Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-03-05

Agents for the "1eiier.'


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ton to enter upon his duties of Judge
of our courts, makes use of the follow
ing language
He is one of those men that are for
justice and right first, last and all the
time. He will be an ornament to the
bench of Idaho.
This certainly is good credential
and We have reason to anticipate that
the administration of the new Judge
will he such as will inspire confidence
that the la VS. will be administered in
their purity. There is one thing that
will conduce to this end which our
people should observe. 1t has been
lamentable fact, and one which has Of
ten greatly embarrassed our cou is in
dispensing justice between parties liti-
CANT. We refer to the loose habit OF
forcstalling the decisions of courts by
the espousal of the causes of action
arising between parties litigant, BY
men who have no material interest in
the result Of suits, before the questions
Of difference are heard and determined
in the courts which leads them to dis
cuss the merits and dement's Of claims
Of these parties litigant, in the saloons,
shops, mercantile houses and upon the
streets, and often in the presence OF
many by-standers, by means of which
discussion, although often based upon
assumed data that are not true, the
moral effect of which discussions is to
Undue the community with such i'm.
pressions as are very difficult to be so
diversed from their minds as to qualify
them to become jurors or witnesses in
the causes when they are heard in the
courts. Parties litigant themselves,
md We arc sorry to admit that some
times even their attorneys apparently
take pains to have causes forestaled in
this manner, which, to strictly judicial
minds 10 strongly indicative that Justice
: i not sought by them so much as the
swaying Of courts and juries by falla,
.sies and not facts and the law in tn /,
sases. We have known these discus
,sions to be made in the hearing of the
judges who are to give the law and the
juries who are to find the facts even
after they are empannelled aud sworn
and before the evidence is presented
TO them 1t ought to be expected that
judges would never listen to cases out
# court, which they are to try, and a
proper judge never will from any quar-
ter, and should there by chance be any
allusion to it in his hearing, he should
immediately reprimand the person
making the allusion, and should there
have been made an impression upon
his mind by the allusion, his superior
mental control of himself ought to be
such that it would never enter into
the reasoning that would lead him to
decision Of the case. But jurymen
are not all SO elevated in mental dis
ciplinc that they can disabuss them
selves Of tho Impressions they have
formed from these outside illusions
though they may be honest enough to
make the effort to do so and may think
that they have succeeded, yet it is not
unfreauently the case that these i'm,
pressions formed from outside illusions
will control them in their verdict
Such is poor, weak human nature, and
hence if We would have justice duly
administered in our courts, it behooves
all, judges, jurymen, witnesses and the
people generally, to in no wise or man
ncr, either purposely or through care.
less thoughtlcssness, do or say any
thing that would in any manner fore
stall verdict or decision contrary to
tho facts and the law as given in the
courts upon the. trial of causes. We
have known several cases won by dill
gcnce of either the plaintiff or defend