The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-10-26

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be ignored. 1t tore aside excuses
and palliations and laid hare The
ugly fact for all to see. The attor-
neys tor the defense demurred atl
the Characterization Of their clients
offense, but the judge did not with.
draw the words; he felt sure Of his
ground IN the case before him and
explained the lenienoy Of his thirty
day sentence by saying that IL waaI
light because the prisoner had other
indictments to face.
"There has been altogether too
prevalent an idea that what ID pub.
lie property is for anybody who
can to take; that 1t is no offeuse to
charge city, county, the state or
the natoin more for thing than,
would be charged In the case OF On
individual; that q public Office il
really place of private gain, and
that If the public suffer in conse-
quence, 1t is not important, 50
email is the loss to the respective
individuals who make up the pub
lie. The conscience has no doubt
been dulled by these and kindred
considerations, aud it is time that
something like that remark Of
Judge Mathers weis said.
"Robbery is robbery, whether
the victim be an individual or . coll
lection of individuals, and for pub
lie robbery graft is but another
name. The crime is just as black
under the spacious logic of the rob-
ber as it is where there is no effort
to hide Its character.
"Judge Mathers has said good
thing. 1t ought to help men to see
things as they are, aud to put the
CRATER IN his proper class as Z
thlet--Columbus Dispatch. Re-
publican.
These newspapers know Judge
Mathers not only because of his(
now famous declaration, concise
definition carrying with it convic-
tion, but because he has come to
their attention as a worthy Judge.
From his own city, where party
lines are strongly drawn, comes I
recommendation for him from .
Republican newspaper that has to
do with the more restricted side OF
his life, his contact with HE fellow
townsmen.-his reputation az
gentleman and as a scholar:
"Thc journal Gazette, while it
did not have a word to say 10 the
state convention. either for or
against the nomination of Judge
Hugh T. Mathers for supreme
Judge. being politically barred from
that august body. the convention
did commendatory act in nomina-
ting so clean and competent IN an
for the high place, and it extends
most hearty congratulations to one
of the hest citizens that ever trod
the streets of Sidney. Born IN
the CITY OF noble lineage, not SO
many years ago, for he Is still
young, passing through our public
schools with honor, subsequently q
student OF the old and famous COL
lege of Princeton and receiving his
law diploma from the equally high
toned law school at Albany, be is
one, of whom, irrespective of par.
tY, Sidney may well be proud, aud
il is in this spirit that the Jonrnsl
Gazette does him honor, BY his
genialty he is a good mixer without
descending to ignoble means to at,
tain his ends; highly moral and re-
ligious in sentiment; public spirited
IN the futherance of every good en-
terprise; upright. honest, fearless,
and capable. The Democracy has
done well in nominating so worthy.
a candidate, and it victory should
crown HIM, the Office will not be
belittled but magnified. ."-S,dneY.
(Ohio) Journal Gazette (Republi.
can.)