The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-30
POLITICAL BOSS
TEsTIhG HIS POWER
Technical Barriers Raised To Save
George B. Cox, Millionaire, From
Answering Charge.

CINCINNATI, o., March 20
George b. Cox, Republican boss OF
Hamilton county, fighting an indict.
ment for perjury, is testing his per-
sonal power over the courts.
The boss was indicted over month
ago, and so successfully has he bat
tied in a war OF technicalities that
there is piled up between the boss
and immediate trial a barricade OF
injunctions, mandamuses and other
powerful legal obstrutions.
He has completely tied the hands
of the trial Judge. Frank NJ. German,
Democrat, with an Injunction which
he got In one OF the higher courts,
while before the same court there Ia
at present pending a plea for man
damus to compel the presiding judge
OF the lower court to swear German
OF the bench.
or the two judges, Peter Swing and
Samuel Smith, who have given Cox
the injunction which prevented his
immediate trial, one, Swing, is he
who several years ago admitted before
the Drake legislative investigating
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and advised him concerning a case
pending In Swings court.
Samuel Smith is he who when he
was a Judge in lower court granted
the injunction which stopped the work
OF the Drake committee at time
when this committee was disclosing
a state OF corruption in Hamilton
county which rivaled the exposures of
the Lexow probers in New York.
The boss has hired the best legal
brains OF the city to save him. At
the head OF his army of lawyers is
Lawrence Maxwell, solicitor general
OF the United States under Cleveland,
and who was recently appointed by
President Taft, member Of the com
mittee that is TO revise magazine pos
tai rates. IL Is estimated that Cox's
fight will cost him $4,000.
In the past decade only one other
man has been indicted for perjury
In Hamilton county He is Isidore
Glassberg, a poor man, who was not
only indicted, but also convicted in
19 days. That happened two years
ago, and Glassberg was sent to the
penitentiary for three years.
Glassberg had only $50 with which
to make his fight
Cox is a millionaire, concerning
whose millions President Taft, when
secretary OF war, asked In speech
at Akron, o.: Where did he get it?.
Game called; no money is the
way Glassberg describes the record
OF his case.
There were only two innings in
nj lox In.
dictment and conviction.
Boss Cox has already played eight
innings, and is still far from trial.
Cox, when indicted for perjury, ex-
pressed himself as very eager for trial.
The perjury charge involved graft
amounting to $65,000. Before a previ-
Gus grand jury Cox had sworn that
never in his life had he received any
county interest money from county
treasurers OF Hamilton county. Be-
fore the grand jury that indicted Cox
on Feb. 81, two former county treas
urers confessed that they had given
him an aggregate OF $65,000.
When the circuit court Injunction
was granted Judge German said: PRO
ceedings of this kind tend to bring
the courts into disrepute with the peo-
ple."
But George B. Cox was saved The
injunction gave him sufficient delay
TO tide him over the week that remains
Of Judge Germans term In the Grim
inal court division.
There are some who predict that
Cox will not be tried at all, for In a
friendly court there are many rocks
on which an indictment can be wreck
ed. And Judge German is the only
judge in the Hamilton county courts
who was not nominated and elected
by the Cox organization.
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1881, leather cannon were used. We