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 Towner, in McHenry county, and that the train service to Mohall, in Renville county, is inconvenient, and the court room is exceptionally poor. That the petitioner is not acquainted in Ramsey county, and that he is well known not only in Renville county, but in McHenry county as well. That he was well known as a court reporter when Renville was a part of the eighth judicial district, and was also a court reporter when McHenry was a part of such judicial district, and attended terms of court in those places for many years. To this return is appended the affidavit of the complaining witness to the effect that when she was sixtensixteen [sic] years old, in the summer of 1918, the defendant had sexual intercourse with her at various times. At this hearing the defendant submitted an additional affidavit to the effect that at this time at Devils Lake, in Ramsey county, there exists a seething cauldron of political animosity; that the political feeling there was such during the political campaign that it did not subside through the election; that, since this case was ordered transferred in such county, there have been several arrests in that county arising out of the late campaign, and that such publicity and notoriety have been given by both sides of such political campaign, so as to make it less possible for such petitioner to have a fair trial in that county than was possible only a week ago. here is also attached an article showing that various complaints have been filed against the men arrested, charging criminal slander against some who have been opposed to the Nonpartisan League. In his petition, the petitioner recites that he was indorsed by the Nonpartisan League and Organized Labor, for district judge. In this connection the petitioner also presented another affidavit to the effect that conditions so exist in Devils Lake and Ramsey county as to militate against a fair and impartial trial in such county. That such conditions arise from the late political campaign and the preceding primary campaign in which political issues were sharply drawn between those nominees known as Non- partisan and those known as Anti-Nonpartisan, that Ramsey county is one of the strongest Anti-Nonpartisan League counties in the state; that the great preponderance of sentiment, and especially in the city of Devils Lake, is Anti-Nonpartisan, and that much bitterness exists because of such issues. That in McHenry and Renville counties, on the contrary no such bitterness exists as this. No affidavits are filed by the defendants denying the matter contained in the affidavits of the petitioner presented in such hearing.

The proceedings for removal demanded by the petitioner have been under the provisions of article 5 (§§ 10,756 and 10,768) of the Code of