Middletown transcript., 1893-01-28
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBINSON.
GOVERNOR RREYNOLDs MAKES THE
APPOINTMENT ON THURSDAY
WIN Preside at the Superior Court of
This County at Wilmington on
Monday-How the. Democrats
Have Kept Their Promises.
Counsel and Money to Back
Omcials Charged With
Election Frauds.

DOVER, January II, 1898.
The members Of the State Legislature
have become very conspicuous during
the past week, and when they pass.
along our thoroughfares or are gathere&
i'm little knots about the hotels, they -
eyed askance, and spoken of in wlSsp-
ers. II is needless to ash 90.
for all intelligent pessons who kasA
watched The proceedings o. that aukpstS
body-the Delawars Legislature, an
readily conjecture. is all on accoazk
of the resolution aufh5
ernor to appoint counsel to defend men
indicted before the United States Court
for alleged violation of the Federal
election laws at the last election.
Whether the persons so indicted are
guilty or not, the Legislature-thea
law-making sel ate-by thf
resolution sd0rses the actfdsl Of De
men accued of violating the
laws. Itas appalling to coaszer that
the law akers should ssaltify them
selves as tgass NJ 81 such partisan
propensitles. There were two men,
however. who did oppose the move,
but of what avail were Senators Pill
ing and Mullen's vote as arayed against
an overwhelming majority.
the resolution that there are some of
the Democratic members, who are not
seen about their familiar haunts and
that they hide themselves behind their
own doors when at home.
Truly the present Delaware Legisla-
ture will go down in history as ar
rayed against honest elections, and rati-
flying all manners of fraud to gain parti
san ends.
Bayard's trip to Lakewood has been
the main topic of conversation In the
Hobbies this week, and the friends of
Delaware's once famous son--famous
for what he did not know-have hopes
that there is still some possibility of
Mr.. Cleveland again calling him to a
seat in the Cabinet,
The judiciary question is at last set
tied, and both Chief Justice Comegys
and Associate Justice Hnuston have
resigned their seats on the bench, and
will spend their few declining years in
quietness and peace. away from the
wrangle and turmoil of the court room.
Chief Justice Robinson who was ap-
POINTED by Governor Reynolds on Thurs
day, is the son of Alfred P. Robinson,
a successful lawyer of Sussex county,
who died at Georgetown in 1866. His
grandfather was Judge Peter Robinson,
the first Sussex Associate Judge of the
Superior Court at its organization in
1882. Thomas Robinson, the loyalist,
who in 1775 was fined $1,000 and had
his property confiscated by the Sussex
county revolutionary committee be-
cause of his detection from the Wing
cause, was the great-grandfather of the
new chief justice. He was born at
Georgetown, February II, 1912. After
receiving good English education in
the schools there he studied law with
his father.
Soon after his admission to the bar
in April, 1868 he became his fathers
partner. His success was marked
from the first. After the death of the
elder Alfred he con tinued alone the
professional business of the firD. He
stands in the front rank of the men,
bers of the bar in this State, being
familiar with the processes and having
large practice in the civil, criminal and
chancery courts. He has fine intel
lect and is devoted to his profess
sion.
Politically the Chief Justice is a
Democrat of the conservative type,
and has never interested himself in
politics for his own aggrandizement.
In 1876 he was elected clerk of the
State Senate, and later the same year
was appointed deputy Atterney-Gen-
eral by Hon. John B. Pennington,
then Attorney-General for the State.
| He is member of the Protestent
Episcopal Church.
SIMS.
ABRAM HAYDEN, JR.