The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-10-18
THE JUDGESHIP.

.lEsS0S Editors:
If YOU will permit me the space in your
valuable paper, as a citizen OF Frederick
county, with the interests OF all the peO-
pie at heart, will submit to the careful
consideration of the readers of THE CIT
ZEN the claims of the Democratic can
dldate for Judge upon every voter who
casts his ballot on two weeks from next
Tuesday. A day or so ago | noticed an
advertisement in one of our city papers
that ran something like this: "A vote
for Northington is vote for an inCor-
ruptible bench" Surely this ought To
make every man who has an interest in
public affairs, sit up and take notice The
Iudgeship is differentiated from every
other public office, in that everything that
goes to 1t or leads out of it, should SAVIOR
of everything but politics. The people
of this county want a man and Judge who
won't have any debts to pay politically
after he gets the office, no friends to re-
ward. no enemies to punish. They want
a man who will strictly attend to the bus
mess OF the people in the settlement of
their disputes Who will have an eve
only for the administration of Justice as
| between man and man. The first JfQAi-
| site Of ./HdgS is to haze no influence
5t'hatevcr b0iiHcally If this quality is
| lacking, | don't care how mentally
equipped he NAV be. he is not fit TO fill
the office. And the basic principle upon
which this thought rests. is that the
| Judges Chamber should be the last place
| TO even mention thing political 1t has
no business there. The peoples forum
is not either a seeking Or resting place for
the office seeker. The salary is sufficient
the sum of thirty-siX hundred dollars per
| annum, three hundred dollars month,
to demand of the incumbent of the office
all his time, and in the interest of the
people solely.
If the people of this Judicial Circuit
will vote for Worthington for Judge,
! believe that they will vote for the right
man, this time, in the light of all that the
! public generally knows about the gen.
eral political situation. AIR. Worthng-
ton was not nominated by ward heelerS
office holders whose Jobs are depend
! ent upon the services that they render as
| partSans, but nominated by the people
/ Mr. WorthinslOn was not nominated by
! a political organization. or at its beheSt,
but on the contrary. received a most fiat
tering majority Of his fellow citizens. be-
/ cause of the fact ,hat the people in his
party thought HIM fit and worthy. He
is under no obligation fol his nomination
to any one but the people-he will be
under none if ne is elected.
Rumor has it that the Republican can
djdate was not nominated that way. The
most competent candidate for the place,
who has praCtiCed law in this community
for nearly thrty-fve Years, almost as
long as the presen, Republican candi-
date is old, was turned down for ia
vorite of somebody. because perhaps,
he might not want to do the things that a
political organization would ask him to
do. A good lawyer of long practice,
whose father had been a leader for a
generation in this county in his profess
sion. Mr.. Eichelberger would not do,
because he would not by training be a
political Judge. And turned down for
whom? For man whom the organiza-
ton wanted. Wanted, and for what?
Mr. Reader, draw your own conclusions.
If you come to the same conclusion that
the writer has, there can be but one
answer to the questlon-and that is, that
, Mr.. Eichelberger WAS turned down be-
cause he could not be handled after he
was elected. With this thought upper
most, every good citizen in this Judicial
Circuit ought 10 vote on November 5th,
next. for Glenn H. Worthington for
the principal reason that he won't permit
himself 10 be handled either, whether the
attempt is made by a boss. bank, or by
political organization.
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