Jackson County IA Archives Court.....Swift, F. J. November 19, 1925
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Source: Bellevue Leader
Written: November 19, 1925
Recorded: November 19, 1925

Bellevue Leader, Nov. 19, 1925 

WOULD OUST CITY OFFICIALS 
Proceedings filed in District Court against officials of Maquoketa 
Bad state of affairs said to exist at county seat-ill feeling engendered 

According to the Maquoketa Excelsior, ouster proceedings were filed Friday in 
the District Court against F. J. Swift, Mayor, G. O. Morse, City Manager, who 
is also City Clerk, Councilmen Walter Casteel, Harry Billings and E. P. 
Hatfield, the signers to the petition being Frank McNear, Carl Hinkelman, Park 
Marland, Scott Brady and Frank Sears, all citizens of Maquoketa. The charges 
in the petition claim willful misconduct, habitual neglect and refusal to 
perform the duties of their respective offices. It is specially charged that 
the city council illegally fired the city attorney in 1924 and have been 
without one since that time. It is also charged that a large fee was paid 
Clarence Darrow-he of Tennessee's monkey trial fame-for advice concerning the 
legality of the bonds to be issued, and that Mayor Swift, in accepting a 
salary of $400.00 per year, has collected illegally several hundred dollars 
during the past year or two that does not belong to him with exception of 
about $70 in fines. 

There have been many reasons given in the different daily papers around this 
part of the state concerning the action of the petitioners in this matter, and 
regardless of which is right or which is wrong, the fact still remains that a 
real legal battle is now on which will doubtless be an extended affair and 
which will cost somebody a lot of money and engender bitter feelings. The case 
will doubtless come up for trial at the November term of court, but in all 
probability will not be tried until a later date. The local attorney for the 
petitioners is C. W. Farr, while the accused have retained the services of Ely 
& Gregory. 




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