Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Massachusetts Republican convention will be composed of ,223 delegates.

The Massachusetts Republican convention will be composed of 1 ,223 delegates. There are many crumbs of comfort for Re- publicans in the Maine election, and there are indications that the election in this State will not make them gloomy.
 They are talking in Wisconsin about Gov ernor Rusk's fitness to be President, and some say that if there should be another an- archist outbreak before the national conven-
 tion Rusk would go in with rush. He has
 proved himself to be the right man in the
 right place once.
 There is to be at Raleigh, North Carolina
 in October, a novel and most promising ex- hibition. A thousand northern-born citi- zens of that State have determined upon an exhibit of the resources of the State as 8 stimulus to immigration. The State fair will be in progress at the time of the convention, and the agriculture and manufactures and minerals of the State will be we'll represented. This is a good idea. It will be e frst-class advertisement for the State.
 A correspondent of the Boston Herald has had a conversation with professor of Brown
 university in which the professor intimated his belief that it was of very little use for him to ''take off his coat' in the present pol
 itical struggle in the State as in any event he would find himself the henchman of some
 s'boss'' or ''set of bosses;" that it would do the State good to be turned over to the Dem ocratic party for 8 time; and finally that he was tempted, in all seriousness, to offer 8 ,ok fha fo%o nf Tc1o be divided up between Connecticut and Mas sachusetts. This professor needs some liver pills.
 Judges are to be elected in Ohio this fall and the papers are discussing the partisan ship and other serious evils which have sprung there from an elective judiciary hold ing office but for short terms. The Cincin- natl Commercial Gazette throws the blame for the passage of the law upon the lawyers, l and draws this melancholy picture of the l state of things: The judiciary has ceased ts have the respect of the bar and of the peo- pie, and neither the bench nor the bar re- l spects itself. The saying has been that if
 the character of the judiciary and the popu- lar respect for it should be broken down the | AOpO Ol pOpuiaA SOSoIhLuOAo "OoAo Do AOoo' | Our State and city have passed that stage. | The people are conscious that the adminis-
 tration of justice is mockery. The trials l for crimes are more like the carnival of criminals than tribunals. of justice. The
 law is not entitled to respect. Its course is I not to punish crime. The courts fail to give 1 justice. The whole power of the law is now l to be devoted to clearing the guilty, against
 whom the hand of every man should be l lifted
 Le Christianisme says: Religious persecu- tion reigns in Russia The Czar proposes to
 re-establish unity of faith by forcing into the
 pale of the Greek Church Polish Catholics
 and Lithuanian Protestants. Jews are driven
 out of the country. The Governors of Po-
 dolia and Ukraine, not content with closing
 every public office to the Jews, are now
 shutting them out of other occupations. The
 lawyers of these provinces are ordered to
 dismiss all Jewish clerks-that is, the ma jority of their employees within two months
 The same order is to be issued in the south
 west provinces, where Russian Jews are gath
 cred as in an immense Ghetto. In the Baltic provinces the attack is directed against the