Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-01

descend from the bench where he has rendered such conspicuous service to the cause of humanitarian criminol ogy and engage in the rough brawling of partisan politics, says the Kansas City Journal. Such a course can only jeopardize a career of usefulness which has made his name a house. hold word throughout the country, and it can result in no lasting good. There are others who can be spared much more profitably to clean the Augean stables of factional politics.
 AS the judge of the juvenile court; guiding with firm but gentle hand the erring youth into paths of recti- tude, teaching the adult criminal that he at last had faith in him, reclaim ing to fruitfulness the arid lives of the city, Judge Lindsey is of vastly great CT value to his state than as mere agitator lampooning the opposite party
 
 icule of the country at large. There is an old saying to the effect that it is an ill bird that fouls it's own nest, and Judge Lindsey's tirades against the Republican leaders in Colorado have been so incorporate and needlessly bitter-not to use a shorter and uglier word-that he comes well within the purview of the saying. Colorado un- doubtedly has plenty of able defend- CTS to enter the lists in refutation of Judge Lindsey's wholesale charges of unspeakable corruption, reeking graft, corporation slavery, etc. Nobody be- lieves that the rich men of Colorado have bought the manhood of Colo- rado'; nobody believes that Senator Guggenheim bought his seat in the senate any more than Judge Lindsey bought the nomination as independent candidate for governor.
 Senator Guggenheim is a represent ative of one of the most remarkable families in this country. That he is wealthy man in his chief sin in the eyes of many. But many years ago a poor Jew. named Meyer Guggen- helm, went to Colorado and engaged in the most humble of occupations In that golden land he prospered and be- came one of the mining kings of 'he favored state, where the grub-staked prospector of today is the Stratton and the Walsh and the Burns and the Guggenheim of tomorrow. This poor young Jew became the head of one of the great mining and smelling enter prises of the country. He reared a large family, of which Simon Guggen- helm is one. All his sons acquired regulations as brainy and honorable business men, public spirited and en- terprising. Long before Simon Gug- genheim ever engaged in politics h9 had made many generous gifts to the institutions of his state, and only 2 few years ago he made princely gift to the state school of mines. He was elected United States senator to take the place of a Demo-Pop who had wOrmed his way into the senate fol- lowing the defeat of the brilliant Vol colt. When Guggenheim was elected he resigned all connection with his immense business concerns in order to devote his entire energies to the service of his state. There was never suspicion that he had bought his seat, beyond the always ready suspic- ion of some people that every rich man buys every honor that is bestow- ed upon him. This is the sort of man who, Judge Lindsey, says, bought his seat in the senate, and the charge is just as absurd as the silly and nnpatriotic declaration that the rich
 men of the Centennial state have bought the manhood of Colorado"
 Judge Lindsey was the pioneer q the juvenile court movement, and he reaped the disproportionate reward ot the pioneer. There is no disposition to take from him any credit to which he is entitled, but he is out of his eie- ment as a mere Chautauqua agitator