The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-01-25
JUDGE {. C. CROW
Will Ask denomination as At
tOrnev-General.
SOME NOTABLELEGAL PROCEEDINGS
That He Has instituted. The Record
Upon Which He Will Go Before
the People

State Tribune.
For some months there has beer
more or less conjecture regarding the
political aspirations of Attorney
General f. c. Crow He has beer
credited with a desire to become GOV
sernor of Missouri. and many thought
he would make the race against Mr.
Dockery.
Mr. Crow has never vouchsafed any
Information, however, regarding hi,
Intentions, and has neverenlightened
she press as to what office he desired
until Monday. In fact not until late
Monday afternoon did he decide fully
to make his intentions known as to
the part he would play in the coming
campaign for democratic preferment.
After consultation with some of his
closest personal and political friends,
GENERAL Crow has decided to enter
the race for denomination to the Of
flee of attorney general.
Asked about his candidacy by a
State Tribune representative Gen.
Grow said:
"1ou may announce in the Tribune
my candidacy for denomination to
the office OF Encouragement Fur
ther than the mere announcement of
my intention to again make the race.
4 desire to say nothing. My record
during my first term of Office speaks
for itself. The democrats of the state
know this and can decide the merits |
OF mycandidacy.'
As Judge Crow has announced his |
candidacy it may not be out of place
to recount some of his achievements
during the three years of his incum-
beney in office No attornev-generalI
OF Missouri has been more active and
none have been more instrumental in
putting the machinery of the courts
in motion to establish principles of
law and establish precedents. Below
are some of the most important legal
proceedings that have occurred dur
ING Judge Crows official career
In the case of the State VS.. j. NJ
Lowe, prosecuting attorney of Jack
son county, the right of the general
to compel the attendance
of witnesses before it's committees to
give testimony relative to the munic
ipal governments of the cities of the
state to the end that the informal ton
might be used to enbale the general
assembly to pass needful and neces-
sary legislation for cities was estab-
lished.
The ousting of Thomas n. Vallins
from the position of chief of police of
Kansas City on the ground that he
was ineligible on account of non
was a legal controversy
in which the Kansas City police ,
board was the defendant.
The right of women to hold county =
offices has been determined during
Judge Crows term of office. In quo
warranto proceedings brought in the
supreme court against an incumbent
who refused to vacate when defeated
by a woman who had been put on
she ticket to fill vacancy caused by !
the death of her husband who was a !.
for the office, the court de- n
cided that qualifications as a voter II
were not necessary to hold office in :;
Missouri and that a woman could y
legally hold n county office. !,
AS the result of quo warranto pro- a
eeedings brought in the supreme
court the bridge arbitrary of twenty
i've cents charged by the NJ. X. & T
railroad tor every passenger that 4
passed over its bridge. was perpetu X
ally enjoined by the court. The case
was appealed, and is NOW pending in
( he supreme court of the United
Sta ties.
The practice of the trust companies
of St Louis and Kansas of doing a
regular banking business, although .,
not organized "a banks was, as the ks
result of proceedings instituted =
against them by the attorney-gen- pl
eral, stopped by the court, and these .