The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1912-03-09
Paramount Considerations Concern
ing The Supreme Court JUdg456Lb'

Judge Breaux could save the state
$4,000 a year, would be for him to
enter the campaign and say to the
voters that if they will elect him he
will serve out another term OF tWelVe|
wears, but that if he is defeated he
will retire on full pay before his pres
emit term expires. We are very
sure he will not make any such prop |
osition. For it might bring ON a very
sordid and distasteful campaign and
III is unbecoming the character OF
the man. Such an argument is as
improper as it would be for some
other candidate (if he could afford
it, to promise to serve without pay
during the lifetime of Judge Breaux
if the latter should be defeated and
retire on full pay. 1t is clear that
unless Judge BreauX goes into the
campaign with the promise that he
will serve out his term if elected,
and retire ON full pay if defeated,
there is nothing in the argument
that his election would save the
state the salary Of another Judge. For
he may retire or not, as he sees lit,
after the election, during his present
term, whether he be elected or not,
whether he runs or does not run.
AS a matter of fact, it is unrea-
sonable to expect Judge BreauX to
serve out another term, ending in
1925. He would be bound to retire
before then. Hence his election
would mean that another election
as we'll as a special primary-must
be held sooner; and this would i'm
pose quite an expense upon the
state.
The Bogalusa American urges the
candidacy of Judge Breaux, under
the apparent misrepresentation that
he will not be entitled to retire on
full pay during his present term.
We quote the following from the
4 Americans editorial, as reproduced
in the New Iberia Enterprise, re-
ferring to Judge Breaux:
IF elected again, he will have the
right to retire before his term eX
pires, and the people of Louisiana
ought to be glad of the opportunity
| to bestow this privilege upon man
| who has served them as long and as
faithfully as the Honorable JOSEPH
A Breaux."
!, The people CT Louisiana have al
| ready bestowed that privilege upor
the Honorable Joseph A. Breauxi
and it only remains for him to accep
! it before his present term expires
} The candidacy of a judge who is
2 eligible to retire upon full pay wOult
, be somewhat anomalous, because h
: would be asking the people to cleo
him to a twelve-year term of office
from which he might retire upol
2 full pay, at any time, before or at
t ter entering upon it, and in which
he could not possibly serve to tn
-. end.
+ 1t would not be a matter of econ
q omy, but would be niggardly, for tn
o people of Louisiana to expect
f judge to work for his pension, afte
n growing old enough in the servic
to retire upon it. The voters dis
n played a more magnanimOus spiri
0 when they so generously voted,
j. few years ago, to allow the Suprem
: Court Judges to retire ca full pa
e when they have served fifteen year
t. and have arrived at an age fiV
l. years older than the Scriptural three
O score-and-ten.
e This distinguished jurist ought t
y be encouraged to follow the exampl
# set by the lamented Justice Nicholli
h to set another example for the CON
J. ing Chief Justice Monroe, to accer
the bounty so generously voted b
l. his people, and retire upon his ho1
If ors as Chief Justice of Louisiana.
n 1t would add nothing to his emoll
e ments, but would detract from hi
l. glory and his honor, for the peopl
It of Louisiana to look for a contil
a uance of his labors by electing hi
r to the subordinate position of Ass'
ciate Justice of the court over whic
If he has presided so long.
ben MANN VS., McCLAIN BURCf