The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-03
A Lesson In Human Nature Judges Are Human Like The Rest of Us, They
 Hate 10 Be Fired Out Of Good Jobs

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 Hope sprngs eternal in the human breast Only the desire to live and to perpetuate the species are stronger than to cling to cherished pubic o fec the eoments which have been So long enjoyed as to be regarded by the holder as vested rlght
 Only Former Judge Fay of the Meriden City court seems o have legal perspective where the judicial job is involved He says that the law is with eoveInor aa without being physically pushed or kicked out by an or
 In Stamford, Greenwich, Middletown, Hartford and other places the former judges hang to their jobs like drowning death They may let go, but II they
 Tn Greenwich the former judge insisted upon occupy ing the bench and had to be removed by constable me clerk the away with the seal The Judge or the court had to employ expert sale preaer 10 the judicial strong box
 the deposed judge duna treats the de re and de faeto judge to doses of lively chin music In Stamford the for rer judge stays outside the court but he IS going to Jaw before he admit the exterorization of his job
 Hartford the de jure judge seems to be mild fei stay outside while the de facto judge administers doubtful justice inside.
 political upheaval in Connecticut fifty years more there would have been office holding nobility or tne lesser ern1ne and the ncu1nbens thereof would have been willing their jobs to their eldest sons in fee simple with the right of alienation.
 Let us how the matter stands. The constitution which allowing for certain judicial notifications quietly from time to time, is the chief law of Conectlcut of the City Courts and Police Courts shall be appofnted for terms of two years'
 ment but leaves that to the general assembly, The con sitton deals only with the term of office and fixes that 
 Ordinarily the general assembly has appointed thel judges of city and police courts just as it ordinarily has
 But the law making body contemplated that vacan- ces might these courts and provided fer fng the vods by statute which passed in 1887 and has been the law since This statute clearly and defn 5tvely gives the governor power to fill vacancies aFsg city courts whether those vacancies occasoned dea abandonment expiration of the term of office constitutional limitation. This is the section
 Section 82 When provision for filling such vacan- ces is not otherwise made the governor may i'll any in sesson) all offices originally filled by the general assembly either branch thereof, by the governor either branch thereof until the third Wednesday of the next session of the general assembly.
 Under these conditions it is pretty difficult tain how who has the qualifications to make cessu judge of the niet tpe refuse to honor the commission of the governor issued to fill vacancy al court that has come into beng when the general assembly, is not in session. by the expiration of the of the the failure of the legislative branch successor.
 The former city court judges are not alone in their in ability to perceive that offices may go elsewhere.
 The former collector of federal customs MT. Winchell of New Haven having been removed by the president from office which abolished by statute reported in The New Haven Union saying fsThere about forty collectors who do not recognize that they be dismissed without cause''
 To him whose hand have grown rigid cingine to an office the expiration of his term and his failure to be appointed is not Neither is the legislative abol ton of the office a
 There really must be a constitutional amendment providing that public job shall be taken away anybody who has one without compensation salary he would have obtained for the period which he expected to hold it.
 Under such plan it would be necessary to ascertain the life expectancy of the incumbent according to the usual mortality tables with due allowance because his grandfather lived to be ninety years old.
 There is already much injustice in the world and the cruelty of Jobess judges worthy of nqusition lick unjustable torture of touching con hdence that their fellow citizens wolld the government has led them astray.
 CONSOLIDATED NoRwALK