The McCook tribune., 1891-07-24
Honor to Whom, Honor is Duo.

The political cauldron seems tc
be somewhat agitated in this dis.
/ trict concerning some available
person whose asperations seem tc
indicate to the people his fitness
for the responsible and arduous
duties of district Judge. Like "Pe-
ter's net" of olden time the four
corners of the great political drag
net of the district have been lifted,
giving a central impulse to the as
piring legal luminaries, until now,
in emulation of Peters wonderful
catch, we in like manner behold a
tumultuous mass, composed of all
manner of creatures and creeping
things. The result thus far is far
from satisfactory. There is, how
ever, only one judges Office to fill
and there can only be one man
elected to fill the same. The quail
iGcations of the man must be broad
and ample for the full require
ments of the Office. The person
chosen must be man of principle,
tried and true, in full touch and
sympathy with the people who, re-
posing confidence in his integrity,
shall call him to sit in judgment
among them.
A record made is an earnest of a
record to be made, or, in other
words, a man trusted, tried and
found true, is safe person to trust
again, and among the legion of
names thus far mentioned for the
Office only one mentioned seems to
have record at all. That one is
the present Incumbent j. E. Coch-
ran. He has a record, and al.
though the ethical differences of
political questions seem to distract
the attention of the masses, and
while the combined system of
clans and cliques, Shylocks and
money-mongers, stands fully array.
ed in a white heat of antagonism
against his reelection, still the re-
cord made is a matter of current
history that will constantly appeal
to the people with whom his lot
has been cast, whose burdens have
been ightened and whose fnanci-
al entailments and difficulties have
been either mitigated OF set aside
by judicial decree, until Il smiling
Providence has brought relief.
We refer in brief to the lenient
ruling in the foreclosure cases,
wherein somthing like four h1lnd-
red actions in foreclosure were de-
layed and time secured to adjust
the debt through the medium Of a
bountiful crop. This stringent
ruling in favor Of the farmers re-
suited in the saving of over twen-
ty-fve thousand dollars in court
and attorney fees alone, besides
the resulting distress incident to
such legal proceedings. With such
a record Of vigorous and spartan
like integrity concerning the well
fare of the people, what more need
be said? Judge Cochran stands to-
day the avowed standard bearer of
the people, the exponent Of right
and justice for the masses. To be
sure, the moneycrats, a few shys-
ter lawyers and horde Of quassi
politicians, who fondly imagine
that the only thing lacking to save
the country is a chance to shine
before the people in his place, are
against him, and will seek to de-
feat him, but the idea is fallaclous
one, for as sure as the ides Of No.
vember shall witness the choice of
the people, just SO surely shall the
people, laying aside SD all minor mat
ters of opinioE aid politics, join in
again returning for another term
J. E. Cochran as district judge, Of
whom it ever has been said-he
was a just judge.-Curtis Courier.