The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-25
JUDICIAL CONSERVATISM
OFTEN FAVORS BOSSES AS
AGAINST PEOPLES RIGHTS
C.. p. Connolly Recites More
Chapters in His Indictment
Against Courts
DECISIONS TIPPED OFF
Declares Rulings in Pennsyl-
yania, Ohio and Colorado
Were Known in Advance
DECISIONS TIPPED OFF

NEW YORK, March 25.-"Judges OF
our highest courts have been selected
in practically every important state OF
the union for their own conservatism,
il not for worse: and conservatism has
meant always the support OF corpor'
ate and property rights TO the utmost
as against individual rights andIrights
: OF the public as represented Py the
state" -
This charge Is made by c. p. Con-
molly in the current issue OF Every
body's Magazine, the article being
continuation of a series OF indictments
against big business and the oench,
While ! write" says Connolly,
federal Judge In New York city INES
in the sum of $4,000 rich man VINO
had defrauded the government "
some sl.40O,000. Al the same tune
the same Judge sentences 10 tarcc
months imprisonment minor OF
fender who had defrauded the govern
ment of $4,000. The rich smuGg!er
had netted sl,375,000. He had, hgnra-
lively. departed from court Win the
loot under his arm He was an I'M
s porter of silks. The Greek who was
sentenced to Jail was an Importer OIL
dates and figs. Were ! in the Lii
place, think | should change from
figs to silks.
The writer takes up cases OF leaks
from courts. showing how decisions
have been known by special Interests
before they were given 10 the puollC.
He republishes the charge or inc
philadelphia Press that Justice VIII
Am Plumer Potter, OF the Pennsyl-
yania supreme court. informed me
notorious Pennsylvania political ring
in advance how the supreme court
would decide the famous ripper
case. Ii is charged that "a hours De
fore the supreme court OF COLORADO
decided the eight-hour law unclhslr
tutional, the fact was known ana ois-
cussed among Insiders In Denver
hotel LOBBY. A supreme court judge III
Ohio. says the article, was pdohcy
charged by Tom L. Johnson Win CIV
ing foreknowledge OF one OF his opin-
ions to friends who gambled on TIE
stock market on the strength OF l..
Connolly declares that there Is sucn
a thing as the recall OF judges IN
practical effect today, except that IL
is In the hands Of the machine which
controls nominations. Justice Lewis,
recently defeated for denomination by
the Steel trust in Minnesota, Is
shining example OF the efficacy OF this
kind of recall" he says. He had con-
CURED In a decision against the
trust"
.One firm or corporation lawyers IN
Ohio" the writer says. built up a
with the courts. A member OF this hrll
was a director in bank and trust
company. This trust company acted
ne administer of estates; It also mar
keted stocks and bonds. The probate
Judge, a tool OF the law hrm, Woulu
appoint either this bank or one ot I;3
directors administrator OF certain es'
tates, and the administrator. obtain
ing a court order for the safe oil es-
tate property, would reinvest the re-
sulting funds in the trust company
promotion securities.
Every important litigant IN ONO
knew that II he wanted TO be certain
OF his case in the supreme court Oh
Ohio, IL was the part OF wisdom 10
employ Joseph b. Foraker. lnere
are lawyers In Ohio who claim that
Foraker has been paid large fees lot
so much for his legal ability as De-
cause of his political or other lnnu-
ence over the courts"
The writer tells in detail OF tue
control OF courts OF Cincinnati Dy
Boss George B. Cox, one OF the most
shameful chapters in American judi
cial history.
Turning TO Colorado. Connolly says
that the assertion that judicial an
archy is a gross public misconcep-
ton: riots and disorders were the d.
rect result OF judicial and legislative
corruption. He reviews the great Ia
bor war I'm that state and charges mat
the courts were acting for the mine
owners and even went so far as to
suspend the right of habeas corpus TO
defeat strikers or any citizen sus-
pected OF sympathizing with strikers
He says:
II remember very distinctly a de-
cision handed down in Wisconsin in
which the supreme court refused to
suspend the writ nf habeas corpus
during the Civil war draft riots. The
court announced its fealty TO Presi-
dent Lincoln and the cause or the
north. but said that this sacred right
should not be suspended except with
in the strict limitations of the con-
stitution. Yet the Colorado supreme
court in the case OF Meyer suspended
the writ OF habeas corpus at the be-
hest OF the Guggenheims and the mine
owners in Colorado. know OF no
case in judicial history which marks
SO pathetic a decline--a great human
right upheld against Lincoln, and
waived in favor OF the Guggenheims,"
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