since election.
that you did not approve such work.
4 Though man entirely honest In
lpriyate life and in business deals
albeit recognizing the big end OF a
bargain as quickly asany une-you are
the same in your political methods
now that you we're sixteen years ago.
when you were the friend Of a man
who paid $50 in an attempt to bribe
the voters Of precinct. and when
you yourself were mulcted in costs for
the most outrageous political deal
that ever happened in the county
the attempt By you, as member Of
the county board, to disfranchise the
voters OF the entire precinct OF SELF,
for which you and Commis sioner Van
Beck were compelled To pay costs for
your funny business and made.to re-
turn home and count the votes OF the
men OF SELF that couldn't be bribed.
o yes, friend Campbell. you We been
a nice. clean ''reformers during your
long connection with politics in this
county.
Asto your connection with the State
Live Stock Board know nothing, ex-
cept that you and Senator Macdonald
opposed Gov. Sarles two years ago at
the election, and as q reward the dem
ocratic governor thereafter appointed
you to an important position.
| You refer to my having personal
enemies Any outspoken editor
has personal enemies particularly one
who calls things by their right names
as the Record editor did when refer
ring to your attempt to disfranchise
SELF precinct, in the long-ago.
And what will you do in the coming
campaign c. A. Johnson-one Of the
twenty-three House republicans, who.
in the legislature lof which was one).
refused to ''insurge' two years ago.
and who vent down to sure defeat as
their candidate for speaker OF the
House-has been chosen by fifteen
thousand as the republican candidate
for governor: What will you do this
year: Can you desert the democratic
governor who is feeding you official
pap and vote for Charlie johnson?
That is, Can you do so without being
an migrate:
To read your account Of your ap-
polntment, one would think that the
Campbell family are the only sheep
experts in the state. 1t is probable
that. had you not supported Gov.
Burke at the polls in 1906, he would
have managed to worry along with
democratic sheepman on the Live
Stock Board?
do not deny the ''expertnessn OF
the Campbell family as Sheep men.
From personal experience, when l
was farming up near old Williams
port. / know that at least one Of 'em
can dispose Of three-dollar buck for
ten-dollar note to greenhorn in
the sheep business. about as neatly
as any one ever knew.
conclusion as you have intimated
that ! was political puppet, ETC.,
will you please stand up and let me
ask you few questions?
| DO you know a dishonest act ON my
part since came to this county?
Was ! not outspoken against the
robbery OF Cherry Grove when that
school district needed friends to pro-
tect it from robbers, when A. b. Pc
terson was the only square man Of the
officers, and when, to protect our
selves from further robbery-I at that
time being a voter In tnat district
Robert Buchanan and myself appeared
before the county board and got them
to segregate Buchanan district from
Cherry Grove?
When Van Beek's bribery OF SELF
precinct took place, was it you or l
that was to lose from the bribery, and
did you not do your level best to have
the case settled without punishment
OF the Chief offender? DO you re-
member that Streeter was one Of the
men to he defeated by that bribery:
Have you ever known Of Strectcr
going about the county seeking to buy
up precincts or voters:
When you and Van Beck stroye TO
dtsfranchise the German voters Of SELF
by throwing out their precinct, whs
stood up for them In his newspaper
and In every other way? Wasn't 1t
Streeter:
When Commissioners Macdonald
and Baxter, a dozen years ago. set
tied the N. r. taxes-wten the work
was done principally by them with n.
r. Tax Agent Schwartz out by the
coutt -house well-curb in Williams
port, without taking Commissioner