Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-24

murder. But the law provides that
the jury may be selected from various
parts of tho county. ThSv didn't dare
namo the jury because they didn't
know what county I was going to be
tried in. They didn't dare instruct
the jury that they should, bring in
verdict Of guilty. But they went as
SO that the odds will all be in their
favor. and the rails creased in every
way possible. They put on a man
who dares to expose the political par
ties of this state, who dares to spread
the truth. who dares to go out among
his fellow men and tell them whit
bunch of parasites we have in this
state, the burden of a murderer.
Praises Miss Nelson. {,
.'But my friends, this campaign Of
terror won't get any farther with me
than it did with that wonderful
woman that comes from Barnes
county, and want to pay a tribute
right now to one of the best women
on Gods foot-stool. Miss Minnie j.
Nelson. You people in Barnes coun-
ty don't know, you think you do, but
you don't know. how this woman has
been prosecuted. How she has been
maligned. libelled. ridiculed and SLAM
dered. If Senator Noltimier is not
entitled to the respect of the people
of this county then N. e. Macdonald
should be ostracized. N. c. MacDon-
old, a man without chivalry, a man
whose code of ethics when 1t comes
to dealing with women is nil, a man
so ,enamoured of public Office that he
would descend TO almost any depths
to get it. You all remember that
during the campaign last year Miss
Nelson knew was her political ene-
my. You Nounpartisans in this au-
dience. you know, how approximate
North Dakota Leader came out in a
full page ad saying that Miss Nelson
was not legally qualified to hold the
office of state superintendent OF, pub
lie instruction. You all know that
Miss Nelson had only one person in
North Dakota to so to. She had to
do the same as your mother, sister or
to come to the attorney general of
North Dakota to find out whether or
not she was legally qualified. And 1
tell you, my friends. it was one of
the proudest moments of my life,
when Miss Nelson, 'unaccompanied
by any lawyer, unaccompanied by
any male relative, walked into my
office. walked in there trusting in the
honor. honesty and integrity of the
and asked me if she was qualified,
and as I look back over my past life
there is no act of which ! am more
proud than that 7 held Miss Nelson
was qualified, legally qualified to hold
that Office. You do not know what
Miss Nelson has endured. You know
that she is a woman who had never
been dragged through all the dirty
mire of filthy politics. When after
the supreme court had ordered Mac
Donald thrown out of his office and
after Macdonald had sued Miss
Nelson and after she had gone on
the witness stand and MacDonald's
battery of lawyers had asked hef all
the questions they could think of to
humiliate her, they asked whether or
not she knew anything about polite
al science, asked all about her diplo-
ma with insinuations and inuendos,
and to cap all claimed that she didn't
know anything much about cooking;
that she knew less about political
science.
Cannot Cruelty the Spirit OF State.
God save MS from condition
which enables a bunch of political
pirates. scoundrels. thieves, towards
and scallywaEs to dcbasc the woman.
Miss Niclson! The state of North
Dakota is in bad way indeed, and I
say that Townley and his socialistic
outfit can pass law after law, they
can pass resolution after resolution,
their newspapers can villify and
threaten and lie until Doomsday. but
they cannot cruelty the spirit of the
real men of the state of North Dako-
tn And next juno. my friends. we
are going out on election day and VIZ
are going to redeem the state OF
North Dakota We are going to fight
in such way as the manhood and
womanhood of North Dakota never
fought before, and the best part of it
is that the fight won't be made by
those men and women whom Town
ley says are Big Business. but. my
friends, the fight is going to be made
by the common people Of North Da-
kota, by the laboring man, by the
farmer. And serve notice now,
that II there arc any men in high
places. II there arc any wealthy men,
II hcre are any war profiteers, il
there are men hanging back in this
fight. If there are men hoping that in
the hight to come they can sneak in
ana make their profits larger or take
from the farmers Of North Dakota
the government Of this state, I tell
you there are enough OF US fellows
inside OF the league to purge the
league from its leadership and give
the state or North Dakota that kind OF
government to which it is Justly en-
titled. The fight in North Dakota has
Just commenced. Miss Nelson is go
ing to be the person around which
the fight will center. You know and
know that if Miss Nelson had been
In charge of the educational system
of the state that we would not have
had those books dealing with Free
Love IN the public library of the
state of North Dakota. They may
say If they will that those books
They may have been hidden away as
reference books in some of the city
lioraries of North Dakota, but those
Libraries didn't have them there for
the purpose of sending out broadcast
over the state of North Dakota. They
were not there to be sent out in
travelling libraries to the youth of the
state of North Dakota <
"Towner county has pointed the
way The Nonpartisan league paper
up there edited by Carl Nelson stat
ed that part of the victory in Towner
county was due to the fact that Miss
NELSON had been mistreated and
when the votes are finally counted in
North Dakota. Carl Nelson and the
rest of the Honpartisan press will
nave to say, oh times! Oh changes!
What fall there was!'"
In commenting upon his recent
coupe in paying Special Assistant At
torneys General Lauder and Nuchols
in advance, Mr.. LANCER said:
On the 18th day of December, I
made contract in advance. with
Judge W. s. Lauder of wahpeton and
Judge S. L. Nuchols of Mandan for
regal services in cases in which they
had already been retained but which
were still in the courts unfinished.