New-York tribune., 1905-11-29
JEROME RAPS THE BENCH.
Continued from arss pnge.

his disgust with terrible face and hammering
it out of his system with clinched fists
mo man." he continued, need be judge OF
the Supreme Court is he does not desire to be.
No longer does the common law prevail which
makes it a msdemeanor to decline a public Of
fee of this nature. can decline to accept
such Office and promise him immunity; but
if he does accept it then he should seek to do
honor to that office He should be set aside as
priest is set aside who is careless of those things
around him which do not have to do with his
position If a man accepts nomination Tor
q position of this nature he should devote his
whole time to that position and not be partly
a judge and partly business
Look at the Judges Of the Supreme Court of
this department, and see if it is good that man
should go to an individual like Charlie Murphy
at Good Ground with plea in order that
man like Ingraham should be elected to serve
the people
I'm Massachusetts, if you talk with a group
of lawyers about a certain case he is about to
try, one Of the party will say: 1t wouldn't be
we'll to take it before such and such a judge
because of the particular notions that judge has
certain points of law and his leaning toward
certain forms of law But here one hears law
yers say: Look out for such and such Judge,
for he is related to so and so; he did such and
such thing and his reputation is such Don't
| you see the difference?
WILL FIGHT ALONE IF NECESSARY.
81 feel very bitter on this matter. and will
not cease to fight this condition in Office and out
of office, whether my professional brothers at the
Bar toke up the fight or not I will fight them
| whether the Bar fights them not" He con-
| tinued:
Next year there will be another election of
| judges for the Supreme Court bench. There
! will be many judges elected then. Have the
! members of the City Club thought about this
matter? guess not many persons, all told, nave
| given the matter much thought. But the poll
| ticians have talked the matter over, guess lts
pretty much cut and dried now. The Bar mas
| said nothing.
Next years election had much to do with
| the men who were chosen for those positions
| this wear There was dickering back and forth
! among the politicians, because some couid De
! put through this year who could not propaoiy
/ be pulled through" next year
| Mr.. Jerome declared he believed in leaving the
things which only concerned ones grandchildren
| to them, and take up the concrete and immedi-
ate things. One of these, he said, was ballot re-
| form He had no doubt but that they would be
| able to present a model bill, but unfortunately,
| Ike MI Lowells rising sum- it will get stuck
on the horizon and go further. New-Hork
must insist until successful on the Massachu-
setts ballot law, even conceding the symbol to
! the political parties.
Then he wrestled with corrupt practices, telling
| of one faction which believed in electrocution'
another limiting candidates to carfare, third
| publicity. He believed in publicity as a remedy
for +7,4 disgraceful scenes of the last campaign.
Then he turned to the multiplicity Of offices.
which he said was so great that he wondered it
| had 7 gone into chaos. He noted that seven
| teen I'd tes were voted for at the last election
| and It's majority Of the voters couldn't name
the offices. to say nothing of the officers.
He attacked the coroners, charging that they
do nothing but whack up with the undertakers
and leave the autopsies to their assistants
He declared that a multiplicity of offices
pulled MCGOWAN through, owing to the popu-
larity of the head of the ticket, for whom Je-
| rome declared he voted. s..----
| This multiplicity threatened with Me-
/ Gowan as Mayor in case anything happened
| 10 the head of the ticket have nothing
| against bartenders, but don't want one in
that Office, He is by marriage or dowry right
| the senior partner in fancy underwear fac
tory but he was a. bartender at Stewards; an
| honest, upright, Industrious bartender, so his
| old employer says, but bartender"
CHEERS FOR WEAVER.
| Stout and sturdy Mayor Weaver was cheered
| when he began to tell Of the struggle with the
"grafters" of the Quaker City. His reddish face
! grew firm and his short mustache seemed to
bristIe as he told of the terrible crimes which
had permeated every department of city gov
| ernment He emphasized his remarks with re-
peated short, sharp shakes Of his head.
He said in part;
The great victories recently won by the forces
of reform especially in the large cities. are only
SO many clarion calls TO higher and nobIer duty
to closer and more vital conflict with the enemies
OF good government.
What has been done points the way to what
ran be done. and what therefore must be done
or shall be laggards and traitors to our trust
| The last national election resulted In a ma
jority for the successful political party so over
| whelming as almost to rob 1t Of partisan slgnln-
cance 1t demonstrated at least that polltlcaI
ties were beginning to loosen with large podleS
of our citizenship. But the after effects of the
| election still more significant The splIIC
of acquiescence and satisfaction that pervaded
all classes of the people was spontaneous ana
hearty. The vanquished expressed content ana
the victorious found themselves engaged in mu-
tual oongratuation with comrades they had
never dreamed Of finding on their side.
Quickly succeeding all this came series or
acts and declarations by the great President OF
the Republic that almost eTaced party ana
raised him to be the advocate, exponent and
leader OF the rights, aspirations and hopes or
all the people. President Roosevelt had exor-
cised the evil spirit of the party. Thus the time
was propitious for an exhibition of political IN
dependence.
More than this, voice heard throughout
all the land that raised the ideal of civic DUTY
to a plane horizontal with the simple. moral
standards of honesty and justice. 1t was the
| voice of the Chief Magistrate of the people. He
/ taught that the Decalogue not suspended
by a party majority, and that official rectltude
only constituted title TO the commence ana
support of the people. Thus he turned the eyes
Of men away from party names TO party per
forrnances from creeds to conduct, from power
It was at such a time and under such cir.
cumstances that there occurred a series OF
events, separated in time separated In loca4Iy
and separated in political relation that startIe@
the country and aroused the quickened CON
science of the people. Separated though tney
| hole related