Emmons County record., 1918-10-17
LANCER USES GRAND JURY AS
A POLITICAL TOOL TO
PUNISH ENEMIES.

Attorney General WIN. LANCER or
better known as Publicity Bill" ar
rived in this city on Tuesday Of last
week to attend the session of the EN-
mons County Grand Jury which con-
vened here on that day.
1t was rather interesting session
from a political view but a dismal
failure from the object that it was
drawn to investigate. 1t was gener-
ally understood that the Grand Jury
had been called especially to investi-
gate the riot case in which Mrs. Per-
ras of Hazelton was killed on June
7th and that Attorney LANCER was
quite instrumental in having the coun-
ty petitioned for grand jury.
If some of the people Of this coun-
ty that was interested in having
Grand Jury called to in
vestigate the Hazelton matter
had stopped to use the
gray matter that is supposed to be in
their heads Emmons county would to-
day be ahead several thousand dol
lars. But no they thought that
"Limlight Bill'' was bright attorney
and that he would prosecute the case
and accordingly it was taken out of
the hands of States Attorney Cam
eron and placed in the hands of
less competent attorney as was shown
by the indictments that were not
drawn up correctly and had to 20 back
to the jury.
The notorious Bill started to mix
politics with the other business that
the grand jury had to look after and
at the expense of the county had prac-
tically all of the bankers in this coun-
ty subpoenaed to find out if they had
been solicited or had given to the
Doyle campaign fund. Mind you Bill
was not so conscientious that he was
trying to uncover graft for the county
but he was trying to make political
dope out of the investigation. In 9TH
er words he was trying to get sup
ply of mud to throw at the democratic
party and the people of this state
know that Bill LANCER and the Nom
partisan League are experts at this
mud singing stunt but the tables were
turned on Publicity Bill" Bill left
the Grand Jury and went to the court
house to try and explain his mistake
in drawing up certain indictments to
the Judge and the members of the
jury took advantage of his alb
sence and brought in an indictment
against the Consumers United Stores
Co. for violating the corrupt practice
act by making contributions to a no
litical campaign. The court ordered
the indictment filed and summons
issued for the chain stores company.
LANCER trys hard to make the peo-
pie of this state believe that he is A
wonderful prosecutor and good sa-
maritan and according to the League
papers he is a wonderful man. We
will admit that he is wonderful man
especially when it comes to spending
the States or County's money. When
he arrived in town he had with him
two private stenographers travelling
on the States money and why in the
world he wants to carry two private
senographers with him We have been
unable to figure out. Last week was
the first time we have had an oppor-
tunity to get closeup of "Limelight
Bill" and to say the least we were
! disappointed with the view we got
We also got another view of Bill on
Tuesday afternoon of this week and
il you ever seen a lonesome and de-
iected looking picture of man with
out country you can realize what
Bill looked like when Attorney Sulli-
van Of Mandan was raising havoc
with the indictments that LANCER had
brought in in connection with the Ha-
zelton riot case. We imgaine that