New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-10
The Judicial Election.

The Judicial Election.
This Evsn,ag the Wings Of New York are re-
ouested 10 assemble in their severei Assembly Dis
tricts being identical with the Wards save that
the Ist and lid Wards compose one Assembly Dis.
trict and the lid and With arother) and elect
Delegate from each District to the Judicial State
Convention at Syracuse on the 18TH and three Del
egates from each Ward to City Convention, which
will assemble at Broadway House on Thursday
evening for the nomination Of four Supreme Court
Judges, Surrogate, and any other officers that our
City may be requredt to choose at the Judicial lee
ton on the 3lst inst.
The simple statement already given ought TO be
sufficient TO call together very large meeting of
citizens n each District this evening. No man can
fail to realize that an able learned and upright Ju-
dietary is Of vital Importance to the Rights of Per
son and Property-to the safety and well being of
the entire community. Hitherto, Judges have viz
tually been made in little private caucuses and sly
gatherings being thence dictated to Governors and
Senates and by them invested with the ermine
often without personal knowledge of their fitness.
and upon the most unworthy grounds. This useful
partisan had been disappointed in his repeated and
urgent solicitations for ofice-had been denied
seat in the Senate, run for Lieutenant Governor,
Job on the Canals or the fat stealinss of General
Iuspectorship, and he must have something so he
gets Judgeshp. Another has been brazen-
hinged at party meetings until his throat and
pockets worn empty-a Judges fees and saIa-
ry are prescribed as lis panacea, and prove efiec
tual Another is formidable competitor for Con-
gress, and. avoid comDotion in the party be is
bought of with the promise Of q Judgesbip-ah high
figure it is freely confessed; but then the great
danger Of slip between the cup end the lip is to
be considered Those who, in view of the APP
preaching Judicial Election, affect horror Of par
tisan Judiciary, surely cannot make the People
forget that we have had nothing else but partisan
Judges for the last forty years For half that time
our Supreme Court Judges and Chancellor have
besn entirely of one party 1t will be SO hereafter
Of the peoplo so win-not otherwise. And, while
we know that very unfit men are often chosen by
the people we do not believe that any party would
venture to present as unsuitable for Judges to
be chosen by the People as have repeatedly been
dictated by local Junta to the Governor and con-
Armed on his nomination by the Senate.
! II the majority of the Convention had permitted
choice of Supreme Court Judges by thirtyt two
Districts each electing Judge, we should have
INDUCED more sanguine hopes than we now do
In our eight great Districts, especially with but
three weeks from their formation to the Election,
we apprehend that the majority OF the voters can
not know well the candidates between whom they
must chose and that Party Politics will rule rather
of necessity than preference. had Counties like
Onondsga, Monroe, St Lawrence Kings &c been
allowed to choose one Judge, while two or three
~. o,u,,., nalauera Rockland Richmond Nc
were united to form District choosing one we
should have secured the far freer and fuller &C
ton of public sentiment and Judiciary practi-
cally elevated above the atmosphere of party
But this was denied by nearly strict party vote.
We may now have Judges nominated by Party,
and for time in good degree chosen by Party, but
this cannot last The great majority of the voters,
now that their attention has been turned to the
subject, viii weigh and consider the qualifications
Of those nominated for the Bench and will vote for
good Judges rather than for Judges Of orthodox
Politics Let but onefifth do this, and a salutsry
result is inevitable
III in the Election directly at hand Political
considerations shall bear undue sway the fault
will not lie with the Wings. We have been desi-
rous and still are of divesting the choice far as
practicable, Of a party character. Should our I'D
vances be met in kindrid spirit, Union tickets
viii yet to a great extent be formed And, if
they should not be- we still entreat every Wing to
vote for the eest men whom his vote may elect no
matter how nominated nor by whom. If the Wings
nominate unfit men it will be no advantage to the
party, bat the contrary, to have them elected. Do
not fail to vote, and never vote for an indifferent
candidate when there is better in the field
lit costs man, on the average, an hours time
to attend Ward Meeting and hall an hour to vote
in our City. ofthe thirty thousand or more House
holders in our City we estimate that one.tenth
will attend the Ward Meetings, and two-thirds will /
go to the Polls II inferior Judges are chosen. it
viii be solely because those who have a palpable /
interest in contrary result wilfuly absent them 4
selves from the Election-sn Election which fixes
the character of the Judiciary of our State for sew
erd years to come Should our men Of Property
and Business act in this way, and an inferior judi
ciary be chosen, which ought they to blame for the
result-the New Constitution, or themselves