The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-18

1t is positively refreshing TO read
about judge upon the bench in words
like these. They come from the Brook
lyn Eagle. paper published where Will
liam j. Gaynor lives
'That hearing on the ice question be-
fore Judge Gaynor on Saturday should
be a reinsurance. II not an education.
10 the people. The right Judge held IT,
His character, capacity and courage
made the appearance of the officials be-
fore him significant. He Is honest. and
other judges are. too. but lie is aggres-
sively so. He Is able. and other Judges
are, too. but he has original insight and
outsight. He is brave and so are other
Judges. but his courage, always for the
right. and never for the wrong, has
touch OF the audacious or heroic In IL.
When ne ordered the officials to be
brought before him. on the motion OF
i've members OF the municipal assem-
bly,. after he had swept away the OBJ
iections OF lawyers, in clear, curt and
almost contemptuous opinion, no other
Judge stayed his hand, though the
hands Of other Judges, apparently toy
ing with the matter. had been stayed.
The responsibility of interfering with
procedure by Judge Gaynor to turn the
lights on was not coveted-or assumed.
The game of judges against judges was
not played against this judge. in this
thing.
For the sake Of the judiciary's stand
ing with the people one is glad It was
not. For large number of judges in
Manhattan of the same rank as that OF
Judge Gaynor appear as ground floor
members OF the very ice trust indirectly
under examination before him. And a
comfy among the Manhattan judges
not unlike the courtesy among United
States senator's is suggested by fnter-
judicial action that sees that they come
10 no harm and does not forget the
scriptural mandate 10 care for them OF
their own households. 1t may have been
within the power of any OF them TO
have inteffered with or intervened in
the matter before Judge Gaynor. None
did and that was gratifying as we'll as
prudent. For this judge has ds many
powers as they and can use them for
his rights or for those of the people
as rapidly and as vigorously as any
others may make necessary. The fric-
ton and scandal that might have oc-
CURED here, az II has elsewhere, by ju-
dicial alacrity to stay inquiry. were
happily avoided. That this court
brought no other court about its ears,
when II sought 10 disclose the relations
between political officials and trust
or politicians. bent on monopolizing a
public necessity and the facilities OF the
public TO get 1t. is. indeed significant.
Judge Gaynor was elected in 1893 by
a public uprising against bad govern
ment His majority was overwhelm-
have not been small. He has a few Of
the faults. as well as all OF the force OF
a man OF originality, but the faults
have never harmed Justice or the
people. and the force and the originality
have often benefited both. They were
OF signal service on Saturday 10 the
public. to honesty and to the stiffenlng
OF popular confidence in the courts as a
recourse for the people. He owes MOTH
ing 20 either party or to any political
organization. All he owes of obligation
Is TO his conscience and to all the people
in his high constitutional office He
seems 20 realize that. The community
also realizes that ne realizes IT,"
Judge caynor ~ stiil a young man.
but the service which he is now doing
20 the American people Is outside OF all
calculation. Let US hope that he may
long continue IN his well doing.