Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1912-10-03
that DISBARMENT MATTER
Linton. N. D. Sept. %.

To the Public.
1T will be remembered that twe
years ago. and just before election
Mr.. Herolz and his friends were GU,
before the voters with 4 story TO The
effect that the Hackney Boyntor
Company were about to file charge:
and have me disbarred and jailed 70,
certain offenses that | had commit.
ted in purchasing titles in which tina,
company vas interested. and, a,
two years have rolled around and
am still outside the states bastiie.
they have been compelled to get
something more effectual with which
to persuade the voters that they
shouldn't vote for me. now have
the real charges before me-a mas.
terly production, in which am
charged with most cruelty wronginR
this helpless corporation by buying
title to lands that they claimed to
own and did not own-the same old
claims that have been thrashed out
in court, in which they were the
losers.
Accusations in the Supreme Court
sound bad. and they are supposed to
be great political medicine il sprung
at the right time.
Three attorneys of Fargo sign the
charges. and say they make them .on
information and belief" on behalf of
two gentlemen in the Holland settle.
ment; but the gentlemen do not sign
them or swear to them. The at
torneys verify on information and
belief; and. as cannot prove they
have not been informed or disprove
that they believe the charges, there
is no one that has committed perjury
in relation to the matters stated that
are not true. A very ingenious doc
ument, but it will not serve the pur.
pose The attorneys make and sub.
scribe the charges on July 10th, but
do not file them in the court until
Sept. 18th. The term Of court is
now being held at the state capital.
and matters to be heard at that
term must be filed twenty-five DAYS
previously; SO these accusations 20
over until next spring. Had these
filed the charges in July.
when they made them. l could have
brought them to q hearing, and
could either have broken into iajl.
beer disbarred or freed from these
charges; but. evidently, the filing Of
the charges was delayed that they
would be pending and undetermined
at election time. Regardless of what
the charges purport to be, they are
the charges Of the Hackney Boynton
Land Company and their agent and
defender. G. A. Herolz, and they
have been prepared with especial
care TO make them good campaign
dope. These charges were prepared
for publication. no doubt, and will be
just before election. and I
wish to say in advance that the
charges do not express half the ia.
tired and contempt that the Hackney
Boynton millionaires and Mr.. Herolz
have for me ever since | refused 10
let them walk off with this land and
the just taxes that were due the
county. These five multi-million.
aires and the get-rich-quick artist
have for the past two years done
everything possible to force me Ia a
settlement that would give them land
that the courts had decided WA
mine. and thereby allow them to de-
fraud the county out of it's just tax
es; but, with all their attacks, / as
sure you have no intention Of sur.
rendering my rights to them. or
waver in my attempt to secure from
them the taxes due the county. Up
to the present slime they have had