Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-10-02
Judicial Convention,

We place the proceedings of this Con-
ventien in our columns to-day. To say
that We arc disappointed in the result is
to but feebiy express our feelings.
An honored and honorable citizen of our
OWL COUNTY, i. D Taylor, ESQ.,; was pre-
sented as a candidate for nomination by
the united and unanimous choice of our
delegation. Besides this, there would have
been a peculiar fitness in his nomination.
He has been for years at the bar. and has
been long acknowledged as one of its ablcst
members. He is a gentleman of high
character, honest, intelligent and capable
He is a lawyer Of large practice and wide
experience, possessing a mind of 4 high
order, which, by careful culture, he has
well stored with legal lore, and varied
knowledge. An ornament to the Bar. he
would have given to the Common Pleas
Bench Of this elective Judicial District,
dignity, ability, confidence.
His defeat, We are sorry to say, was
owing, not only to the lack of magnanimi-
ty. hut VIC are compelled to add, to the
mulish OtsiRacy. of our fair, respected
sister, lTumbuu County.
She was not satisfied with having had
the Common Pleas Judge for the past five
years, thus honoring one of her sons-but
discarding him, insisted upon comforting
'upon another son the same honor-and tits
too, Though another of her sons occupies 4
scat of the Supreme Bench of the State
This insatiate greed for monopolizing all
the important Offices, is worthy Of being
NOTED and condemned. But this is not all.
Satisfied tina. she could not succeed, with
'~ungeueroQs haste she thrust Portage Coun-
ty aside and plunged into Mahoning, and
secured the nomination of a gentleman Of
Democratic antecedcnts, though Mahoning
CouRty,.i in this great Union movement. has
nowfthe Union candidate for Governor, q
gentleman of Democratic antecedents, and
has also, the present Auditor of State.
Why this manifested bitterness, this re-
'lcntless combination against Portage COun-
typ
While we do notwish to speak unkindiy
of the nomination secured by the sudden
tactics of Trumbull County, yet, it is bet
Just telook at it.
Mr. 'Glidden, the nominee, is a gentle
imam of fair character, (or at least he is Sc
reported to us, for re never heard-6f him
until after his nomination. but he is not :
,lawyeri in full praetice-is a young man
probably never tried a cause to a jury il
his iifc-lives in the pleasant but obscure
towT'of. Poland, and has acquired no repu
tationy much less eminence, at the Bar
Yet Trumbull chose to discard, in hel
strange and vehement bitterness, legal ex.
tpcrienee and ability, and select a gentle.
1ran.-respectable it may be, and doubt
less he is in other respects-who has Meth.
er. This is trihing with an elective Judi
ciary. and upon Trumbull County rest.
the responsibility, through her delegates il
the Convention, Of thus wantonly trihins
with the high and vital interests of thC
community-and we feel disposed to hold
-TrumbEll County to her full r~ccponsibility
In the tide Of human events, the hour ma,
conc, when it will be feasible and appro
pirate to give her a.Roland for her Oliver
OF Nj. Gledden VIC are inclined to speal
kindly and hopefully. He is nominated
and his nomination prede.tinatcs him to al
t~4lection-and it is to be hoped, that to til
fair natural endoWments with which it ]
ALLEGED he is favored, he viii now superad
industry and study. and by pcrseverin
~faithfulness. 50 endcavor to make amend
for lack of experience, that the honor {
tho bench, and public and private interest
nay not suffer at his hands
In this hope, We shall place his nam
in the ticket, and accord to him. (as I'll
representative and organ of the scntimer
of Portage County, a full and faithf'
tupport.GP6rtoge County Democrat.
Weare far from wishing to he draw
Unto anything ike 4 controversy with OIL