The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-24

| FSESaLlOu "lLH sullivan OF any OLLl~
er person until called upon by a
Same AS o'Hare Trial.
( Hour by hour the trial of J. w.
Brinton in federal court here be-
comes more and more reminiscent of
a similar drama in which Kate
Richards O'Hare was the principal
actor last December. There is re-
vealed the same village factionism;
there is ever present the same poll
| teal flavor. There is the same group
| of Nonpartisan adherents of both
| sexes, who rush up during recess to
| the side Of the defendant, who holds
spasmodic court for his admirers.
The defendant wears the same con-
fdent, complacent attitude, eX-
! changing from time to time, smiles
/ with his witnesses seated outside the
bar Of the court. Conditions at Car
rison are revealed to have been very
much similar to those which existed
| at Bowman at the time Kate Rich
ards O'Hare delivered there the ad-
dress which earned her a flve-years
sentence at hard labor in the Jefrer-
son, Mo-, prison. The evidence in
I dicates that the same sort Of an
| audience which applauded Kate
Richards O'Hare at Bowman APP
| plauded her at Garrison and &C
a reception when he spoke there
April 4.
Government Rests.
The government rested early Tues
| day afternoon, and the defense Of
fered as it's first witness Mrs. George
Duffy, wife Of a Garrison plumber
who is now in the service. Mrs.
| Duffy testified that she heard none
Of the things which witnesses for
the government testified they had
heard Brinton say, relative to the
government being compelled to buy
Liberty bonds in order that it might
pay the steel trusts eXorbitant prof
| it's; she did hear something said
about taking the pennies out Of the
babies banks to buy War Savings
stamps, but it apparently did not
| impress her as it had the govern
ment witnesses.
| She did hear J. F. Sullivan say to
| Mr.. Brinton, IN get you yet" and
Mr.. Sullivan held up! a cabalstic two
| fingers as he said it, testified the
witness. Mr.. Sullivan's reputation
for truth and veracity. said the wit
ness, was not good.
Didn't Paint Other Side.
On cross examination Mrs. Duffy
| testified that while she had heard
Mr.. Brinton refer specifically to the
| high price Of CampbelPs soup, gas
and binder Irvine making it very
difficult for the farmer to grow grain,
she could recall no specific allus
ions to the high prices which the
farmer received for his wheat and
| his rye and his oats and barley and
flax and cattle, nor of the high
prices which the corporations were
| paying their labor. She wouldn't
| say that Mr.. Brinton had said any
! thing concerning these things"
Asked about Mr.. .Sullivan's repu-
| tation for truth and Yeracity and
| general honesty, Mrs. Duffy testi-
| fed that Cashier Priest, a Garrison
banker, had told her frequently and
insistently that Mr.. Sullivan's
reputation for these qualities was
not good. She estimated that Mr.
Priest at least seven months out of
the year had told her this. The first
time, she believed, was at the home
of Mr.. Priest, where she was taking
! tea, and when the reputation Of their
Garrison neighbors was under dis
cussion. Pinned down to specific
| instances she could recall but one
other time, in Priests bank, when
| they were discussing certain articles
which had appeared in The Garrison
Advance, and whose authorship she
attributed to Mr.. Sullivan, because
he was always hanging around The
Advance office"
Father Hansen, Catholic priest at
| Garrison, had also criticized Mr..
Sullivan as to his truth, veracity and
general honesty, said the witness,
and the same was true, she said, Of
Joe Tullars, Garrison restaurant
man, and Tom Wilson. Tom, said
, the Witness had said mean things
about Mr.. Sullivan as recently as
| two weeks ago, and Mr.. Priest, she
said had taken out Sullivan's office
| fixtures and stored them in the
basement because he wouldn't have
| Mr.. Sullivan in his building.
The government encountered some
difficulty in obtaining the early his
| tory of Mrs. Duffy, who stated she
spent several years travelling be-
tween South Dakota and Missouri,
while going to school; had lived in
| Hibbing; had been employed three
years as a nurse at the Minneapolis
city hospital; had married Mr..
Duffy there and moved with him first
to Fargo and later to Garrison. Mrs.
Duffy hesitated several minutes
when the district attorney ungal-
lantly demanded her age, which she
finally conceded to be at. She testi-
fed that since the departure Of her
! husband she has employed her time
in nursing at Garrison.
Fraser On Stand.
] R. L. Fraser, league member Of
! the last house Of representatives,
and league candidate for state sena-
tor from the Mclean county district,
was the most important witness for
the defense Tuesday afternoon.
Fraser was chairman of the Garrison
meeting, introduced. Brinton, and
was described by J. E. Sullivan, one
of the governments principal wit
nesses. as "oficial clap master"
Fraser heard Brinton, say nothing
out of the way. He testified that
Brinton had stated that while the
farmers borrowed money at 10 per
cent to buy bonds, protlteering cor
porations were charging the govern
ment exorbitant profits, but that he
Brinton, urged his hearers to buy
bonds. He heard Brinton make nc
reference to the Kaiser. He couldn't
recall the exact figures Brinton had
used in detailing the profits Of the
steel trust and other corporations
but he said the figures that had ap-
peared in the newspapers were cor
rect. .4
Fraser said he was not Non.
partisan but Republican, although
he endorsed the principles of the
Nonpartisan- league. When Hildretk
asked him If it was not true thar