The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-06-21
IOWA, JUNE 2l, Is
JUrIcIAL POLITICIANS Our remarks upo

this head in NJ ,ndays issue, seems to have
breathed a spark OF animation into some peeu
Harfy s:nsit,rs friend of the Judiciary who sp
pears with tears in his eyes, id this mornings
Auxiliary Wing Print. He may think that he
has annha,ed mebod5, but unless we great
y misjudge, he has fairly begged the uestion.
What we complained of, was, that a Judge,
should descend from his high position to en-
gage in the patry qu,rrrls Of partly politicians.
We said nothing about what he might, or what
he mi ght not d., before he was clothed with
Judicial authority. In such a condition, he
might be ever so bitter partisan, and the in
fuence which he would exert, would be simply
the influence Of the man and not of the officer
1t is the exercise Of his Official position which.
we complain Of and which we cannot but regard
as a dangerous example and inimcal to the free
course of justice. The course OF Judge Greene
and his associates on the Supreme Bench il al
luded to, as justfying the practice we complain
Of Did this correspondent state the facts in
relation TO the Supreme Bench, we should not
hesitate 10 agree with him. 1t is not within
the knowle ledge of this correspondent or any
one else, that Judge Greene has made himsele
conspicuous in party scrambles, since his ele-
vation to the Supreme Bench. Judge Kinney
did do it. at the Legislative session of 1928
and we condemned it and shall always be found
it, whoever may be the party, whe
ther stranger or brother
As to the case Of Gen Jones, Gen. Lewis,
Judge Cookery, and others, who are allu1 led to
by this CORES spondent, there is no Analogy to
the case made in our article Of Monday. The
one 10 Judicial officer, exercising jurisdiction
over a large extent of country and welding a
power immeasurably above any other officer in
the state, while the influence of the others is
local and personal in its character. We can
discover no analogy in the two cases.
This correspondent concludes his article with
the following:
Z" Blu, must say, that for q Democratic pa
per on the eve Of an important election to be
attacking by sneakIng insinuations. prominent
Democrats and thereby engendering the worst
Ut feeling among those who should Iiarmonize,
i is certainly pursuing what seems to me very
strange course"
There is a wonderful deal Of paltryhypocriti.
'al cant in the above. Why has not the uirtx.
ous indignation of this remarkably sensitiue
democratic patron OF the Neutral, In1ependen |
6 Dubuque Herald" and "North Western
been aroused at the repeated as
'aults Of this journal, upon the democratic ad-
the democratic Delegation in
Congress, the democratic Legislative Dalega-
ion from this District and hundred other q cd |
democrats in the state? Why has not his pen
been employed 20 correct the notorious dsor.
yanizing tendencies Of this journal! 1t can
advocate whig principles and assall democrats
with impuniiy; but the moment one who does |
M, belong TO the clan, deems it a duty to call
n que ton the course Of one of their number,
Down comes the arrows Of vengeance and up
Uses their pirtuOus democratic indignation.
Now, we want this individual and oil others
to understand, that we 60 in for the entire
democratic ticket first and last; and shall, as
we always have, labor zealously for the demo- |
cratic cause; but no clustering or hypocrati,ol
;ant, under the assumed sanctity Of democratic
fdetity, shall prevent US from nting |
upon wrong act, let it proceed from Demo.
crat WING, Atolitionist, Native Anne rican,
or any other partisan. The press
is the legitimate channel for purifying parties
and whenever it becomes necessary to exercise |
its privileges for this purpose. we for one, shall
not h, sita'e to do it. The hypocritical ysip of
or the Influence Of place, will
not prevent US from discharging plain duty.