Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-16

Look at 1t.
Philadelphia Commonwealth. Dem.
Look at the proceedings of the Lancaster
INTELLIGENCER, and is not this oppression
more than likely in the future.
Apparently Not.
Philadelphia Times Ind.
Apparently they do not intend to allow
Patterson's most outrageous action to go
unreviewed by the supreme court any
longer than possible.
To BE Made Incompatible.
MOntrose Democrat, Dem.
We do not believe that the supreme
court will sustain Judge Patterson in this
matter If it should the practice of the
legal profession and the business of edit
ing newspaper will become utterly in
patible.
Two Blows Struck.
Pittsburgh Record, Dem.
Judge Patterson, of Lancaster county,
has stricken blow at the freedom of the
press 1t is also blow ut the rever-
ence in which heretofore the judiciary has
been held by the great mass of people.
Desperate Action.
Chester County Democrat, Dem.
This is an unprecedented action in calling
lawyers to account before the bar for what
has been said in another capacity and Judge.
Patterson and his party will suffer the
most for such desperate action in the al
ready greatly shaken up county of Lam.
caster.
The Popular feelinS.
WilliamspOrt Banner, Dem.
The opinion of the press respecting the
action of Judge Patterson in the disbar-
ment of Messrs. Steinman and Hensel,
shows widespread feeling of condem-
nation and censuEe. In our opinion he
is not tit to occupy the Office of judge.
and steps toward his impeachment should
be made at once.
Gripping the American Eagle.
Monroe Democrat, Dem.
If the action of Judge Patterson be law.
then where is the boasted freedom Of the
press, and what protection has a journalist
who happens to be member of the bar,
against the malice of some small minded
judge, who thinks himself the constitution
and law. The action of the court is con-
trary to all law and justice, and is meeting
with the universal condemnation which it
deserves.
The Unmuzzled Press.
| VenangO Spectator, Dem.
| Somebody has said, very aptly, that the
tyranny of the judiciary is more to be
feared than any other other sort of tyranny
in a republic. With men of Judge Patter
sons stamp on the bench, not only to in
terpret law but to make law by perversiOn,
the remark is too true. Happily, the su-
preme court has the last say i'll this high
handed attempt to muzzle the press. 1t
will undoubtedly sit down on Judge Pat
terson in way that will flatten him out as
a hOrrid example
| business"
Columbia Spy, Rep.
Judge Patterson and Messrs. Steinman
and Hensel are getting the best and
widest-circulated advertising they have
ever had The action of the supreme
court will decide who are to be the mar
tyrs. A case in point is that of Il noted
St. Louis lawyer, who was disbarrcd, and
who was thereby made martyr of. Since
then his legal practice has increased four
fold. He has several clerks and also a
number of lawyers employed to conduct
his business before court. while he sits in
his office Referred to Messrs. Steinman
and Hensel.
To BE Sure They Will.
Meadville Daily Reporter Dem.
OF course these gentlemen-Messrs.
Steinman and Hensel-will meekly accept
the punishment and laud the Judgment
which their heinOus Offense merited; and
they will henceforth remember that it is
unbecOming attorneys to publish the fact
that the fountain of justice is becoming
polluted. If they know of any criminals
who escape conviction because of political
influences, they will keep it to themselves.
| They will also admire the promptness and
efficiency of the court in not waiting and
running the risk of their acquittal by a
jury upon a charge of libel, but unjustly
constituting himself judge, jury and attor-
ney for the commonwealth and summarily
convicting and sentencing them for al Of
fense against himself.
! An IrreparabIe ssIunder.
! Bedford Gazette, Dem.
The Judge has committed blunder
which his life's best conduct cannot wipe
out. The press must be free to criticise
the official acts of judge as well as any
| other officials, and when Judge Patterson
attempts to use the power of his office to
punish an editor who happens to be {.
member of his court because the editor
sees in his judicial conduct such acts as
merit public condemnation, he defies the
law and the right of the citizens and holds
himself up to the public odium and con-
| tempt. No court can sustain his conduct,
and we think he will find before he gets
through with his case that he had a big
ger contract on hand when he began, than
he ever contemplated.
For tho Sake Of Common Justice.
| West Chester j Jetfersonian, Dem.
This decision has raised breeze all over
the state and country as we'll, and the
worthy judge has received general con-
demnation for the manifest injustice of his
position. Messrs. Steinman aud Hensel,
whether lawyers or not, are entitled to the
privileges that any editor receives when
acting i'll anseditorial capacity alone, and if
Judge Patterson's opinion be sound law,
every lawyer will be debarred from ever
adequately filling an editorial position. A
judge that errs through ignorance or vi
ciOusness cannot escape criticism and con-
demnation, and an editor is recreant to his
trust who leaves serious judicial misdeed
pass unnoticed. The Lancaster editors will
carry the case to the supreme court, where
it is to be hoped, for the cause of common
justice alone, the opinion of Judge Patter-
son will be reversed.
| In a Common Sense Light.
! Bellefonte Waterman, Dem.
Surely Judge Patterson is not SO vulner-
able that he cannot stand fair criticism
from fair newspaper. The editors of the
1NTELLIGENCER have the same rights as
editors that other editors have who are
not LAWYERS, and it is unfair and uniust tn