Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-07-22
THE GAzETTE's DEFENSE oFJUDGE
WAr,s PARTISAN CONDUCT.

ISFrEsxRY YDIRECToR-ELBERT CoNRoW
THE GAzETTE's DEFENSE oFJUDGE
.Ts,sr. WAT's PARTISAN CCNDUCT.
"a THE Gazette in its attempt to answer
our article on Judge Way and his low
political shystering on the Master Com
missioner business, has, as usual, got
into deep water. The declaration that
Judge Way " received the commenda-
tion Of the entire bar and people for the
prompt and satisfactory discharge of his
duties during the long and arduous (hie)
duties of the last tern" ," is such a noto-
rfous falsehood that it needs no contra
dietion. The mere fact that Judge
Way, at salary of s., 500, and only two
counties in his district, didn't continue
his Court long enough to reach the mid
die Of the docket, and didn't dispose OF
half as many cases during the term as
were placed ON the e'docket since thepre
J yious term, and yet adjourned to do
nothing for two months at an ex-
pense oftwo hundred dollars amonth TO
the taxpayers, is sufficient answer to
that false eulogy, and we shall leave the
IN ,esrits of the puffer and puffed to be de-
termined by those who pay for the
music.s cid na5bslG hEe :5i1 .3iq 3hI %
, - When the editor attempts to destroy
I he force Of our article by falsely assign
ing q reason for the contemplate con-
duct of Judge Way that never was
dreamed Of by him, and merely hes TO
screen him from the contempt his par
tisan conduct in the premises has awak-
ened,, he ought to have manifested a
little more shrewdress. II, as you say,
ithez attacksIef the CHRoSIcLE was
induced by the faithful discharge OF his
duty, BY Judge way, IN appointing a
Responsible Master Commissioner, VINO
is compelaed to give heovy bonds Tor the
faithful discharge OF MS duties, ana ior
the safety of clients refusing to appoint
Special Masters, how does it happen that
-Judge Way never refused TO appoint
such Special Masters until the CHRoNI-
Gle criticised him for his : excessive
drinking? And how does it come that
no other Judge ever refused to appoint
Special Masters when requested by the
pafties1or their Attorneys Either
Judge Kennon, Judge okey or Judge
Alexander, who Invariably appointed
special Masters when requested, knew
moredav insone day than could be for
eetl lsinto the whisky-soaked brain of
Judge Way in; a century; and and yet they
never discovered this wonderful care for
The intereseof htigants. The iiitigants
ask .ifes0 tseir seftty that their business
shall pc placed in the hands 1 ora Special
Master and Judge Way, as the Gazette
swniidihaye us believe, refused, for their
safety, TO allow them to dc so. But, let
US see whether this great care Tor the h.li1 IN |
terest of ltigants was the moving cause,
and how far this two-county Judge has
provided for their safety. Last year
Ross J. Alexander was the Master Com
missioner and his bond f1led Tor the Sc
eurity ofclients and signed by good Sc
elrity was for $4,000. Mr. Alexander
was himself worth twice that amount,
and litigants We're perfectly safe for the
reeoverysof at least three times the
amount of his bond. Judge Way, at the
instance Of his trainers5the cone-tops-
removed Mr.. Alexander and appointed
a member of the ofiquein Misplace Uho
Is NOT responsi65a>eStd - single dol
lar, and have taken Shhd from him-of
IS, ,00e-7one-half the ainount of Mr.. Alex |
ander'sibond. The inefticiency Of tbs
security will appeh-When the fsN is
known that at this very term of f>Eourtl
Judge Way forced business irfs5 the
hands of this Master, against thseIskof
litigants, on cidms amounting " 6eaIy
s2D, 600. Wartof security, and lack of
yses- the leading motives
that induced Attorneysato ask the ap-
pointment.of Special Mastes sfn
!. When the Gazette asserts Lat MEM
,bers of the bar /" surreptitfously slipped
into their entriesn the names of Special
Masters, and Judge Way Informed the
bar that I" he would not permit the in
terestof clients to be jeoparded by, plac-
ing their property ain irresponsible
-hands,v sit simply lies! The entries
were prepared by the Attorneys just as
they always had been, and handed 10
the Clerk who entered them upon the
journal, and Judge Way, at the instance
of the pimps of the Gazette, and Master
Commissioner surreptitiously erased
them, without saying anything to the
Attorneys until by an examination of
the journal thew discovered what had
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