LIKE COMIC OPERA

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6278, 23 July 1921, Page 2

LIKE COMIC OPERA

■'X . “KING CAN DO |iO WRONG’'

A GOVERNORS PECULATIONS

PARDONS HIMSELF,

Australian and iN.L. CaLV (Received 3 a.m.)

NEW YORK, July 22

Governor Small, of Illinois, who has been indicted on a charge of conspiring (o defraud the State of 2.000,000 dollars, < Vela res upon the advice of his counsel that he wilt resist the (warrant issued for his arrest, basing his contention upbn the dictum that “the king can i\> no wrong.” Tlie lawyers point out that each State considers itself a Sovereign Slate, and the Governor" is the supieme j/;>\ver, and can immed'ately pardon hilnself if convicted. Impeachment i,- the unlyN method of removal'. *