The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-02-08
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAJOR
ANNOUNCES HIS CANDI-
DACY IN RACE FOR
GOVERNOR.

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Bases Plea for Democratic Nomination
on Record in Big Cases.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. Sat-
torney General Major filed with the
Secretary of State today a statement
formally announcing his candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
Governor.
He is the first candidate of any
party to file for the office.
I'm offering for the Democratic
nomination for Governor" reads the
statement, II have nothing particular
to say at this time, save and except
am in full accord with the well-known
principles of Democracy. My record
as Attorney General in handling the
official business of the State speaks
for itself and am willing to be meas
ured by it"
Mr.. Major was born in Lincoln
county, Missouri, and is AZ years old.
He has lived in Pike County for many
years. He was Senator from the
Eleventh District, and was editor and
compiler of the Revised Statutes of
1899. He was elected Attorney Gen.
eral in 1908.
The business of the department has
increased virtually so per cent during
his mcumbency, and he has been
called upon to conduct the most i'm
portant litigation in which the State
has ever been involved. He has had
forty-nine cases in the Supreme Court
of the United States, more than the
entire number handled by all other
Attorneys General since Missouri's
admission to the Union.
He has had forty-six cases in the
United States District and Circuit
courts, more than thirty original suits ]
in the Supreme Court OF Missouri and :
about 400 criminal cases. In three
years he has been called upon to =
write more than 1900 opinions, three y
times as many as were written in the @
same length of time before. ~
Among the important cases con- ~
Quoted by Gen. Major was the stamp ~
act case, wherein he had the consti- -
nationality of the stamp act sustained :"
in the Supreme Courts Of Missouri l..
and the United States, and on its ter -.
mination collected $4,000 from those -. ~
who failed to observe the law. The "a "a
money was placed in the State Road -" ~
Fund The proceeds from the en- ~.
forcement of this law now amount to -. ~
more than $50, 900, and are increasing ~
at the rate Of 500 day. S as
The full-weight statute, relating to "
the weighing Of hay, coal, seed and H..
grain, he had sustained in the Supreme w w.
courts Of Missouri and of the United n'
States. The enforcement of this ~,
statute saves approximately $500, 900 90 90
to producers of grain. ~ We
In the 2-cent passenger fare and ~
freight rate cases, argued ~
in the Supreme Court of the United -
States fifteen months ago he obtained ~:
/ drawn battle and the cases will be iii
next month. Under his ~
prosecution before the Commission All
n and the Supreme Court of Missouri =. .1'
he Harvester Trust was fined and ''e
'rdered to dissolve. 'o'
In December he briefed and argued WI
he Standard Oil and Republic Oil ue'
asses in the Supreme Court of the INC .
United States. In these cases the es'
onstitutionality of the Missouri anti ..,!
rust statutes is drawn in question ,
nd under review for the first time. We
the State wins it will collect $780, Dy
90 from the companies. ,,a'
At the request of United States Sem ~
tors he filed brief amicus curiae Gil
l the Supreme Court of the United