The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-01-21
Attorney General Grow and His
Good Work For Missouri.
n. Columbia Missouri Herald.

the people that Attorney. General E.
C Grow should enter the race for the
Democratic nomination for Govern
or. Its urged that be is a native
born Missourian, whose attitude up
on democratic principles and State
affairs lie thoroughly known and has
ben heartily approved. He is tire
less, brave aud ffective worker in Of
fetal duties which has made him a
very popular Attorney General and
State officer in the estimation OF the
people in general throughout the
State In the labors OF his office no
task has been too severe and no vio-
lator of the law sufficiently powerful
To deter UT frip hten him into submits
sion. He has successfully prosecuted
a. many trusts and suits against
viulators Of the law as his time would
permit even To the sacrifice OF his
health.
A few years ago, when the police
commits ioners Of Kansas City ap'
pointeda man by the name OF Nallins
chief Of police OF that city, iniorma-
tiaH r. aehed General Crow that Val.
Inns did not possess the proper quail
tira'ions and was member of the
Pinserton Detective Agency, closely
allied To the Metropolitan Street
Railway Of Kansas City, and inimical
to organized labor, He immedia tely
institutedproceediugs in the Supreme
Court 10 Dust him from his office and
was successful,
represented a suit in the Supreme
Court against the trust companies OF
the city OF st. Louis to compel them,
under the statutes, to pay interest
on all deposits. This suit terminal.
ed in an order OF ths court requiring
the companies to pay interest on all
depo its or cease doing business. In
the shape oiinterest alone, itamounts
to an annual payment OF many
thousand dollars. not only to the
people OF st. Louis but to those in all
the cities OF the State where such in
stitutions have been established, be-
ing more beneficial to laboring
classes whose savings are generally
placed on deposit with these compa-
MES for safe keeping. Aconservativp
estimate OF the deposits OF these in
situations Is from fifteen to twenty
millions of dollars and at the GUS
tomary rate OF interest as required
under the order OF the court and by
law, amounts each year to q savings
OF more than two hundred thousand
dollars. After this important piece
Il litigation had terminated in regu
lar order came the suit prosecuted by
General Crow against one hundred
and two FIRE insurace companies for
violating our antitrust laws. After
being required to take testimony
continuously for nearly eight months
and in various parts OF the United
States, and in Montreal and Quebec
the cause was submitted to the Su-
prm- Court and a Judgment obtain
ed requiring each company to pay
into the State treasury the sum Of
one thousand dollars, making in all
S1o2 900, recovered by him as the
Immediate result OF the prosecution
and in addition thereto, the compa-
MES were required to pay the costs OF
the suit.
Hetiled and successfully prosecuted
in our Supreme Court another suit OF
no less Importance. Five of the larg.
est meat packing companies we're
alleged to be in a combine to control
the price of dressed beef and all pack
ing house products. After a hard
legal fight, the court found that the
accompanies were guilty and required
each OF them to pay fine OF five
thousand dollars, or total of TWEEN,
ty-tive thousand dollars.
Several other suits of no less i'm
portance have been prosecuted by
this distinguished officer and in near
ly every instance he has been success.
fol.
In all Of these proceedings, General
Crow has been opposed by some 81
the strongest attorneys in the State
and by his persistent and continued
: exsrtions, the rights Of the peopl,
5 have been protected and his offic.
! has accorded to the people the pro
lection for which it was established.
He has put his usual energy, skill
and determination into his pro.ocn