The evening Republican., 1902-09-30
FRED E. BACH
ON LA WYERS.
Members Of the Bar Have
the Lions Share Of
Public Office

dldate for Register Of Wills, to be
voted for at the common primary
election 10 be held by the Republican
Of New Castle County next Saturday,
paid bis respects at recent meeting
to those mem bers OF the bar Of thi q
county who have been s!yly suggest
ing that some OF their class alone
was competent to fill the Register S
office, and that it was not a proper
place for layma Mr.. Bach proves
his case as follows:
EI'I lind that h small group Of
Francis NJ. Walkers lawyer sup
porters are steadily aud surreptti-
ously jutting forth the plea tuat a
lawyer ought to be selected to fill
the office Of Register of Wills of New
Castle county for which am a can
didate. At present this Office is being
acceptably filled by Calvin w.
| Crosean, who is farmer residing in
Chrstana Hundred and all other
things being equal, layman almost
always makes better representative
Of the people than lawyer. 1t is
the common belief that there are too
many lawyers i'll public office. They
are constantly striving to make bust.
ness for them selves. to make it hard
er for the ordinary man to take part
in public affairs aud, Of course, to
increase The fees for themselves,
THAT the lawyers have more
than their share OF the public offices
10 Delaware caunot be doubted or
contraverted. There are 1000 voters
in Delaware and fewer than 200 law.
yers, and yet mora than half of all
the good officers in the state arc filled
by the latter.
in the first place every lawyer is
an officer of the Court. He does not
draw salary, but he has the ex-
elusive right to practice before the
Court. He alone can accept a fee.
"All the, judges are lawyers, and
so is the attorney general, the city
solicitor and the Uuited States dis
trict attorney and their assistants, as
well as the host of the spec
ial attorneys who are drawing pub
lie pay on every side
The Legislature, the Levy Court,
| the Trustees of the Poor, The City
Council, the Park Commission and
every other conceivable public or
official body must employ a men,
Der of the bar and pay him out of
the public treasury.
1.-The Democratic party is literally
run by lawyers; that is, by mem
bers of the bar. Two of these are
candidates for the State Senate from
this county, another is candidate
for the house, still another is on the
ticket for the Register Of Wills; and
the entire Democratic machinery in
this county is being manipulated by
Willard salisbury as state chair
man, and Victor B. Wooley as county
chairman. Both of them are mem
bers of the bar.
I'm our party the case is little bet
ter, except that the Republican
lawyers do not seem to care to serve
upon the party committees, that is,
they do not care to perform the
party Work, but are content to hold
the offices after the work has been
done. The Postmaster of Whining
ton is member of the bar; but the
assistant postmaster, who is not a
lawyer, is chairman Of the Republi-
can First District Committee and
does the party work at one-half
the salary that his superior officer
gets.
1.-THE Collector Of Customs of Della
ware is member Of the bar, but it is
the deputy COLLECTOR. laymen, who
does the work of qualifying the Re-
publican voters of. the Fifth ward. The
Prothonotary Of the county is Il mem
Der OF the bar, but it is his clerk, an
underpaid laymen, who is doing the
work which will save the majority in
the next Legislature to the Republi-
can party. The present State Treas.
urer who is member Of the bar, has
has just been nominated by the Re-
publican parties to succeed himself.
"llere are four important and re-
numeratlve officers, secured by the
votes of all the Republicans in the
state, the labor Of which was perform.
ed almost exclusively by the laymen
of the party, snugly filled by men,
bers Of the bar, when they could be |
filled just as we'll by the laymen who
undoubtedly did the work to win the
offices for the party.
"When it comes to do the party i
work the layman has very little COM
petition at the hands Of the bar. The
newspaper man is permitted tog gather
the facts and to furnish the ideas for !
the campaign. The business man now !
iSpermlted to subscribe the party !
funds and furnish the party votes.
The mechanic and labUrer and the
great body of the farmers are permitted
to serve on the committees, to qualify
the voters, to bring them to the polls
and to cast the maiortes that
win the offices, which in many, and in
the most important instances, are
seized upon by the lawyers.
''ln view Of tho fact that the con.
stitution and the laws of the state
set aside SO many offices to be filed
exclusively by lawyers, it is simple
jnstice that the offices remaining open
to laymen should be filled by the at.
ter, who in the nature Of things, con.
stitute the vast part of the party and
certainly IN this county perform more
than nne.tenths Of the party work
whether it be by head or hand. "
APARSON' NOBLE ACT.
II want all the world to know" writs,
Rev G. J. Budiong. Of Ashaway, X. l.,