Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-10
JACKSON ID PLOUGH Il STRAIGHT fURROW New York's Attorney General Elect Says His Conscience is the Only
 Boss He Recognizes
HE WOULD KNOW 4 TRUST
This Big New Man in New York Affairs Courted By Politicians
 Seems Unspoiled.

New York, Nov 10.-"My grand. father won the prize at the Utica state fair for ploughing the straight est furrow. If I can plough as straight furrow in the attorney generals office, I'll feel more than satisfied"
 So said William Schuyler Jackson yesterday. He is smooth faced, 37 year old Buffalo lawyer. who has been suddenly elevated from local fame to national prominence by his election as attorney-general, with un- limited power to fight the trusts. He was the star attraction at yesterdays meeting of the state committee at the Hotel Victoria.
 The attorney-general-elect is un- occasionally a square man-square of jaw, of head, of face and of shoul- der Those who know him we'll in Buffalo say he is square in other re- spects also.
 Glad hands reached out to him every time he turned around, pho- tographers chased him, newspaper men pestered him. MT Jackson laughed good humoredly at the stir he created. He submitted to the pull ing and hauling of the politicians. He proved himself a diplomat by showing equal consideration to "Fingy" Connors and Norman E.. Mack. political rivals, and by calling on William Randolph Hearst and lunching with Charles F. Murphy. Everybody was claiming the new at- torney-general He said he belonged to nobody.
 Now, look here," he said to the reporters, I've just been elected to this job-at least, the newspapers say I've been elected and that's all the authority I've got. ought at least to find out whether I'm elected or not before I tell you what I'm going to do. I've got to find out more about my power. too; more about the of- fice and all that. I'll promise you this: I'll enforce the laws, consider things on their merits and decide them as my judgment and conscience dictate"
 To the question about whether he would order quo warranto proceed ings in the mayoralty election case he laughed. "I don't know-I don't know about thing that I will do un- til examine the facts"
 Didn't you promise on the stump that you would order quo warranto proceedings?"
 T don't think did. think may have said generally that I believed in a fair count. certainly do believe in that"
 What are you going to do about the trusts?"
 Did you ever tackle a trust!
 No. but believe I would recog- nize one if l met 1t in the road"
 Are you Hearst democratr'
 NIT Jackson laughed heartily: I'm a democrat. don't believe in labels. l never met Mir Hearst until after the Buffalo convention. I met him on the stump. think he made a great 
 Are you going to he an Independ.
  ence league or democratic attorney general?"
 I'm going to he an Independence league. a democratic and something of republican attorney-general: I'm going to be an attorney general for everybody in the state"
 Do you recognize Mir Corners as Boss?"
 q certainly do not. I've got no boss except my conscience" Mir Jackson is native of Bunaio md his father went to that city from m Oneida county farm. There his an Englishman by birth. Iettled many years ago. and used 10 1 irive an ox team. The attorncy-gen. 'rai-elect is related dlstantly to Noah | Webster. Horafio Seymour and the | 1nles of Connecticut.