HE WANTED TO BE ARRESTED.
Civic League Secretary Thought He
Had Broken the Law.
A. O. Harrison, secretary of the Civic League, called at the county prosecutor's office yesterday afternoon and tried to offer himself as a martyr. The stake wasn't ready, however, and he was told to come back in a day or two.
A state law that was passed in 1907 which compels any organization volunteering to label candidates for office as "good" or "bad" to state its reasons and sources of information. If the league, for instance, wished to send circulars over the county declaring that Judge W. H. Wallace is a "good" man, it would have to print along with the circulars its sources of information.
Prior to the special election for sheriff last January the league sent out word that both W. J. Campbell and John Hood were good men. Someone told Harrison that this was in violation of the new law, and he came to the prosecutor's office to be arrested. There wasn't any warrant ready for him, however, and he was told to call again.
