The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-11-27

son, ltepuDllcan, treaSurer-elect
OF Idaho, to assume Office as the
legally nominated and elected
treasurer of this state will be at
tackled i'm the courts. It was
learned on excellent authority
that two prominent attorneys of
this state have been employed to
act as counsel to contest the
right of Mr.. Eagleson to take Of
flee and that papers in an action
arc now being drafted which will
within a short time be filed in
the courts.
The acti0n VIII be based on
the grounds that Mr.. Eagleson's S
nomination in the first instance
was null and void and of no ef-
feet i'm that the state central
committee of the Republican par
ty without authority vested in il
by the laws placed him in nom
ination after the date for Ger
liilcation by the secretary Of
state of the regularly nominated
candidates for all parties to the
auditors of the respective coun-
lies of the state had passed and
through an alleged certifcation
of his nomination after that date
TO the secretary of state, had his
name placed placed on the Of
fetal ballot through the use UY
stickers with instructions TO paste
them over the name of o. V. Al
len, self-confessed embezzler OF
state funds, who had been nom
mated at the primary election to
succeed himself as the party's
candidate for treasurer, but ar
Ter whose conviction and sent .
tence to the penileniiary or at any
time prior, filed his declaration
prior to certihcation with the
secretary of state as provided by
The law.
The prospective suit again
brings TO life the doubts express
ed at the time the Republican
slate central committee or tn,
Executive wing Of that commit
tee met and placed Mr.. Eagle
son in nomination and certified
his nomination to the secretar,
Of state taking advantage Of wha
was alleged to be a provision il
the election laws to fiji a vacan
cy on the state ticket when thl
vacancy was caused by death ol
otherwise to substitute the nam
of the nominee on stickers TO b.
spasted on the ballot.
During the last general elec
tion stickers are known to hav
been used on the general elec
ton ballots in two cases-in tn
case of w. II. Holden of Idah
Falls who by that means sue
ceeded in having himself vote
for justice Of the supreme couI
"a succeed the late George
stewart, and in the case Of Nj
Eagleson as Republican candl
date for state treasurer.
Ii is said it will be claimed /
the prospective suit that if it wa
Illegal to use stickers in the Hold
en- instance it was also illegal
use stickers in the Eagleson in
stance; that if it was legal to us
stickers in the Eagleson instan,
then il was also legal to use stiC
ers in the Holden instance al
if the former can be held to
the legal nominee en- by use
stickers was elected, then the la
ter for whose alleged electiC
stickers were used, is also elec
p ed and is entitled to receive
! certificate having been elected
the supreme court as justice.
The case may present son
very complex situations in r
o. gard to the use of stickers at
e election in this state. Hold
g is contesting the right of Jud
v Alfred Bulge of Pocateiio to tn
n seat on the supreme bench n
n der the appointment from G
o ernor Haines. He claims fa
= ure of the governor TO issue
proclamation declaring a vaca