The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-10-12
SENATOR BOYLAN
QU|zzES HILTON.
GOES AFTER ATTORNEY GEN.
ERAL HILTON REGARDING
EVELETH CASE.

Senator Michael Boylan wrote an
open letter to Attorney General
Hilton two weeks ago regarding the
prosecution of the quo warranto
proceedings at st. Paul. mike"
evidently did not feel that the At
torney General was doing right in
the matter and his letter left no
Misunderstanding as to his feelings:
He said:
Virginia, Mimi, Oct. 3, 1923.
Hon. Clifford L. Hilton,
st. Paul, MINI.
Sir: 1t is reported throughout
my district that you permitted Mr..
Charles o. Baldwin of Duluth, an
attorney employed by the United
States Steel Corporation for that
purpose, to have charge of and pro-
secute the Quo Warranto proceed
ings recently commenced by you in
support of the Governors order of
suspension and for the purpose of
removing from Office the mayor and
city clerk of Eveleth. It is also re-
ported that Mr.. Baldwin before the
Supreme Court of Minnesota, con-
demned the recall provisions of the
Eveleth Home Rule Charter, sneered
at the constitutional right of trial by
jury, derided the people of Eveleth
and the Mesaba range and accuse
the mayor and city clerk of Eveleth
of charges which were not even re-
ferred to in the petition or pleaded
in the information or before the
court in any way.
In view of the report that Bald
win could not produce legal authority.
for a construction of the statutes to
permit the removal of municipal Of
ficers, it seems apparent that such
an argument as resorted to by the
steel trust attorney for the purpose
of creating prejudice in the minds
of the court and trying to persuade
the Supreme Court judges to in
wade the province of the legislature
and make laws to suit the present
purposes of the steel interests.
AS senator, from the sixty-frst
distr ct, the district in which Eveleth
is situated / want to protest against
by the attorneys for the Steel Cor
pOTdllOH. Ill OTucT W ANSWER
quiries from all parts of my district
and elsewhere, l would like to have
you state for publication why you
turned over to the Steel Corpora
ton the prosecution of the Eveleth
Quo Warranto proceedings an d
whether or not you approve of such
the matter was presented to the
Supreme Court as related above and
whether or not pou approve of such
presentation and the argument made
in your behalf by the representative
of the Steel Corporation.
l sincerely hope and expect that
you will publicly condemn the Steel
trust attorney for the manner in
which he presented this case to the
Supreme Court and that you will
say to the people of Minnesota that
you do not approve of such pre-
sentation.
Silence on your part, of course,
will be construed by me and, am
sure, by others to whom the con-
tents of this letter will become
known, as approval of said proceed
ings by Steel Trust attorneys and
not in lawyerlike manner but in a
manner intended to obtain deci-
sion based upon prejudice and pas
sion.
Please, General, let US know your
position regarding this matter at
your earliest convenience.
Yours respectfully,
MICHAEL BOYLAN,
State Senator.
1t is stated that Monday morn
ing's News-Tribune had the answer
of Attorney General Hilton in full
in it's early edition, which, however
was not received here. 1t is also
[ clainnad that Spnatnr Rnulan,S letter