Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-26

liver sections of it in the record. Thu
court objected to taking up the jury'i
time with. the entire speech, but a,
Brinton's suggestion sections which
he stated were covered in the indict'
ment were admitted. The address
was o rambling discussion Of the
chain store scheme and Of the at.
tacks made upon it In the press Of
the state, Mr.. Brinton devoting a con
siderable portion OF his remarks te
his personal history.
. One important assertion was that
"A. c. Townley has nothing to dc
with the store company; hasn't q
single dollars worth, Of stock l1n It
or any personal interest of any kind
Mr.. Townley, said Brinton, had mere.
~ endorsed the scheme and recon-
same was true, he. said, Of the Non
partisan league.
Leaguer's Loyalty Record.
A. L. Maxwell Of Turtle Lake. Non
partisan member Of the last house
and renominated by the league to sue
coed himself, was the last witness for
the defense placed on the stand Wed
nesday afternoon. Under cross exam
ination he testified he had bought no
Liberty bonds of the first issue nc
Liberty bonds Of the second issue and
no Liberty bonds Of the third issue.
he had actually paid for no War
Savings Stamps, he stated, but testi-
fled that he had subscribed for some
on the last drive, when he was solicit
ed. :,
Dave Larin, publisher Of a news
paper at Parshall. told Of a consum-
ers. store meeting there in which he
mad heard Brinton say nothing that
seemed to the witness disloyal. Mr..
Larin said of his personal loyalty rec
ord that he and his wife had purchas-
ed $1,000 worth of Liberty bonds, land
Wal Savings Stamps and that, al
though 40 years old. he had volun-
teered to serve the country in any
capacity in which it could use him in
order that some younger man might
be released for service at the front,
and that he expected to go. Larin on
cross examination testified that he
registered four years ago as a Demo
crat and that this year he registered
as a Republican. in order, to use Dis
trict Attorney Hildreth's words. "that
ne might vote the Townley ticket
He admitted that he was interested
In the succe of Townleyism in his
own community and that he had sup
ported the Townley league.
Sullivan Again.
e. Mackenzie, formerly a C%ongrega-
tional preacher at Garrison, and who
LEFT the ministry to sell groceries for
John Sexton because it paid better,
testified that ]. r. sullivan's reputa.
ton for truth and veracity in. Garri-
son was bad. Mackenzie was born in
Canada, has been in America since
1906, but is not yet. a full-fledged
American citizen. He was formerly a
Presbyterian minister. After selling
Sexton groceries for two years he took
a job with the Equity packing plant as
stock salesman, with which he testi-
fed. he did quite we'll until last De-
cenoer. when he took an agency for
automobile tire protectors. He de-
MED that he had left the religious
world for the commercial world,' but
insisted that he carried his religion
with him seven days a week."
Accuses the Post.
Brinton accused the Saturday Eve.
ming Post Of permitting its advertis-
ing patronage to influence its editorial
policy. He said that because Armour
was a great advertiser, the Post pub
lished his picture, in spite of the fact
that Armour opposed the taking, over
OF the railways by the. government
He showed that the Post received
$4,000 for inside pages and $4,000 for
ou0sloe pages OF advertising, and he
displayed page ads Of the Pullman Co.,
for Armour's oats, Campbell's soups
and Dutch Cleanser which he intimat-
ed had been paid for to purchase i'm
muntty. He said the Post had wanted
to run a page advertisement of the
Consumers United Stores Co. brands,
but that he had replied that they in
tended to name their product .eTown-
ley Soup" and that it would need no
advertising. He said he had urged
the farmers to buy bonds even though
they had to borrow money at 10 per
cent to pay for them, while the
p~rofteering corporations were reapine
q huge return from the war. He de-
Tended the loyalty record of his ia.
Their and said that although 80 years
old he was still struggling under a
load of debt,