Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-14
FEnsON ON TIE JUDICIARY.
,s Not Arbiters of consti-
 tutiolal Questions.
? TEE ULTIMATE POWER.

Ds.rs Doctrine ano one W
 rnder the Despotism of an oli- Judges Are as Honest Hs Other
 and Not More ss.
 .Aors is one plank ill the Chicago |. .s V ,ybioh the Republican news ||s @ m If inc country have more ire # <, v, V,nisconstrued than another, and !2, ze, wbieh much of their yenomous
 ~ has been directed, it is the one ||< r ralates to federal interference in % < eairs. or more especially to what aas in the platform as govern ! by injunction. " 's 'ss sooner had the platform received < ssontion of the Chicago convention '%be spba cry was raised by Republican '.ssners in all parts of the country |s.s Rsba nlank in question was delib- |za aipe at the supreme court. It was sPbsraed by some of these zealous ssans of the nation that the Demo- se % marty, in adopting the income tax $ $ was aiming at a radical change "a organization of that tribunal. '' ';s needless to say that such ridicu- .sbarges as these were inspired by demon of rank political hatred rather aa patriotic solicitude for the well 's the nation. No man of any in Renee whose familiarity with the Ise of judicial proceedings in this nfry for the last few years is of such .aracter as to enable him to judge Barly of what the language means Possibly see anything offensive in 0lank.
 3lat the Democratic party had a < to enter it's protest against arbi- 1interferenee by federal authorities sheld not only by the spirit of the but also by the express yaa e q Tfomes Jefferson himself. he Sanford (Fla. Chronicle pub $ a letter dated Sept. 20, 1921, and .essed to William 0. Jarvis, at that Editor of the Boston Republican, vbich Mir Jefferson makes use of
 iollowing terse and explicit lan- Tou seem to consider the judges as Ultimate arbiters of all constitu- al questions, q very dangerous doc e indeed, and one which would { us under the despetism of an oli- hy Our judges are as honest as 2 men and not more so. They have, aOthers, the same passions for par or power and the privileges of their $ Their maxim is, 'Boni judiois Hamplioare jurisdictionem, and power the more dangerous, as
 are in office for life and not respon- i as the other functionaries are, le elective control. The constitution erected no such single tribunal, 6ing that to whatever hands confid- 9ith the corruptions of time and y, its members would become des- It has more wisely made all the ntments coequal and cosovereign
 ln themselves. If the legislature tto pass laws for a census, for pay she judges and other officers of gov Qent, for establishing a militia, for aalization, as prescribed by the con-
 flon. or if they fail to meet in con- 2 the judges cannot issue their dates to them"
 othlng could possibly be more di- sthan the language in which Mir. ason addresses himself to this im- pt proposition. Surely if the found the Democratic party could so ex- hlmself in regard to an evil which pt tune was only threatened or ap- ended the party itself can enter it's sse passed upon similar views when fVli which Mir. Jefferson plainly AW has already actually occurred. time would come when there p inevitably be a clash between |eglsiatlve, judicial and executive |lons Of the government, or rather a !, when each of these functions p' to certain extent, be concen-
 ID one, and that the judicial. MT. Fson dlscerned with that farseeing fmanship which made him one of
 featest men of his day.
 F1ead of being un-D n-Democratic. there \ 'ne plank of the Chicago platform
 \ nas been the subject of greater \ perhaps, than any other, is di- ! os tn :, accord with the expressed ot Mr. Jefferson himself.
 quote again the words of the Democrat: N '' : .now no safe depository of the i Sso powers of society but the peo- l,e'lselyes, and if we think them Iu, I|a,igntened enough to exercise their
 Mi'n wholesome discretion.
 ~euy is not to take it from them. |n !, ,niorm their discretion by edu-
 ta ~ people themselves have not the as n'er their protest against the hn oa .ne Judiciary, from what quar-
 4 4, such a protest come?
 der ' :. eiear 2, light which the great bpo vi o,.ti .ne party throws upon the ] so ', platform, and especially the } tha question, no one can truthfully nla;. o enarge that the platform is inc n n ana eutspoken expression of 'n @ democracy. y.-Atlanta Consti- act of foMo