Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-04
AN INSULT TO THE PEOPLE

The attempt to deprive the people of this
Judicial District of the right to elect Judge,
guaranteed to them by the Constitution, pro-
ceeding from and urged on by personal malice,
is based upon the assumption that the 1900
voters of this District, in October next, will
re-elect Judge WuMor The scheme is, not
to deprive him of his present commission, but
to prevent the people from electing Judge
at the coming election. 1t is assumed that if
an election takes place Judge WILMor will
| receive a majority of the votes. Hence while
the ostensbe argument is to increase the size
of the Districts, and save the State the sala-
ry Of one President Judge, the real weapons
used are wholesale Misrepresentation and per-
sonal abuse of Judge WILMor. He is repre-
sented, privately, by those who think they are
cunning and steathy enough to evade detec-
! ton and responsibility, as being drunkard and
gambler-as being tyrannical upon the Bench
AS being grossly partial and biased in his de-
cisions by political prejudices-and in short as
being by habits aud by the improper discharge
of the duties of bis office-unft to fill the high
position be occupies tbs to prevent the peo-
pie from choosing such a man to preside over
the Courts of this District, that it is proposed
to deprive them of the right Of voting for q
Judge
We ask the voters of this County if they
will quietly submit to such an insult upon their
intelligence and honesty Shall few men,
to gratfy their personal malice, libel the peo-
pie of whole District, by asserting or insnu-
ating that they are not fit to choose their own
Judge Will they submit to be told that
they must be annexed to another Judicial
District, because they are so ignorant or de-
based that they cannot be allowed to elect
President Judge, for fear they will place
upon the Bench man covered with moral
pollution and reeking with the manifestations
of the grossest political prejudices, and in his
decisions and manners q very JEFFREYs a.? Out
upon such base assumption Are the peo-
pie of this District less intelligent than those
of the 26th are they less capable of intel-
gently employing the elective franchise are
they less jealous of the purity of the judicial
ermine, or less ready to rebuke official malfea-
sance than their neghbors We hurl back
the base insinuation i'll the face of those who
are now seeking to consummate an act, which
| would prove these things true
We would respectfully inquire of Messrs.
PIoLErr, WARD, ELwEIL, & Co., if the people
Of this District, are not competent to guard
their own rights Are they not intelligent
enough to enjoy the privilege of electng their
own Judges, as prescribed by the Constitution
In October President Judge for the 18th
District is to be elected. What grosser insult
could be offered to the people of that Dis
trict, than the declaration or presumption that
they will then choose an unfit person? Will
! the people submit in patience to such an impu-
tation 1t is sheer assumption to say that
Mr.. WLNor is certain to be chosen. The
people, if they see proper, will elect him, and
who shall deny their right to do so But if
his prosecutors will make good their charges
against his reputation as a man and his i'm
partiality as Judge, that people will reject
him with scorn. But they are the proper tri-
bunal TO pass upon his merits. For six years
he has presided over our Courts, every action
watched by thousand jealous eyes, and if he
has gone astray from the path of recttude and
duty, let the people condemn him.
! But we protest in the name of an outraged
people, against this imputaton upon their hon.
esty and intelligence. We believe they are the
safe repositories of all the rights guaranteed
them by the Constitution, and any attempt to
mpeach their honesty or deprive them of those
rights, should excite their Indignation. We de-
nounce this scheme as impugning the character
and reputation of the people of Bradford and
Susquehanna. What have they done that the
Legislature should attempt to cast such stig-
ma upon them Shall few men, to crafty
spirit of personal revenge, be allowed to de-
precate and malign the character of the people
of Judicial District ? We do not believe that
the Legislature of Pennsylvania will lend it.
self to such an outrageous scheme, but will per-
init the people of the 18th Judicial District to
regulate their domestic matters in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of Penn
sylvania. They are abundantly competent to
preserve the impartaity and efficiency of the
Bench, and also to visit their just Indignation
upon those who would impeach their character
for integrity and intelligence.
65- Will some one inform us where can be
found the Office and place Of business of . The
ousquehanna and Elmira Coal Company -