The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-07-22
rnE FISHER HECALR MEETING.


SO or 20, were in attendance. The
Doctor did not seem TO be In
usual form. Evidently he finds that
stumping the District practically
alone is some task. His voice was
husky, and he admitted that to be able
to make his speech in Huxtun that
afternoon. he could say no more here.
He has very fair talk, and shows
careful preparation, and il it was
given where he was not known, or
where many did not know the facts in
the case. no doubt he would have
many who would swallow all that he
said. Here, fortunately, Judge Burke
and others had gone carefully over
the trial of Father Sasse the evening
previous, and We doubt very much
If any who heard the speeches the
evening before took at all seriously
what the Doctor said His criticism
that Judge Burke had sentenced to
the penitentiary one Rose, of HaX-
thu, because he had been convicted of
assisting in the Haxtun bank murder
was certainly i'll advised, and is best
summed up in what the Haxtun Her
aid has to say in comenting on this
criticism: This can be told outside of
Phillips county. but from the kindliest
motives we would urge the speaker
not to air such views here. His re-
ceptiOn would be at least humiliat-
ing" DIR. Fisher would lead one to
believe that in the Henry Merrill case
where the boy was sentenced to life
imprisonment, that Judge Burke arbi-
trarily did this without giving the boy
any chance. but the facts in the case
are that the boy did have counsel ap-
pointed for him and the counsel did
advise him not to plead to any charge
greater than manslaughter, but the
boy disregarded all advice of friends
and stood up in the court room and
pleaded guilty of murder in the first
degree, and there was nothing to do
but to sentence him accordingly. DR..
Fisher again intimated that the pa
pers over the District were all under
the control of partisans and that he
could not get his matter into the pa
pers. This was again wrong, in one
case at least. This paper was not ap-
preached in regard to not printing
DR.. Fishers matter. In fact We prom
Used over the telephone that we would
run his supplement. 1t was promised
us on Wednesday at 2:30, and did not
arrive here until Thursday morning
at SO'clock. Had the matter come
in on time and we had time to write
our views on the matter, we would
probably have published it. But COM
ing as late as it did, and after reading
it and knowing the facts in the case,
we would not allow it to go to our
readers with any idea that it came
from us. We have turned down in the
past three years much matter that was
not as vile as this sheet contained.
1t is just possible that other pepers
over the District have the same idea
of cleanness and propriety for their
papers that we have.
Not a single insinuation made by
DR.. Fisher has been backed up by a
bit of corroboration. We are in
formed that DR.. Fisher was not in the
court room during the trial nor was
he there when this, autocratic Judge
that he continually refers to grsnted
a new trial, and when our readers
heard the stenographers report of
the trial read last Friday night. and
when they read the same in this
weeks paper, they will certainly see
a vast difference to what DR.. Fisher,
would have you believe was the dire
full scoring that the judge gave the
jury, and you will also note that the
decision of the jury was not reversed.
as told by DR.. Fisher.
What is DR.. Fishers motive? Re-
'ense' pure and simple. He told on
the street here Saturday how he came
to be mixed up in dirty politics.
That was not all. He came to Logan
county stranger and immediately
attempted 10 run the Repuh,, an par
ty. He roposed to dictate the policy.
and when he found that thee were
others in the county that ha1 views
that differed from his he got s,-e, and
when he found that he could no: have
his own wsy he got peeved. III one
caucus il which Judge Burke had As
good right as any other citizen to
participate, he disagreed with thcs:
with whom Judge Burke agreed.
He was outvoted; another was