Devils Lake weekly world., 1912-07-19

an oral ballot and return with YER
dict Of Not Guilty" shows to what
extremes enemies Of the Republican
party win go. Mr.. Bice is too well.
known and his universal courtesy ex.
tended to all patrons is such an ac-
cepted fact that The World needs offer
no explanation as to the incident
which has been heralded through the
country by the Inter- Ocean.
The above charge was part of the
infamous plae institute dand arried
out by political enemies of Mr.. Bice
to trick and make the voters Of Ram
say county who dod not know the
facts to believe something was wrong
with Mr.. Bice's conduct in the Office.
The effort did not cease with this one
suit. Mr. Bice was arrested before a
socialist justice at Bartlett, twenty
miles away, notwithstanding the fact
that there are four Justices of the
peace in Devils Lake, and notwith.
standing the fact that if Smith was
not satisfied to have trial before a
Justice he could call for jury; yet
the suit was started at Bartlett where
the proceedings were so farcical as
to make the Kangaroo court stunts
pulled off by the Elks and other lodg-
es at some Of their carnivals appear
tame.
There isn't now and never was the
slightest reason for having Mr.. Bice
arrested. Mr.. Bice did what any cit
izen would do excepting that under
the provocation the average citizen
would have kicked Smith out of the
office whereas Mr.. Bice treated him as
though he were gentleman. The tax
payers Of Ramsey county will not be
very well pleased with many more
stunts such as Smith and Reynolds
have been pulling off for the last three
or four months. These young men are
neither voters nor tax payers; have ne
interest in Ramsey County but work
ing on meagre salary to do the dirt,
work for certain individuals wht
would not stoop to do it themselves. L
is high time that such men be taught
lesson and be instructed by the citiz
ems Of Ramsey county that they will
tilerate such proceedings as the politi
cal prosecution commenced against MI
Bice.
The World desires to be moderate o,
all questions and to be fair and ha
not commented upon these suits start
ed by Smith against Bice until a jur,
should pass upon the evidence. It nov
desires to join in the condemnation
which was expressed by those VIII
heard the case. A number Of MI
Smiths boosters were present an
heartily congratulated Mr.. Duell on tn
vigorous prosecution which he mad
and he was to be congratulated, COZ
sidering that he had no evidence. Yc
Notwithstanding that fact one of tn
citizens who desires to be eallod pre-
minent in the political; intellectual an
moral world WAS parading the street
declaring that the trial was an Elk
meeting. The fact is the justice VIII
tried the case is not an Elk: neither o
the attorneys who tried the case ar
Elks and only four out Of the twelv
Jurors who heard the case belong
the Elk lodge. Such dirty insinuation
coming from man who preteuds to
C. good citizen are equally to be co,
demned as the acts Of SIN I'll and Rey
nclds. The Elks lodge teaches as nea
as the World knows, nothing but tn
best morals snd to assure that had a
the parties connected with the tris
been Elks that they would not hav
done their duty is an assumption base
upon the Imagination Of the victims {
the vicious minded.
The World hopes that the half doze
men who were causing SO much di
turbance, enemity and strife in til
City Of Devils Lake and retarding il
progress will soon be treated 5y De,
lis Lake citizens in such manner ths
> they will find fields more pleasant I
: live in or otherwise raise their STAN
! ards Of morals to one of a higher de-
!. tiny.
William Henzie, the, versatile Iris1
man with the happy laugh that r.
minds one Of cloud burst when II