Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-02
The Lord Chancellor of England
At Odds With the Radicals
OF His Party.
WON'T MAKE APPOINTMENTS
VIII NOT Live mp 10 the Modern Doc
trinc THAT to the Nictors Be-
long the Spoils.''
Special Correspondence.


I oNDoN. Feb. ls.--Among the queer
subsidiary titles of the lord
chancellor OF England is that of
Keeper of the kings conscience"
II. Is . survival of medieval times
when the office was always filled by an
eccIesiastic who, besides looking after
the severeign's treasures on earth was
supposed to help him lay up a good
store or the kind that are negotia BILE
UP aloft But lord chancellors are no
longer eccleslastics and have long
ceased to bother themselves about the
kings conscience.
What is making trouble for the pres
ent lord chancellor, Lord Loreburn. is
his own conscience. Consciences that
are not easily throttled are apt to prove
grave stumbling blocks 10 success In
the tricky game OF politics, Perhaps
that Is the reason why in the days be-
fore English kings had been reduced TO
iigureheads, when they really ruled.
they turned over the keeping of these
lnconvenlent monitors to somebody
else. Lord Loreburn has a conscience
that has the upper hand OF him. He in
sists on placing it's dictates above com
siderations of party advantage. And
consequently he finds himself In hot
water with many members OF his party.
IMMENSE PATRONAGE.
The lord chancellor controls moro pat.
ronage than any other individual IN the
Kingdom. Nearly 30 high court and
quite so county court iudgeships be-
sides innumerable supreme court ap-
pointments arc within his gift, These
alone represent salaries aggTesl.ting
Sl.t25000, In addition he appoints all
the Justices OF the peace. These receive
40 pay, but tho Judicial powers with
which they are invested far exceed
those VI police court judges In AmericS.
Though they deal mainly with petty
offenders. they may impose sentences as
nigh as seven years penal serYltude.
They are men, for the most part. en-
tireiy destitute OF legal training. but
there arc no courts OF criminal appeal
I'm England where appeals may be made
against the punishment they miller.
however drastic. on grounds for new
trial urged. the positions are much
coveted because "a the social distinction
conferred by them, The j, T. Is entitled
10 anX q c0ckade to his Cohcnman's
hat. a privilege which otherwise Is re-
served only foT royalty and the arlstoe-
racy. Therefore many commoncrs yearn
exceedingly To be made j. P,'s as the
only means OF obtaining that exalted
right
Lord I.oreburn's predecessor 81 office
Tor lihlly ~ gkdla wan lfhlA AAAi9hNA9f
a Tory OF the most hide bound type.
Whrr. politics were concerned his con-
science never troubled him. lie eY-
erclsed his powers of appointment In
accordance with the good Old American
idea-to the vlctors belong the spoils,
He packed the benches with Tories,
Wherefore his party regarded him as
"A good and FAITHFUL servant and his
path was made smooth for him and he
held his igh until he was nearly so. He
would not have been turned out then n
the Liberals had not overturned the
government
TYPICAL TORY SQUIRE.
When Lord Halshuiy hobbled away
from the Woolsaok no left 1850 Tory
scattered through the
kingdom as against 1900 Liberal ones.
The Tory magistrate is generally a typ
ical Tory squire. Hts judicial functions
are most zealously exercised IN keeping
w the game laws and keeping down