The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-13
KANSAS COMMENT
a GOOD PRoTEsT.


mere is bill before the Kansas
rs tusstslature providing for additional
Juuges and divisions in all judicial
oe u now on hereafter consisting
~ ~ PUT one county. The bill stipulates
lhdt all counties having over $4,000
poPulatlon shall have two divisions
ana TWO judges. We have been trying
70 ngure out the object of the bill
anu nave peen unable to do so, unless
~ is another political graft. For in
stance, what need has MONTGOMERY
county or two judicial districts? None
MlIaleVer' except to provide a few
more public jobs and cause new
1edlousles between certain districts.
1hete are seasons when the court is
very busy. But so are there seasons
Wren the farmer is very busy and the
merchant and newspaper man. The
nIollISomery county court is able to
ianuiS all the business and do it very
hand1ly. To create another district
VIII SIMPLY add to the taxes of the
county and accomplish no real benefit.
mere are enough things that are
TealIy needed. 1t Montgomery is too
pig' II any county in the state is too
plg, make a new county and be done
with II, but don't divide the judicial
olstrlcts 10 cause dissensions. and ex-
pehse TO the property owner. What
kansas needs more than extra Judges
is better court houses and better sal
aries for the judges we now have
There are many states which tax the
tlme or their judges more than Kansas
does here, but they give their judges
attractive salaries. Better have one
man well paid and proud of his posi-
t1on' and two ill-paid and apologize
ing TO themselves for being on the
ob.-Independence Reporter,
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'CHIVALRY'' AND HONOR"
some strange things happen in the
South, where Chivalry and Honor are
supposed always to be spelled with
capital letters. A Nashville court is
having hard time securing a jury for
the trial of two men who went cunning
Jointly for single political antagonist
and got him. The Kentucky feudist
thinks nothing of waylaying his I'M
armed and unsuspecting enemy, and
shooting him in the back. Night Rid
ers hunt in packs, and prey upon the
weak and defenseless. Chivalry and
Honor take queer forms in Dixie. But
perhaps the latest southern eScapade of
note hints at better days; if not a more
just method of settling differences, at
least a less fatal one. Down at Mont
gomery, Ala, a few days ago. two sons
of Governor Conner met the son of
Editor Glass, of the Montgomery Adj
vertiser, and with their fists admins
tered beating the editors son will not
soon forget. The real difference was
between the fathers, but that is not
the point we wish to make; points of
honor are too finely drawn in the
South to be clear to dull Northern
eyes. 1t is the fact that these South
ern gentlemen, sub, had it out with
their fists instead of the customary
pistol. The difference between the faith
ers is probably no nearer settled, and |
the justice of the assault is no more
apparent than if the governors sons
had punctured the editors son with
bullets. But there is the advantage of
less fatal results, and less trouble after |
ward on one side, and more usefulness |
on the other, which is something of i'm |
portance in the field of Southern honor. |
Globe.