The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-09-04
TIE ELECTORAL CONFUSION TTLLiTyI-
Judge bradley. Reply to Judge Field.

TtnH N N1fuft nun .tfnff"f.
II IL due to iusticp and Judge Bradley that
w should publish the whole Of this cillumny.
and assert liz absolute and entire fa~choOl.
We have had no communiration. On this or any
other polit al matter. with Judge Bradley since
February last. We spoke from ourselves and
without his knowledge or suggestion What
We know came from the confidence Of m over
worn and sore-heart.d man. hurden,d Mth
both conscience and rgSpOns! billy. But The
SyS compels Us t. say this and there are others
Judge Field "na4:ged Judge Bradley during
all that trial. lie worked IA tho interest OF Mr..
Tildcn with an untring zeal and an entire dis
regard of the courtesics OF the Bench. He hng-
gled and pumped. tie was indecent ia his at
tcmlts Doubtless he got AZ s!des Of the argu-
mrnt, every phase az constitutional law, every
possibility II what might I've AN honest decision.
from Judge Bradley, but lc never in any mo
ment, pumped 50 dcep that he found water.
How did Judge Fold know that ther" were IRE
csely seventeen carriages that night at Judge
Bradleys door. and who were their OCCUPANTS
Mas that the proper junction ~ JudE" flcl'
Did he sit on the r1riStunc and see who came
There was no politician who 50 pcrsistentiy and
impcrinentlv followed judge Bradley IL Judge
Field himself.
And this We say Of ourselves and our own
motion. Six months have passed since We have
had communication. direct or indirect spoken
or written, with Judge Bradley upon this topic
and then his every word rang wi,h purity Of
heart ana honesty OF purpose. Al mat tlmc his
waste basket was filled with letters threatening
assassination. H. cowardly and Illdcnish a.
man could write them H. was without per
snnAl motive in the fight. All that he cared Tor
was the judicial ermlne. Can any person under
heaven tell why Judge Bradley should have
acted other than he dilf lie may I've construed
a. controlled by bias " political opiniun-in
other words. 10y personal opinions OF political
motive and constitutional law. W" grant that
He was dealing with the law; and II he had mo-
opinion he had 10 right Ia pronounce II. lie
did pronounce IT, and he spoke in solemn Ger
tuintv.
And here We are compelled 70 say again that
the .idrHtiser ~ not Judge Bradlrys Or..nn.
We DO not reoolect that he has ever asked 1,
favor NJ the hands of tins paper. or suggested.
even hy the remotcst indircetnoss. ANY support
or def nee of himself. And with him as with
others We speak whereof We do know. And we
do know that the Florida question was CON
sidcrcd and held in doubt and looked at in all
It's ASPECTS as the crucial problem of the con-
troNrrsy. AMI we NJ" ~ulcmnly Inclined to hc-
love that Judge Field potttugged that case
with his learned brethren ON tho bench with
more zeal thnn he over manifested in patent
cnsr. The Field family were supremacy uOttVt'
Just then. They arr men of hopeful trmp,ra-
mruis. and II Is los~ihic that ono Justice az q 10
Supremc Court in trying 10 nump an, her got
slightly mistaken. If he did. II was his own
fault, his own conduct unbecOming a Judge.