The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-16

a. Absolutely.
q. But the fact is something tina
you can't testify to--you don't know
what became Of the money or whc
, used 1t or where 1t goes, do you?
a. know that Whatever money, II
there Is any money made out Of the
corporation
9. Il Is not 9 corporation, is 1t?
a. OR the publishing company.
z. The publishing company is not
a corporation, Is it?
Q. Now this paper does a great
deal of advertising, doesn't lit
a. ] imagine so.
@. You don't even know that-do
you read The Nonpartisan Leader?
4 A. Occasionally.
copy of the 21st of january, and ask
you IL il is not a fact that there is a
great deal of advertising matter in
there. quite bit of 1t?
Q. It is. as matter of fact an
advertising medium used to quite an
A. Yes. sir. 1t is a good medium.
! don't know how far 1t is patronized.
.. You don't know even that?
A. Not to what extent it is patron
9. You are not familiar with any
A. leave that to the newspaper
men.
Q. And you don't know what
money they make out OF advertising?
A. I don't.
g. Or what becomes of it?
| A. No, sir.
o. ~. You are 27E
, a. 1es, sir.
| q. Married or singIe7
| A. Married.
@. You spent most of your time on
! the farm in 1917?
4. ! did.
9; You are game warden. state
a. Yes, sir.
on that business? -
a. ] did on a few occasions.
| .. Where is Mr.. Fox7
A. / couldn't say where he Is right
was in st. Paul.
REORGANIZATION by Mr.. Lemks:
~. what was the purpose as you
understand it of The Nonpartisan
Leader or Publishing Coz
A. The purpose of The Nonpartisan
Publiishing Co. was to publish a paper
in the interests Of the farmers of
North Dakota for good government
q. You are not concerned with the
prohts as much as the interests of
the farmers as you see it in the pub
fishing of that paper?
profits. w. a." not '0"''f"sa IN the
Q. If there are any profits made
does 1t meet with your approval or
consent that they should be used by
the Nonpartisan league for political
purposes?
A Absolutely.
Q. You have no arrangement or
agreement with Mr.. Townley that he
stated?
A. Not any.
BY the referee:
Q. Mr.; Wood, you and Mr.. Fox
bought the paper-did you get bill
Of sale when you bought it? Il
A. There wasn't any paper. "
Q. You just started 1t and bought
machinery gradually as the dues
A. When the paper was started It
was published by The Co-operators |
Herald on contract
g.. How long was 1t published that
A. Oh. 1 don't know, about from |
the fall until the spring sometime.
q When did you acquire plant |
of your own?
A. It must have been along in
May, April or May, sometime before /
the primary election. don't Just re-
member exactly. In the spring any
q. Now have you signed any
agreements there any agreement i
in writing whereby it is understood /
that there are to be any profits in this
paper as far as you and Mr.. Fox are
concerned?
A. Absolutely not
., Have you anything to show
your ownership of the paper, of the /
publishing company?
A. Well, don't know. ] have got
some stock in The Courier-News.
.. That stock in The Courier
News was bought with the proceeds
from The Nonpartisan Leader?
A. l think that is the idea.
q. And that stock is your own?
4 H8 In 49, ~ -H- 4
Redirect examination by Mr.. Muir
ply:
A. 1t is in a safety deposit vault
in st. Paul
9. In your safety deposit vault2
A. Well, / use Ii.
q. 1t isn't yours thought
"A. / don't pay for ii, no. II
g. When did you decide to move
A. haven't moved to st Paul.
Q. mean the office Of the com
pany?
Al The league or Nonpartisan
q. The publishing company. II
very long ago.
q. AS = matter Of fact you didn't {
have anything to do with It?
A. Absolutely not.
%. You weren't consulted?
"A, Mr.. Townley lis paid for direct I
ing the work of The Ronpartisan s
Publishing Co. and he gets men that /
hat business and i don't know any (
hing about the printing business. III
q. He runs the whole thing and :
gou are willing to trust him to do /
A. Yes. sir. If I wasn't I wouldn't :
lire him. III
Recross-examinatio by Mr.. Lemke:
Q. When you say Mr.. Townley, do Ia
7ou mean Mr.. Townley or the Non e
PARTISAN league? O
A. / mean the Nonpartisan league. :
Q. Is there any agreement of CO.
between yourself and Mr.. a
FOX?
A. Yes. sir.
Q. Now you say you started the Ii
PAPER, that you didn't buy it-when 4
'ou first started who did you deal 4
With to print it2 Ia
A A Nd. Baker. III
Q. Did you and Mr.. Fox agree to
,ay him or was the league back OF IT. '
"A. I don't remember exactly. / Iv
hink ] was there at the time the ar v
angements were made. h
@. You never received any funds | n
rom MIR, Townley. or did you receive s
NY funds from Mr.. Townley to la
tart this paper with?
q. The only funds You received q
we're from the subscriptions and the
gotten for you from the n
membership OF the Nonpartisan y
sague through the Nonpartisan y
saEue? b
A. Yes.
Redirect examination by Mr.. Mur-
nv;
q. As matter of fact you have
ever had anything TO do with that y
aper at all, except nominally9
"A. Well, Mr., Fox and own the
aper.
@. In name only? a
"A. Well, we own the paper. and X
s long as II is properly directed and d
I'm in the interests of the farmers
North Dakota we are satisfied to al