Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-31
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE
}. NJ. WOODS FOR JUDGE
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career. The resolutions We're second
ed by Forest w. Brown and Senator
Melntire with brief but feeling re-
marks
The resolutions adopted were as fol
lows:
Before concluding the labors for
which this convention has been called
nently fitting If not. indeed. solemn
duty. that proper official recognition
be made of the splendid record and
efficient service rendered the people
Of this judicial circuit by the dis.
inguished jurist who Iresides at this
time over its courts, and who voluntar-
lily returns at the close OF the current
year TO the practice of the law.
Called in February, 1892, to the dis
charge of the delicate. manifold and
ever onerous. duties os this exalted
station, to fiji the vacancy created by
the death Of the Hon. Jos. S. Duckwall
and thrice thereafter without opposi-
ton elected his own successor, he is
now rounding out a continuous service
of twenty-one years covering the most
productive period of his life and well
deserves to be relieved Of the further
administration of an Office demanding
at all times the expenditure of intel
Iectual and physical yigor altogether
dsproportionate TO its compensating
benefits
The judiciary commands confidence
and inspires respect only as it holds
he scales of justice with equal poles,
unbiased unprejudiced, dnafraid, up
holding the dignity and majesty of the
law in complete self-aFacement and
meteing out its penalties. on occasion,
with a frmness tempered with mercy.
Every human tribunal" it is said, if
it hopes to justify it's existence
ought to take care to administer jus
tice as we look hereafter to have jus
tce administered to ourselves" Thus
ii is the more important, ii to no great
er purpose than an incentive to those
who follow. that we should not allow
to pass unnotlced the public career of
men who have so unselishly contrib
uted to the maintenance of those
ideals Of equal and exact Justice,
personal integrity, legal learning and
ethical department which have be-
come a part of the imnerishable his
tory of the bench of this circuit.
Whether consciously or not, the NOR
ais Of the community are largely in
their keeping, its happiness at their
disposal, and its prosperity at their
mercy. To them, as final arbiters, Is
committed the public veal and woe. 1t
is for them to mediate il "rivalries of
business and politics, The shock of
conflicting aims and interests, the
prejudices ana peryersities Of men,
aye. even to sunder the sacred ties by
which society is protected from cha
otto confusion, unbridled license, and
unspeakable debauchery. They stand
with the Eternal for righteousness
and will not suffer that fools or Grim
/ inals divert Them to lower ends"
As one of the most conspicuous
rames identified with the application
and enforcement of these principles
y their relation to tho social fabric
that of the Hon. r. Boyd Faulkner
the present incumbent OF the bench in
this circuit will go down through his
tory well meriting the eucCmiums sue
ocssive public honors, and a scrupu-
GUS fidelity to duty, have brought to
him. His judicial career has been
one of which any man might feel
proud. rejecting equal credit upon
his constituents and hin self Remod-
oled and modernized court houses in
each of the three eoUnties comprising
MS circuit, with no appreciate burd-
IN therefor &c the TAXPAYER; improved
.lj,8. with mere sanitary and humane
accommodation for criminals; less
,uotractcd terms of court, with cor
responding economy in costs of adj
ministration; suppression of vice,
without respect to birth or station,
with consequent decrease of criminal
onenses and sounduo>s of Judge
ment in judicial decisions, with but
negligible percentage Of reversals,
indicate something OF the energy,
watchfulness. efficiency and natural
ability of the man. while emphasizing
in most unmistakable terms the thor
oughness, impartiality and business of
the Judge.
Mindful of the inestimable value of
true manhood wherever exhibited and
the portrayal of the hisLest and truest
ideals in public, as in private life, and