The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 12, 1916, Page 3

_ 'VOL3,NoO. 15 - The: truth about the. courts 1s commg outrat last' It is t;he mos ,]oyful . thllig that has,happened in North Dakota in many a year.. Made bolder by the prospect that judicial tyranny and injustice ; “are nearing their end some -among-the lawyers of F The Tl' uth 'the state are gammg the:courage to speak out." : R out - “At last the common ‘people may know what el the Courts = the lawyers themselves long have known ahout: i 1 Is Commo' : ‘-the courts, and especxally the: supxeme court ef Ollt at the state. ; Sty ik ‘Lawyers axe cautlous -The courts .ave their - % Last . 3 ' masters. .. The courts can crush them; can take " away their ]1vehhood "Who can blame the lawyers if they do not dare to speak all that is in their mmds" e it very cautiously, “He is seldom willing to - talk: ‘about a partlculal cotr:rt and its particular sins. ~It’s too dangerous a proceedmg fox Hm He*doesn’t want his futurc career ruined. { ‘ R form" -and “techmcabty” you may know that there is so‘“n” nvetty e 'ba&“m condmons ught close to home. - I i i t*"#:-.v ; : The;a.rtlcle in thgs issue’ by H. A. Blonsou of Gland Forks professo; in the law school of the state umversxty, should be read carefully—and A i theu read agam 1t is fully ¥ aIuabIe for- what it-“says.. Ml Bronson He' ‘only gives' you & point - it implies as for ‘what © 'makes ‘no charges:’ “made;~ He" ‘says: enough to: start you thmkmg ~ Something is wrong with the-courts in North' - 7. Dakota. You know. it; the lawyers know 1t and s> admit it; everybody knows it." The Leader has: given you mseveral past 18- . 4 -'»sues speclfic examp]es of reactlonary declsxons by the present supreme court The Leader has* shewn how the RIGHTS ' OF-THE I’EOPLE of the state have béen trample& upon The Leader has t 2 socratlon reported, at it-was GENERAL BELIE: " AMONG LAWYERS ; thaj; the supreme court of the state of North Dakota : was - MAKING UB'LTRUE “STATEMENTS OF FACT” 4n . order to bolster up UNFAIR The lawyer is wflhng to talk about courts’ in’ geaeral—-—but ‘he doe . *:But ‘when' you hear a lot of lawyers - talkmg about “Judlclal re- ¥ P ’:court He was put in that position: by the influence of Jud LaMoure, ; “a poht1cal b0ss once as actlve as Alex McKenz1e in Nor th Dakota poh- B “politics ‘as in the law.” "N.:C. Young is ‘the attorney for the Northern ‘Pac:fic railwdy. 2 ' -of view from’ whxch ‘to consider how- courts are PORT. The few Fargo business" men who once allowed their names - : g g oniy Young:and his CORPORATION INTERESTS s ld how in 1914 a,commxttee “the’ state. ar as-' THE CORPORATIONS WANTED on the supreme bench o S ; WHEN THE CORPORATIONS MAKE THE COURTS what chance has a common m_an for Justlce? When he goes ‘into oourt to seek his: ‘l‘he Judges fmget HUMAN RIGHTS and hemme fhe fmk of PPOPF‘R- TY INTERESTS. ; ok % 2 This ought to show the people of North Dakota that . THEY 'CAN'F “TRUST THE LAWYERS to pick their judges.. Too much is at stake. All the fundamental rights of citizens rest with e 2 -‘ the judges.. Both property and' life are in-their Blg Bl_lsmess hands. ; ; - Takes no All this is bad,- It needs to be remedied. - Chances; BUT IT IS'NT ALL! It Seeks - The corporations REFUSE TO TAKE ANY : to Name CHANCES. They don’t want the people EVEN ,fth e Ju d ge s “BY ACCIDENT to select a judge who has not " the cmpmatlon viewpoint. They ~WILL : NOT ALLOW.THE PEOPLE, if they can help. it, to select ANY JUDGE WHO IS NOT A CORPORATION JUDGE. : The BIG CORPORATION LAWYERS ARE BUSY IN POLITICS Then influence ‘has been plainly ev1dent in this state. - Their in- fiuence is. bemg felt in this election. N:C. Young is a: former 1ust1ce of the North Dakota state supreme tlcs N G Young is now an attorney in actlve practlce — as active in - He .is an ‘acknowledged: corporation representative. . -, “Young has been spoken of in the past as a’“maker of courts.” He- & has been: the active; directing head of “the so-called” Good ‘Government : “League, which lately has:turned: its’ attentlon to the campaxg'n for the supreme court judees. “The Good Government League is a creatule of INVISIBLE SUP-- ; to'be used-as supporters of it have' been DESERTING IT . ONE BY‘ ONE, - :So far as can be told the: Good Govemment League represents : AR aétlve campalgn s unde1 way to mfluence the people in thelr selectxon of supreme court Jushces. G ; R S : . This is not the first campaign in. North Dakota m wluch Young- ' ‘and his like have MANIPULATED ?OL’ITICS TO ‘GET THE MEN : 2 '-,’t';_t. N g : RIGHTS he flnds hlmself opposed by a HIGHLY Lo . 7 ''PAID CORPORATION' ATTORNEY, and, sit-: Justlce" = ~ting on the bench, a judge put there by the IN- NO Longer FL(IENCE OF THE SAME CORPORATION” Is Jystice ATTORNEY. - ,When Is it any wonder that it'is considered a gain Corporatlons “for any litigant merely to be allowed to USE = X THE NAME ‘of a man like Judge Young as ONE‘ : - _OF HIS COUNSEL? It gives a case “prestige,” 5 j»whether Young takes. any part in the actual'p 4