Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-30
Says Board Of Supervisors En- plOyed John F. Ross Under Pro visions Of State Law As ASSiS
 tant C'nty Attorney In Douglas
Also Denies CIeary's Charge
 Ross Received Pay As Deputy Sheriff; Signed Warrants Him
 self; Speaks AuthoritatiVely

According to Chairman Gus Hickey, Of the Cochise county board of su- pervisors. the attack on John F. Ross democratic candidate for the office of county attorney by Citizen Bill' Cleary Wednesday eve- g from bis soap box platform in front of the Orpheum theatre was wholly un- warranted and without semblance of truth. Mir Hickey in statement to the Review yesterday said that he knew what he was talking about, that the attack was not truthful and that Cleary acted malicioUsly and ttst there is no ground for the statements made by the soap box attorney.
 "I stand back Of these statements,' said Mir. Hickey "I wish to brand the statement that MT. Ross was em ployed without provision of law as a deliberate lie l brand it such as chairman of the board of superyis- .ors. In one of our regular sessions the matter was taken up fully and MT. Ross was hired for a period of three months He was hired because there was more county legal business from Douglas than from Bisbee, and because it was thought the extra man would cut down expenses. He was hired under the power granted the su- peryisors by law to employ all the legal service they deem necessary in caring for the county's legal matters. He was paid for the three months during which he was hired, and was then dropped from the county's pay roll when the scheme had been tried out and was found little less eXpen- sive than the old form The board Of supervisors Aired him as assistant county attorney under the provisions Of the law, and Mir Cleary is show ing his ignorance of the statutes of the state Of Arizona when he says otherwise"
 1 MT. Hickey was indignant at the statements of the street corner ora 1 tor. He spoke, he said, both from { friendship for MT. Ross, and from a
 defensive feeling which the lack of 1 knowledge Of Mir. Cleary forced on
 him as chairman of the board Of su- ' pervisors. He said the indictment
 against Cleary is as much a protec-
 ton Of the board of supervisors and their actions as is it a protection of the democratic candidate, and that it is made through no desire of the
 board to enter the race descrimin-
 ately.
 In regard to the statements of
 Cleary as to the salary which Ross
 is said to have drawn as a deputy
 sherln during the same time that he
 was deputy county attorney at Doug.
 las, Mir Hickey also made his state
 ment. passing his reason on the same , grounds as above He branded the
 story of Cleary as as false as the ! former and said:
 You may say that this is also a Q lie. It is a deliberate. premeditated malicious lie. MT Ross, during the ' whole time that l have been chair man of the board of supervisors oi this county has never been paid a , cent as a deputy sherlf have b signed an the warrants of the board Q of supervisors myself, and ! should ! know what they are issued for. ] challenge Cleary's authority for th, - statement on the ground that 1 hav'
 personal knowledge through per Q sonal contact with the paying pi g Aces of the county and know that o have never signed a check for Ros v as deputy sherin"
 h Mir. Hickey said that he will stant u back Of his statements as chairmal h of the board and that there Is n !, doubt but that the remainder of th O board will back the statements h r made. He speaks, he says, fror t knowledge of the case at hand, not i B, defiance of Cleary but in defense c e She board Of supervisors and Ml ,f Ross
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