Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1891-05-01
YOUNG Blood 10 the Front.

Young $1,000 10 the FRONT.
Kentucky has sometimes been called
by her envious neighbors behind the
times-State. We repel the charge ant
we defy the chargers with that same
high, proud spirit which moved the old
lawyer to deny the allegation and defy
the alligator. Kentucky has shown her
progressive spirit in the new constitu'
ton. Old fogysm is given back seat
along side of free passes. Good English
J las she is spoke" is left to keep com.
panv with old field school masters or
the ghosts of the pedagogues who taught
our fore-daddies. Look at the stupid
conservatism which marks the policy
OF many OF the States and contrast with
it the bouyant, bounding, jumping spir'
it which thrills all Kentucky with fresh
ening vigor.
In the great majority of the States. a
lawyer is not eligible to the judgeship of
court OF general jurisdiction until Sc
nifty has struck him. As general
rule he must have reached the point OF
80 years. Now everybody knows that
all life worth living, all knowledge worth
having is before 80 years have spent
their fury on any man, woman or jack
ass OF all the intellectual animals, the
goose alone is said to grow in knowledge
after he has reached 40 years. Indeed,
10 ha of
Col. VIM. Latin, who had contracted TO
deliver to a lady young, fat goose,
Madam, goose is considered young at
fifty !"
So Kentucky, through her constitu-
ton makers, has caught on to the phi
losophy OF this great truth and has been
prompt to utilize it. Instead Of having |
men bent with age, feeble in mind and
body, dispensing justice within her
sanctuaries, she provides that no per-
son who is as old as IS years shall be
circuit judge. To prove to our envious
neighbors that We are not vainly boast
ing we quote Section l35.
mo person shall be eligible as judge
OF the circuit court who is not a citizen
of Kentucky, a resident of the district
in which he may be candidate two
years next preceding his election, NOT
less than s. years of age when elected
and has not beer a practicing lawyer
eight years"
To make the meaning of this section ,
clearer we strip it of its intermediate
clauses and it will then read "No per-
ION shall be eligible as a judge of the
circuit court who is NOT less than 30 ,
years OF age when elected" Now one
If the chief beauties of this section lido
lot jump to hasty conclusions, dear
eader, or imagine We are going to say !
Is GRAMMAR
One OF the chief beauties, we observe, /
S that it limits the office of circuit Judge n
o so few a number, and everybody Z
nows that this will accord with re- b
publican forn OF government. For in s
lance, while the Judge must be under !,
5 years, he must at the same time have h
cen a practicing lawyer eight years. f.
low the lawyer is never licensed until I,
e is about 81. Add years to 81 years
nd we have 20 years. And so it results -.
nat We must take our judges from law
ers between % years and 80 years. :,
hus the circle is narrowed. III it
Mould turn out that there is no such y
lwyer in the district, let the people do y
ithout, for circuit Judge is a useless !,
nimal at best. We only regret that -
milar provision was not made with :,
ference to judges of the appellate .
)urt.
Section ll9 reads: mo person shall ::
: eligible to election as a judge OF the .
,urt of appeals who is less than - =,
ears of age" &c. Here we perceive :"
lat the NOT is left out. That was done
-obably because it is not proper to -
art all reforms at once. After We have -
;perienced the good effects of putting "
,ung blood on the bench, we can then ="
mend the constitution as to appellate n,
dyes and make the reform still more
Keeping 1t will soon be realized that W. ~
e younger the lawyer the better judge u'
d as we need the best judges on the We
urt of appeals bench, We can put the NJ
e, not OF eligibility, but Of inhibition,
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