The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-26

Charlotte Russo.
Fruit. Cheese ana Crackers.
Coffee
SIN the vernacuIar Of the day said
POSTMASTER Ware at the close Of the
eating and drinking, II call time on
4 the second round
He then introduced Chief Justice a. TT.
/ Horton, whose subject was @'Ihe Judic-
larry. Dir. Horton expressed regret that
only four or five district judges We're req
ular attendants al the state Bar meet
lngs He hoped to see the time when
thirty tive district judges and 400 law
gers would attend the meetings
ssILis association has a mem Der ia Chi
cago who registers from Kansas who is
recognized as one Of the greatest corpo-
ration attorneys in the country.
NV have member on the floor Of
tine national senate who has lately been
recognized by the president and Is now
dealing out postohces to all his friends.
I'VE have member Of the supreme
bench of the country who always regis
tiers from Kansas.
LIVERY man should demand an able,
industrious and upright Judiciary AS
rule It IS furnished ln the state and ma
ti0n While charges are sometimes
brought there is less ground for com
plant than in any other function Of gov
eminent.
.The defeat Of Maynard in New York
~
cagO was not only demonstration that
the people want the judiciary a bove re-
proach, but also the power of the bar
associations. as the action of the bar la
both cases was backed BY lie people"
Judge johnson on Mexico.
A. i. Williams was to have responded
TO The toast ~IiawalI' but he was absent,
and instead Judge d. b. Johnson toasted
Mexican Jurisp prudence" He said;
II know very little of Mexican iurispru-
dence- / Was there Two months last sum
mer. but managed to escape their juris-
prudence, probably because 4 had with
me another member Of the association,
j. IL. Moss The supreme court there
hands down no written opinions. 1T is
therefore not hampered liza making its
decisions by something 10 may have said
before. I sometimes think it would be
we'll to adopt some such plan here"
Laughter.
Judge johnson said the picture usually
drawn of Mexico as the land of robbers
and outlaws was overdrawn. He said the
unattended traveller was safer there than
in this country and there has only been
one train robbery there ia ten years. NJ
would like to tell you about the signori,
bat have not time. / thank YOU for the
Information have given you about
Mexico
our -sJoinar Relations.
Our joint relations was the subject of
the toast by Winfield Freeman of Wyan-
dotte. He took Joint" in its i ansas
sense. lie saids "Ihe joint is usually
operated by John Doe, and John IS one
of the most pieuUus men Ia the state.
Ii is more plentiful along the border and
we have temptations and contamination
there that the people of the interior
know not Of The joints are an that Is
left Of the saloon
I'm Kansas City my friends drink me
chanically They do it so mechanically
IN fact they forget about il when they
are called into court to testify
Corbett vs. 3TitchelI
In the absence Of Rev. DIR. Embree. his
by ~COrbett VS. Mitchell" responded to
He said: II know nothing OF the merits
Of this case / ind the members of this
association are Indifferent as to the re-
suit Of SO undigni1ed q case. I was
walking up Kansas avenue this after
noon with TWO other members, and they
were telling me their contempt for such
brutal displays and said they wouldn't
60 to a orth Topeka to see the case set
ted Finally we got to the JOURNAL Of
nee. There was q vast throng lie front. ]
was told they were reading the bulletins
Of the fight. picked my way through
the crowd. but soon found myself alone.
Not wishing TO 20 on without them
went back, and found my
two friends showing their lack of inter
est by being the closest of the close at
the JOURNALS bulletin board
Governor Mitchell said i should not