Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-25

The New York Oun mas lately 0een
posting up the record Of two Of our Su-
preme Court Judges. Messrs. Bradley
and Strong, and makes the following
showing as 20 how the account stands
between them and the people Of the
United States. And FIRST OF Mr.. Justice
Bradley:
I. He vas the attorney of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, and their lobbyist at
Trenton. II was n matter ofmany mil
lions 10 the corporations under con-
troll Of the Pennsylvania Company that
the legal-tender decision Of The Supreme
Court should be reversed, SO that these
companies might pay their interest in
paper. To reverse that decision, Grant
appointed Bradley and VIM. Strong,
another attorney Of this party in inter-
est, If not 10 The record. and they did
the work most shamelessly, and IN the
face OF o solemn protest by the la.e
Chief Justice and his venerable asso-
GATES. They pushed aside the rules Of
the court, as old as the court itself; they
seIzed upon and reopened an adjudica-
ted case; they disregarded all the de-
cencies and proprieties that had pre-
vailed in that high tribunal from time
immemorial, in their unblushing eager
ness 10 do The job for which they were
appointed.
ii. When the unconstitutional Elec-
toral Commission was organized TO con-
summate the Great Fraud, Bradley
managed 10 get himself named rs onr
Of The Eve Justices, and so secured the
casting vote. He doubtless felt that
both Grant and the corporations who
put him on The bench had work TO- him
10 do on the Commission, and he worked
assiduously 10 push himself in. He
impressed Judge Davis with the belief
that he would like to make his peace
with the public By one act oil signal pa
triotism, and that be was at heart rs
sound a. Davis himself. Does anybody
believe that Justices Field and Clifford,
who, with Miller and Strong. had the
selection, would ever have agreed 10
accept Bradley as the umpire without
some voluntary assurance that he would
not vote treyy fiass an favor Of the
Fraud II was then and has ever since
been understood that he made his way
10 The pIace he filed so UNANIMOUSLY by
prctestatioEs which no Judge with a
proper sense Of judicial decency would
have offered, and which none but an ut
tnrly deprayed politician would after
ward have disrrgarded. Strong was Is
bad as he, except that Strong did not
play the hypocrite. He was named in
the oct because everybody knew that
he would vote for the Louisiana fraud,
the Florida fraud, or any fraud that bis
party leaders ordered him 10 vote for.
and that he would do his best 10 get a
kfth Judge. who. Joined with him and
Miller, would make Fraud triumphant,
end reverse the will Of the people, en-
pressed al the polls By something like q
million msioFity.
Il was Enthusiastically asserted al the
time that Bradley wrote Tilden opin-
ion ~ the Florida case, and cOmmuni.
csted il 10 Judges Clifford and Field
wheseai those two honest and confidinl
sonls we're greatly elsted. Certain i
- thai such an opinion was generally
looked for, and The just public expeeia'
ton IVES bitterly disappointed wheE
Bradley read IN opinion which wal
TiIden IN al but the conclusion, here
In Il was Fraud. The SIN never init
mailed that The uBjsst Judge was bough
with . sum Of money 10 do this thing
We believed. and still believe. he va
moved By The considerations which suf
fcienily appear in divisions one IA.
three of this ar:icle. . bradley has new
e. denied that be wrste so-called 0pin
ems On both sides Of this question OF
that he y ivercd, OF appeared to waves