The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
DAVIS DENIES MOBILE RING FIGHTS CAZALAS Attorney General Brands Cazalas Statement
 False
PROPOSES TO PUSH
 IMPEACHMENT CASE
State Official Says Boot
 leggers For And Not Against Mobilian
fStata Canitai Bureau)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov 26.-Attorney General Har- we'll G. Davis in a statement today branded as false the "insinuation" credited to Sher- if Paul Cazalas, of Mobile county, as carried in a pur- ported interview in the Mont gomery Advertiser and Bir- mingham News last Sunday to the effect that bootleggers and law violators had instigated the impeachment proceedings pending against the sheriff.
 Cazalas is to be tried before the SUI preme court on December 8 in the i'm peachment case. Hugo Black, of Bir- mingham, who prosecuted the liquor conspiracy cases at Mobile will handle the case against the sheriff. Cazalas was sheriff while the notorious rum ring is alleged to have held sway in the Gulf City.
 Attorney General Davis scored Casa- las record for law enforcement and declared that as attorney general he would use all of his official power to rid Mobile of ''an un-American condition of lawlessness" regardless of the at tempt ot discredit officers endeaYoring to enforce the law. s.s5.. s s..
 'sIt is current rumor, the attorney general declared, "that when idcah daily papers of Mobile county refused to be controlled in the interest of the liquor ring in Mobile, that a weekly paper was established for the purpose of giv- ing favorable publicity to MT. Cazalas and his associates. The editor of this paper is the reporter who is giving such favorable news space to Mir. Gag alas interviews and the propaganda of the liquor ring against all who dare endeavor to enforce the prohibition law"
 Following is the statement of Attor- ney General Davis:
 Declare Brandon Friendly
 "In the Sunday edition of a Mont gomery Advertiser and the Birmingham News was published a purported inter- view by Mir. Cazalas which by unmis- takable inference charged that Cover nor Brandon was not in sympathy with the prosecution of the impeachment proceedings against MT. Cazalas, and that after 'disgruntled, designing poli- ticians, bootleggers and violators of all descriptions were unable to persuade the governor to order the impeachment of Mir. Cazalas, that such parties se- cured the cooperation of Attorney Gen eral Davis, and the impeachment pro- ceedings were begun.
 Governor Brandon is charged with the non delegatable responsibility of or dering impeachment proceedings. As attorney general, I advised the gover- nor that, in my opinion, Mir. Cazalas should be impeached. l did not believe then, and do not believe now, that MT. Cazalas will ever enforce the law. The governor authorized the pro -eedings. I do not believe that any boOtleggers or other law violators are responsible for his action. If Governor Brandon had believed MT. Cazalas innocent and the subject of persecution by booleggers and law violators, he most assuredly would not have ordered impeachment.
 If Governor Brandon since author izing the proceedings has become con vinced of the innocence of Mir. Cazalas, he has the authority to order the pro- ceedings dismissed. Even though | am
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