The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-08-04

be final If these matters could be success
fully contrsdicted might not be so brash
IS to arrogate to myself the ability and
omniscience of the one who possesses the
deciding power, but they are so utterly
silly in their nature that any one who
claims ordinary knowledge in the premises
could do just as l propose to do now, and
that is forever put al rest the stories and
arguments that weak-minded opponents of
our candidates for Judge have set aAost.
Not that any assertion that is herein made
can stop the mouths of certain wise asses
who know it all, because everybody knows
there lives in every community set of
fellows who, notwithstanding all proof to
the contrary, will still harp on the opinions
they have formed, but we give what we
know to those of sense and fairness and
leave the others to the fate in store for them
when the fool killer comes around.
BEHOLD OUR NEXT JUDGE
My first proposition is that r. Il. Koch,
ESQ.,, present District Attorney, and, by
the grace and good sense of majority of
the voters of the 2lst judicial district, the
successful candidate for Judge this year.
has not now, nor never had, the slightest
idea of Withdrawing from the contest. He
has never entertained the thought for
moment. He received the nomination by
very fattering vote and he has come to
stay. When next you visit the court
house just cast your eagle eye on the chair
in which Judge Beohtel sits when the
three judges are on the bench and you will
thus be introduced to the seat that will be
warmed by Mr. Koch on and after January
2, 1898. This is no idle talk, but it is
prophecy based on knowledge of the sit
ustion gained by careful review of the
field from every point of vantage ground;
and let me say further in thus introducing
the reader to Judge Koch, l am proud to
have it known that in him the county will
have an official at once fearless, honest,
fair and industrious.
By way of psrenthesis, let me say, there
are two lawyers at the bar to-day who are
noted for their industry and untiring atten-
tion to their business. One is A. W.
Schalck, E.q., and the other is the subject
of this letter, Mr.. Koch. When not
actually engaged in the trial of cases you
find these men, day and night, at work in
their offices which have long ago been
transformed into veritsble treadmils.
And now for the second lesson. Certain
persons, with more time on their hands
than brains in their craniums are galivant-
ing around this town and other sections of
the district singing the now thread bare
song which could be properly entitled,
"0h, He's Ger Young TO be Judge Yet"
would like to call these peripathetic creatures
by name 80 that they could be held up to
the ridicule they deserve, but that is not
permissible and am too charitable to do
it. Preferring to cover them with the
mantel of charity, 1 will be content in
giving them a bit of history for their
digestion.
YOUNG MEN ON THE BENCH.
Judge John Dean, who was so unani.
mously placed in nomination at Harrisburg
recently and whose name graces the Repub
lican ticket as our candidate for Supreme
Judge, was only twenty-five years of sg,
when he was elevated to the judicial dig
nifty he has so well graeed and honored
He was admitted when he was twenty-on,
and consequently had practiced law bu
four years,
| Judge james Ryon had practiced law il