Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-10-07
The Issue rendered /!

| w nen the committee, cOinpoSeu Ot tue ulelH-
bers of the bar, and others, from this Judicial
district visited Harrisburg last winter, to ami
hilate this district, and prevent the people from
electing President Judge this fall, the great
complaint was that Judge WILMor was impe-
rious and tyrannical upon the Bench that he
was partial aud biased in his decisions, and in
the distribution of his favors, that his official
counsel was marked with all those characteris-
ties which have made the name of JEFFREYs
infamous That to such pitch had this con-
duct arrived, that it was no longer endurabe,
and the people desired some measure of relief
at the hands of the Legislature to rid them of
Judge who had sullied the erInine, and whose
mal-admnstration Of justice had become odious
and unpopular. .....
These Slanders were met by Judge WHMoT
and his friends with open and aatcontradictiou
1t was denied that any such state of affairs ex-
isted as was represented, or that there was any
popular dSapprobation of Judge WuMorS Off
cial course, further then perhaps in individual
cases, incident to the decisions of any Pre-
sident Judge. The Conventions of Bradford
and Susquehanna Counties took the earliest
opportunities to stamp the charges against
Judge WIIMoT as calunnious, and to brand the
authors and utterers as slanders and falsifers.
The people were confidently appealed to, to
decide between Judge WHMoT and his calum-
niators. To make up the issue more CON-
pletely he has received the unanimous nomna-
tion of the Republican party of this District.
If the foul insinuations aud the open and mali
couS lies uttered at Harrisburg last winter,
had the semblance of truth, the people would
never ratify tue action of the Republican party
in presenting such candidate for that high
and responsible position. Why do not the ac
tive movers in that measure accept the Issue
rendered to them Why do they not go to
the people of Bradford and Susquehanna and,
proving their allegations against Judge VIII
MOT, consign him to that ignominy which, in
such case, he would merit ? Have they no
confidence in the integrity and intelligence of
the people? Would our citizens permit man
to retain his seat upon the Bench, who was
proven guilty of gross partiality, of favoritism,
of want of industry, of lack of knowledge, and
deficiency in morals and integrity?
Throughout the canvass, no man has been
named in connection with the Judgeship, who
would test the issue made by the Consprators
in the Legislature last winter No member of
the bar who was engaged in that disreputable
attempt. to deprive the people of their consti,
tutional right to elect Judge, has dared to
think of submitting his conduct to the voters
for their approval or disapproval. They shrink
from such verdict, and thereby confessing the
falsehood of their charges stand convicted of
misrepresentation and falsehood Before that
tribunal, to which of right belongs the duty of
diSgracing Judge WILMor had he been guilty
of the foul crimes imputed to him, the coura-
geous men who bOaSted and talked SO loud in
the bar-roomS and lobbes at Harrisburg, dare
not go with their fabricated wrongs and simu
lated charges. They know that before the
people where Judge WIIMor has presided for
years, they would not be tolerated in the re-
failing of the trivial and outrageous charges
which were so freely uttered to effect the ac-
ton of the Legislature
An attempt, however, has been made to avoid
an expression of the people upon the action of
the Conspirators last winter, by bringing some
professed Republican into the field, and thus
sink out of sight the disgraceful attempt to
prevent our people from electing Judge
Members of the bar have been approached
with every inducement which was supposed to
be of effect to persuade them to be candidates.
Col BULL has obeyed the bidding of his mas
ters, and employed all the artifces of which
he is master, to bring out professed Repub-
lican as a candidate for Judge, but without
avail, until the issue is attempted to be eyad-
ed, by bringing out PATRIcK, under " Old line
Whig" auspices
! What construction can be put upon this
failure to meet the issue rendered by the friends
of Judge w. on the part of those who ATTEMPT.
ed in the Legislature to impeach his integrity
asa Judge and to disgrace him before the peo-
pie Of the State? They stand confessedly con-
victed of base and dishonorable conspiracy
to defame and crush an upright man, by the
most despicable and unhallowed means But
the People, who are strong tower Of defence,
will put the stamp of their disapprobation, at
the coming election. upon the originators of
the ISLANDERS upon Judge WILxor and triumph.
antly vindicate his official and private reputa-
! tion from the aspcrsioas of his enemies.