Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-10-21
THE CIRCUIT JUDaEsH1p.

THE CIRCUIT JUDGEsHlP.
"FlAin Facts of the Post-Obseryer Re-
viewed.
From the Bowling Green Times.
Me- EDIToR: In the 81 OBJ
server of the 9Th inst. appeared an
editorial, written in the interest of
MIR. E. Robinson, in which tha writer
assigns the following rea-ons for Mr..
RS election:
LIST. Because he is the nominee of
the Democratic party.
3nd. Because Judge Porter has
held the Office for a term of years and
is a little advanced in life, while Mr..
r. is in the full vigor of his manhood.
3rd. Because the election of Mr..
r. would, in his opinion, result in a
saving Of money to the people of the
district.
The first and second reasons APP
pear to me to be more against than
for Mr.. Robinson, unless the writer
had demonstrated, which he has not,
that justice would suffer unless adj
ministered by a partisan judge, and
that middle age, associated with large
official experience, disqualiies a ju-
dicial officer for the right discharge
of his important duties. If we, as
Democrats, contend for the election
of Mr.. Robinson upon the ground of
his extreme ps%rtssanshlp. then we
should cease to censure the action Of
those Republican judges who the
s%taanchest advocates of MI. Robin
son declare, perpetrated the 8 to z
outrage and stole for a partisan can
didate, the presidency Of the United
States. Ibelieve, Mr.. Editor, that
the people are not only too intelli-
gent to be deluded by the special
pleas made by Mr.. RS organ IN Mr..
Rs behalf, but that they largely pre-
fer a man whose scholarly attain
ments, mental activity and profound
knowledge of the law he administers,
and whose love of justice and free
dom from personal or partisan preju-
dice render HIM eminently more fit
for the place to which he aspiIes than
his very clever opponent, who, how
ever able as a lawyer, must prove an
experiment rs a judge. / hardly
think the clan,or about Judge Por-
ter's age, who, physically, is emil
nently more superb than Mr.. Robin
son, will avail the latter very much,
since too many of the people of the
district are acquainted with his age,
his great powers of endurance and
his splendid health to be duped into
opposing him upon the grounds of
Mr.. kobinson's superior vigor. The
P.-O. Is sorely afraid, On account of
his age, of course, to entrust to Judge
Porter's keeping the judicial inter-
ests of three small counties in a sim
gle state, but feels no apprehension
in laying upon the shoulders's of Gen.
Hancock, but a few years his junior,
I the executive burden of thirty eight
: sovereign states. But the chief rea-
son why Mr.. Robinson should be
elected, says the P.-O., is because, in
Mr.. Farrell's (the writer) opinion, he
would save money to the people Of
the district by holding the courts, by
the mere influence Of his "physical
vigor," We suppose, in less time than
! does Judge Porter. just how this
can be demonstrated we are at a loss
, to know, but if Mr.. Robinson viii
D give W his own signature an ex.
y plicit account of the manner in which,
by any patent process of his own, be
can eclipse other men in the economy
of time and the saving of money,
e rather than trust this important poin'
e to the mere opinion of his lieutenant
l would be glad to examine his state
ment, and if satisfactory, woul.
cheerfully give him credit for havins
presented n reason as against man,
e why he should be elected.
q But seriously, would any san ma
attempt to hold Judge Porter respon
sible for the jury expenses incurred
ID in his court when il is known that tn
j. jurors, under an. act Of the lcgisla
ture, are drawn by the county court
If the jurors we're not SO drawn, bu
left to be selected from the by
ISLANDERS, as would be done in tina
event, since the law is directory an,
q not imperative, then the jurors woul'
a have to be paid by the litigants an
It not by the county, as l learn was tn
:, case at a recent term of the Audrai
, Circuit Court, when the county cour
d failed to draw 8 jury and a dozen O
n more Jury cases we're tiled and de
cided by the Judge and only one jur
>, called for, and that failed to agree
The business of a large docket wa
satisfactorily disposed of and n
l. standing jury fees paid by the count
J. for that term. More than this, if tn
d Jurors we're not drawn but selected q
above prescribed, the expenses of
standing jury would often, as i
!" equity and other cases tried befor
'e the Judge, be saved for several sue
re c~essive days during almost ever
! term of the court. 1t is the legisls
ture then who enacted the jury la
, and the county court who enforce il
10 that are responsible, if blame attach
es anywhere, and not the judge VIII
is bound to accept and pay the jur
10 thus drawn and provided for.
=. And as it is almost impossible I
y. get a panel of forty jurors from
- like number summoned, some bein
re disqualified from serving by eason {
oil having formed Or expressed an opir
ion and for other causes, q large
number have to be summoned, fit
in or sixty, sometimes seventy, in ord.
that the panel may be procured an
the case proceed without delay. A
the jurors SO summoned have to
>, paid, and it would be a great hare
ship to compel men to leave the
business, often very pressing an
. demanding their constant attention
~ without some compensation, eve
TO though it be the pitiful compensate
8. Of u petit juror.
/ have thus endeavored, Mr.. Ed
IS, tor. to review in n fair and eand