The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
been sent to Topeka about the district

been sent to Topeka about the district
judge:
Dear Sir:-Mr. ]. N. Dunbar, as
sistant attorney general for Cherokee
county, has probably written you con-
corning the arbitrary course taken by
Judge Bulger in the district court here
yesterday forenoon; but I suspect that
Mr.. Dunbar has, in his characteristic
way, rather modestly related what took
place. About Is members of the Cher
okee county bar were in court, at the
opening of the October term. In setting
the cases for the term the state cases
were called first. In q of these Mr..
Dunbar appeared as shown in the
printed bar docket, as the prosecuting
attorney. In each of these cases, when
called, Judge Bulgar, ignoring Mr.. Dun
bar, asked the county attorney II he
was ready for trial. To this question
in each case, the county attorney an
swered that he had had nothing to do
in the case and knew nothing about it
as to the conditions of the case. In
about 20 of the 27 cases Mr.. Dunbar
announced to the court that he was
ready for trial; but in each of these
the court refused to hear him, and ar
bitrarily, and in a discourteous man
ner. continued the case, at his own
motion, and refused Mr.. Dunbar the
right to read 2 statement into the rec
ord. But he did recognize Mr.. Dunbar
in such cases as those in which Mr..
Dunbar asked that the cases be dis
missed, thus inadvertently indicating
the motive of the court, as one might
be justified in believing, to show favor
to those who oppose the enforcement OF
the prohibitory liquor law. In 80 in
stances, where sufficient evidence was
present to justify it, Judge Bulgar has
arbitrarily refused to make a single
finding against a Joint keeper; and in
q cases. where the state was repre-
scented by Assistant Attorney General
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trial Judge Bulgar has continued the
cases, at his own motion, and against
the objections of Mr.. Dunbar. Among
the cases so continued there is one in
which the defendant has been in Jail
more than a month and is anxious to
have his trial. He has ever refused to
hear Mr.. Dunbar in a case of forfeited
recognizance in which the state is en-
titled to judgment in the sum of $500.
II have lived in Cherokee county for
more than % years, and have been a
close observer of the current events
of the county all that time, and 1 am
frank to say that the affairs of the
county, so far as they may be affect
ed by the district court, are in a more
deplorable condition now than ever be-
fore. L believe that you ought to take
action at once in an effort to sustain
the right and authority of the attorney
general or any of his assistants, to ap-
pear in the district court of Cherokee
county, in any case in which he may
choose to appear. 1 have talked with
the members of the bar here and, with
one possible exception, they are aston
ished at the course of Judge Bulger;
and I believe that nearly every one of
them is ready to extend you any rea-
soma BILE aid in this deplorable matter.
William Muirhead, special assistant
in the office of Attorney General jack
son, has returned from a trip over the
Missouri Pacific from Kansas City to
Horace. Among counties he visited
were Morris, Mcpherson, Barton, Paw
nee, Scott and Greeley. Talks on the
campaign were given in all these coun-
ties. Mr.. Muirhead in discussing the
trip said that a good majority for the
state Republican ticket will be polled
in every county except Barton. Some
of the Republican candidates, he
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