The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-09-24
JUDGE GILMORE.
Another Statement By a HamIItOnIan.
HAlIILToN, O., sept. I4.

HAMILTON, o., Sept. IA.
To the Editor Of the CiRcinGttf Gazette
e The Cincinnati EilqI1ircr, in its is
sue of the 10Th, says fOf our owl
r personal knowledge, We are prepared
r 10 deny that Judge Gilmore is drunk
. ard, or that his appetite for liquor
= ever iEterfeTed with his duties upon
J the bench, and TINT his habits are as
: good il not better, than twO-thirds o
tie Judges Of OliO.n Ia the Gazette,
Of the 18th inst, l called the atten-
} tiOn OF the Enquirer TO the fact thai
during his present judicial term Judge
Gilmore had been fined by the Mayor
OF Eaton for drunkenness, and that
within q recent period he had to be
assisted from the Butler County Bench
because he was so intoxicated as to be
unable to proceed with the cause be-
fore the Court.
BY way Of evading the issue the En-
qUirer of to-day republishes a seurri-
lOus article written by the inseparable
companion and bosom friend of John
g. Lindley. L have no ammunition
to waste on him, or any member OF
I that broker crew, who composed the
once potent Butler County Treasury
and whisky ring.
] l now repeat that Judge Gilmore
was fined by the Mayor of Eaton for
drunkenness on the public streets,
and that he has been so intoxicated
on the bench that he had to be assis-
ted therefrOm to my Office, so that he
might sleep off his debauch.
was told short time since, by
one of the oldest members of the Bar,
| that his son took him from one of the
lowest saloons in Hamilton, where
they found him lying drunk and in
an insensible condition.
Immediately after the adjournment of
the National Democratic Convention
at New York, to which he was a dele
gate, he got on one of his constitution
al sprees and was found by q private
watchman wandering at night in
drunken Inconsistencies about the
streets of Cincinnati, and was taken
to the Office of gentleman to sleep
off his debauch. Cleveland, where
he also attended the Democratic State
Convention as q delegate, he got
helplessly drunk, to the discomfort of
some friends who would not abandon
him. Friends, party, and judiciary
are but feeble barriers when Once
the slumbering desire has been
aroused. His drunkenness, however,
is the most pardOnable Of his infirmi-
ties.
In Montgomery County, where the
Bar is distinguished for its high char
acter and ability, an utter disrespeet
for him IS shown, and his effort to
hold Court at Dayton Intentionally
and persistently fulfilled by the con-
tinuanee of cases.
His partiality to his brother became
so undisguised as to excite the indig-
nation Of the Preble County Bar, and
Mr.. FOOs, one of its members, had the
moral courage TO denOunce the in
quiqity and influence enough to make
a further exhibition nf it unprOfit4ble.
The brother then, at the request of
the Judge, removed to Butler County.
The game which had been played at
Eaton was renewed here with aug
mented zeal and so oppressive did it
become, that the Bar felt constrained
to take formal notice of it, and reques-
ted him, by petition, to invite some
other Judge to hear cases on their
second trial. He attempted to defeat
IcdoOhaOAC eAAA eA-oohAE
ton of Indignation accompanied with
a threat to resign. The Bar met and
firmly insisted that he should not
hear the second trial. This decided
action transformed him at once, and
he notified the counsel that he would
write to Judge Elliott.
On two occasions when Clement l..
Vallandigham was attending Court at
this place he took advantage of the
only means which he eyer possessed
to make the great man feel his super
iority, and from the Bench insulted
him in the most brutal manner.
There was no better reason for it than
the sheer envy which he nursed, for
the pOliteness of Vallandigham was
prOverbial. The opposing counsel COM
6roIosize sef for it, The Outraged @ sestes
man, in expressing to me his wound
ed feelings, declared that he felt it a
duty to prevent the drunken tyrant
from being elected to the office.
There can be no question that, if Mr..
Vallandigham had lived, he would
have been swiftly relegated to his
habitat with his cOngeners, and his
presumption for the Supreme Bench,
III lie nau udIGu " CubEAldAn ~ HOAA0
have been most Opportunely ehastised.
The Enquirer got but half the truth
when it was told that of the six thOus-
and cases which Gilmore decided, the
Supreme Court had reversed but one.
The District Court in so frequent
Iy reversing him. gave such sat
isfaetOry reasons therefor that
the Supreme Court has been saved
tine trouble of review.
Judge Gilmore is a candidate for the
most responsible Office in the State,
and it is submitted to the enlightened
citizens Of Ohio whether man want
ing the becoming graces so essential
TO the position is entitled to their
suffTages.
The attention of the Enquirer is
again directed to the facts, and the
scaly fellow who manages 1t Is re-
quested not to creep again under the
saberdine of a monster, nor resort to
any other subterfuge to avoid the
force of the argument.
Yours, &c. NJ. n. MAGINNIs.