Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-11-18
A Dishonest Judge.

added to the long list of the Republi-
can judges who have dragged the ju-
dietary of the country into the filth
and mire of partisan politics. There
is not case on record where's Repub-
lican occupant of the Bench has been
able to forget that he is there for the
administration of justice and not as n
political stump orator, when he is
called to pass upon some questions
of political nature. The recent
decision of Judge Noah Davis in the
case of Kenward Philip, in New York,
is the most infamous of recent judicial
deliverances. Forgetting the law and
the facts; ignoring the testimony and
garbling and perverting the evidence,
his opinion is simply the frothing
TRADE of the partisan from the hust-
ings. He has disgraced his profession
and brought deserved reproach upon
the impartial administration of justice.
His gratuitous attack upon the Hon.
Abram S. Hewitt will recoil upon
himself. Luckily the character of
the Supreme Police Court justice in
the city of New York is not of
FURNISHED gold. The untarnished
name, high social standing and politi-
cal and business prominence Of Mr..
Hewitt turn the poisoned shafts of
envy and political hate hurled at him
by this unjust judge as if from coat
of mail. Noah Davis can say no
word from his purchased position as
Judge of the Supreme Court of New
York that will iniure the honorable
and upright citizen. This modern
Daniel has come to judgment before
the high court of enlightened public
sentiment and he will learn when it is
too late that his prostitution of an
important judicial trust for partisan
purposes will render bis name infamous
for all time. He should have taken
heed of the popular reprobation
which has overtaken Justice Bradley
for his outrageous action as n member
of the Electoral Commission. To-day
his opinions as Judge are not respect
ed, either by his associates or the
people at large. He bowed his neck
to the yoke of party necessity; mis-
construed the law and violated his
oath and he now enjoys a legacy of
contempt which will last him until
death revokes his right to longer
disgrace the American judiciary.
Judge" Noah Davis, the plant and
willing servant of Jno. |. Davenport
and Chester A. Arthur, in his recent
partisan opinion exhibited his collar
more plainly than ever before. He
appears to take pride in servilely doing
the bidding of his masters. Let the
Democracy of New York see to it
that no future Noah Davis shall bring
lasting shame and discredit upon an
honored branch of our government.
No Democratic Judge has ever prosti-
tuted the judiciary to partisan pur.
poses. That distinction belongs to the
party which elects a man President of
the United States who stands convict
ed before the country of premeditated
perjury, his guilt being certified to by
a Congressional investigating Commit
tee. Three names will hereafter be
conspicuous in history. There is q
wide gap between the first and last
two. We hope the gap between the
last names and and those to follow in
the future will be much wider. We
have in our minds eye now George
Jefreys, the brutal judge who made a
trial by jury mockery and a farce
in England, and Joseph Bradley and
Noah Davis, who have, as willing in
struments of a party, carried party
politics into the the temple Of justice.