The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-11

st. Paul, Mimi, April Ill do
not know OF anything at which these
charaoters-the manipulators Of the
affairs Of the so-called Nonpartisan
league-will stop, either in the line
| Of disloyalty, sedition or the assas-
sination OF private character"
This is the answer Judge j. r. Nc
Gee, federal fuel administrator for
Minnesota and member OF the Public
Safety commission, makes to an at
tack by a league publicity agent, w.
w. Liggett on Judge MCGEE. whom
Liggett in a letter said threatened
to beat out the brains Of Magnus
johnson, member Of the Minnesota
legislature and also Of the Nonpard-
san league.
Will Run Course.
They will no doubt run their
course" says Judge MCGEE, in an
answer sent to The St Cloud
journal Press, land I have no
doubt myself that that course
will end down along the Sc.
CroiN river in very restricted
compartments. lt is certainly
exasperating to have a gang Of
worthless laWless oharackeFs,
soaked and saturated with dis
loyalty, sedition and treason, aE
large so that they can besmireh
and bIaoken the character of de-
cent people,
The judges attitude toward the
Nonpartisan league was reiterated
following the receipt of letter by
the St. Cloud paper from Liggett,
who stated that "the Nonpartisan
league papers have denounced Judge
McCSe because of his statement to
Magnus Johnson, If / had club
would have beat your brains out"
This letter was sent to the judge
by the newspaper with the notation,
How about it?" appended.
ENpIodes Charge.
In answering, Judge MCGEE also
explodes completely Lggett's charge
that the commissions order No. I,
closing the saloons in the Minneap-
oils gateway district, had been is
sued that Judge MCGEE might pur-
chase Gateway property for a song
and thereby realize financial bene-
fits.
Concerning the Magnus Johnson
incident, the judge in his letter says:
About a month ago Magnus John
son presented the infamous resolu-
tons adopted by the reasonable
Nonparttsan league at It's so-called
Ryan hotel banquet, celebrating the
escape of some Of its members from
the penitentiary.
The resolution assailed the integ-
rity of the members of the Public
Safety commission, and denounced
me as dishonest, and a tool of
profiteers, winding up with the de-
mand for my removal from the COM
mission.
81 happened to enter the room af-
ter the performance was over, and
it was called to my attention. Isaid
to johnson that / ought to take a
club and use it on his head, or on
the head of any man who would
make such scurrilous charges with
out a particle OF foundation. The
language used in Liggett's letter
about beating out Johnson's brains
of course, was not used"
Then the judge answers the Lig-
gett order, and leaves that propa-
gandist amazingly enlightened.
The judge says:
"A few days later we called Iig-
gett before the commission and ex-
amined him. He was told that he
had questioned the integrity of every
Of the commission and was
asked lie he had any reason to be-
lieve any member of the commits |
sion was dishonest. He said: Yes.
1 have reason to believe Judge Nc
Gee Is dishonest
Asked For Evidence.
'He was asked what the evidence
was on which he based that conclu-
sion. He said that he was informed |
by the assistant city editor of The |
Journal, Ray Marshall.
that I had got order No. of the |
putting out Of business
all the saloons in the Gateway dis
trict, through the commission for |
the purpose of rendering the real
property in that district valueless, so /
that / could purchase it for song;
and that / then had my law partner
form a corporation, and that cor
poration bought up at q. song 100000
worth Of property in the district.
IT asked him the name Of the cor
poration and he couldn't give 1t. N
asked him If he had a description or |
the property, or any Of it, that was
alleged to have been purchased by
This corporation. He said no.
'I asked him IL he had examined
he records Of Hennepin county to i
zee if any property, in fact, had been
to anybody. In other 1
words. whether there had been any
,ales in that district since the max /
ng of the order. He said no. I ask
u him who my partner was who
iormed the corporation. He said that
+ / would tell him who my partner
4 that he would tell me. / replied
hat / had no partner.
A. NJ. Noyes Named.
stHe then said il / would tell him
Who my partners had been in the
1aat he could tell / told him the
INV partners ] ever had in Minne-
Ola were Al. III. Noyes and w. a.
lancaster. He replied that "A. H.
yoyes was the man. / asked him II
IL couldn't be mistaken about that.
re said no, he was sure Of 1t.
,eked him il he knew that Mr.. Noyes