The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-07
Will Meet June II to Set
tie Matter of Assistant
Prosecutor.
STILL THERE
Will Resign to Board Only
Appeal of Barnett to Go
Up This Week.

A special meeting of the county
board has been called for June IL
in order to determine who is assistant
district attorney, making the circle of
a comedy within a comedy. For as
every Shakespear play was enlivened
in the midst of high seriousness and
vast issues by bits of buffoonery and
side-show, the little row between the
present district attorney and the as
sistant district attorney whom he does
not want, continues. Edward Ruetz
is still assistant district attorney but
Frank S Symmonds doesn't like it.
The antagonism is not unnatural on
Mr.. Symmonds' part, since Ruetz was
appointed by the county board at the
request of Morris Barnett and is avow-
eddy one of the loyal @Barnetters" and
one of the battery of counsel who will
carry the appeal to the supreme court.
Comic Sketch Continues.
While there was a little mischief in
the brown eyes of Edward Ruetz as he
took a seat in the municipal courtroom
this morning as assistant prosecutor
and was deliberately ignored by Frank
Symmonds, he did insist with all seri-
BUSINESS that he regarded his primary
relation as one with the county board
who hired him.
Mr.. Ruetz declared that he would
resign to no one but the county board,
to whom it is evident that he will ten
der his resignation when the opportun-
ity offers, with the best grace in the
world. Meanwhile the county board
will meet to discuss the odd situation
next week Tuesday, June IL.
File Notice of Appeal.
The fact that there has been no truce
called in the district attorney contest
was indicated this afternoon when a
notice of an appeal to the supreme
court in behalf of Morris Barnett was
filed in the office of the circuit court
clerk by Mr. Barnett's attorneys, Ed
ward Ruetz and L. E. Vaudreuil of the
firm Of Stewart G. Vaudreuil.
AS matter of form a stay of judg-
ment will be asked in circuit court of
Judge Belden and when this is denied,
as it is anticipated it will be, a request
for stay will be asked of the supreme
court pending the appeal. The temper
airy stay requested Of Judge Belden
was denied by him in his last decision,
for the reason that, as the circuit judge
stated, at is the intent of the statute
concerning proceedings .in quo war
ranto that when a determination is
reached by the court it shall be effec-
tive Immediately; it is not consistent.
with the manifest purpose of the law
that there shall be delay of the judg-
ment."
Don't Expect Stay.
The defense counsel representing
Morris Barnett were not confident to-
day that the supreme court would
grant stay but expressed the hope
that if the stay is denied in the higher
court, case will be advanced on the
calendar and heard soon.
The main contention of the de-
tense in taking the appeal is that the
circuit court erred in throwing out
the ballots Of voters who had voted
at the primaries but failed to get on
the list Of registered voters through
mistake. Voters and election officials
alike are awaiting the result with in
terest, for in the event that the lower
court is sustained by supreme court
decision, it is admitted that the en-
tire election matter will have to be
viewed differently, particularly with
an eye to future practice.