The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-12
CRITICISE JUDGE
LINDSAY SEVERELY
DENVER MAN SEVERELY cRlTI-
ClsED ACTIONS OF JUDGE
LINDSAY IN CONDUCT OF JUVE-
NILE COURT OF pENVER-sAYs
PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW TRUTH.

"My attention was directed to an in
terview in The Fargo Forum from
your city's police matron when I was
here the other, day relative to the I'M
merited censure given Judge Lindsay
by the women of Denver" said a Den
yer man who frequently visits Fargo
to a Forum representative at The.
Gardner hotel last night. "
while 1 would not in any degree
attempt to answer the Fargo police
of Judge Lindsay" he continued, Il
would go SO far as to say that, like
a great many others not living there,
she has been laboring under a gross
Misrepresentation - ',.i
Doubtless you have people in the
city of Fargo who have a better repu-,
tation outside the city than right here
at home. Nearly every town has such
characters. Of course h answer to
this will be hat a prophet is not
without honors except in his own
country. But in the case Of Ben Lind
say it is not applicable when l make
the comparison. 49,. -. tx
The women of Denver, in their COM
plant and movement toward securing
his recall, are only voicing a senti-
ment that has long existed in u city.
ne 10 Ollly SSIL1ILS "lIo Lax SoS
for they have not exaggerated one bit
in their complaint. 1t was the Wo-
men of Denver, the late Mrs. Sarah
Plat Decker and others prominent in
civic life, to whom Judge Lindsay
owed his election when Boss Evans
and both the republican and demo-
cratic machines, both. dominated by
one man, sought to destroy him..
1T is now these same women for
the most part, with the exception of
Mrs. Decker who is dead since. to
whom he owes the prospect of retire
ment he is facing.
I Judge Lindsay has in reality given.
but little time to his Job. Since the
publication Of his book, The Beast, ne
has spent SO much time flying about
the country" %lecturing, that his court
has greatly suffered. He says 1T was
for the spreading Of the faith, to keep
the good work gUing everywhere n
tell of his accomplishments in Denver
that he was making these trips. But
he didn't forget to collect his money
Judge Lindsay's income derived from
his lecture tours more than doubled
his salary on the bench.
IF he intended to make ms lVlng
l~ecturing he should not have kept up
the pretense of conducting his court.
The court suffered. Conditions among
the children of the lower elements be-
came just as bad as before he took
hold. I do not say Ben Lindsay has
not done good in Denver, but the good
he did for a time has all been eftaced
by, his gross neglect of his office since
he began making money on the lecture
platform. Greed gets the best of us
all sometimes.
Nov the only way Judge Lindsay
can make reparation to the people OF
Denver is to return to his bench ana
stay there and attend to business. He
has made enough money out OF his
lecturing to enable him to live. COM
fortably for the rest of his natural
lifetime. The proceeds Of The Beast
have been enormous SO that he has
laid up a snug little sum.
IF the money getting instinct in
Judge Lindsay has been so Whetted in
the last few years that the lecture
field looks too glamoring, then he
should retire from the bench. Lei
him do one or, the other, the people
do not care, but he cannot attemPt 70
do both the things he is now doing
at once.
"There is no doubt but that Judge
Lindsay awakened Boss Evans and the
politicians to a realization that the
people were on to them. There is no
doubt that his agitations for a time
have had their good effect. There is
no QOuDL DuC tudI SOluC
measures both in the city and state,
have been the result of his warnings
to the people.
When he ran for governor OF Col
orado on an Independent ticket n
went ~gallivanting about the state on
his campaign, nobody b~egrudged him
the time he took from his office, for
they were appreciative of the fact that
he was helping to awaken the people
to the slavery of boss rule.
Nobody b~egrudged him the time he
took to write his book. The Beast, in
collaboration with Mr.. O'Higgins, who
was really author. The people realiz-
ed his book did a great good for its
publication made the bosses retrench.
But since he has neglected his
court and the children for whom ne
has been pleading on every election
day, and travelled over the country to
fill his lecture engagements seven and
eight months out of the year. the wo-
men themselves have felt it was time
to place on the Juvenile bench a man
who had less fame abroad and there
fore had more time to devote to the
Interests of the children he was elected
to serve"
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