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ty of time. Further more when
asked to repeat the note-taking
feat at another trial this editor
failed miserably. Yet the Judge
admitted the doped-up book as
evidence. Again, practically the
same words were contained in an
Indictment against L. w. Martin
in another case, and yet the
judge would not allow this other
Indictment to be produced before
the jury as evidence of a frame
up.
Mr.. Gilbert declares that he
did not make the statements at
tributed to him, that he confined
himself to reading the League
resolutions and to making brief
comments in explanation. AS a
matter of fact only a political
ass could have made the state
ments in the indictment, and no
one who knows him would be
able to think of Joseph Gilbert
as an ass. Where the parrot Choir
us got the words, however, is
evident. They are a crude parody
ON the League resolutions which
the supreme court on another
occasion declared to be proper.
When the jury brought in a
verdict of guilty the defendants
lawyers asked for a stay of SEN
tence, and the judge who had de-
clared several times that the
Nonpartisan league was not on
trial forgot his pretense so far
IS to say that he would have to
grant the stay on the condition
that the League would cease
work in Goodhue county. There
was a tense moment in the court
while everybody was recovering
from the shock of this revela-
ton, and then Mr.. Gilbert re-
minded the judge that the Non
partisan league was not on trial
and that he could say that the
League would not stop it's work
in that county.
L. w. Martins case presents,
if possible, an even more gross
miscarriage of justice. At the
time when the. phrase "pro-Ger-
man" was becoming current, Mr..
Martin asked a barber friend of
his at Kenyon, Mimi, jokingly,
If he could shave a pro-German.
A pa~trioteer who happened to be
present took this as an excuse
for assault on Mr.. Martin. Later
= bunch Of men gathered around
him to continue the insulting
and one of them hurled at him
the questions, do you approve
of Gilbert's and Randall's
speeches Do you approve of the
La Toilette speech ?" Mr.. Martin
Of course, replied Eyes,"
Later, after he had brought
an action for assault against the
patrioteer who had checked him,
Mr.. Martin was indicted and
convicted Tor "~unlawfully and
wilfully stating to certain named
persons that he, the said Louis
w. Martin, was a o-German
and that he, the said, Louis w.
Martin, knew that the aforesaid
statements made by said Joseph
Gilbert and N. S. Randall as
hereinbefore set forth, were
true, and that he, the said Louis
w. Martin, affirmed and accept
cd said statements.
Iir. Martin, of course, accept
ed what these two men actually
said and what the parrot chorus
alleged that they said. Moreover
he had applied for admission to
the army and had been rejected
for poor eyesight. Later when
the standards were lowered he
was taken in and is now a SER
geant.
These cases will be carried fur
Their; If necessary, to the su-
preme court of the United States.
But it is unfortunate for Amer
lea that the country has to be
disgracea bv other cases of the
Mooney klnu. AIe mooney case
has created a stencil not only in
our own country but the whole
world and this case must have
the same result wherever the
facts are known. The common
people never ask for anything
but justice from the courts. They
do, however, demand that our
legal machinery and rigmarole
of court practice shall not be
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