STALWARTS QUIT FIGHT; DROP CASE AGAINST HUBER
STALWARTS QUIT FIGHT; DROP CASE AGAINST C'BER SUIT BEGUN IN RETALIATION NOW DROPPED I Charge of Violations OI Corrupt Practices Act Is Abandoned HI J BE R SAYS ACTION INSINCERE AT...
...I availed myself o* every possible avenue to compel my accusers and mal-igners to bring the matter up in court, but they refused to do so," said Mr...
...Huber be droped...
...instigation of Stalwart ring leaders who sought to direct attention away from the action being prosecuted against Gov...
...Kohler contained no specific recommendations concerning the suits against two other Progressives, Attorney-General John W. Reynolds and Secretary of State Theodore Dammann, it is understood that, these suits likemse will be dropped...
...All three actions were ordered by Gov...
...The prosecuting attorneys, apparently actinj upon orders from Kohler leaders, have been delaying trial of the action, which was instituted last January, in spite oi the vigorous demands of Mr...
...Huber was a participant to violate the corrupt practice...
...In these the attorneys charge that a conspiracy existed of which Mr...
...Huber thai he be granted the right to face his accusers in open court...
...Theodora W. Brazeau and Carl N. Hill, the special prosecuting attorneys named to conduct the case, set forth four reasons foi their recommendation that the suit against Mr...
...act by "pooling" campaign expenditures and that "it did not appeal to our sense of Justice that Mr...
...Although the report of the attorneys filed with Gov...
...attorneys appointed by Gov...
...Kohler at the...
...1 had nothing to fear...
...Huber stated that he had always regarded the Stalwart's suit against him as insincere and that he never expected it to be brought to trial...
...I never expected to be brought to trial...
...Kohler for having violate dthe corrupt practices act in the...
...They alsc made the statement that it...
...1928 campaign by expending over $125,000 lo secure the Republican nomination for governor...
...When informed of the action of the attorneys, Mr...
...was their belief that, the matter should be made the subject of a legislative action rather than a court proceeding...
...The attorneys also pointed out that where a candidate has no knowledge of excessive expenditures beins made, he cannot be held responsible, and that it would be useless to prosecute the case because the necessary evidence, if it exists, "is locked up in the minds of hostile witnesses...
...DROP CASE AGAINST C'BER SUIT BEGUN IN RETALIATION NOW DROPPED I Charge of Violations OI Corrupt Practices Act Is Abandoned HI J BE R SAYS ACTION INSINCERE AT STAR1 Believe...
...That Suits Against Dammann And Reynolds Will Also Be Dropped Henry A. Hubcr, Progressive lieutenant-governor of Wisconsin, was vindicated of charges made by Stalwart ring leaders against him and the Stalwart bosses showed themselves as too cowardly to fight, when the special state...
...Huber should b« singled out and prosecuted for these offenses...
...Huber...
...I defied them to bring their suit, but they refused to do it...
...Kohler to prosecute the ouster suit against Mr Huber recommended last week that the proceedings be entirely abandoned...
...I have violated no provisions of the corrupt practices act, ' either in letter or in spirit...
...I charge that the petition filed against me by the governor's stool' pigeons was not brought in good faith, that the conduct of the administration since that petition was filed has been tinged with infidelity to the noblest tradition of a great executive office...
...My conscience is and always has been clear, and I kntw that...
...In submitting their report...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
