The producers news., 1919-04-25

The supreme court did not render
decision.
THE SUPREME COURT RE-
FUSED TO RENDER A DECISION.
If you do not believe US, look up
the files of the supreme court and
you will find an entry about like this:
ION ACCOUNT OF THE MANY
SERIOUS QUESTIONS RAISED
BY COUNSEL, AND ON ACCOUNT
OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
QUESTIONS SUBMITTED TO US
FOR DECISION, WE ARE UN-
ABLE, BECAUSE OF THE LIMIT
ED TIME AT OUR DISPOSAL, TO
DECIDE THE CASE AND THERE
FORE, WE DISMISS THE PETI-
'TIONS OF DUNN AND Nc
CARTHY."
You see the court decided that it
would not decide.
OF COURSE, ANY QUESTION
THAT THE A. C. M COMPANY
RAISES IS A SERIOUS" QUES-
TION JUST AS THE QUESTION
RAISED BY THE MOB THAT CRU
GIFTED CHRIST WAS REGARD
ED AS A SERIOUS QUESTION BY
THE HONORABLE PONTIUS Pill
ATE. Sd -
PLATE ALSO REFUSED TO
DECIDE.
Christians and perhaps others will
recall that the learned Roman, sit
, ting in Judea, hoping to quiet the
stings, of his conscience, TOOK A
BASIN OF WATER AND GOING
BEFORE THE MULTITUDE THAT
WAS CRYING, "CRUCIFY HIM,
CRUCIFY, HIM." WASHED HIS
HANDS.
p Courts are ruled by precedent.
THIS is THE ONLY PRECED-
| ENT THAT SUSTAINS THE DE-
CISION OF THE SUPREME COURT
OF MONTANA.
Dean Swift says that if a court
can ever find that some other court
robbed, a itigant robbery can be
iudicially confirmed and a PRE-
CEDENT laid down for FUTURE
GUIDANCE.
NOW WHAT SERIOUS CUES
TION CONFRONTED THE SU-
L SOOn4
THE QUESTION MAY BE UN-
DERSTOOD BY A REFERENCE
TO THE STATUTE, ALLOWING
INDEPENDENT NOMINATIONS
FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICES. SEC
TION 524 OF THE COMPILED
STATUES OF MONTANA, SAYS:
Candidates for public Office may be
nominated otherwise than by conven'
tion or primary meeting in the man
ner following: A certificate of nomi
nation, containing the name of g
candidate for the Office to be fillei
must be signed by electors residing
within the political division in anG
for which the Office or officers are te
be elected. The number of sigma.
lures must not be less than 5 pei
cent of the votes cast for the success
full candidate for the same Office al
the preceding election, whether tn.
said candidate be state, county, town
ship or municipal or other politica
division. The electOr signing a Ger
tifcate must add to his sigma;
his business, business address ane
place of residence. This certificate
must be filed with the city CLERK
three days before the election.
Election days was fixed this year
at April Z.
Certificates Of nomination, signed
I by more than 10 per cent of the
electors for the successful candidates
for Office Of mayor and treasurer Of
| the city of Butte were filed with
Treacy, city clerk, on April 8, al
o'clock in the afternoon. e
HE REFUSED TO RECEIVE
THEM AND REFUSED 10 riLt
| THEM
At that time neither Dunn nor
Mccarthy held certificates of nomi-
nation made by any convention, any
primary meeting, or any primary
election.
At 10 o'clock next morning, Apri
4, they applied to the supreme court
in open court, at the state capitol
building for an order directing Trea-
cy, as city cleri1, to file the certifi-
| Gates of nomination and to place the
names of Dunn and Mccarthy on
the ballot in accordance with the
wishes of the electors signing the
petitions.
Ihug THERE AROSE A sERI-
GUS QUESTION.
Namely, should the decision made
by Treacy, the election crook, be al
lowed TO stand as a final decision OF
should oe supreme court set the
crooks dacisien aside and rep &C.
with 1t bhn decision?
WE SUPPOSED THAT THE J
DICIAL POWER OF THE STATE
WAS II THE SUPREME COURT
NOT n a CITY CLERK. xx
We supposed this, because ths
written not unwritten) constitution
Of this state in Article g., Section /
says: "1he judicial power of s the
state shan be vested in tn seratl
sitting g. a court of irapeacsps
in a supreme. court, district cou
justices as she peace and s'sel fet'
inferior t6urts as the elegis' a. 'es'
semblv usRy establish"
Sectior 8 of Article 8, say :, Sth