Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-24

murder. But the law provides that
the jury may be selected from various
parts of the county; ThSv didn't dare
namc the jury because they didn't
know what county was going to be
tried in. They didn't, dare instruct
the jury that they should bring in a
verdict of guilty. But they went as
far as they could; they tried to fix it
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
a bunch of parasites we have in this
state, the burden OF a murderer.
Praises Miss Nelson. y
But my friends, this campaign Of
terror won't set any farther with me
than it did with that wonderful
woman that comes from Barnes
county, and ] want to pay 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 SIAN
dered. If Senator Noltimier is not
entitled to the respect of the peoplcF
of this county then N. G. Macdonald
should be ostracized. N. c. MacDon-
old. man without chivalry. man
whose code of ethics when 1t comes
to dealing with women is nil, man
would descend to almost any depths
to get it. You all remember that
during the campaign last year Miss
Nelson knew l was her political ene-
my. You Nouppartisans in this au-
dience. YOU know, how approximate
~ two weeks before the election the
North Dakota Leader came out in a
full page ad saying that Miss Nelson
was not legally qualified to hold the
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
daughter would have done. She had
to come to the attorney general OF
North Dakota to find out whether or
not she was legally qualified. And I
the proudest moments of my life,
when Miss Nelson, 'unaccompanied
by any lawyer. unacconpanied by
any male relative, walked into my
office. walked in there trusting in the
honor. honesty and integrity of the
attorney general of North Dakota,
and asked mo if she was qualified.
and as look back over my past life
there is no act of which / am more
was qualified, legally qualified to hold
that office. You do not know what
Miss Nelson has endured. You know
that she is 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 her all
the questions they could think of to
humiliate her, they asked whether or
not she knew anything about politic-
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.
God save us from a condition
which cnables bunch of political
pirates. scoundrcls. thieves, towards
and scallywags to dcbase the woman.
hood OF North Dakota as typified by
Miss Nelson! The state Of North
Dakota. is in a bad way indeed, and 7
say that Townley and his socialistic
outfit can pass law after law, they
can pass resolution after resolution,
threaten and lie until Doomsday, but
they cannot cruelty the spirit of the
real men of the state of North Dako-
ta And next June, my friends, we
are going out on election day and We
are going to redeem the state Of
North Dakota We are going to fight
in such way as the manhood asd
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 1 serve notice now,
that II there are any men in high
places. If there arc any wealthy men,
there are men hanging back in this
fight. II there are men hoping that in
the fight to come they can sneak in
and make their profits larger or take
from the farmers Of North Dakota
the government Of this state, 1 tell
you there arc enough OF us fellows
inside of the league to purge the
league from its leadership and give
the state of 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
in, h4
state of North: Dakota They may
say If they will that those books
were in other libraries Of the state
They may have been hidden away as
reference books in some of the city
Libraries 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
We're not there to be sent out in
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 Nonpartisan press will
have to say, oh times! Oh changes!
What a 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 a contract in advance with
Judge w. S. Lauder Of Wahpeton and
Judge S. L. Nuchols of Mandan for
legal services in cases in which they
had already been retained but which
were still in the courts unfinished.