Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-29
Tuesday, July 29, 1884.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS,
 FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine.
 FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHN A. LOGAN. of Illinois.
A SOUTHERN OFFICE-sEEKER.

SOUTHERN OFFICE-SEEKER
 Candidates for office in the South ape not afflicted with the modesty which is consid- cred becoming in a candidate in this region. When they want office they want it and are not above saying They often go further and lay before the voters written statements of their desire and the reason why it should be granted.
 Judge David T. Little is now candidate for Superior court judge in the Third district of Kentucky, and he makes a striking and voluminous appeal to the voters. He reminds them that he came among them orphan, penniless and stranger, and that they welcomed him to their hospitable homes, employed him to teach their children, elected him county at torney, patronized him as lawyer, gave him a seat in the State senate, and in other ways helped him. All that they have done for him makes him think that they will do more and make him judge. He further says My family necessities and lim- ited means will not allow me to accept the rest and quietude which nature invites and the rich can enjoy, but am blessed with ripe and energetic mental powers studiously cultivated from my infancy and hope the people of this district may think it fitting that I should be elected to fill out the unex- pired time of the lamented Richard Reid, and although none of us can claim his Christian humility and forgiveness, if should be call ed on to fill his place, his mantle will fall on a friend that labored to honor him in his life and deeply mourns his death. I do not re- gard it as at all unfortunate that no conven- ton has been held, and there is no time now to get full expression from the Democratic party to nominate candidate for superior judge, for whilst am Democrat, and my children suffered in the field and the damp of Camp Chase and Johnson's Island in the confederate cause, I do not believe that na- tional politics should mingle in judicial cleo tions, for whilst our judiciary holds itself high above party considerations, still if we nominate our judges and they are elected by party votes, many of their adherents will be- lieve that they are entitled to and will receive some special consideration, and thus the ter GOT of the law is weakened to our most dan gerous element.
 Judge Little thinks that if all the people could once realize that the judicial ermine fell upon judges as the Pontifcal robe upon Melchisedec no man would hope to escape from his crimes with impunity and no man would fear that he would be smitten contrary to law Confidence in the law would be es- tablished and crime greatly diminished. Judge Little further thinks that through the mists of time all along the history of human life the fact peers out that the greatest crimes are committed in time of high politi- cal strife. 'FJoab slew Absalom because the empire of David was divided. Pompey was slain because he was at war with Caesar. What did Wilkes Booth mean by the phrase: Thus it shall always be with tyrant9' What did Guiteau mean by the words when he said T am stalwart of the stalwarts ? Do not these acts, phrases and expressions clearly indicate that the actors in the trage- dies hoped for some favor or protection from the side of the party division which they had espoused g These FfeonYictions' have caused the judge not to "make his candida but he has simply declared him self a candidate before the peo- pie, and being very awkward" in leav- ing or deserting path which he has marked out for himself he hopes that the officers of the election will see to it that the people of the district are afforded an opportunity to cast their votes for him at every voting pre- cinct in the district at tho coming August election
 If this appeal does not bring Judge Little what he wants he will indeed have cause to think that his good qualities and frankness are not appreciated by the voters in the Third Kentucky district