The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30

THE BEST CANDEDATE.

/ suitable person to preside over the delibera>
/ tlons OF the several courts of the District
In deciding this important question every
| elector should divest himself of partisan
prejudices and resolve that his suffrage
/ should be given to that candidate who nos
/ sesses the ripest experience and the amplest
! qualifications for the office. The intelligent
/ citizen should support no candidate for this
ofiice simply because ne is a Republican or
Democrat. If the Democratic party or
/ the Republican party nominate an incapa-
/ BILE man, the people should not ratify such
! selection. If. on the contrary, both candi-
/ dates possess the requisite legal Knowledge,
/ voters should endeavor to ascertain achich is
/ likely to prove the best Judge
! There are now before the people three
/ judicial candidates, Judge Taylor, independ-
J ent. John Dean, Republican and Thaddeus
| Banks Democrat. Against the qualifca-
tlons OF Judge Taylor we have not a word
| to say. He can well afford TO look with Just
! pride upon his judicial career extending
over more than a score of years, ana when
he retires to private life will do so with the
! confidence OF the people. Mr.. Dean is a
! gentleman Of respectable attainments. and
| would doubtless be able to perform the du~
ties of the Office, but he is not the best can
didate
We are firmly convinced that The Demo
cratic nominee is in every way better quali~
fed than either Of his competitors, as two or
three reasons will sufficiently show. And
just here we desire to say that if Mr. Deans
friends can give any reason il favor of his
election other than that he is a Republican,
we should be pleased to hear it.
Mr.. Banks is the better candidate because
he has had more experience than Mr.. Dean.
While the former has been practicing before
the bar of the District for thirty years. the
latter has only been in practice some fifteen
years Ii must be evident 10 any reasoning
mind that he who has had legal Experience
Of thirty years duration is much better quail
ifed to preside over the sessions Of a court of
justice than he whose experience is ouiy half
so great. In the very beginning Mr.. Banks
took a prominent rank in his chosen prCles-
sion, and to-day 10 one in the District is his
superior in all the clements Of true success.
His large experience. his long continued and
uniformly successful practice, render him
eminently worthy of popular support.
Again. Mr.. Banks has been engaged in
many important cases before the Supreme
Court of this Commonwealth, while, if we
are correctly Informed, Mr.. Dean has never
yet tried a case before that body. Now,
why should those who are interested in piac-
ing upon the Judicial bench that candidate
whose experience before the Supreme and
District courts would seem to render lin
especially competent for the position, hesi-
tate for a single moment between Mr.. Dean
and Mr. Banks Between the two there
can be no comparison.
But voters should not only examine the
legal qualifications Of Judicial candidates.
they should also inquire into the habits of
thought. methods of reasoning, mental Or
Ill
are some men so constituted that it is sim
ply impossible for them to divest their minds
of prejudice. Such are evidently untitled
for judicial station. And while we do not
mean to intimate that Mr.. Dean is such an
inveterate partisan that it would he impossi-
bic for him to keep from swerving from one
side or another of a disputed question, yet
we do affirm that Mr. Banks would make
much the safest Judge. In this opinion we
believe nearly every one who is personally
acquainted with the two gentlemen will coin
eide.
Mr. Banks is one of the most cool, dispas
siunate men with whom it is q sort of sec
ond nature to look at all sides of question
before forming an opinion as to its merits.
And notwithstanding the charges which
have been made against him by the Radical
journals, he is not politician, in the proper
san As all who know him will agree. Po-
litical prejudice never obscures his under
standing and it must be very bad man
indeed for whom he has not good word
We venture the assertion that Mr.. Banks
would deprecate and oppose any attacks
upon the character or standing Of his oppo-
nent, and this. too, in spite of the unhand-
some manner in which he has been treated
by the partisans of Mr.. Dean.
Mr. Dean is a man of quick passions and
strong prejudices. He is successful advo-
cate, but could not be a strictly impartial
Judge. He is not long in making up hls
mind, ard upon subjects where his preJu-
6ices are concerned his mind is already made
up. As party man. sn advocate oil hadl-
calsm, an organizer and leader, we admit
that Mr.. Dean has few superiors in the Dis
trict But the very fact that he is an active,
Jealous and unreasoning partisan should
convince the people that he is not the man
to fill the Office of President Judge. HIS ag-
| oressive character, stubborn preJudIces ana
| decided partisanism are so many lnsupera-
/ BILE obstacles in the way of his judicial fair
| ness.
We have thus enGeavored to show the
! people of this judicial District that their in-
| terests will be best subserved by the election
of Hon. Thaddeus Banks to the PRESIDENT
! Judgeship. We have endeavored to do SO
temperately and justly. That Mr.. Dean Is
not the best candidate must be evident to all
who carefully scan the merits of the two
candidates. That Mr.. Deans chances tor
success will be bettered by ribaid abuse Of
Mr.. Banks is more than doubtful. The very
fact that his friends are obliged to resort tc
/ such questionable means shows that IN the
domain of argument and reason they cannot
| successfully pete.-H HottddyS6u"g Stand
! ard