Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-09-17

conduct of our public officers. But the
proposed new Constitution tended.
step by step, to remove all power, as
far as possible, from the people. A
UttO power was to be given to the gov
ernor, equal to three-tifths ofthe LegiS-
lature, or in other words equal to
three-fifths of the electoral franchise OF
the people Of Ohio. The people have
always been disguised with vetos. The
term of Office of the Judges of the Su-
preme court was to have been ten years
instead oftive. The present Judges OF
the Supreme court were to have been
continued in Office three years longer,
without being returned TO the people
for their approval at the ballot box
One of them with braing below but
tonS,' ought not TO nave been there at
| all. The term of Office of twenty-OIe
circuit judges put at eight years. The
term of Office of the Common Pleas
Judges extended 10 six years, and the
term of the Probate judges would have
been extended to four years. The re-
l5pective terms of all County officers
might be extended to four years. 7th.
i The question recurs. why extend the
term of Office of judges OF the Supreme
court? The committee appointed by
the Convention to eulOgiZe the propOs'
ed new Constitution, say that, 1.-THE
business of the Supreme court is at leas
four years in arrear." How Is Ions
term to remedy the evil? Cipher
little. If term of fire years, get JOu
years in arrear with the business, VIVA
number of years Will term often year.
get in arrear with the business? An
> swer-S years. Now, il it be true tina
, the Supreme court is tour years behind
with the cases in error in that court
what would first strike the mind OF al
honest man? Simply that the presen
D Constitution ought to be- 80 amended "A
:; to make it the duty of the judges o
that court to clear the docket oi al
cases in error, every three months, ant
l in default thereof that tne Judges o
D dismissed from Office, and beco ne II
h eligible TO hold any Judicial Office n
O the next five years If it be true ina
the Supreme rourt is four years benin
the business before it, then 1t Is equal
!, true that the jud res ought to be I'M
> peached for most diSgraceful neglet
u 4 of duty. Take any five members
u the elder attorneys at this Bar, sa
$ Cowen, Chambers, Tallnan, Swane,
e and Kelly, or any three of them, an
l. how long would it take them to clei
e the docket of that great blockade
y four years business e? Not six month
u and besides, give better satisfaction
: The temperance people were justly a
Il prehensive that there might be a m
u jority vote in favor OF license; al
a many of them voted against the who
y Constitution, preferring to defeat
u rather than risk the possibility OF q
p adoption of the license clause. III
4 people desire, and much need an IA
as pellate court; and they are opprtss'
10 with taxes, as far as any people oug
ie to bear; and there is an ample renet
- - for relief, by an amendment OF q
ce present Constitution. Let those tv
10 amendments be submitted in plal
Ia undisguised, straightforward manne
u and the people will ratify them by d
eu clamatiOn. Such amendments can
IS matured in convention in less TIL
ne twenty days. The intelligence of
= people of Ohio is power within ltse
ne and too strong to be dazed by the 81
III terfuge and fulsome eulogies of eth
Is, committee or outside aCXiliaries, al
ao orators. 1t was a nusing to see t
On Democratic leaders spreading the
10 selves on the proposed new Constit
IN ton. Ewing at large, of the blo' iati
NJ NJ committee, Estep, of Harrison, a
eu Ross Alexander, of Belmont. In
u became so inflated that they went rlg
ne up, and there to reElain until the p
m pie spread out the Royal WOOtsdck,
IS. which those distinguished jurists mls
ttft- descend, each to ''call for his gla
III and call for his pipe, and call for
sc fiddlerS three" j