# Goodhue County Loyalty Trials of 1918 *Subject record: a 1918 Goodhue County proceeding that one Carver County at-issue pair uses as a proxy.* The Goodhue County Loyalty Trials of 1918 appear in the Minnesota record only as the subject of one at-issue pair, AI-Carver-056, in the Carver package. That pair comes from the Motordale dossier dated 2 September 2026. It calls the Goodhue proceedings the closest documented analogue to events the dossier says happened informally in Carver County, and asserts that they show what a missing Carver County file "would have contained."[^1] The pair is anchored to a 2025 presidential action, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*.[^2] The row gives this reason for its anchor: "a preserved parallel proceeding is the best available proxy for a destroyed one."[^1] The record does not establish that a Carver County file existed or was destroyed, or what such a file contained. The comparison between the two counties is the dossier's own inference.[^1] The pack does not document the Goodhue proceedings' dates beyond the year, nor their participants, charges, procedure, outcomes, or the present location of their records. The row lists one record-type source on the mnhs.org domain, but no such source is among the URLs supplied. The presidential action cited as the anchor does not itself describe the 1918 proceedings.[^1][^2] ## What The at-issue row names the subject as loyalty trials held in Goodhue County, Minnesota. In the dossier's words, they were proceedings "on the record."[^1] The pack carries no further description of what the trials were or what they decided.[^1] ## When The at-issue row dates the subject to 1918.[^1] The pack establishes no month or day. ## In the at-issue record - **Carver package (AI-Carver-056):** Block C of the Motordale dossier (pairs 41–58) uses the Goodhue County Loyalty Trials of 1918 as a proxy for informal Carver County proceedings.[^1] The pair is anchored to the 2025 presidential action *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Motordale dossier, *Motordale_5000_STEELMAN_2026-09-02*, at-issue row AI-Carver-056, Carver package, Block C, pairs 41–58 (2026-09-02) — the dossier's characterization of the Goodhue proceedings and its stated rationale for the anchor. The row lists no source URL other than its anchor. The URL below is that anchor and does not itself document the 1918 proceedings. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/ [^2]: The White House, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity* (2025) — the presidential action to which pair AI-Carver-056 is anchored. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/