The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-28
Brought the Judge to Book.

DolEk CIOLuou III u ltbtlO huGuOIlIJ
makes fools of many men Of whom better
things might reasonably be expected. Moth
ing that has lately occurred has more
strongly emphasized this lamentable fact
than the absurd antics of the alleged Kansas
farmer, who was by violent manipulation
metamorphosed into a county judge only to
bring discredit and ridicule upon his state
and county and the people who elected him.
When he found that his mandatory orders
came into direct conflict with a court of
higher authority he did not even have COM
mon sense enough to stop and take the re-
liable advice of experienced and responsible
attorneys. Instead he went oDdurately
ahead and read the state statutes as best ne
could and placed upon the most favorable Sec
tions he could find such a construction as only
a man wholly ignorant of law and its intent
and purposes would have done. There is
no doubt but the poor conceited fellow-in-
fated with his own importance-inter-
preted detached sections in the manner
most agreeable 20 his own views and with
out consideration of their relation to other
parts of the same enactment which might
have rendered their purport altogether diff
ferent.
Even when summoned to appear before
the highest legal tribunal in the state the
realization of his audacious blunder had
not penetrated his accumulated egotism,
and he actually had the effrontry to tele-
graph from the scene of his trial for insub-
ordination to the sheriff of his county
ordering him to ignore the latest order Of
no n Uinyy Of this and
many similar acts of open defiance of his SUI
periors it is very creditabe to the charitable
| temper of the highest court that the absurd
| little rural magistrate was allowed to escape
with only severe reprimand which should
have battered little reason into his hard
head.
Such selections of grossly incompetent
occupants for important offices are what
usually bring discredit upon political move
ments inaugurated by farmers and labor
| organizations Yet there is no earthly OK
cuse for it. Capable men in all of the
active vocations of life are just as available
| to them as to any other concerted move
ment of men. There is no excuse whatever
for the election of such a disgrscefully
ignorant man to so important an office by
the farmers when they might just as easily
have had a thoroughly capable and impair
tial judge.
If they merely intended him TO be tool
they should bear in mind that a man who
is dishonest enough for that is just as dis
honest with his employers as with the
public.
Nobody about New York appeared to
know anything about that politico-com-
mercial weekly called tho Saturday Globe
until it had failed after three years of
quiet existence. Then the republican
organs all over the country shouted in
chorus that it was Grover Cleveland's per-
sonal advocate 1t was nothing of the kind.
Very likely Mr.. Cleveland never read a
copy of the paper during the whole course
of its existence. If Editor Parker gave out
any such story as that he must have had
some personal grudge against the owner.
1t was started in May of 1855 by Mr.. John
". Young, of Salt Lake City, to advertise
his North American Exchange and other of
his business enterprises. As the editors he
employed were all much more admirers of
Mr.. Cleveland than they were business
men, they devoted the paper more to prais>
ing their favorite presidential possibility
than to paying its own expenses. Conse-
quently Mr.. Young was called upon to put
up" until the thing grew monotonous
That's the whole story.
Ocean Grove authorities are having quite
a stormy battle in their efforts to keep
people from going through the village in
their bathing suits. They claim that the
order is in the interest of modesty and de-
cency only. But the outside barbarians are
mean enough to suggest that is done in the
interest of bathing houses on the beach that
belong to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting
Association, and have not lately paid very
| well.
Discounting Secretary Proctor's resigna-
ton Of the war portfolio has been going on
ousily for the past six months and he has
not yet resigned it nor manifested any in
clination to do 50. Still the hustling hunt
ers for ofice continue TO hopefully eye the
place and wonder who will get it -