The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-25
BRINT0N GIVES.
COURT one OF
HIS LECTURES
Defendant in Sediti0n Case Ad-
dresses Jury on His
Own Behalf
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afternoon. Judge AmidOn. In.
structed counsel that they must
show that Mr.. BrintOn's remarks
were made with intent to dfsc0ur.
age sale and purchase Of govern.
ment war securities.
The case will reach the Jury
Friday morning.
The Kate Richards O'Hare
case was again recalled in the
trial of Job w. Brinton this
morning, when the Townley
chain stores manager, with the
consent of the court, took the
floor, and with all the stage ef-
fects Of the professional 1ectur-
er, delivered to the jury what
he claimed to be the portions of
his Garrison speech attacked in
the governments Indictment.
Brinton stood in the witness box
and divided his attention between the
jury and the audience. He, started
with his birth in Wells county, 81
years ago, as the first white boy in
that county. Told Of. his adventures
at Beach, as newspaper publisher, vii
lage treasurer, alderman, mayor and
postmaster, and said thes only reason
he was not yet postmaster OF Beach
was because greater man than Will
lam; Howard Taft had succeeded him
in the White House. ~
Not an I. w. - .Fg3s:. n .sSs.ts
He denied being an /. w. W., 9
socialist or an anarchist; he denied
that his administration at Beach had
been filled withagun-play and turmoil;
he denied that he was interested in
Orchards Kate" O'Hare, as he called
her, or that Mrs. O'Hare was inter
ested in the Nonpartisan league. He
said the Minot Messenger, the Schafer
Record and other papers which were
not friendly to the Townley chain
store scheme were dirty, lying
Sheets and that the farmers must
not believe anything they read in any
newspaper antagonistic to the league
or the store scheme. .....-
On direct examination by his coun-
sci, Brinton stated that he was mar
ried and had two children, boy of
six and an infant. He is now a
widower, he testified. He learned the
printers trade at Fessenden and pub
lished the Wells County Free Press
before going to Golden Valley in 1906,
when he purchased the Golden Valley
Chronicle, which he and his brother
conducted until 1912, when the plant
was destroyed by fire. Brinton then
was made general manager and edi-
tor by stock company which took
and had urged farmers especially to
support the war and cautioned them
not to pay any attention to politi-
clans criticizing President Wilson,"
over the business.
His Present Job
He testified that he is now general
manager of the Consumers United
Stores Co., which has 10 stores oper-
ating and % in process of organiza-
ton, some of which are about to be-
gin operations. As general manager,
he stated, he has general supervision
of all the stores, issues instructions
to district and local managers, organ
ICES new companies. The concern, he
stated, has store at Garrison, in
Mclean county, and one is about to be
launched in Turtle Lake.
OF his personal record, Brinton stat
ed that he had bought Liberty Bonds,
contributed to the Red Cross, the Sal
walton Army and Y. NJ. C. A. war
funds, and frequently in public ad-
dresses urged support Of the presi-
dent and the national administration.
He had explained, ne said, why it was
necessary for US t0 get into the war,
The Garrison Speech
The subject of the Garrison speech
then was brought up, and Brinton
asked permission o. the court to de-
liver sections of it in the record. The
court objected to taking up the jury's
time with the entire speech, but at
Brinton's suggestion sections which he
stated were covered in the indictment
were admitted. The address was a
rambling discussion of the chain
store scheme and of the attacks made
upon it in the press of the state, Mr..
Brinton devoting considerable por-
LlOn VI his icHldIhS W MS pefSOHdi
history.
One important assertion was that
GA. C. Townley has nothing to do
with the store company; hasn't
single dollars worth of stock in it
or any personal interest Of any kind"
Mr.. Townley, said Brinton, had mere
ly endorsed the scheme and recon-
mended it to the farmers, and the
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 ren6minated by the league to sue
Gee dhimself, was the last witness for
the defense placed on the stand We'd
nesday afternoon. Under cross ex-
animation he testified he had bought
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