The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-31
REBUKE IT
And Compel the Restoration oil
a Fair and Just Judiciary.
A Purely Partisan Judiciary Soon Be-
comes n Wholly Corrupt Judici-
ary Ready to DO the Bid
ding Of the Bosses.

moment overlook the despicable work
Of the last Republican legislature in re-
ducing the Ohio Judiciary to purely
partisan machine.
This was deliberately done and done
for purpose. The work Of the bosses
and the gang is marked out far into the
future, and preparations have been and
are being n ads that it shall not be in.
terfered with.
Set it down as the recorded expert
ence of all history that purely partisan
Judiciary soon becomes corrupt judici.
airy, and corrupt judiciary jeopardizes
every public interest and every private
right.
Jeffries was first a partisan judge and
made judge to enforce, by judicial de-
cree, the bidding Of his master. He
soou graduated into the most infamous
ly corrupt judge mentioned In the his
tory of Anglo Saxon Jurisprudence, and
a Judge no more thinks of following his
precedents than he does of following the
precedents Of Nero or Cahgula.
Not until the advent of the Seventieth
and the notorious Seventy. first general
assemblies was the judiciary Of Ohio
made partisan machine.
The SEVENTEEN and seventy first gen.
eral assemblies, with their immense Re-
publican majorities, did baleful work in
dragging the judicial ermine through
the dirtiest section Of the pool Of party
politics.
While the work Of carving up one Of
the common pleas districts in which tho
Democrats had a small majority, so that
it would only be possible to elect one
Democratic Judge out Of thirteen, a
prominent member of the legislature
was demonstrated with, and said in
reply: IF l could have my way, l
would zig gag the Judicial districts from
side to side of the state SO that no d--n
Democrat should ever be elected to a
judicial position in Ohio"
He didn't quite succeed, but he man
aged TO cut them down so that the Dem
ocrats get less than 20 judges out Of 1876.
The Republican legislator who ex-
pressed this view is a lawyer, and is him
self standing candidate for judicial
honors.
Among the things to be indorsed or
repudiated at the election in November,
| 1895, is this monstrous doctrine that the
judiciary is to be made corrupt party
machine.
People who think it ought to be made
such will vote the Republican ticket.
People who think otherwise, will vote
against the Republican ticket, without
reference to former ties.
Men should not permit their party
affiliations to blind them to the dangers
of the situation. The state judiciary
has been partisanized by legislature
that is q stencil in the nostrils of honest
people. The creature will not rise above
its creator.
Having been thoroughly partisanized,
the next step is corruption, extortion
and oppression, such as characterized
the English Judiciary IN the days OF
Jeffries, when clients and counsel, not
causes and justice, won i'll the tribunals
The people should be warned in time,
and while it is yet possible to undo the
wickedness Of the legislature. We have
no hesitancy i'll saying that the partisan
acts of the Legislature in tampering with
the Judiciary for the basest purposes, is
the worst crime ever committed against
public interest and judicial morality,
and if oondoned by the people at the
next election will afiict Ohio with un-
told evils for years 10 come. No right
minded man, no matter what his politi'
cal associations, can afford TO give vote
of political indorsement.
We have denounced this political
crime against public policy, and we
shall continue to dehounce It, IN the
hope that the people WI become aroused
to the dangers that thFaten them.
A corrupt ard prebndging boy OF
lawmakers Is bad enough; but par' san,
corrupt and pre-judGng Judiqary rs a
thousand times worse
A reckless, incompetent, Indifferent