The Parker post., 1918-07-27
FRED L. INGRAHAM ANNOUNCES
FOR SUPERIOR JUDGE.

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Judge of Yuma county on the der1o-
cratic ticket.
Mr.. Ingraham is well known to
many of the people of Parker The
first county office held by him was
that of member of the Constitutional
Convention in 1911, to which place
he was elected on democratic plat
form indorsing the initiative and
referendum and the recall True to
the spirit of this platform, MIR. Ingra
ham throughout the c INVENTION
worked and Toted for a consistent and
workable form of these great demo-
cratic measures. He was also prom
inent in drafting the provisions of th.
Constitution establishing the COrpOr-
alton Commission and was Il power
i'll the final erection OF Il vigorous
commission capable Of striving With
and bringing under the power OF he
law the mighty corporations OF oar
state The Style, Revision and Com
pilatiOn committee also had him as a
member, and in that capacity he as
sisted in the careful wording OF es cry
clause and sentence of our Constitu-
ton. That great charter is now re
cognized as one of the Creates of al
state constitutions; it has stood the
test of actual working conditions AMI
the scrutiny of the courts for seven
years, and has required few amend
ments, and almost no construction.
No state constitution Is its superior,
and to this great work Mr. fngra ham
contributed much
In 1912 he was elected County Al
tOrney, and as such officer earned a
reputation throughout his term of
vigorous and fearless enforcement. cf
the law He also served a term as
Deputy County Attorney, y,1917-191S,
having resigned this position only a
few weeks ago, in order that his cam
paign for Judge might not interfere
with the duties of his office
During Mr.. Ingraham's term as
County Attorney two critical cases
arose at Parker which demonstrate
the judicial turn of Mr. Ingraham's
mind, and show that he has the rare
faculty, necessary in a judge on the
bench, of analyzing a situation, sift-
ing out the real from the apparent,
and getting at the proper and just
solution. One case was that of
dispute over the road leading from
Parker to Empire Flats. The road
had been barricaded and a shooting
affray was imminent. Mr.. Ingraham,
as County Attorney, come to Parker;
the road was surveyed; all parties to
the quarrel were seen; an adjustment
was reached satisfactory to all, and
the road gave no further trouble.
Another, and more difficult case,
was that of the shooting and killing
of an intoxicated Mexican in Parker
which was charged against a Mr..
Coykendall and other citizens of the
town. Mr.. Ingraham came to Parker,
made thorough investigation of all
of the evidence, and decided that no
crime had been committed. Here
was case that in the hands of some
County Attorneys would have been
made the vehicle for great notoriety.
A great trial would have been had:
scores OF witnesses would have been
taken to Yuma; the County Attor-
ney's name shouted in all the news
papers Of the Southwest; the county
would have been mulcted for thou
sands of dollars in expenses; and in
the end the prosecution would have |
failed, or an innocent man would
have been branded as a felon Mr. |
Ingraham's solution took courage, |
but it was judicial, wise, and has
since met the support of public opin- |
ion. A public prosecutor who, with |
a revengeful pack yelping at his
heels, refuses to prosecute, takes his |
political life in his hands; but there |
have been times in the history of |
Parker when this courageous step |
should have been taken, and the Coy
kendall case was one of them.
Mr.. Ingraham has been a resident |
of Yuma county for seventeen years. |
He homesteaded a quarter section in |
Yuma valley in the early day and has
held it through floods, poverty and |
discouragements, until today it is one |
of the richest cotton ranches in the !
United States. He is familiar with |
the people and conditions in all Yuma |
county. He is an educated man,
both law and literary de- |
grees from the University of Michi-
gan at Ann Arbor. He has been ad-
mitted to practice at the bar of the
Supreme Court of three states, Mich