The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-06-28

ySTS, uleulUSTS Ol Tie Lancaster COuu-
ty Bar Association, met at the court
house last week and selected the jul
dicial candidates for the voters of the
county.
The action was by no means unani-
nous, for strong objection was made
by some of the members. But the ''in-
side ring" seems to have laid it's plans
well. Judges Cornish and Frost were
renominated, and S. ]. Tuttle nomin-
ated in place of Judge E. P. Holmes
The deal seems to rank outsider to
have been engineered for the dual pur-
pose of deafeating Judge Holmes and
putting damper on the judicial as
pirations of County Judge Frank Wa
ters. Tuttle was formerly democrat,
cratic coat long enough to secure a
plumb from the republicans
If the people of Lancaster county
stand for this Bar Association game
they are entirely too easy. This is
not said with any purpose OF rejecting
upon either Judge Cornish or Judge
Frost. Both have made excellent rec
Ords on the bench. But the same ar
guments that demanded their renomin-
alton also demanded the denomination
of Judge Holmes. Again, the people
who are SO unfortunate as to be
tangled up in litigation have much
more interest in the judicial candidates
than have the eminent legal lights who
depend upon litigation for living.
If the lawyers must be looked to to Sc
lect proper judicial timber, then the
bookkeeprs and accountants of the
county should be allowed to select
the candidate for county clerk, the
bankers allowed to select the candi-
date for treasurer, and the bridge
contractors the candidates for county
supervisor
The turning down of Judge Holmes
was unfortunate, not for Judge
Holmes, who will undoubtedly be bet
ter off financially by being retired
from the bench, but unfortunate from
the standpoint of those who are in
terested in making success of the
Juvenile court work. Judge Holmes
has made a splendid success of his
work among the boys and girls, and
now, just as the good effects of his
tireless work in their behalf is being
made manifest, he is to be retired by a
lot of self-suff1cient lawyers who claim
the right to select judicial candidates
for all the people. The editor of this
little newspaper has only a passing
acquaintance with Judge Holmes, but
he is acquainted with Judge Holmes
work as judge of the juvenile court
That work has been splendid, and
Judge Holmes should be continued in
his present position if for no other rea-
son than that he is so we'll fitted to
have complete charge of the enforce
ment of the juvenile court laws. The
fathers and mothers of Lancaster
county who think more of caring for
the boys and girls than they do for
legal quips and quirks ought to unite
in administering a rebuke to the law
yers who arrogate to themselves the
right to dictate bar nominations.
Doubtless Judge Holmes feels that
he would benefit himself by acquescing
in the decision of his fellow members
of the Bar Association There are
OF people-just plain, ordinary, every
day people-who will think otherwise,
and who will demand of Judge Holmes
that he go before the primaries and en-
deavor to Overturn the action of the
lawyers Whatever the lawyers may
do with the rest of the court business
of the county, the parents should see
to it that there be no political monkey
ing with the juvenile court. 1t is al
together too vital to the social and
moral welfare of the community.
The Wageworker mistakes the tenn
per of the people if the action of the
Bar Association is endorsed at the pri-
maries. This paper, while not a par
tisan of Judge Waters, admires him
for his refusal to stand for the action
of the Bar Association His indepen-
dence is refreshing under the cir
cumstances.
A republican nomination is equivi-
lent to an election in Lancaster eoun-
ty, and if the action of the Bar Asso-
citation is allowed to go by default at
the republican primaries, the Bar nom
inees will be foisted upon the people in
open disregard of the intent and pur-
pose of the direct primary law, which
seeks to eliminate just that sort of po-
litical chicancery. Neither Judge Cor