Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-10

official in the county. Judge Yerkes
seemed to take advantage of every op-
portunity to humilfdte him.
Judge Yerkes lacks the judicial
temperament in conspicuous degree,
some intimation of which has been
given. He can not restrain himself
in his likes and his dislikes, and car
ries them upon the bench He never
forgets an enemy and rarely remem-
bers a friend. He is absolutely selfish
and self-opinionated.
There is another feature of Judge
Yerkes' unfltness for the supreme
judgeship, and that is his lack Of ex-
perience in the higher or more in
volved law. Almost his entire time as
a Judge has been given to petty crimi-
nal cases. He has rarely been called
upon to pass on questions involving
momentous or even intricate Ques-
tions of law.
Much of the business of the Bucks
county courts has been and Is of a
minor character. The business of the
county Is almost exclusively agricul-
tural, and that, as everybody knows,
does not call for much or important
litigation. Consequently Judge Yerkes'
experience as lawyer and as Judge
is with cases OF no great importance.
Judge Yerkes realizing, no doubt,
that he can not be reelected to the
position he now holds in his own
county, has exerted every possible eff
fort to secure another job. He has
h ir
cratic tendencies to accept the straw
of independent Republican support
He wants to sit upon the supreme
court bench, and he Is willing to sub.
vert his party incinations to take ad-
vantage of every opportunity that may
be the means of securing the coveted
position. 1t is no lofty ambition that
urges Judge Yerkes on in the pending
campaign. He simply does not de-
sire to retire from the judiciary to
the place of mediocore lawyer in a
small country town"
YELLOW JOURNALISTIC BLAME.
To the yellow journalism that has
persistently villfied, misrepresented
and abused the President is mainly
due the crime at Buffalo, and it is
up to the reputable honorable portion
of the American people to say how
long that vile and malicious and Grim
inal melting of murder shall continue
The President ignored it and trusted
the people, but he could not make "a
lowance for the human wolf, the hui
man rattlesnake, the human mad
dog lying in wait for him here and
there and ready to strike when oppor-
tun!ty offered. These deadly elements
exist in society and, infamed by the
vile and murderous journals, which
egg them out, they do their work, and
the crime of last Friday is the first
fruits of that unrestrained and muir
derous poison poured daily out among
the people for the gain Of nominally
decent men whose money is soaked in
the blood of the best and bravest in
the land. Cause and effect are plain
and Enthusiastically seen in this mat
ter, and the murder-makers of yellow
journalism are back of the Anarchist,
the crank and the crazed assassin who
follows logically the prompting OF their
political abuse.-Bridgepor Standard
CANNOT BE TOLERATED.
Relentlessly, indecently, outrageous
ly the yellow journals have denounced
every man in public life and have
sought to increase circulation by the
cruellest and most indecent cartoons,
supplemented by red ink head lines,
editorial vituperation and persistent,
constant effort to array mass against
class and arouse the worst pa ssions
of mankind. The time has come when
this kind of journalism can no longer
be safely tolerated. when the good
name of this nation demands that such
debauchery of public principle be
stopped, and stopped forever-New
Haven Leader.