Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-08-05
JUDGE WAY AND TIE MASTER CON.
:. u MISSIONER BUSINESS.

At the close of the last term of the
Common Pleas we denounced Judge
Way for disgracing his position by be-
coming mere partisan in the disposi-
tion of the Master Commissioner business
of his Court. We charged him with
changing the practice of the Court for
the purpose of throwing little business
into the hands Of his fiunky admirers,
the cone-top clique. and forcing Repub-
Iicans TO contribute to the support of a
Democratic newspaper. The Gazette
with the same speed that it usually goes
to the defense of every man charged
with neauness or crime, at once de.
nounced our article and attempted to
defend Judge Way by asserting that he
was influenced by desire for the safety
of clients, and refused toappoint Special
Masters because of this reason.
We followed this miserable dodge by
showing that the safety clients was
never thought OF, and that the Court had
removed cafe Master who was at law
personally and by bond good to litigants
for at least thirty Thousand dollars, and
appointed member Of the clique who
was not, bond and all, worth more than
fpe thousand. as 'lssssH .sIl- at
To this damaging statement of facts
there could be no efficient answer, and
the /" organ,r in its "dead-duck - man.
ner, forgetting its forner attempt to
screen Judge Way from the infamy of
acting in . partisan spirit, makes the
following bold, impudent concession of
alive have claimed in all the charges
we have made against him: ~ - l.. &
THE CHRONICLE dies hard ever its
loss of Special Master Commissioner ad-
vertising, and in his vengeance on Judge
Way indulges in many falsehoods which
at present we will net notice, but will
carefully lay the article by for future
reference, and at our leisure make some
exposures on this subject which will not
be very hattering to the parties concern
ed. In the meantime, we hope the
CHRONICLE will continue its abuse of
Judge Way-while 1t don't injure the
Judge-it helps our pockets nightly.
This bold Acknowledgements that the
taking of advertising from the CHRoNI-
Gle and giving it to the Gazette was the
whole object in view, and the concession
that this infamous, lew, dirty partisan
action by Judge, who had already dis
graced himself by an indulgence that
untitled him for the discharge of his
duties, was sustained and justified by
because " it helps eur pockets mightily,"l
is more than we expected at this early
stage OF the controversy 1t is a conses-
sion of the whole charge made in our
first article, ana ma aereement that when
the Gazette pronounced that charge un-
true and attempted to assign an
honorable reason forth conduct or the |
Court it was acting, as we subsequently
proved, dishonorably.
Will the Gazette please accommodate
us, and many anxious Democrats who
desire an honorable explanation Of Judge
Ways conduct in this matter, with the
promised exposures on this subject,
which win not be very fiattering to the
parties concerned We have been
since the adjournmento of Court,
several exposures on this subject" and
how far they have been "fiattering to
the parties concerned or demonstrate
their honesty, we leave our readers to
determine. -, {s8 liz 4a