The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-07-14
JOHN |. PARnAM
IS ENJO|NED BY
CIRCUIT JUDGE
From Taking His Seat as Election
Commissioner After Appoint
ment by the Board.
SPECIAL JUDGE ISSUES FIAT
JURISDICTION IS QUESTION
Validity Of Appointment Dependent
Upon Term Of Residence
in Memphis.

The Memphis papers still print
half column articles about John l..
Parham. formerly of Cairo, and his
appointment by The State Board or
Elections to be one Of three election
commissioners of shelby county.
Quo warranto proceedings have
teen started by the opposition to
GUST him contending that he has not
been Il resident Of Memphis for five
years which is the length of time
said to be requiled by an election
commissioner in order to qualify.
The Commercial-Appeal says:
"The fiat was issued yesterday b,
Judge Coates. special judge sitting
for JUDGE Walter Malone in the Sec
ond division of the circuit court, II
is rcturnable at the next term, which
loes not begin until the third Mont
day of September. All county regis
trations and elections for the year
will have been LONE over aid almost
forgotten Ivy tina, time.
There is little PROBABILITY, how
ever, that the faction with which
Mr.. rafham il allied will, allow mat
ters to rest until that time.
"Tbe action is in the nature OF a
quo warranto proceeding brought by
IL. n. Estes. attorney general, reduir-
ms Mr.. Parham to show by what
right he IL attempting to hold office.
| It also includes an injunction
brought by DR.. Ed Chambers Of Mil.
lington on the relation Of the state
enjoining Mr.. Parham from acting as
I commissioners. tss
A Question of Residence.
The entire matter at controversy
| Is question of fact l.. p. Thomp-
sol, clerk of the circuit court. has
gsigned the case to Judge J. P.
Young of the first division tor trial.
In doing that he followed an estab-
ished rule by which cases are as
signed in the order In which they
IRE received. W. :
"Thc fact involved Is easily sus-
,eptible of proof. 1t is question
| merely of whether Mr.. Parham has
or has not been a resident of this
county five years or more.
"The registration books of the
Seventh ward, Second precinct, and
all other available sources of infor-
| ,aation indicate that Mr.. Parham
Will not be eligible mntil June, 1915
In other words, he took up his resi-
.ence in Memphis in 1910. and Is
| therefore, about year shy. HIS
friends claim he has been resi-
dent here more than five years, but
have furnished no proof of the fact
should MIR. Parham desire tc
make an issue without delay 1t could
be brought mp on motion TO dis
solve the injunction. That may bt
done Monday.
Before the bill was filed G. M
Bryan, city attorney, who will doubt
less be among those who will repre-
sent Mfr. Parham, was In the offict
of the cirCuit court clerk arguing
that the circuit court had no juris
diction to enjoin an election commits.
sioner, and questioning the author
ity of a special judge to issue tht
fat under any circumstances, .
The Commercial-Appeal also pub
lished The following:
Cairo, H.. July 11.---John L
Parham was resident of the Stat
Of Illinois on the eighteenth day o
March, 1910, when his appointment
as Judge of election In the FRS
election precinct of the City of Cair'
was confirmed by the county court
| tdlfN was just sheh St7tittH'
junfer what is known as the city cleo
tion law. which makes very exaetint
qualifications for voting. anil Mr.
Parham was appointed fer year
lie Ger ed at tho city elertion 4
lAprii. 1910, but removed to Mem
lphis in June. and at the primar
election in September, his place wa
filled by. another