People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — ARE OUT OF POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

ARE OUT OF POLITICS.

United States Attorneys Not Allowed to Be Active Partisans. Washington, Oct. 17.—The attention of Attorney General Olney has been called to a statement in a telegram from Vinton, la., to the effect that United States Attorney Sells has been instructed to cancel his compaign engagements. Mr. Olney said that Mr. Sells had written him on the subject of his taking an active part in the campaign, and in reply the following letter had been sent him: “It is contrary to the rules of this department —uniformly laid down in every case in which application has been made—that district attorneys should participate in political campaign work.” It is said at the department of justice that substantially the same replies had been sent to a number of district attorneys from all sections of the country who had written making inquiry on the subject and that the rule stated by Mr. Olney was an old oue from which there had been no deviation in the replies sent in answer to inquiries on the subject