The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-18
The Outrage on the Bench.

ciary were willing to humiliate themselves
and the judicial bench by going In a body
on Saturday evening to the Tammany Club
to receive official notification Of their nom
nation. Tammany didnotgo to them they
went to its social seat. Senator GRADY made
the notifying speech to the candidates, who
we're ranged like ~schoolboys "in the south
west corner Of the drawing ROOM"
This was a new departure, an original
proceeding, so far as we-ean remember, and
It eontrasted radically with the manner OF
notification Of Judge DAILY and the other Ju-
dietary candidates on the Republican ticket.
In that case a committee appointed for the
purpose by the nominating convention went
to the candidates, instead OF requiring them
to come to it, and the proceedings took
place fifty on Thursday last at the Law
yers' Club in the Equitable building.
The contrast between the tone of the two
occasions and the character Of the speeches
Of notification n Of acceptance was not less
striking. ExJudge HALL. who was the
spokesman Of the committee which went to
the professional Lawyers Club, notified the
candidates or the Republican ticket in a
few words Of serious import. GRADY,
dressed with appropriate evening magnifi-
cence for the occasion, made a flaming ex-
hibition OF oratory in a speech to each Of
the candidates in turn, drawn up in the
drawing room Of the Tammany Club,
In accepting the nomination, Judge DAILY
declared his high appreciation Of the "shin-
ing example of devotion to principle" of
the Republican Judiciary Convention in
coming to the defence Of "the sanctity OF
fhn iuIinia1 nfanap hu nNppinotinn him
though a Democrat, to the Supreme Court
as a representative Of the principle Of judi
oial honor and independence. now assailed
30 scandalously. It was a dignified speech,
high-minded and worthy of the gravity of
the issue raised by his nomination.
hespeech Of acceptance atthe Tammany
Club, on Saturday evening, byGEoRaEP. An
DREws, the Democratic candidate nominated
specifically to punish Judge DAILY with de-
feat because Of his refusal to sacrifice the
dignity and independence Of the Judiciary
at the command Of Tammany, was radically
different In one and character. The oc-
casions for the refusal Of Judge DAILY were
described particularly in a report SUBJ
mitted to the Bar Association on the same
evening, the signers Of which were five
Democrats and two Republicans. Tammany
demanded OF Judge DAILY that he remove a
highly competent clerk ofthe Court Of Com
mon Pleas, SAMUEL JONES, who had long
been a respected Judge upon the bench
Of the Superior Court" and to substi-
tute for him MICHAEL T. DAILY, an
unframed friend of Mr.. CRoKER's. Judge
DAILY honorably refused to obey the
insolent dictation. Again, as this report
r~ecites, Judge DALYd declined to vote to
remove the judicial sales in the county of
New York from the Real Estate Ex-
change salesroom, in Liberty street, to III
Broadway until the parties interested should
have been first heard, the fact being that
the removal would contribute to the profit
Of the firm Of PETER +. MEYER & Co., in
which Mr.. RICHARD CROKER had an in
terest." Tammany itself makes no denial of
it's determination to use all its power to pun
ish Judge DAILY for this disobedience to it's
commands by driving him from the bench.
GEORGE 2. ANDREWS was a Justice OF the
Supreme Court up to the close of 1897, and
then desired eagerly a denomination to that
Office from Tammany, but Tammany then
refused it to him, and he was nominated on
the Citizens Union ticket and defeated. On
Dec. 80, 1897, the day before the expira-
tion of his term and his retirement from
Office, Judge ANDREWS gave the highly
lucrative receivership OF HAMMERsTEIN's
Olympia playhouse to ANDREW FREEDMAN,
a personal friend and intimate OF Mr..
RICHARD CROKER's. Nine months later, or
on Oct. 13 Of this year, he got the nomina-
ton from Tammany.
1t cannot be regarded as surprising,
therefore, that GEORGE p. ANDREWS was
ready to go to the Tammany Club on
Saturday evening to receive notification OF
his reward-au nomination. Tammany found
in GEoRGE p. ANDREWS an accommodating
candidate to use as an instrument of its
vengeance. He had improved his last day
OF judicial service in 1897 to placatc Tam
many by tho bcstowal OF n fat re-
ownership at his disposal, and lie
was fitted especially to punish Judge
eagerness for Office, to be used by Tam
many in chastislng independence on the
bench, from which he himself had stepped
down only nine months before. Tho ques-
ton arises here very pertinently II there
is or Is not a sentiment of honor proper
among Judges, as there is said to be even
among thieves,
Judge GEORGE r. ANDREWS said in reply
to Senator GRADY's notifying speech at the
Tammany Club, Saturday, that no WAS
proud to receive this nomination" be-
slowed upon him us a rebuke to an upright