The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-07
HARE CASE To
Jury SOME TINE
THIS At FTERNOON
Arguments Begun in Limited
States District Court at II
This Forenoon
T0TTEN RAPED TO ORDER
FOR INJECTING POLITICS
Townley Press Agent Seeks to
Get Declaration for Wilson
Into Record g.

Into Record j."
The O'Hare case will go to the jury
late this afternoon. Arguments were
begun at II this forenoon, Judge Wade
allowing each side an hour. Judge
John Carmody of Hillsboro, assistant
United States attorney, led off for the
government.
Arguments began after Judge Wade
had Overruled Attorney Lovell's re-
newed motion that the verdict for the
defendant be directed on the ground
that the indictment did not charge
the commission Of any defense nor
any purport to commit an offense. 1t
was necessary early in the course Of
Judge CarmOdy's argument for Judge
Wade to caution counsel for the de-
fense against interfering with the gov
ernment's stating Of the case to the
jury.
Intent Was Evident.
Judge Carmody argued that Mrs.
O'Hare's own admissions had clearly
established the intent Of her lecture
at Bowman to discourage and obstruct
enlistment in the United States army.
"She selected good place to deliver
this lecture, a hOt-bed of dissensiOn,
where, as the witnesses for the de-
fense have testified, great many
people were prepared to receive with
sympathy and applause her remarks.
Mrs. O'Hare stated that President
Wilson, after being reelected as the
man who kept America out Of war,
stepped down from his pedestal and
plunged this country into war to rro-
tect Morgan's millions. That state.
ment was made for only one purpose
to create dissatisfaction with the
administration. BY herr own words
Mrs. fAFI4Ee stands convicted. As a.
womana she ecomes into this court en-
titled TO- no less consideration, than a
man charged of the same offense, and
no more Mrs. O'Hare, as her wit
nesses have said on the stand, is en-.
titled to a square deal, but so is your
government entitled to a square deal.
Mrs. O'Hare comes from generations
of American ancestors; all that she
is and all she has she owes to Amer.
lea. The least she could have given
in return was her loyalty"
George Totten Talks.
George A. Totten, Frazier member
of the state board of regents and
president OF Townley's Northwest
Service bureau, which furnished
league newspapers with canned edi-
torials and cartoons, was the last wit.
ness on the stand for the defense.
He knew Bowman and the people OF
Bowman very we'll He knew all OF
the witnesses for the government.
They all, he stated, belonged to FAC
tion opposed to his brother, Judge
Totten: "They represent the faction
that has been opposing President VIII
son and his administration which we
have been supporting" said Rev. Tot
ten sententiously, and Judge wade
found it necessary to use the gavel
again.
He ordered Tottens political decla-
ration stricken from the records; IN
structed the jury to ignore 1t, ana
ordered the witness and the counsel
for the defense to stick to the case.
On cross-examination, Rev. Totten
stated "he had not had the pleasure
of meeting Mrs. O'Hare, and he was
excused.
Couldn't Stand It. ..
Mrs. A. Olson of Bowman, testify
ing for the government, stated early
Tuesday afternoon that she stopped
at the side door of the Cosy theater
in her car while the lecture was in
nrogress: that she sat within 20 feet
If Mrs. O'Hare and heard what she
said and that after standing 1t as long
as she could she drove on. She heard
Mrs. O'Hare say that the mothers OF
soldiers abroad were given no more
privileges than brood sows.
Mrs. Olson on cross-examlnatlon de-
MED that she was a member OF
marty which hung someone In ehgy
at bowman during the last year. IN
fact. she had no recollection OF this
occasion.
Hanson Heard It.
Ole Hanson, grain buyer at Bow
man former real estate man and bank
er. attended the OHare lecture. ne
said he knew of several boys OF draft
age whom he named, who were there
and who heard Mrs. O'Hare's lecture
which appealed to him as being OF a
nature to discourage enlistment.
"Mrs. O'Hare said that her boy
wasn't old enough to go. for Wnlcn
she thanked God, and that If he was
old enough he wouldn't have to go.
She said that the boys who are en-
listing for the army are nothing but
the scum of the soil and fit only for
fertilizer for the French soil, said
Hanson.
At the completion Of his testimony
the government rested. ID. n. Lovell
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