Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
THE JUDGSHIP.

The alliance of Harper and Barber
counties, at Attica, last Friday, NOM
mated as their candidate for judge of
the oath judicial district, Geo. w. Nc.
Kay, farmer, residing three or four
miles northwest of Attica, Harper
county, He is man about SO years
old, well educated, it is said, he having
attended the university at Ann Arbor,
Michigan; but he is not lawyer, never
haying been admitted to the bar and he
never having claimed to have been a
practitioner. He claims to have stud
led law and some say that he is grad
uate of law; but this is probably mis-
take. -- .
The full proceedings of the eenven-
ton are published in this issue of the
INDEX.
1t appears that the alliance made a
mistake in nominating Mr.. Mckay.
He is no doubt a good. honest man; but
he certainly is not qualified for the inn
portant Office to which he aspires. He
will, if elected, be at the mercy of
shrewd practitioners and scheming
lawyers.
There was not a member of the con-
vention that nom mated Mr.. Mckay
who, if he had a case in court, DO mat
ter how unimportant, would be
willing to trust the management to any
one but a lawyer. Every man who
voted for Mr, Mckay wonld go to a
physician if he or his family were sick.
No one would expect school teacher
to be versed in the decisions of courts
or learned in the principles of
law to such an extent that he could
properly prosecute or defend an i'm
portant case IN conrt. How, then,
could Mr.. Mckay be expected to be
qualified for the position of district
Judge without previous practice and
| training? ---.
1t looks to US that the republican can
didate for judge, Mr. Love, of Antho-
ny, has reason to rejoice ogey M. Nc
Kay's nomination. The district has
heretofore been strongly republican,
and unless something is done to rene
dy the mistake made last Friday at At
tica, Mr.. Love will be eiscted.
But we hope that something will be
done and that something will be the
nomination of first class lawyer and
honest man by the democrats. The
convention has not yet been called, but
1t will be, no doubt, soon.
Then if the democrats do put up a
! good man, the alliance should get Mr..
Mckay TO decline to make the race and
vote for the democratic nominee.
No one questions the right of the al
lance to nominate a candidate; no one
questions their right to nominate wo-
man or doctor or a preacher or a
school boy Tor any office they desire to
fill;but at this time when the people are
tax-burdened; when rich corporations
are enforcing and fOreclOsing loans,
when counties and municipalities must
apply to the courts 10 relieve them
from contracts made with modern
ShylOcks, when servants of the people
are refusing to obey their masters and
the machinery of the Judiciary must be
called on by the people, when the SUI
preme courts are but the creatures OF
corporations and the monied power-in
these times, we say, the trial courts
should be presided over by men armed
and Dlumed with experience and abili-
ty, men able to cope with the best le-
gal talent that may practice before
them, judges able to keep out of all the
entanglements, webs woven by legisIa.
tors to especially catch the ignorant,
the unfortunate and the inexperienced.