The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-19
IN HOT STATEMENT DENSON ATTACKS
 BAR ASSOCIATION
Charges Corporation Law. yers Control Legislative, Judicial and Executive
 Policy of Alabama

The administration of justice in Ala bama is dominated by the corporation lawyers" says w. A. Denson, a well known local attorney, in signed state
 ment, which he has sent out to the law yers of the state. He declares that these men employed by the public service and. general industrial corporations, both foreign and domestic of their respective localities, including the railroads and the
 Alabama Power company. MT. Denson
 charges in his statement that these men, numbering less than 100. all told, control
 absolutely the legislative, judicial and ex- ecutive policy of the state of Alabama. He alleges that the Alabama Bar asso-
 citation is dominated by this same group of men who are said to control the state That the people of the state must look to the lawyers to overthrow this control is the declaration of MT. Denson. who urges all the 1900 lawyers in the state tU attend the meeting of the Bar association at Decatur on July 14, and perfect an organization within the as- sociation for the purpose of starting a movement for the change of these al- 1 leged conditions.
 | MT. Denson charges that these corpora
 tion lawyers shrewdly create dissensions | in the state on such questions as pro- | hiibton and so distribute themselves on the various sides that no matter who wins. the corporations are still In con- | trol of the situation. In counties where prohibition is strong, the leader of the | dry forces is either one of the insidious I interests or else is willing tool under
 their domination. The same he states
 to be true in counties where the anti
 prohibition forces are in the saddle. This
 condition he says. results in legisla-
 ture which is dominated by these cor l porate interests.
 l He cnarges that through the appoint
 ment of jury commissioners, the inter- ests are able to keep men off the jury | lists who would not favor corporations | The primary election law passed by the
 last legislature is, according to MT. Dem son. a piece of work framed for the benefit Of the interests, and he declares
 that by getting out several candidates to divide the vote of the opposition, they
 can always name the men to high places
 in the state government.
 l MT. Denson paints very gloomy pic- | ture of the situation now existing in this I state, and declares that unless the law yers who are not controlled by corpora tions organize and overthrow the present system, the condition of the individual
 citizen will soon become unliveable l Just what effect the statement sent out 1 by MT. Denson will have remains to be seen. On several occa sions in the past he has made similar charges regarding 1 the administration of affairs in Ala bama. Several years ago he created a | sensation in legal circles when he sent out a brief in which he charged that the members of the Alabama supreme court were controlled by the corporate interests and that it was impossible to | obtain justice. The matter was finally l adjusted satisfactorily without the insti- tutIon of contempt proceedings by the
 court