The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-17
A. NON,PARTISAN JUDICIARY.
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Sentiment IN the Bar Association Almost
Unanimous -Ihr N~O'nInaiOrs Have
Receives Letters Of Approval From
Men In All Trades and Professions.
The Judiciary Nominators, who have
put up non-par t isan tiClet forthe Supreme
Court in this judicial dist riot, have received,
in response to appeals for personal support /.
hundreds OF letters OF approval from men
Of all trades and professions. In addition
TO these, more han 800 lawyers have
Endorsed the nominees OF he committee,
Of which Joseph II. Choste Is the chairman
and Alton B. Parker I he ice-chairman.
While the Bar Associat ion has not for
mally expressed any opinion on the ticket
it is known that the sentiment in the organi-
Eat ion is almost unanimous in its favor.
Speaking on that subject yesterday, James
Byrne OF the firm OF H~ornblower. Byrne,
Miller & Potter said
The bar has lone Its duty. A committee
OF lawyers whose thoroughly representative
character no one has attacked or can attack
has nominated ten candidates for the
Supreme Court in this judicial district. IL
is for the voters Of this district TO say
whether or not the men thus nominated
are to be elected or are to be defeated by a
like number Of men chosen by the poll
ticians. As to the candidates there is but
one opinion; they are we'll known, ex-
perenced, able. honest. Every principle
tina. lovers Of good government say should
be applied to the choice OF candidates has
apparently guided the committee In choos-
ing these men. Thu principle that the Bar
Association has announced for so many
years, that Judges who rave discharged
the duties Of their Office in such a manner
as TO command public confidence should
be renominated, has been followed. Tit
principles that candidates should be OF
mature age, Of broad experience, OF I'M
blemished reputation, have been followed.
| The result IL that the candidates are as
sound az the principles that dictated their
choice.
The bar itself is heartily in favor Of the
election Of these candidates. b feeling
of the Bar Association was shown by the
large attendance at the meeting last Friday
night. which had been called for a most
~inoonvenient time. | met scores OF men
there who had remained in town or returned
10 town for the sole purpose of attending
this meeting and seeing TO IL that nothing
was done. through accident or design,
that might in any way Obscure the real
issue that has been put before the people
by the nomination OF these candidates.
II was evident from the speeches at this
meeting that the Bar Association was as
thoroughly in earnest in support of the
candidates of the Judiciary Nominators
as if the movement had been initiated by
the Bar Association, instead OF blythe entire
bar of the city"
One Of the men who have offered their
support to the ~non-partisan ticket OF the
Judiciary NominatOrs is Robert c. Ogden,
who said yesterday:
Il am heartily in sympathy with the effort
to take the Judiciary out OF politics, as !
have always been. The principle under.
living the movement is a good n and
ought to be supported. The selection OF
fitting candidates by a committee OF repre-
sentative lawyers vs. a step in the right
direction and / intend to give these nominees
my personal support"