The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-04
roN.PARTrsAN JUpIoIARY.
The Peculiar Logic Of the Register In
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Parkersburg State Journal: Probably
It has been remarked IN these columns
before, that the Wheeling Register Is
nothing II not brilliantly and uniquely
Illogical. and Il any additional proof
were needed Of this, 1t appears In the
Issue Of that cratic sheet Of this morn
ing. The Register Il stlll harping on q
non-partiSan Judiciary. II attacks all
the Republicans. and especially the
State journal, for not falling over each
other In graspIng after this alleged
prize, the Democrats never offered the
people Of the state, but which 1t should,
whether they want to do 80 or not, Says
the Inconsistent Register:
I'm .oppoaIng the movement inaugur-
ated BY the State Bar Association for
non-partiBan, OF bl-pRrtisan. judi
ciary, the organs Of the ring ignore the
views on this subject held by the best
men and thinkers In their own party
when the Republican party was In the
minority, and consequently before any
Republican ring was formed to grab
and control patronage and power.
ESPECIALLY does the Parkersburg
State journal exhibit a delightful ig-
noranee Of what TRANSFERRED In the Re-
publican convention held In its own
town in 1884 aud which nominated
Judge Maxwell for governor.
'NThe leaders had under eonsldera-
ton a.resolution that but one candidate
for supreme Judge be named. and that
the Democrats be allowed 10 name the
other, which was then acknowledged
by the best and purest leaders Of the
Republican party, one Of whom Is him
self now a candidate for the supreme
court, to be right and proper.
At that time-when the 3. 0. p. was
in the minority-the best and ablest
Republicans In the state saw and ac-
lSnowledged the necessity for nom
partisan judiciary"
This Is truly refreshing, and proves
the Registers whole position In an In
verted way. II amounts to saying that
because the Republicans wanted non
partisan judiciary. when the Democrats
were In power, and the Democrats re-
fused TO Join In the movement, now
that the Republicans are in control.
they must insist on giving the Demo-
Gratis what they would not have when
they had the chance. This is what the
state Journal thinks fully illustrates
the peculiar logic Of the Register-that
sort Of logic which reasons from Christ
mas into the middle Of the Atlantic
ocean.
The position and statements Of the
state Journal had no reference to the
episode which the Register says oe-
CURED in connection with Republican
convention. What this paper has ridi-
cuIed Is the idea that d the close Of
twenty-five years OF Democratic rule
In this state, during which the matter
of placing Republican on
the bench Of the supreme court
Of the state was not considered
by the Democrats for even a quarter
Of a second. the demand for a non-par-
tIsayi judiciary Is first made, when the
control ef the state Is In the hands Of
the Republicans.
II the Register cannot now see the
absurdity Of It and Its party demand.
ing a non-partisan judiciary, there Is
no use Of further talk on the subject.
The very matter II recites only shows
the unjustness and Improperly Of Its
present position. II the Democratic
party wanted a non-partisan judiciary,
why did II not take the fair opportunity
offered It to have one7 Its refusal to
do so is only the better reason that
now no attention should be paid to 1t
on the subject.