The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-09-27
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For President WOODROW WILSON of New Jersey. For Vice President THOMAS R. MARSHALL
 of Indiana.


Colonel Roosevelt in Phoenix speech said: When
 down here eighteen months told you should the judiciary here but took the ground strongly that if the people wanted it they had a right to their constitution
 There question to the right of the people put the judiciary in their const tution question is whether the provision is ble justification. upon the argument of it's ad repeatedly the whole theory of advocates of the recall of the judiciary lies in the following false reasoning:
 "The people are supreme. What they will is law the latter and holding office at their w therefore the
 master the people has the inherent right to discharge the
 is said that the people supreme, that they employ judges toward them in the rela- ton of master and servant, MAJORI people. Herein, to mind, lies the The judges not the servants and agents of the ority judges the ot both the majority and the minority and must of necessity be of each.
 Any rule of might a tyrany, whether it be in the form of emperor, dictator or democracy The unre rule of the majority is objectionable that individual This country is ruled by laws and by maorities True, the laws are by majorities but limits beyond which they Every citizen has certain inherent and fundamental rights him neither through legislative enactment constitutional amendments supported by matter how great majority-fe liberty and the pursuit of happiness the right of contract private owner when not used to the deriment of others such rights these not justly dependent for protection upon Constitutions they funda inherent. Certainly no majority however great has right to single out the individual and him these inherent rights. It is of peculiar functions of judge in state governed by laws, by protect the minority the in dividual the may be- Though chosen by the ma orty judges their induction into office to be- come servants at will of those by whom they selected, indeed they the servants of the majority only.
 The right of selection in sense carries with it the right of domination Upon their selection the judge the of the whole peopenot of the majority by whom they may have been chosen. They represent minority class socey, the individual, just much the dominant poli tical party majority.
 A majority may well trust the selection of judges majority, the domination of this majority, after the selection, different thing Such practice when maorties nothing less than tyranny.
 Woodrow Wilson's statement of his position recall logical and timely It follows
 The recall udges is another matter. Judges are lawmakers. They administrators Their duty not determine what the law shall be- but to determine what the is Their independence, their of dignity of the first consequence the stability of the To apply to them the principle of recall to the determination of what the law is must respond popular impulse and to popular juds It sufficient that the people should have the change the law when they will. It is not sary they directly influence threat recall those who merely interpret the law already established