The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-05-02


came over to his side Of the table
and put his arms around his neck.
Judge Cowan himself, in his open
ing address TO the senate, said ne
would be willing to admit he was
drunk IL he ever did such thing to
Scott Rex. Mr.. Cuthbert called at
tention, also in this connection, to the
cold personality Of Mr.. Rex, and said
he did not think any senator would
entertain the thought that the Grand
Forks attorney would inspire that
| friendly confidence nor intimacy Of
any man to permit him to ever go so
far as to put his arm around his neck
or on his shoulder "in that friendly
SORT o. way"
To Send cowan to He'll.
"Those incidents were the two
things they hoped to send Cowan to
hell on" said Mr.. Cuthbert. but we
have disproven them so there can
be no lingering doubt in anyone's mind
about the untruthfulness with which
they were stated"
BY Witnesses Curtis, a Hampden
editor; Milton Crary, postmaster at
Edmore: and Morrissy, another en-
ploye of Uncle Sam, he said they
had proven that Judge Cowan was
not even in Lakota on the date set
forth in the specification, but on the
following day, when a number Of other
people had testified they had seen him
at different times during that on the
streets and that he was perfectly
sober.
All these facts could be substanti-
ated by data on file In the postoffice
at Edmore, which was sufficient proof
of the untruthfulness Of the state
ments made by the witnesses for the
prosecution.
Brennan, Another William Pitt.
"The eulogy my friend Mr.. sinkler
paid to Dan Brennan" shouted Cuth-
bert, was magnificent. SO far as this
case Is concerned, Dan don't amount
to that" and he snapped his fingers.
Except to be the tool Of Foxy Joe
Kelly" he continued. II don't know
what the prosecution thinks about
him. George Bangs says he is a kid
Sinkler spent twenty minutes trying
to show you he was another William
Pitt"
Then he stopped a minute until the
laughter had subsidized. II will tell you
what I think about him in a very
few words" volunteered the counsel.
You remember Harry Thaw? The
doctors defined his case as eXaggerat-
ed ego. / don't know just what that
is, but what Harry Thaw had was
mild compared to what Dan has got.
Dan needs the same kind of treat
ment."
Student of Wehe.
He spoke Of the testimony of Mon
roe Branchfower, whom he called "the
student of Wehe," and Witness
Maurer, whose statements had been
entirely disproven by the court records
which had been brought down to Bis
marck and which showed that they
were untruthful
Many details were given about the
drunks of Judge Cowan in
the Vanderhoof hotel, the night he
was said to have been heard singing
Scotch songs in the little alcove off
tl73 main diningroom of the hotel.
was made to the testimony
also of Attorneys Ed Flynn and Fred
Duggin, the attorneys for Joe Kelly's
railroad and the Great Northern, and
he said they had gone upstairs with
Judge Cowan to talk over a motion,
and because the Judge would not de-
eide it then and there without hearing
the other side first, brought out in the
testimony of Witness Stenson, they
declared him intoxicated.
When He Took the Stand.
Mr.. Cuthbert said, when he went on
the stand, it was as a sworn citizen
under oath, and not as a friend nor
as a counsel for the defendant. He
said he had spoken the truth and stat
ed he did think Judge Cowan had had
a drink during the noon hour one day,
but was not at all intoxicated so that
he could not sit on the bench and de-
eide on the case then before him.
He said he wasn't like George Han
cock Of Fargo, whom he called poor
dribbling idiot" who was under the
training with Brennan
"Diek Croker" Kelly and Miller.
Joe Kelly and Attorney General Mil
Ter both came in for a good share of
encomiums used in the opposite sense.
The former Counselor Cuthbert brand
ed the Dick Croker Of Devils Lake
and North Dakota who, he declared,
wanted to remove Judge during the
construction Of a railroad.
Likening the present situation to the
great drama Of Charles Klein, The
Lion and The Mouse, he said the Cow
an case was but a repetition of that
strong play in real life. Instead of
pushing this great impeachment case,
he thought Mr.. Kelly ought to devote
his railroad receipts into the proper
channels.
Il suppose the stockholders Of the
Farmers railroad will have to go
another ten years without dividends"
he said 81 think the Dick Croker of
Devils Lake ought to give the farmers
whose lands he took from them, divi-
dends instead of trying to get judge
who suits him."
Wading into the attorney general,
he declared that Devils Lake was JUST
as clean a little city as could be found
in North Dakota, and a whole lot
cleaner than some towns not a thous-
and miles from where he stood, with
my compliments to Attorney General
Miller"
Kelly Names the Judges.
Referring to Joe Kelly again, and his
attitude as a Richard Croker, the
once corrupt leader of Tammany halls,
he said he had high respect for a good,
clean democrat who came ont and