Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-29
Ghoulish Politicians.

AASOA q
His mortal remains had hardly
been shrouded for the last sad
rites and their final resting place
before the goulish poll
ticians were ready with their spec
ulations and their plans.
And never did speculations and
plans, even of pelf-seeking and
self-seeking politicians, reflect
more coldly and cruelty upon:the
integrity and honor of man than
they did upon the able jurist who
lay cold in death.
Nor did the reflections end there.
They carried-perhaps uninten-
but just as surely-to the
members of Missouri's
highest tribunal.
On Monday, following the Chief
JUSTICES death on Saturday, the
principal Republican organ OF the
State printed on its first and sue
ceeding page a lengthy article de-
scribing the Joy that prevailed in
Republican circles because OF a
change in the political complex
ion of the Supreme Court-through
death!
The dead jurist was Democrat.
Under a State Republican admin
istration a Republican would be
appointed to succeed him, making
the Supreme Court four Republi-
cans and three Democrats, and de-
Gliding finally, then and there, the
election contests now pending in
favor of the Republicans!
Nothing of law, nothing of JUS
tice, nothing of right and wrong,
nothing of honor, nothing OF COM
mon honestly!
Just a plain matter of cold
blooded, sordid, scheming, vam-
piring politics! q
And a cruel, unwarranted i'm
putation against the judicial char
acter Of the dead and living mem
bers of the States Supreme Bench!
"He who steals my purse, steals
t. ash: ~ he who filches from
me my good name, ETC."
The goul who robs the dead OF a
reputation earned through hard,
conscientious work and enjoyed
while living in the most ghastly
thing imaginable. Words tremble
and break in the effort to describe
him!
Yet that is exactly what these
petty, sordid politicians are at
tempting to do in death to a mar
who honorably achieved high ju-
dicial honors while living.
| Because he was Democrat i
was foregone conclusion that he
would have decided the election
contests in favor of the Democrat
regardless OF the law, the evi
dence or anything else save poll
tics! Because he was a Democrat
they might as we'll say, he woul
have freed any criminal comm
: before him with political plea!
. Such an imputation or rehectio
: is too damnably disgusting to b
| repeated except for the disreput
/. into which it brings the superic
(. court-and all courts.
In their ghoulish glee these po
: iticians figure that a Republica
/. court will render Republican vel
r. dict in the election contest cases
u regardless Of the law, the evident
!, and everything else save politics.
!. Isn't that rather serious refle'
70 ton upon the Republican men
70 bers of the Supreme Court-no
y and hereafter?
= Isn't IL a serious reflection upt
b. the court itself, inasmuch as
n presages that all decisions her
n, after will be made according to t
"a political rule?
tits even more than that; it il
contemptuous calummy; an alta
upon the integrity of the Stat,
highest tribunal in the charge til
y it is unable to consider cases col
At ing before it free of political BIZ
10 Perhaps, however, the petty p
h iticians will be fooled in their o.
y plans.
n 1T Perhaps we have in the Cove
Ia. nor's chair man whose judic
in temperament is as we'll develop
ig as is that Of the man who sits
- the executive chair at the VIII
he House.
ut And perhaps the Governor, \
lin the President, will select the b
ler M man available for the vacancy
en- the Supreme Bench-regardlest
he politicsl He may appoint anot
'es Democrat to fill the dead Den
= !, Gratis place
uiO ~ s.x.. tbot will vant ram,