The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-01-28

Shall the End District be Represented
on the Supreme Bench.

Section 2. Of Article 6, Of the Constitl-
ton Of the State, provides that "the 81
preme Court shall consist Of three judges,
who shall be appointed by the Governr,
by and with the advice and consent Of tie
Senate, auy two Of whom, when convened,
shall form a quorum. The Legislature
shall divide the State into three districts,
aud the Governor, by and with the adyite
and consent Of the Senate, shall appoint ole
Judge from each district"
Section i02 Of the Code Of 1871 divides
the State into three districts as required oy
the Constitution.
The counties Of Claiborne, Copiah, Sinp
son, Smith, jasper, Clark, Wayne, Coyi'g
ton, Jones, Perry, Greene, Marion, Han
cock, Jackson, Harrison, Adams, jefferson,
Amite, Wilkinson, Lawrence, Pike, Lin.
coin and Franklin, compose the secord
district.
Section 400 provides chat judge
] lDr eacH OF IHc ulstIlctH CItdttu "
this act shall be appointed in the
manner prescribed in the Constitution,
whose term Of Office shall ccm-
mence on the day Of the date Of ais
commission, and continue for the term PIE.
scrbed by the Constitution
Similar provisions existed in our old
Constitution and in the Code Of 1857, only
, the Judge of the High Court of Errors anc
Appeals were required to be elected.
Section 52G, relative to appointment o
Circuit Judge contains nearly the same Ian
guage as the section above quoted as to Su
preme Court Judge, and Is as follows
("Sectiou 52G-that Judge shall be APP
pointed by the Constitution for each Of thu
Judicial Circuit Court Districts in thi
State"
1t is manifest that the intention Of thu
trainers OF the Constitution, and the Statlte
quoted was that the Judges boil
: of the Supreme and Circuit Court
should be appointed for the districts re
spectively from such districts. 1t is trut
that during the carpet-bag regime a diff
! ferent practice in some instances prevailed
and occasionally Judges were imported
8 from other districts, and in truth sometime
fram other States but now that our Stat,
D Government is in the hands Of our owl
y people, and we have Governor who il
! conscientious, and who seeks TO do justc,
! to all sections of the State Of which he i
! the executive, we are confident that
e precedent 50 uu-Democratic and unjust will
! not be followed. One of the Judges of the
i prese Mt Supreme Court (Judge Campbell
- is from Madison, which il in the first dis
trict-and another Judge ChaImers) il
I from DeSoto, which is in the third District
The retirement Of Judge George will af
ford an opportunity to give each District
representative on the Supreme Bench b,
the appointment of his successor from tn,
: Second or Southern District.
, 1t is true that Judge George was not from
the Second District but that is the only
instance where our present Excellent Chic
Magistrate has disregarded a uniform prac
tice and II Democratic rule by appointing
Judge for District from another District
The great ability Of the present Chief Jus
tce, and the reported ac1uiescence of {
= number of the members of Che Legislature
and members of the bar from the Southern
District may have been some justification
but there was nevertheless feeling of dis
satisfaction that the whole Southern
District was thus ignored.
) Aware of the earnest desire of the. Gov
ernor to designate an able and efficient
lawyer for the vacancy, we think with
the twenty-theee counties, comprising tho
District, he can find quite number whC
= will come up to that standard
ANXIOUS CURRIA,