Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-21
NOT uNANnous--FoR ONCE.
Judge Patterson Co1oludes to Rule the I" In
telligencer's Editors into Court.

Judge Patterson Ceoeladss to Rule the " In
telligencer's" !" Editors into Court.
About 9:10 this morning Tipstave Eris-
man came down to the INTELLIGENcER
Office and notified it's editors, A. J. Stein
man and w. U. Hensel, esqs., that they
were wanted in court. Presuming that it
was on matters connected with a pending
case, Mr.. Steinman only went over and in
quired if both were wanted. Judge Pat
terson said they We're, and both went over
about $50.
Their coming seems to have been expect
ed by the bench and bar
When they reported before the seat of
judicial authority, Judge Patterson in
quired if they were the editors of the IN
TELLIGENCEE. Both gentlemen answered
affirmatively, whereupon the following en-
sued:
Judge Patterson: Then l desire to read
and you to listen to the following from last
evenings issue of that paper:
Michael Snyder is acquitted not be-
cause he had not violated the law. but
because he had already been acquitted of
the offence laid in the present in
dictment. That first acquittal was
accomplished, as has been shown, by J.
w. johnson, ex-chairman ]. Hay Brown,
ex-chairman, and District Attorney Eshle-
man, chairman of the Republican cOun-
ty committee, by false representa-
tiOns to the court, made for the corrupt
consideration that the Snyders were the
best Republican workers in the Eighth
ward. Logically the last acquittal, like
the first, was secured by Il prostitution of
the machinery Ofjustice to serve the exi-
gencies of the Republican party. But
as all the parties implicated, as well as the
judges, belong to that party the court
is unanimous-for Once-that it need
take no cognizance of the i'm
position practiced upon it and the disgrace
attaching to it.-EDs. INTELLIGENCER.]
(Turning to Mr.. HenseD Did you write
that ?
Mr.. IIensel 1t is not customary, your
honor, for editors jointly responsible for
all that appears in newspaper to &C
knowledge or reveal any distinction in their
authorship. We are together responsible
for all that appears in the INTELLIGENcER
and accept that responsibility.
Judge Patterson Turning to Mr..
Steinman) Did you write that?
Mr.. Steinman: The editors of the In
TELLIGENcER Jointly accept the responsi-
bility for what appears in it.
Judge Patterson Then you adopt these
as your sentiments?
MIR. Steinman We have not said so.
Judge Patterson: Then you publish
things that you Will not endorse after
wards?
Mr.. Steinman Sometimes unavoidably
things are published that are not correct,
and we are always ready to correct them,
or to publish anything desired by way OF
proper explanation.
Mr.. Hensel: If your honor has any cor
rection to make of the allegations in this
article, it will be published.
Judge Patterson Then you adopt these
sentiments ?
Mr.. Steinman: We have not said this.
Mr.. Hensel: We are responsible for the
article beyond it VIC do not propose to be
committed just now. We are of the opin-
lOiA OhttG NOuAU hO pO"OA w OsAAA uo
to answer here for editorial utterances.
Judge Patterson: You are members of
this bar, and this cOurt-at least myself
would be untrue to itself, fOrgetful of its
dignity, if it failed to take cOsnizance of
this imputatiOn upon it. The especially
Objectionable part of it is in these words {:
Logically the last acquital, like the
first, was secured by a prostitution of the
machinery of justice to serve the exigencies
of the Republican party. But as all the
parties implicated, as well as the judges, be-
long to that party the court is unanimous
for once-that it need take no cog
nizance of the imposition Practiced upon
it and the disgrace attaching to it.
Therein it is charged that the court has
been actuated in it's conduct by political
motives. Gentlemen entertaining such
views are not fit to practice in this court :;
they cherish contempt for it that is m
compatible with their proper relation to
it. We shall take rule to strike you
from the list of attorneys.
Mr.. Steinman The Sravamen of the
charge in that article is against the district
attorney and his assistant. Do under
stand the court to defend their conduct?
Judge Patterson: You will have an OF
portunity to be heard.
Mr.. Hensel: Then, l understand, your
honor asks for and makes no correction of
the article?
Judge Patterson l shall enter rule
on you tomorrow
Mr.. Steinman: We will be here to
answer.
Judge Patterson The rule be duly
served upon you.
Mr.. Hensel: With all due respect to
the court and it's orders we respectfully
protest against it's right to hold members
Of the bar accountable for anything pub
lishcd by them in any other capacity.
During these proceedings, which were
listened to with interest by the bar and
audience, Judge Livingston was mostly
engaged i'll reading he took no part in
them.
The members of the bar generally
listened with deep interest to the proceed
ngs; J. Hay Brown, esq, rather bolster
ously expressing his opinion that the court
was right District Attorney Eshleman
and.possibly J. w. Johnson.
Taken to the Penitentiary.
This morning James Peeling, sheriff of
York CO., accompanied by several deputy