Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-05-14
COMMUNICATED.
Concord Township.
Nav 5th, 1884.

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To THE CITIzEN.-As my duties as
Juror are over and having returned
home, | thought / would write you q
few lines of my experience at Butler.
| watched the lawyers quibbling right
and left, but gave my verdict true ac-
cording to the evidence and law. Be-
fore l went to your town my mind was
about made up to give my vote for Mr..
Greer for Judge at the primary election.
After my arrival day or two, [ was
convinced that lies were manufactured
against Judge McJ unkin as well as
low, base slanders and that their vile
ISLANDERS were sent over my township,
and no doubt over the whole county,
to defeat Judge McJunkin. While in
Bntler during the week | learned that
many who were once in the Butler
broken bank and borrowers and debtors
and bosses, who once bossed a cam
paign, were for Mr.. Greer and he was
with them. | heard also that the Stall
wart who gloried in the assassination
of Garfield by Guiteau, as was reported,
was at work hard for Mr.. Greer. |
learned that this same Stalwart calls
Hon. James G. Blaine, Butler county 3
choice for President, a rascal and a
thief. | learned that Mr. Greer's friends
were scheming and laying traps and
doing what was dishonorable and un-
fair to defeat Judge McJunkin.
And above all this saw and heard
a case brought before Court on Friday
for trial against the Pittsburgh & West
ern Railroad Co., and its lawyer want
ed to put off the case, to worry farmer
whose farm was cut up badly by the
railroad running through it. And by
the negligence of the railroad law yer in
the case paper was lost or mislaid and
not being able to find it the railroads
lawyer wanted the case put off.
heard Judge McJunkin. say from the
Bench, that the reason was not good
one, and that to let the case over would
be making a bad precedent, and that
the case ought to go on. Then the rail-
road lawyer took from his chest-pocket
a paper and read it to the Judges, and
asked TO have the panel of jurors set
aside, although we were summoned and
had heard and given verdicts on cases
for five days. The reason was that the
jury was not made up according to law.
Then Judge McJunkin at once in bis
straightforward aud impartial way
said, "This whole matter will be clear
ed up and investigated under oath"
So it was brought up and the two Jury
Commissioners and Robert Millinger
were sent for and were put on the stand
under oath, and heard them give their
testimony.
Judge McJunkin stated that he made
an order for names to be chosen from
the county to be put in the jury-wheel
on December 22d last but Judge Bredin
not long after this time changed his
order. And it appeared that when the
Jury Commissioners IMessrs. McClung
and Waullett were about filling the
Jury wheel, Mr. r. S. Millinger was
in the room with the Jury Commis-
sioners, and Mr.. Waullett got tele-
graphic dispatch that his child was
sick and had to 60 home. Millinger at
his request took his place and helped to
put in 147 names. Mr.. Waullett came
back the next morning and paid Milin-
ger for his work This coming to the
knowledge of the railroad lawyer he
took advantage of it for the purpose of
continuing his railroad case But the
matter was sifted and it was shown
that Judge McJunkin was in no man
ner to blame nor was connected with
the matter but that Judge Bredin had
writing the certificate of the Jury Com
missioners which went to convince
every gentlemen who heard the whole
thing that the sharp railroad lawy er
was probably acting in the interest of
the Robinson-Greer ring bosses who
were trying to entrap Judge McJunkin
and make an electioneering point
against him on account of this Jury
wheel matter.
One day in the week during inter.
mission of Court five of US attending
Court were talking about the different
candidates, and the talk got on to the
Judge question as to who was the fit
man for Judge. One said, that Judge
McJ Junkin had far the greater learning
another said, Greer was too young and
had not studied enough and he cared
not so much for the age as for the fact
that he was not as well posted as a
Judge should be in the law. An old
gentleman from the northern part of the
county said that Greer might for that
reason get along for as he knows very
little law he would 60 on the Bench
without any settled legal opinions and
could guess the law. After a good
hearty laugh, we all came to the con
cluson that Judge McJunkin was the
best qualified for our Judge.
Now, l have given you my reasons
why | can't vote for Mr. Greer and can
for Judge McJunkin's reelection
That's my verdict. A JUROR.