The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-09-13

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JUDGE cCHHOR HAS OOHE 7.
In another column will De found
a letter from judge Common to Judge
Howard under date Of Sept. Bird. II
will be seen that Judge Conner at
last takes the position that he Will
not serve the majority Of the people
Of his State on the Supreme Court
bench unless at the same time he can
serve the Democratic party. The
editor of this paper was away from
home when the letter referred to
above was made public. Before
leaving home (and therefore before
y
we had seen Judge COnnor's last let
ter we wrote an editorial which ap-
pearcd in the last issue of The eau
CAsIAN, saying that Judge Conner
would never take the position that
he has taken, and our only comment
now on Judge Connor's position Is
to rcpublish that editorial. There
is not Il sentence or word in that
editorial that we wish to take back,
change or modify, except to say that
either we undcrcstimatcd the terrible
ostraciSing and dOminccrlng power
of the machine or else We undcrcstl-
mated Judge ConnOr's stability and
moral courage to withstand it. The
editorial is as follows:
There is no man in the Democratic par
ty (Or out of it, III North Carolina who is the
superior of judge COnmOr in honor, intcgri-
~ and fitness for the Supreme { Ourt bench.
Yet he must be abused and yilliied by his
own party because he will not bow to the
party machine and allow 1t to set up the
standard for his judgment and conscience.
4 party that will abuse one of the best, if
not the best. man in it because he will not
sacrifice his manhood for the selfish desires
OF the machine, is Il party that is dangerous
TO human liberty, When party grows
that intolerant it is time to overthrow it.
Such persecution would corrupt the man
hood of all who are not blessed with rs
much stability, tirmness and strength of
character Judge COnnor. What does the
machine want him to dor They want
Judge Common to insult the thousands of
men in North Carolina who not only admire
him as a man but who also approve of his
course as a Judge on the Superior Court
bench. They want him to stultify himself
by saying that he would not serve on the
Supreme Court bench unless the office was
brought to him on gold plate with gilt
edge Democratic label on it.
The machine threatens Judge Conner
that unless he follows the course marked
out by them that he will kill himself with
his own parry. The machine mistOok and
moderated their man when they used this
arg qment on Judge Common. He can never
be moved by arguments that appeal to the
sOrdld and selfish elements of human nature.
Judge Common would sacrifice himself polt-
ically a dozen times before he would do any
thing that did not measure up to the highest
sense of duty of citizenship irrespective of
party.
''NOw the question arises, would Judge
Shepherd Judge McRae or Judge Burwell
do what the machine wants Judge Common
to do? We challenge any Democratic paper
in the State to admit they would Such al
admission would be base Islander on them
if they are fit to sit on the Superior Court
bench"
We do not regret that we placed
the above high estimate on Judge
Conner, but We are deeply panied
that he should, by his own confes
sion, say to the world that the above
estimate was incorrect. A high
ideal has been crushed. Our feeling
is somewhat akin to what we suppose
a man feels when he is disappointed
IN the woman that he loves.
Judge COnnor says that his letter
to us under date of Aug. 18th has
been misunderstood. That is diff.
cult to believe when his reply is read
in connection with our letter to hin
under date of Aug. 10th. Up t.
that date We had never approached
him, directly or indirectly, in con
nectiOn with this matter. We die
not write him then because his care
to the News and Observer under
date of Aug. 2nd was not satisfact
DRY to those who wanted a non part
isan Judiciary, but because certain
persons continued to come to us a
friends of Judge Connor and claim
ed to speak with authority whel
they said he would not serve if elect
ed. Even then we would not hay
written him, had it not been tina
the same thing was told to other
who possibly did not place the SAM
high estimate on Judge Connor a
We did. No fair minded person VIII,
will read our letter to him as pub
hshed in THE CAUCASIAN on Aug
23rd can fail to see that its only oh
ject was to give him an opportunit,
to say, if he so desired, that he would
not serve if elected. Not desiring tt
intimate that we had the least sus
picion that he did not come up to thu
hiorh Io,I lo1J lor,x,