The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-01
mis- paper is Democratic IN principles
end is independent IN ats piesos ." IS '0eas
questions.
The Chancellor Cannes Resign.

E H'trR Gn2H(elAVt
The Estate Gazette has commenced 10
scream because Chancellor McGlH does
not purpose resigning his office and en-
tering actively into the campaign HAY
ing no other material for offensive re-
marks. it makes the most of TINS. Inc
Newark News takes a different we"
of the matter. 1t has no desire to see
fine Chancellor resign, but thinks ne
might with perfect propriety take an
active part in the campaign while retain
ing his seat on the woolsack.
The Chancellor cannot possibly resign
He has in his hands a very large num-
Der of cases, upon which he has heard
the arguments and the evidence in whole
8or in part. A notable case is that OF
the Jurction and Pennsylvania Railway
dispute about the Point of Rocks crqsSs
ing. He cannot dispose of them ma
hurry. Some of them are not finished.
He cannot decide them after ~resigninS-
He cannot resign and leave them unde-
cided, for that would be an outrage on
the l~itigants, putting them to the delay
and expense of repeating all the pro-
ceedings. 1t is plain that his resignation
is an impossibility. or at least 50 great
a wrong to important interests as to be
out of the question. The State Gaz-
cite, should, in common decency, drop
its vexatious carpingsAlZsa i
But should the Chancellor, retaining
his high Office, come out as a campaign
speaker, as the Newark News" sug-
gests? In plain English, should he take
the stump? The News" ~ argues the
case thus
For many reasons it is to be deplored
that Mr.: McGil has ta !; n e e9 e,a a nlow
10 which he aspires, is the proudest
piace Within the gift Of the people OF
s MeW ofh heese 81 higner honors and greater
dignities than the Chaneellorship ms
Democratic nominee IS seriously a edluh-
an ardent one that he may pc elected.
These facts being Acknowledged, it is
Rive al the conclusion that there is seFi-
Gus improperly in the Chancellor, stand
ing as y ne rtv does esels as the tba e9 Siabe9t f al a
within the gift of the people, should
withhold himself alOof from the people
in a dignified discussion of the weighty
State questions involved in the campaign,
This reasoning is sound enough, but
the objection to an occupant of a high
judicial position appearing on the hust-
ings is one of instinct and feeling rather
than of logic. 1t is deep in the grain
of public sentiment, and, to take a prac-
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dition established by Judge Dixon with
out mourning serious censure and almost
inevitable defeat. It is very certain that
if Chancellor McGill should attempt to
make such a campaign as Leon Albeit
did as a private citizen in 1889, or as
Mr.. Griggs is making now, his defeat
would be assured. It is more than likely,
indeed, that if he had announced he was
going to do it, the Newark News
would have led the chorus Of condemna-
tion.
The Chancellor is in a small degree a
loser by the disability which keeps him
in retirement while the battle is waged
about him. But he is SO well and 50
hpnorably known to the citizens of this
ate that in his case the injury is re-
heed to a minimum.