The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 1

100 OFFICAL PAPER OF [~ :THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK R : vOF FARGO; N. D: figiooi-oéoooo-pq-goqbodopénoooycoooooo-obq-o-.-o- You made the News three *eeks ago [ nership” and that the individual members are liable for any debts that may be incurred by its officers and organizers. We challenged you to prove that. We offered you a thousand dollars in cash to prove your statement was not a malicious falsehood. = o : S : You have failed to produce any proof, Instead, after five days have passed you merely reprint your bald assertion, WITH- OUT GIVING ANY AUTHORITY FOR IT. : You hunted all over the state—your own words indicate— for some attorney who would “stand for” an opinien bearing out - your statement.: - Evidently-you ;. COULDN’T FIND ANY: AT- TORNEY in Fargo or anywhere else—not even the highly-paid corporation attorneys who are at your service or any of their many assistants in all parts of the state—to question the sound opinions of the FIVE able and prominent attorneys WHO HAVE GIVEN THE LEADER SIGNED OPINIONS THAT YOUR CLAIM IS NONSENSE AND. YOUR ASSERTION ABSO-. 'LUTELY FALSE. : : ! What you did do was to get.some law clerk to look up for you certain decisions referring to the liability of- MEMBERS OF ' PROFIT-MAKING associations and partnerships, to which class " _you and this law-clerk both knew THE LEAGUE DOES NOT - BELONG: But even. this law clerk WOULDN'T PERMIT HIS _NAME TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE MISREP-- RESENTATIONS: YOU: INTENDED TO PRINT AND DID . PRINT. No; what you did~was to take these citations and stir COCTION and present the whole mass TO INSULT THE INTEL- - LIGENCE OF YOUR READERS. . = But thislaw clerk told you, and you admitted in print, THAT ~YOU:MUST PROVE THE LEAGUE TO BE AN ASSOCIA- -TION FORMED FOR PROFIT-MAKING PURPOSES, FOR THE - PURPOSE OF CARRYING ON BUSINESS FOR THE SAKE _ OF THE PROFITS, before you could show the individual mem- bers to he iable.. =~ S i; By va,?flfis ST Sechbe : “cord with YOUR- y—YOU WRECKED Y 0500000000000000000000060000000000000000000000000005000000080001 3 PRODUCERS et O R MAY 25, 1916 1. T ilis Check. Dr. Guild— - Why Don’t You Come and Get It? e L aa (fv lonpartisah Teader THE FARMERS NONPARTISAN LEAGUE ago that 'the Nonpartisan League is'a “part-" them up with a lot of nonsensical rubbish of YOUR OWN-CON- . ADMISSION OF THE TRUTH.. ing for YOU to do;. n s that ONCE IN'A WHILE Y - GOOD, - If you don’t do this, will you have ANY REPUTATION ~_ FOR HONESTY LEFT? ' S d N Xoxewstg : o0 ; R ORDER 3%"‘ ' ”. MANAGER ~GETHER. . You have just m . stock ‘than you wet:%éfm "‘%d ~ < TRY IT ONCE MORE. WE LOVE TO SEE YOU SQUIRM AND CRAWL. But there’s still better stuff in your BOGUS ARGUMENT. Before you. got through with your comical screed you admitted that YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE IT YOURSELF by trying to make out that the LEAGUE WAS ENGAGED IN OTHER BUSINESS. You printed’otie of your characteristic RUMORS that the mem- bers of the League in Barnes and Bowman counties were SUB- . SCRIBING FOR STOCK IN COOPERATIVE STORES AND BANKS. This, you tried to make it appear, would MAKE THE LEAGUE A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. Now aren’t you ashamed of yourself, Doctor. Do you think -you are writing for an audience of imbeciles? Just suppose that Governor Hanna and Usher L. Burdick and - one or two other Republicans OWN STOCK IN BANKS. Does that make the REPUBLICAN PARTY A CO-PARTNERSHIP? Would it make the REPUBLICAN PARTY A CO-PARTNER- SHIP if Governor Hanna went around selling bank stock to RE- PUBLICANS ONLY? : . Get one of your ABLE ATTORNEYS to give you an opinion on THAT. . Well, Doctor, we’ve had a lot of fun over your little joke. “Suppose you try SOMETHING SERIOUS now. Let’s get down . to cases on this matter. . : ASSUMING THAT IT IS STILL POSSIBLE THAT YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME EFFORT TO PROVE YOUR CASE WE’LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER-CHANCE. ; WE’LL DO BETTER THAN THAT. WE’LL SHOW YOU THE WAY. Why don’t you try this thing out in the courts. It would be a very simple matter. We would like to help you to arrange a test,:but that would be collusion; and the courts would not recog- nize such a case. But you have tried to create the impression THAT THE LEAGUE HAS LARGE DEBTS. Why not prove this, too. SINCE YOUR SPIES tell you o much about League affairs, why can’t they PUT YOU IN TOUCH WITH ONE OF THESE HEAVY CREDITORS. ‘Then YOU CAN ARRANGE A SUIT "AGAINST AN- INDIVII??‘UAL MEMBER: OF -THE . The League’s attorneys will defend any such action, AND - DEM RRERS or other tech: icalities against a-fairly drawn com- - - plaint. - They will not iry to take advantage t , of the LAW’S DE- LAY, ‘You can even have the case tried IN CHAMBE '~'Jfi6g_t§*iw111 ~consent,” so- a8 to spare ‘you humiliation 1ple.: i Eih s - COME ON, DOCTOR; tr U TRY TO MAKE YOUR WORD ‘We don’t think you will. ourself even more 4 laughing RS if the as far as this, just for the sake of proving 000000000 al ..........._....Q...........0..........Q...O...O...,....O.....0..‘....0..0.....‘.................O