The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-06-18

The defendants were not fools enough
to spend money in trying to win in
the Supreme Court what they had q
cinch on in the lower court, and the
proof of the defendants good judg.
ment lies in the fact that Nestos dis.
missed these cases voluntarily after
winning his silly appeals.
He also boasts of having won 122
criminal cases. He admits that eigh.
ty-five of these were tried and that the
rest plead guilty.
He does not tell you, however, that
almost without exception the cases
were of the very simplest of simple
cases, and most of the defendants in.
digent and with no money to employ
counsel. 1t would have made no par.
ticular difference, if these defendants
had all been turned loose, and had
Nestos been competent instead of a
joke among criminals no trials would
have been necessary,-pleas Of guilty
would have been entered. The coun.
ty paid some attorney twenty-five dol.
lars in lot of these cases so that
they could be tried "just for fun" and
because it was fifty to one shot that
the defendants though guiltier than
the Internal regions would be acpuit-
ted nevertheless.
He also speaks of "a injunctions.
He does not tell you that in all of them
the preliminary injunction granted by
the court in each of these cases was
removed twenty-four hours after Mes
tos got the order signed-because Of
childlike error in his moving papers.
Oh, no, Mr.. Nestos is silent.
He may fool some of the people part
of the time, and all of the people some
of the time but he can't fool all of the
people all of the time, and while we
have always felt kindly toward Mr..
Nestos as a man, and only criticise
him as an official, and know that his
intentions are good, yet we recall that
good intentions constitutes the paving
material of hell.
He says he had saved Ward county
$11 900 in the Warren case. He has
not. The money due Warren is held
back and is drawing seven per cent in
terest, and we are reliably informed
that there is no chance of his appeal
standing up because of his incompetent
trial methods.
Aside from this the schools are dam
aged in the meantime. @t
He says his Office expense so far is
only $6,980.64. Again he perverts the
truth. 1t is nearly forty thousand
dollars, when you figure his mistakes
and the cost of his poor judgment. 1t
was 100000 in the Staff case alone.
He has recently issued circular
letter, which for grammatical error
and faulty construction he should be
awarded prize.
For vacillating, pussy-footing mis-
representation it is without it's equal
in all the history of Ward county poll
tics.
He says that the support of the In
dependent is lever for sale to the
highest bidder"
Was it for sale when we voluntarily
supported Dudley L. Nash for States
Attorney four years ago because we
knew he was capable lawyer and
that it would not be necessary for
Ward county to expend money in his
education before the county could have
a reliable adviser and prosecutor.
We supported Mr.. Nash, not because
we had anything against Mr.. MCGEE,
but because Mr. MCGEE had had two
terms and we knew that Mr.. Nash
would carry on Mr.. McGee's work and
deliver the goods.
| Were we for sale when we volun-
tarily supported Mr.. Bradford, man
with unquestioned legal ability? n
| When Nash was States Attorney he
had old Ward county to take care of
So did Mr.. MCGEE. The county was
divided and all the county settlements
were made during the time of Mr.
Nash in Office, and both Mr.. MCGEE
and Mr.. Nash tried five times as many
cases as Nestos will ever try while in
office, and they always delivered the
goods.
Nestos has the effrontery to com.
pare his first sixteen months in office
with the first sixteen months of Mr.
Nash's term.
Why bless you, Nestos, the first six.
teen months of Mr.. Nash's term in of.
flee were the same as his last six.
teen months-periods of efficient serv.