The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-15
EDITOR CASE
MAKES reply
Insists that Metcalf Was
Kept on Payroll For
Many Months.

Lakota Observer was kept on the pay.
rol ~ h United States senate for
twenty months without rendering any
service: Editor Case Of the Melville
journal IN his paper this week con-
.ln9es the controversy between him.
days ago. Senator Gronna made a
statement in answer to the charges
and the letter OF Editor Case Is pub.
lished at his request. 1t follows:
Editor Grand Forks Herald:
Kindly give space in your valua-
c!e paper to my answer to the arti-
Gle by Senator A. j. Gronna against
Senator Gronna. feels that he has
to do something to defend himself
against the statements made by mo
as editor of the Journal, that he had
mproperH kept on the payroll Of tho
United states senate persons who have
been in Washington to perform
services where. their services were
Of sauarely challenging my statements
Of fact or exposing the falsity. of my
conclusions-neither of which he
dares to do-he takes refuge from
public condemnation by raising q
question as to my motives. The site
uatton' would be amusing IL it were
not really tragic. He quotes almost
IN full a letter which he claims to
have received from mt. in which I
vice. By mere accident" he 'hap-
pens to forget to give the date Of the
letter. Assuming for the present that
he gives the letter correctly. It is a
little dihcult to see wherein it is
wrong or even questionable for any
American citizen to. apply to even a
United States SENATOR for a position.
Tonfn ovsa thAa~ C~-> ~~~ -~
four years ago tins writer contem-
plated seriously dtsposing of his grain
elevator In Neville and leaving town.
Being under the necessity OF earning
a living I applied for various posi-
t.ons-actually accepting one offered
as travelling representative for. GER
tain grain company and travelled for
them nearly a year. This all occurred
chasing the Neville Journal from
Leo L. Lang, which transaction took
place in September, 1910. At the
time I wrote this questionable up.
plication to MI. Gronna, who was then
congressman. 1t never occurred to me
that he had salaries to dispose Of that
We're not encountered with any ser
vices
''Mr: Metcalf was appointed,
but soon after the. appointment learn
ed THAT he would be unable to go to
Washington. and another messenger
appointed" So far Gronna, but
what are the facts? From April 10th,
1911, to- August II, 1911. T. e. Met
calf was on the senate payroll as
SIS per month. a From n'sx August sa,afs H. 4.
1911 to the end of that year, this
same T. E. Metcalf was promoted to
Messenger to Committee on Expend-
itures in Navy Recommendations
mas committee-with a salary Of 800
per month, which salary was paid as
shown. by vouchers IS. 81 1872. 100.
.l9s, 2s4, 1885,, 2Soii and 32l. Not only
Itinued to draw Ais:s$loo per month
salary through the entire year Of 1912.
!. =. Metcalf,,s father, died in August.
1912, sixteen months after his son
and Gronna's messenger began to
draw a salary, and four months be-
fore this salary ceased. All cf:these
twenty months Gronna helped Net
calf to this salary without turning his
hand in the way Of. service, and yet
named removed .'''soon after the APP
pointment when he learned that he
would be unable to get to Washing
ton"
Permit me to add that I have not
attacked Mr.. Gronna, but I have at
tackled his acts as a public servant.
I have not done this by peddling ru-
mors. but by quoting public records.
.Gronna's' motives I care not to dis
'cusss. but his acts as q public servant
will be exposed and discussed"
Harry M. Case.
Editorial notc-In order to avoid
misunderstanding 1t Is. proper to state
that in some of. his references Mr..
Case confuses the. direct telephone
communication from MI. Gronna with
explanatory matter on the part Of the
paper itself. Mr.. Gronna's commune
ication was quoted and properly cred
tied to him, and, in order that the
reader. a summary of the facts as
formerly stated in q publication cred
idted to Mr.. Gronna, or published in
his behalf was given.)