The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-01-09
DEF|ES COURT TO
GUST MCCLELLAN
ATTORNEY GENERAL, TO AID
HEARST, BEGINS QUO WAR
RANTo PROCEEDINGS.
SHOULD Be IMPEACHED'
Calls Him An Tnciter of Riot
and Violat8r of Oath"--Ac.
tion a Surprise.

New York, Jan. S.--Attorney Gen
eral William S. Jackson, who wa
elected on the Hearst ticket. sprung
surprise today in the fight of vii
liam Il. Hearst to oust Mayor McClel
Ian. The MAYORS counsel. having oh
tanned an injunction against further
quo warranto proceedings by Mr.
Hearst, the attorney general himsel
began quo warranto action without
waiting for the preliminary hearing
Mayor Mcclellan was served in the
suit in his Office today just before
noon by Assistant Attorney Genera
William A. De Ford, who is secretary
of the state committee of the Hearst
Independence leagnc. Mr.. Jackson
has appointed Clarence j. Shearn, Mr.
Hearst's personal friend, to conduct
the suit
Mcclellan Charges Riot.
Eugene Lamb Richards, counsel for
Mayor Mcclellan, issued statement
tonight charging the attorney general
with practically instituting riot by
his method of procedure and saying
that his case was one that might
well merit Impeachment. He com.
plains also that by bringing the suit
in his own name Mr.. Jackson saddled
upon the state the cost of the pro-
ceadings, estimated at 100000. The
suit against the mayor will be tried
TO- = lNr
Th mayor has twenty days in which
10 file reply. Another forty days
delay will be had. Mr.. Shearn said to
night he expected to have the issue
Joined ready for trial within two
months.
1t was explained that the suit be-
gun today will not interfere with The
proceedings started by Mr.. Hearst
and enjoined by the mayor The suit
contains many allegations, the mis-
counting 0f votes by the inspectors:
that men who were not registered
were permitted to vote for Mcclellan;
that many men voted more than once
for Mcclellan.
Mcclellan Called Usurper.
II is alleged that Hearst received
the greatC:t numbcl OF votes ana that
Mcclellan is usurper in office.
MAYOR Mcclellan refused to discuss
the case. His counsel. Mr.. Richards
sal in his statement:
'ln the ordinary course of justice
it had been determined that suit
against Mayor Mcclellan to test the
title to his Office out not in reason
and Justice to be brought This deci-
sion was arrived at by the Republican
attorney general after most careful
inquiry.
AT the invitation of the succeeding
attorney general Mr.. Hearst was
asked to renew his application to
have an action b,oaght. which he has
dcne Then Mayor Mcclellan asked
the court whether the new attorney
general had the power to reverse the
decision of his predecessor ON the
same facts.
The court has made an order and
issued it's writ of prohibition against
the attorney general forbidding him
to determine the question involved. |
viz: Whether he has the right TO re |
verse his predecessor and bring the
suit.
Says He Violated Oath.
The attorney general Immediately |
thereupon determined that he did /
have the power and has brought the |
suit. The attorney general forsook |
the dignity of his office and of his |
own autonomy. violated his oath of
office to maintain the law and in.
augurated reign or riot.
What hope Of Justice does there
remain to any litigant, le; alone the |
mayor of our CITY. when the chief law /
officer of the state in his first import |
courts? Mayor Mcclellan is certainly |
justified in hesitsting TO submit any /
right of his to tribunal 50 reckless. /
outrageous and riotous as that OF the
present attorney general
With an incumbent so careless of 1
his dignity. SO reckless in his conduct.
so cCntemptuous or the law A court I
only Of impcachmen; might adequate
ly deal. and the sooner the better.
Furthermore conservative esfi /
mate of the cost Of a quo warrantoi
action involving the contest Of an
election where 600. 900 votes we're
cast + the sum of 100000. This ex-
pense the attorney general has sad
died upon The state in his effort to be
friendly to Mr. Hearsl"
JACKSON SCORES JUSTICE Fits
Albany. n. Y, i'm. S.-After side
stepping Mayor McCIeIlan's writ to
bold up the recount proceedings ap-
piled for by W. r. Hearst and giving