Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-09
IS HE A CITIZEN /?
COUNCILMAN ELECT CAMPBELL
MUST DO SOME EXPLAINING.
A Protest Against Granting Him a Ger
tihcate of Election-He Is SEid
to Never Have Been
Naturalized.

/ There is strong probability that
there will have to be new election in
the Ninth ward. where MIR. George w.
Campbell, the Republican, was declared
elected. The following petition and pro-
test, which was filed yesterday with City
Clerk Teed, fully outlines why this pre-
diction is made.
Your petitioner respectfully repre-
sents that he was candidate on the
Democratic ticket for councilman of the
Ninth ward at the election held Decem-
Der 9Th, 1892; that one George Schnei-
der was candidate of the Peoples par
ty for said Office, one ]. G. Evans was
candidate of the Prohibition party, and
one George w. Campbell, nominee of
the Republican party, was candidate for
said office of member of the
council of the city of Loe
Angeles in and for the Ninth
ward; that said petitioner received 302
votes; that Geo. Schneider received 63
votes; that j. G. Evans received 10
votes, and that George w. Campbell,
the Republican nominee for said office
OF councilman for the Ninth ward, re-
ceived 372 votes; that as appears from
the semi-ofticial returns OF said ward
the said George w. Campbell seems to
have plurality OF votes for council.
man OF said ward; that said
George w. Campbell is not entitled
to have any votes counted for
him as councilman for said ward for the
reason that said George w. Campbell is
not citizen of the United States and
has not been properly declared such cit
izen in pursuance to the requisitions of
an act of congress of the United States
of America, entitled: AN act to estab-
lish uniform rule OF naturalization,
and to repeal the acts heretofore passed
on that subject" and of the several acts
in relation thereto.
That the said George W. Campbell,
on 1.-The Goth day OF October, 1887, de-
clared his intention to become citizen
OF the United States before the county
clerk of the county of Los Angeles, state
Of California, setting forth among other
things. that be arrived in the United
States, at the city of Detroit, state of
Michigan, on the 14th day of November,
1886. A copy of said declaration of in
tention is herewith attached to this pc
tition and protest and marked "Peti.
TONER'S Exhibit A."
That on the 30th day Of July, 1890,
the said George w. Campbell was ad-
mitted citizen OF the United States by
the superior court of Los Angeles
county, claiming his residence in the
United States had been for five years
that said order of the superior court is
null and void and was made upon an
improper and fraudulent affidavit and
was fraudulently obtained in the supe-
rior court of the said Los Angeles coun-
ty by said George w. Campbell; the
said Campbell well knowing that he had
not resided in the United States for the
period of FIVE years at the time he ap.
piled for said admission as required by
law that the witness, Hartwell A. Pow
ere, who testified for said Campbell, was
not at the time of giving his testimony a
citizen of the United States but a citizen
of Canada, and said Campbell we'll knew
the s.me at the time of such testimony.
Wherefore your petitioner earnestly
requests that certificate of election be
not issued to the said George w. Camp
bell, and that said George w. Campbell
be declared ineligible by this honorable
council for the Office of member of the
council of the city of Los Angeles in and
for the Ninth ward, and petitioner pro-
tests against the issuance to the said
George w. Campbell of the said certif-
cate of election. ED. S. IRWIN.
j. MARION Brooks, attorney for petit
toner and protestant.