Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-04-13

CITY Times. Record and the hotel
dead-beat's paper at Fargo have be-
gun the tactics they employed so sue
cessfully in bulldozing enough mem
bers Of the House to cause a recon-
sideration of the Cowan impeach-
ment matter. No one has ever
claimed that there was any cause
for the changing of those votes
save the conspiracy Of the guiding
lights of the papers named, who
made great hullabaloo about the
matter, getting up few "indigna-
ton meetings. packed with people
of their ilk. and using the most
utterly outrageous and unfair meth
DDS for procuring a reversal OF the
action Of the House lit cannot be
said that any subsequent new light
on the case changed the votes OF
the House members referred to, as
everything that was brought out
when Chairman Jordahl read to the
House summary of the evidence
that was given in the affidavits was
published in the columns Of the news
papers above mentioned, before
such summary was placed before
the House. 1t was matter of COM
mon talk by the House members
while the three editors were roar
ing that, IN case the Senate should
fail to convict, the same bulldozing
tactics would be employed by them
against the members of the upper
body who refused to be coerced by
them The following article. taken
from the Fargo Forum. puts the mat
ter in the right form:
by their unfounded and sensa-
tional charges, and their recrimina-
tions ADMINISTRATORS and imaginary
persons. it appears that the oppo-
nents of Judge Cowan see the hand
writing on the wall and have begun
to hedge.
They are making bitter attacks
on certain senator's. and making
other desperate efforts to conceal
their disappointment at the evident
failure of a great majority of the
charges against the judge. They
are apparently endeavoring to Sc
cure a soft place to alight. and are
seeking to place the blame on some
one.
"The ghostin9 by some newspa-
pers and the celebrated quartet Of
Indignation meetings worked for
the interests Of the Cowan opposi-
ton in the House.
Some Of the members did the
weather-vane act. But it is doubt
full whether the efforts to ghost the
members of the senate will be so
successful. Of course there might
be an occasional member whom it
would be possible to bluff trifle,
but the majority would not be in
fluenced. They have seen the ridic-
ulous attitude in which certain
House members placed themselves,
and they will not be caught by any
such game.
Zone of the weaknesses of the
prosecution of Judge Cowan is the
with which the conten-
ton has been made for Charge 4,
which is the blanket charge on de-
layed cases.
In Charge 6 there are forty-nine
specifications on delayed cases. 1t
is natural to presume the prosecu-
ton picked out the forty-nine
strongest cases at their command.
If the Judge cannot be convicted on
that. number, why have a blanket
charge to raise the lid for the six
thousand or more actions he has
heard during the ten years he has
been on the district bench? Why
place the state at more epxense, and
the members of the senate at still
greater inconvenience?
1.-THE testimony in the delayed
cases has been neither strong nor
convincing. Some of the attorneys
who were called as witnesses have
not protested because of delay. If
the attorneys and litigants are mott
dissatisfied, what interest is it to the
rest of the people-especially those
the district? .
"Some Of the testimony in the de-
layed cases was so inconclusive that
the attorneys for the defense did not
even deem it of sufficient import
ance to cross-examine the witnesses.
The great hue-and-cry of the
anti owanites that witnesses we're
being tempered with fell fiat, as
have their other alleged sensations. %