Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1912-10-24


clears proved that no such repre.
sentat ons were made, and ths
cnarg were thrown out of court.
| The opposition will undoub,etl,
issue an attack on me in the hope
that they will get the voters to find
me GU lty of these charges on their
bare atement of the facts. when
the CO 1T has decided adversely af-
ter he. ring the evidence.
As aid before. the charges IRE
sworn o by the attorneys on insl-
matio and belief and. as cannot
prove hat G. A. Herolz did not so
intctn the attorneys. and cannot
prove nat the attorneys did MT be-
lleve i'm, there is no one that is
guilty # perjury. and no one liable
in dan sges. The attorneys belief,
no dou It, is considerably biased by
the am ,unt of the fee that they viii
receive for swearing on informa-
ticn ar belle" the more the fee
the ST. enger the belief. Van Beck
and Van der Vorste do not swear to
it; so. hey are not guilty of perjury
or liahle in damages. Van Beck S
attitud in this matter may be some
what explained by the fact that sew
eral ye RS ago | successfully prose
cuted i'm and convicted him of cleo
ton bribery; and Van der Vorste
also remembers that, while he was
threatt ming neighbor who had lost
some " heat from his granary with
prosecution for SANDER, | went
to one of his sons and got him to
go hef, re the neighbor and confess
the lar eny of two loads of wheat
and tn. re settle for the same with
the neiN hbnr AS any HONORABLE e young
man sh 'uld do who had made first
mister of this Kind; but his father
never forgave me for the exposure
of the real facts. Now. desire to
state en- my belief" that G.. A.
Herolz is the real party who en-
ployed the attorneys in Fargo to
bring these charges against me, and
that the five Hackney Boynton mill
lonaires are the ones that are fur
nishing the money. and the charges
have been filed with the intention
of max ing campaign dope, and with
the hope of electing officers who will
assist these millionaires to retain
the money that they beat the county
out Of in 1901.
The opposition also wants me to
state whether am trading off Re
publican candidates for Democratic
support; and l will say that am
not making any such trades, but
will insist that have a right to
vote for my best interests as tax
payer. ! am not supporting MIR
Irwin, neither is he supporting me,
and so ar as | can learn none of the
stockholders of that bank
are supporting me. and for the fur
Their rea son that MIR. Irwin announced
in the barber shop as early as last
March, in referring to my first letter
the Hackney Boynton
land-gri b. that Lynn will never be
States Attorney again, any way
his ire being rutfled over the expo
sure had made of G. A. Herolz.
Now. this is all a personal matter
with me; but there are other
reasons do not believe it good
policy to place an officer of a bank
in the county treasurer's office while
the bank has over $l0,O00.00 of the
county's money in its business
MIR. Irwin and G. a. Herolz are
stockholders in the same
bank, and Irwin is a stanch sup
porter and justifier of Herolz in the
deal between the county and the
Hackney-Boynton people. and | do
not believe it is policy to place such
a man in the treasurer's office,
where he may block and hinder the
collection Of the amount due the
county by refusing to assist other
officers in getting this money. II
the pre- sent treasurer had accepted
the money rendered the county, the
county would be just SO much better
off; but it was not accepted, simply
for the reason it was not for the
best interests of the Hackney-Boyn-
ton Land Company.
feel that in voting for Conrad
Kraft am casting my vote for the
best interests of the taxpayers of
the county. as l find him an edu-
Gated, competent and intelligent
business man of good morals and who
represents a class of Germans who
have always been prompt taxpayers,
and who are now paying over third
of the axes Of the county. and vino
cast large percentage of the votes,
and / know of no reason why they
should not be represented; and. if
elected. believe he will assist in
getting what is riphtfully due the
county from the Hackney Boyn.on
Land Company and from every one